Mark (Program #9) – The Ways the Slave-Savior Carried Out His Gospel Service (4)
By the time Jesus was ready to begin His earthly ministry, a well established God ordained religious system was firmly entrenched in the land of Palestine. But as the very God Himself who was the fulfillment and reality of all of the components of that established religion you would think that He would had taken a great care to approach the leaders of that religion and to bring them into His ministry.
But the record of the New Testament reveals quite the opposite. The gospels, in particularly the gospel of Mark revealed that Jesus showed no interest in maintaining the old religion with its’ traditions and rituals. Even those were among the ones that God had originally instituted such as the Sabbath.
Rather, Jesus offended the religious community to the uttermost by breaking the Sabbath regulation repeatedly and revealing that as the Lord of the Sabbath He was well within His authority to use the Sabbath to care for His people instead of as a religious fetter to bind them and even to kill them.
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