Mark (Program #7) – The Ways the Slave-Savior Carried Out His Gospel Service (2)
Mark chapter 2 gives us the account of the Lord Jesus as the Slave-Savior carrying out His gospel service to care for the need of fallen people. It’s a marvelous chapter that shows us 5 cases or incidents, each one demonstrating this loving care in a particular way meeting the need of all manner of weak, sick and sinful people.
What a picture of the glad tidings being lived out in their midst! Of course, not all the people are eager and happy to see such a manifestation of the reality and the enjoyment of God. The scribes and the pharisees, the self-righteous and religious among the people were indignant that their own the authority and their time on the traditions were completely ignored by the Lord Jesus. For as He Himself told them, “those who were strong have no need of a physician but those who are ill. I did not come to call the righteous but sinners.“
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