This is the seventh installment of a year-long series on the Book of Mark. Today's teaching is by Josh Anderson, Community Life Pastor at theHeart.

 

Subtitle: Love in Action

MARK 2:23-3:6

Two Sabbath Stories

WHAT IS SABBATH?

Exodus 20:8-11

WHAT IS SABBATH?

shabbat = "cease, desist, rest"

shev = "sit"

WHAT IS SABBATH?

Genesis 2:2-3

WHAT IS SABBATH?

Shabat = To Cease

Melakhah = Creativity or Creative Activities

Kadosh = Holy

Hakadosh = God Himself, the Holy One

WHAT IS SABBATH?

Celebrating God's Role as Creator

WHAT IS SABBATH?

Set Apart as Holy

WHAT IS SABBATH?

Separated in Radical Ways

WHAT IS SABBATH?

"Fence" Around the Torah

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Preventing People from Creating on the Sabbath

MARK 2:23-28

Exodus 34:21

MARK 2:23-28

How the Pharisees Observed the Sabbath

MARK 2:23-28

Deuteronomy 5:14

MARK 2:23-28

Leviticus 19:9-10

MARK 2:23-28

Deuteronomy 23:25

MARK 2:25-26

Consecrated Bread

 

 

CONSECRATED BREAD

 

 

WHAT IS SABBATH?

Made for Man

WHAT IS SABBATH?

Holy

WHAT IS SABBATH?

Using sacred things to help one another is the only way to give them to God.

WHAT IS SABBATH?

The day of freedom from work is a gift for humanity's good.

WHAT IS SABBATH?

The Sabbath is most fully celebrated by the demonstration of compassion and mercy.

MARK 2:28

"So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath."

MARK 3:1-6

The Man with the Paralyzed Hand

MORE RULES

Medical attention could be administered only if life was in danger

MORE RULES

Excessive rules make the Sabbath unholy.

TWO QUESTIONS

"Is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the Sabbath?"

"Is it lawful to save a life or kill it?"

WHAT IS SABBATH?

To Jesus, the most important thing in the world was not the correct performance of a ritual but the spontaneous answer to the cry of human need.

WHAT IS SABBATH?

Following the law instead of fulfilling the law misses the point of why the law was 

given to us in the first place.

WHAT IS SABBATH?

1 Corinthians 3:16

WHAT IS SABBATH?

Love in Action