The characteristic of a hypocrite is that they fail to see the essence of a situation and look only at the shell (procedures and rules). We must restore the true meaning of the Sabbath. “Now the synagogue leader, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, began saying to the crowd, ‘There are six days in which work should be done; so come during them and get healed, and not on the Sabbath day.’ But the Lord answered him and said, ‘You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the stall and lead it away to water it? And this woman, a daughter of Abraham as she is, whom Satan has bound for eighteen long years, should she not have been released from this bond on the Sabbath day?’ As He said this, all His opponents were being humiliated; and the entire crowd was rejoicing over all the glorious things being done by Him” (Luke 13:14–17). ...
