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When we look back to last week, we find Jesus as he heals a paralytic.
He hears the questions, how can He forgive his sins?
And answers which is easier, to say ‘Yours ins are forgiven,’ or to say ‘Rise and walk’?
Jesus not only forgave the paralytic of his sin, because of the FAITH shown by him and his friends, but he also healed him physically.
Rise, pick up your bed and go home.
And he rose and went home.
They were able to see not only a physical healing, but a spiritual renewing as well.
The crowds were afraid.
They were glorifying God who had given the ability to heal to men.
Yet they failed to understand Jesus wasn’t just man - he was God also.
Matthew then gave his personal testimony of how Jesus called him to the ministry.
Two simple words.
Follow me.
Matthew not only followed Jesus, but coordinated a great evangelistic feast where many tax collectors and sinners came to dine with Jesus.
But another question was raised by the church leadership, the Pharisees.
Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?
Jesus answered their whispers with these words - those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.
Christians, our churches should have an emergency room sign on our front doors.
It should not be like a hotel for the rich and famous, but instead the doors should be open to those who are sick - in need of SPIRITUAL healing.
In these coming verses, we find the Pharisees continuing to question the actions of Jesus.
Why? Simply because He didn’t do things their way.
Those who were learned scholars, who should have been able to see the fulfillment of prophecy in Jesus chose to remain blind and reject Him.
Fasting
Not only were the Pharisees grumbling, but now the disciples of John followed suit.
Why is it when God moves, others complain??? Have you ever noticed that?
That’s not what I would have done.
That’s not how I would have done it.
That’s not the way it’s been done in the past.
Blah Blah Blah.
That’s exactly what these disciples were doing.
“Why to we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?”
Why were John’s disciples were criticizing, grumbling, and complaining?
Because Jesus’ disciples were not doing what John’s disciples thought they should.
How often we criticize those who veer away from the traditions and rules that we practice and often find easy to keep.
Most men are disciplined in some areas and undisciplined in others.
It is easy to criticize a man’s weakness while overlooking our own.
And why is it that those who are criticized and murmured against the most are those who are so often serving the most?
They are the very ones doing the most.
How much division and damage is done by murmuring among God’s people!
Jesus answers this question with the illustration of the Bridegroom.
The Bridegroom pictures a new life and age of joy.During the marriage festivities of a bridegroom, as long as the bridegroom is present, his attendants rejoice.
It is a joyful, festive time.
Jesus was teaching several lessons.
1 - Jesus’ presence brings joy.
The age of the Messiah was often pictured as a joyful occasion.
It was often compared to the festivities surrounding a marriage feast.
Jesus was saying that He was the Bridegroom who was ushering in the Messianic Age.
The Messiah brought a new age and a new life to man, an age of joy and liberation (salvation).
It is a new age and life that supersedes the mechanical and external rituals and ceremonies of religion.
It is an age that brings God’s presence down to man and lays the emphasis on God’s presence, not on ritual and ceremony.
2 - Jesus’ prediction was that He would die.
Jesus was predicting His death by violent means.
He was to “be taken from them.”
His death brought sorrow to the heart of any who saw it and understood it.
But it brought joy soon after, for there was the knowledge that He lives forevermore.
His death and its cleansing power can be forgotten.
The Lord’s presence can fade from a person’s consciousness.
A person can become so busy and preoccupied with the affairs of the world that he loses his sensitivity to the Lord’s presence.
At such times, the person needs to get alone with God.
His concern should be so great that neither food nor sleep matter; nothing matters except regaining the consciousness of God’s presence.
His death would bring about fasting.
His death should cause us to fast when we first learn of His death and what it really means.
His death should cause us to fast when we are forcibly reminded that He died for us.
Such times should be heartrending times, precious times of prayer and fasting for believers.
His death should cause us to fast when we allow His presence to slip out of our mind for some length of time.
At such times, we need to get alone and meditate upon His death allowing nothing to interfere, including food.
Fasting allows us to remove the focus from the everyday routine and focus on what is truly important.
The second illustration Jesus uses is the new cloth.
A new piece of cloth was unshrunken.
To place it on an old piece of cloth was to surely mean it would fail.
Jesus was bringing in new life, a new age, one that was stronger than the old life and age.
He could not take His teachings and patch up the old teaching.
It would not only detract from the good of the old, it would cause a tear that would be greater than what was going to naturally happen.
There was going to be a tear in the old religion and teaching, a natural tear that occurs when any new age or movement is launched in a major way.
But the tear would be greater if He attempted to patch up the old.
There was a tear, a pulling apart between Jesus and the old religion with its rituals and ceremonies.
He was saying that the tear would have been much greater if He had adopted the old and reformed it.
Both the new and old would have been useless, no good for any man to wear.
Many are attached to formal religion, putting their trust in its ceremonies and rituals.
Going through the mechanics of religion is what is thought important.
A person feels he is acceptable to God just so he worships God.
Anyone who says otherwise or attempts to change the tradition of religion is considered radical and fanatic.
Jesus makes a third illustration of the new and old wine.
The new wine would burst the old wineskins due to the old wineskins being firm and rigid, not being able to give to the pressure of the new wine.
The answer to handling old and new wine is to preserve the good of both.
The old religion was not to be cast aside.
It had some strengths and some benefits.
The answer was not to reform it but to fulfill it by ushering in a new life and age.
The old wineskins (restrictions) were not strong enough to contain the new life which Christ was bringing.
The new wine would have been lost if it had been put into the old wineskins of religion.
There would be no new life or age, no hope for man whatsoever.
One of the biggest mistakes made by men is their pouring new ideas and new methods into old wineskins, that is, into the old restrictions and ways of doing things.
We must not let the traditions of the old way bring about our death.
Our rituals, ceremonies, and religion will die apart from the new life in Jesus Christ.
Even we ourselves will die apart from His new life.
Our traditions, our religion can keep us from Him by focusing our attention upon them instead of God.
Girls Life Restored and Woman Healed
As Jesus was dealing with the grumbling from John’s disciples, a man approached with a real problem.
His daughter had just died.
But through faith, this man knew if Jesus would just touch her she would live.
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