I WAS BLIND BUT NOW I SEE PART II

Big Idea

The Work of God in our lives will not always be identifiable by an earthly or a worldly context. As believers we must be ready to accept the work of Christ in our life and the lives of others even if it means accepting rejection for the social influences and religious authorities of our day.

The influence of worldly/sinful beliefs on group Christian thought.

Play on the words (Pharisees & Jews)

Pharisees are a smaller representation of the Jewish Nation at the time

Leadership can often be a reflect the Group and the Group can often be a reflection of the Leadership

The Sabbath

It was Biblical

It was Biblically misunderstood (By the Religious leaders and thus the masses)

In our culture we have tones of sabbaths or things that are untouchable, we canonize process and methods that may be good and have worked at different seasons and times, but they are not God’s Absolute Biblical directive

The Power of Social Identification

Family

Gender

Race

Ethnicity

§ Ethnicity

Religion

Economics

National

Political affiliation

Geographical Location

Religion

Economics

Religion

Faith or Denominational Affiliation

State Church vs Non- State Churches

Christian

Catholic

Baptist

Pentecostal etc.

Clergy vs Laity

Social Bias and Prejudice

Should be to Christ Jesus alone and his saving of our souls

Love for one another [(People of God) and Love for God’s Creation]

People of the Word (Scripture)

Scripture defines Gods love and how we should love

Pharisees problems is that their religious practices and power derived (identity) is the lens that they filtered truth through.

Identify/Identity

Practice-

Power (Authority)

Christ – Practice-Power/Authority

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