A Savior, Discipleship, and a Cross: Who Is This? Lord Over the Law
Mark 2:23-3:6
Pastor Bob Hiller
2/8/2009
Then he said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath."
Mark 2:27-28
1. Jesus is not only Lord of the Sabbath, but of the whole ________!
2. The law is not meant to make us ____________.
3. The point of the commandments is to __________ God by ____________ my neighbor.
4. Jesus uses the Sabbath to ________ and ________ lives, even ours!
Scripture Readings
Isaiah 40:21-31
1 Corinthians 9:16-27
Mark 2:23-3:6
Take It With You!
As we follow Christ from His baptism to His cross and empty tomb, it will be helpful for everyone to be reading through the Gospel of Mark daily. Here helpful tools will be offered to aid in your study.
Quotes on the Sabbath Day
Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day.
Colossians 2:16
Note, then that the power and force of [the third commandment] consists not in the resting but in the hallowing, so that this day may have its special holy function. Other work and business are really not designated holy activities unless the person doing them is first holy. In this case, however, a work must take place through which a person becomes holy. This work, as we have heard, takes place through God's Word. Places, times, persons, and the entire outward order of worship have therefore been instituted and appointed in order that God's Word may exert its power publicly.
Martin Luther, The Large Catechism, (On the Third Commandment)
Sabbath is not primarily about us or how it benefits us; it is about God and how God forms us. It is not, in the first place, about what we do or don't do; it is about God completing and resting and blessing and sanctifying. These are all things we don't know much about; they are beyond us but not beyond our recognition and participation. But it does mean stopping and being quiet long enough to see, open-eyed with wonder - resurrection wonder. As we stand or sit in surprised and open receptivity to what is beyond us, what we cannot control, we cultivate the fear-of-the-Lord. Our souls are formed by what we cannot work up or take charge of: We respond and enter into what the resurrection of Jesus continues to do on the foundations of creation, our work and workplace.
Eugene Peterson, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology
