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thoughts on Mark 3.1-5 Wednesday, November 08, 2006 |

::the shriveled Sabbath:: C'mon Pharisees, it's a simple question...a baby could answer it: Which is lawful on the Sabbath:to do good or to do evil, to save a life or to kill?
Jesus is angry and deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts. I have to examine my heart. Sometimes it's stubborn. It's not that I'm clinging to traditions or anything like that. I'm hanging onto habits, sin habits. I have a stubborn heart. A stubborn heart that is refusing to trust in Christ.
That the way he is wanting me to live is actually a better way to live. I want that. I don't want to be a Pharisee. I don't want to live a life disconnected, in opposition to Christ.
I need to trust in the shift. The shift that Jesus knows what he's doing. He knows what he's calling me to, even though I doubt, question, and plead for clarity.

thoughts on Mark 2:23-28 Tuesday, November 07, 2006 |

They've done it again. It won't be the last time. Jesus' disciples aren't acting the way their supposed to be acting. Here they are walking past grainfields and picking some grain to eat...on the Sabbath.
Here's a question for everyone: Are the Pharisees just lurking in the background while Jesus is doing his ministry? Do they just pop out at random times and accuse the disciples and Jesus of wrongdoing? I'm trying to get a mental image of this. It's quite funny actually.
Jesus responds by reminding them of 1 Samuel 21:1-6. The Pharisees were well aware of this passage. But more so is the comparison of Jesus to David and his disciples to David's companions. I'm astounded at the parallels between the OT and the NT gospels.
"So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath." (2:28) Another additional claim to authority. Remember 2:10, "the Son of Man has authority to forgive sins." Jesus is gathering popularity and animosity simultaneously through the first two chapters of Mark.

thoughts on Mark 2.18-22 Monday, November 06, 2006 |

::new wineskins:: I am captivated by the imagery used by Christ in the form of new wineskins. New wine must be poured into the new skins so those skins will stretch and are flexible to allow the wine to ferment and fill them up.
Old skins are tough and brittle. Pouring new wine into them will crack the skins, "burst the skins", and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined.
What kind of faith do I have? Is it a fresh faith that allows for stretching and flexibility, or am I trying to pour fresh faith into stale wineskins of generations past.
Jesus isn't re-inventing a new way to carry wine. He is stating the obvious truth of the best way to carry wine is to make sure the carrying method will be effective.
Jesus is ushering in a new paradigm...a new kingdom...a new covenant. Fasting that is done by John's disciples and the Pharisee disciples is done as a weekly observance and mourning over longed-for salvation. The question of fasting as it concerns Jesus' disciples wouldn't be applicable because they don't see the act of fasting resulting in salvation.