by ray | Apr 29, 2010 | Mark, NT, Sermons
All this talk about teachers of the law and the Pharisees and you might be thinking, what does this have to do with me? I have been reflecting on this passage and I realize there is a lot more religion in my life than I care to admit. Earlier, I shared how religious...
by ray | Apr 27, 2010 | Mark, NT, Sermons
How do the teachers of the law and the Pharisees view Jesus? They view him as a threat. He threatens their entire religious system. He threatens what they had worked so hard to attain. The social standing. The financial security. They must have thought, I will...
by ray | Apr 25, 2010 | Mark, NT, Sermons
1Another time he went into the synagogue, and a man with a shriveled hand was there. 2Some of them were looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, so they watched him closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath. 3Jesus said to the man with the shriveled hand,...
by ray | Apr 21, 2010 | Mark, NT, Sermons
Fourth, Jesus is criticized by Pharisees for doing work on the Sabbath and breaking Sabbath law — 23One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain. 24The Pharisees said to him,...
by ray | Apr 19, 2010 | Mark, Sermons
We talked about how the first group missed Jesus because of their prejudice that God could not take human form. The second group missed Jesus because they thought that their religious performance made them better than “sinners.” Now we have a third group...
by ray | Apr 18, 2010 | Mark, NT, Sermons
Second, Jesus is criticized by the Pharisees for having dinner with “sinners” – 15While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and “sinners” were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who...
