Mark 2:23-Ch.3:6 Withered no more
Crazy Laws Still on the
Books
Alabama
*It is illegal for a driver to be blindfolded while operating a vehicle.
*Dominoes
may not be played on Sunday.
*It
is illegal to wear a fake mustache that causes laughter in church.
Washington
you can't carry a concealed weapon that is over 6
feet in length. No Bazookas
Florida
Memphis, Tennessee,
a woman is not to drive a car unless a man warns approaching motorists or
pedestrians by walking in front of the car that is being driven.
Crazy Law:
A) God’s
Law: Honor the Sabbath …. Keep it holy
B) Day of rest –
refreshed – focused in the Lord
1) Renewal and reflection
C) Man’s laws –
Volumes were written explaining Sabbath – what constituted working
1) Couldn’t walk more
that a hundred feet of your home
D) Couldn’t cook or Bake
–
1) Animal gets lose can’t go get him
E) Day that was supposed to be a blessing becomes
a burden
Jesus Picking
grain: Religious leaders offended
A) Remember what David did – Bread for the Priest
ate it
B) Principle: Human
need is more important than religious tradition
1) Sabbath made for man – God knows we need to
rest !
Next scene
Jesus illustrates this Principle – Human need is more important than religious
tradition
Mark 3:1-3
And He entered the synagogue again, and a
man was there who had a withered hand.2 So they watched Him closely, whether He
would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him.
A) This is so sad – watching not with anticipation hoping that man would be
healed
B) Watching to see – Break
Sabbath – accuse
C) Attitude
in going to Church – watch for what is wrong . How worship
1) Africa –
D) Miss out on a Blessing
Something is terribly wrong
– Spirit will reveal it to you
A) Be blessed by the
Diversity –
B) So the religious leaders
were watching for the wrong reasons
Mark 3:3-6
3 And He said
to the man who had the withered hand,
"Step forward."4 Then He said to them, "Is it lawful on
the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?" But they
kept silent.
5 And when He
had looked around at them with anger, being grieved by the hardness of their
hearts, He said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." And he stretched
it out, and his hand was restored as whole as the other. 6 Then the Pharisees
went out and immediately plotted with the Herodians against Him, how they might
destroy Him.
Historian
Jerome – Good evidence that the man was a stone worker – injured his hand
A) Injury affects his
livelihood . Could no longer provide for his family
B) The well being of his
entire family was affected by the injury
IMPOSSIBLE
COMMAND
C) Jesus asks him to do the
Impossible – stretch forth your hand – Problem he couldn’t
D) Trying to be funny ?
Important Principle – God’s commandments are God’s enablements
What
is your need tonight!
A) Struggling with
Pornography – Walk in Purity
I can’t – or believe God’s
word – do it
B) Love your wife – You
don’t know her
1) Excuses – Do it – God’s
Spirit
C) Submit to your husband –
that is impossible
1) Is it – God would not
have commanded it
D) Problem with lying –
Speak the truth
1) God’s commandment is your
enablement
Turn to
Romans 6 :
Listen the Choice
is yours –
You can struggle in sin –
fight with temptation or you can stand forth / stretch out your hand
And be made whole today.
Rom 6:5-13
5 For if we have been united
together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the
likeness of His resurrection,
6 knowing this, that our old
man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that
we should no longer be slaves of sin.
7 For he who has died has
been freed from sin.8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also
live with Him,9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no
more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.10 For the death that He died, He
died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.
11 Likewise you also, reckon
yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12 Therefore do not let sin
reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
13 And do not present your
members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God
as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness
to God