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Take your Bible and turn with me to Mark chapter number 2. Mark chapter number to, as we are picking up where we left off last Sunday.

Mark chapter 2 and verse number 18.

Mark 2 Verse 18.

The Disciples of John and of the Pharisees were fasting.

Then they came and said to him, why do you, why did the Disciples of John?

And the Pharisees fast.

But your disciples do not fast, and Jesus said to them, can the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them.

As long as they have the bride bride groom with them, they cannot fast.

But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them and then they will Fast and Noah's days.

No one's so's, a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment or else.

The new piece pulls away from the old and The Tear is made worse and no one puts new wine into old wineskins or else, the new wine burst the wineskins.

The wine is spilled in the wineskins are ruined, but new wine must be put into new wineskins on a priest.

You this morning on this saws, out with the old in with the new, let's pray together.

Our Father, we once again about humbly before your presence Lord we are thankful for your power were thankful or for your omnipotence Glory thankful, Lord for the healing that you have brought Niall and and were able today to hear power.

Testimony of your power and father operate as we go through out this worship service and throughout this message.

Father, I pray that you would speak to her.

So I pray the Holy Spirit.

Would fill me up Lord, give me the words to say but Lord more importantly, I pray that you would speak to individuals here and those lure that are here that are lost and do not have a right relationship with you father.

I pray that today would be the day of salvation and lure, those who are born, again, those who have life in, you father would leave here with a new sense of Celebration knowing that Jesus is with us while we love you.

We ask all of these things in Christ name, all of God's people said, amen.

Well most of you know, there are really just two kinds of individuals in this world.

There are some folks who go out of their way.

Define trouble.

I've been there are folks who are not necessarily looking for trouble because trouble, always finds them.

And this is Jesus, Jesus is not intentionally looking for trouble.

Trouble is finding the Lord Jesus from the time he appeared and began his Earthly Ministry to the very moment that he ascended back into heaven.

Jesus was busy establishing a new kingdom, the kingdom of God, and in him doing.

So he was upsetting the traditions of men.

now, as far as the Jews were concerned, Jesus was involved in one religious scandal after another In chapter one.

Jesus offended, the religious Jews and Pharisees.

Remember chapter one when he touched the leper and healed the leper, A Jesus offended, the religious Jews when he publicly and 2:5 when he publicly forgave a man's sin.

And then that since Jesus was claiming to be God for, only God, can forgive sins into the religious Pharisees.

That's this was a scandal.

This is very thin.

So they called it blasphemy and then they got upset as we saw last week because Jesus attended a feast at Levis house at Matthew's house, Levi being a tax collector, they could not in their mind understand why this young Rabbi this very popular Rabbi would spend time with sinners.

And so here was another scandal.

Jesus celebrating in and conversing with sinners.

Until the versus we have read.

Already this morning, It opens up another Scandal between Jesus and the Jewish leaders.

But this time, it involves their Traditions.

It involves their rituals as Jesus had the audacity to ignore their longtime rituals.

He had the audacity to ignore their traditions, and they were offended by that once again.

It seems to me that no type of person is as hard to deal with.

As religious persons.

Are you take a person who is held by the grip of tradition?

You take a person who is held by the grip of a ritual and legalism and if you step off their little belief system you will soon find out that they are as mean as a junkyard dog.

It won't take.

But a second to see that their religion that their rituals at their tradition has never penetrated their heart and brought about true salvation and brought about true godliness.

So this is the kind of people that Jesus Christ is dealing with in his Earthly Ministry, he is facing criticism from a group of people who claim to know God, but they do not know God.

Now they know the rules, they know the rituals they know all the traditions and the things that they have been taught until them, but they do not know the life-changing power of a personal relationship with God as the Apostle.

Paul would later on say they have a form of godliness, but they denied the power thereof.

Don't want us to know this very quickly, this morning three screws that we see as Jesus answers his accusers here.

I first of all noticed with me Jesus and the rebuke Jesus and the review Verse 18 tells us the Disciples of John and other Pharisees were fasting.

Then they came and said to him, why do the Disciples of John and the Pharisees fast but your disciples do not fast.

Well, we seeing this verse there, is this mention of a ritual.

There is a mention of a, a particular tradition were told in this verse that the Pharisees along with the Disciples of John, the Baptist were known to observe fasting as part of their lifestyle.

Now, we know fasting is a is something that is a of a self-denial and is a time of self-denial, that serves to focus the mind.

It serves to focus the heart and an effort to grow spiritually during a period of fasting.

The Flash is denied in the attention, then is given to seek in the very face of God.

The one who is fasting might refrain from eating the mites refrain from sleeping or some other kind of physical fulfillment for a.

Of time.

But it's very interesting to notice that fasting was never, never commanded in the law of God, you'll never find that in scripture.

But by the time Jesus appears in the time of Jesus fasting had become a big part of Jewish life.

It is one of those many laws that the Pharisees had added on to the law of God, the Pharisees for instance, Fasted 2 days every week at according to Luke 18:25, it tells us that are they fasted every Monday and Thursday from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. but yet they're fasting was not done in a sincere effort to seek the Lord.

Know they fast in an attempt to seek the to impress God.

They faster to impress more than that.

The fastest to impress men.

They was fast for 12 hour.

And then they would become gluttons as soon as the fast was over.

The Pharisees believe that God was Seether self-denial.

And he will bless them for their sacrifice.

They also did everything they could to make sure that others knew that they were fasting, they would wipe their faces.

They were put ashes upon their head, they would wear a clothes and obvious disarray.

They tried to look as sad and as much info as they possibly could, they wanted everyone to know those who passed them by that, what they were doing.

They were fasting before the Lord.

Not only did the religious Jews practice and regulate fasting, but here's what they did.

They forced it upon others, to do it as well.

They commanded others to do it.

They expected the common man to follow their lead in fast.

Like they did, you know?

Because they were up here.

Spiritually.

If you don't do as what we do, then you're just not as spiritual as we are.

so these men had elevated, a tradition of man a ritual of man until it had the same Authority as a law of God and that is legalism, that is really heresy to a certain extent.

So, we see the ritual but then we notice and verse 18, this review.

Going back to verse 18, Jesus and his disciples are enjoying a fees.

They are enjoying a celebration at the house of Levi.

But here's the problem.

Jesus did not keep the Pharisees rules.

These men had already decided.

How good people were supposed to live a righteous.

People were supposed to live, they sent the standard.

Jesus refused to allow himself then to be pressed into their religious mold.

He refused to allow dead rituals or man's rituals and traditions to become the focus of his life and Ministry.

Now listen to me this morning, there is nothing wrong at all with fasting in and of itself.

A man, there's nothing wrong with that and that is not what Jesus to say but it is when the rituals become more mere religious, lifeless routines.

That's were trouble.

Arises.

Because it is, then that the ritual, oftentimes comes to take the place of God as the focus of true worship.

Does the ritual can keep a lost person from trusting in God because the ritual is enough for the one who observes it.