{"id":39550,"date":"2017-10-02T07:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.olivetree.com\/?p=39550"},"modified":"2023-07-06T15:25:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T22:25:35","slug":"soap-study-matthew-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.olivetree.com\/blog\/soap-study-matthew-12\/","title":{"rendered":"A SOAP Study on Matthew 12"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What’s a SOAP study? SOAP is an acronym that stands for: Scripture, Observation, Application, and Prayer<\/strong>. This is one very helpful way to get more out of your Bible study time. Join us in this short study of Matthew 12:1-14!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SOAP STUDY<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

SOAP: SCRIPTURE<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Matthew 12:1-14, ESV<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, \u201cLook, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

He said to them, \u201cHave you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him: how he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? Or have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless? I tell you, something greater than the temple is here. And if you had known what this means, \u2018I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,\u2019 you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

He went on from there and entered their synagogue. And a man was there with a withered hand. And they asked him, \u201cIs it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?\u201d\u2014so that they might accuse him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

He said to them, \u201cWhich one of you who has a sheep, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out? Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Then he said to the man, \u201cStretch out your hand.\u201d And the man stretched it out, and it was restored, healthy like the other. But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how to destroy him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

SOAP: OBSERVATION<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

SOAP study taken from the Gospel Transformation Study Bible<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew gives two examples of how Jesus\u2019 yoke is easy and his burden light (11:30). In both examples, Jesus opposes the Pharisees\u2019 imposition on others of their burdensome way of observing the fourth commandment (Ex. 20:8\u201311; Deut. 5:12\u201315). The purpose of the Sabbath law was to show mercy to human beings and their farm animals by mandating regular rest from the hard labor of agrarian life (Matt. 12:8; Ex. 23:12). If its \u201cobservance\u201d somehow made hungry people more miserable by forbidding them from obtaining food, or required a disabled person to remain disabled longer than necessary, then the purpose of the law itself had been violated (Matt. 12:7, 12; Hos. 6:6; Mic. 6:6\u20138).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SOAP: APPLICATION<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

SOAP study taken from the Gospel Transformation Bible Notes<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christians of every age and culture have formulated ideas about how the moral teaching of Scripture should be obeyed in their own time and place. Often these ideas become translated into rules for avoiding temptation in basic areas where Christians must interact with a non-Christian culture, whether over clothing, food, speech, or entertainment. Matthew 12:1\u201314 cautions believers as they engage in such rule-making to understand what they are doing: they are not formulating authoritative Scripture but giving fallible human advice, however prudent (5:29\u201330; 18:8\u20139), on how best to obey Scripture in particular circumstances. Whenever the tendency of these rules hinders the basic concern of Scripture for mercy, justice, and kindness, the rules have themselves become a hindrance to obeying God and need to be set aside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SOAP: PRAYER<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Have you ever struggled with putting rules before mercy, justice, and kindness? Take some time today to think and pray about this. Ask Jesus how he would like you to respond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LEARN MORE<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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This SOAP study was taken directly out of the Gospel Transformation Study Bible<\/a>. You, too, can do quick, easy, and formative Bible studies with these notes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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