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The Pharisees were fasting while Jesus and His disciples were feasting.
Again, a holier than thou attitude from the Pharisees when the question comes.
Fasting was associated with many ideas in the old testament:
Only one required fast, - Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur
Other reasons for fasting:
There was no required fast during this time, it was something the Pharisees had taken upon themselves to participate in so that they could appear holy and self sacrificing.
But they were aggravated at the fact that Jesus and His disciples were not following suit.
1. fear of demons - Jesus bound satan and exorcised demons
2. sway God's favor - Jesus is God's greatest gift, He gave it freely
3. atonement of sin - Jesus forgave sin, healed without requirement
4. badge of piety - Jesus rejected behavior to win applause from others
5. sorrow/mourning - we still mourn and grieve loss/ His resurrection changed death
There was no required fast during this time, it was something the Pharisees had taken upon themselves to participate in so that they could appear holy and self sacrificing.
But they were aggravated at the fact that Jesus and His disciples were not following suit.
We are doing this and you aren’t, we are better than you.
You are doing it wrong.
Example:
I struggled last week because I couldn't believe that I had let myself become the type of person that I blamed for me not coming to church as a young man.
They had made their own practice a standard for what other should be doing and condemned those that did not follow.
They already didn’t like Jesus or the message He was sharing, so everything He did was an opportunity to attack, question, and undermine Him.
Have you ever noticed that when someone doesn't like you, they always expect the worst from you.
Example:
Family member who has always been selfish and manipulating, you learn to avoid them.
But even if they made a dramatic turnaround in their life, we would still be waiting for the old version of them to make an entrance.
These sinners will never change, he will never respond to Jesus, she will always be lost.
We expect the worst from people rather than believe in the life changing power of Jesus Christ!
That’s where these Pharisees were, but lets look at Jesus’ response to the question:
This is Jesus' first mention of the prediction of His death.
It is in that time that they should be fasting.
A time of reflection and solitude and mourning without Him.
But even then, it will be temporary, because the resurrection of Jesus will again be cause for celebration!
But the bridegroom was still here!
While the bridegroom is here, it is a time of celebration.
It is a time of happiness and joy.
Jesus says that they CANNOT fast while Because of it’s significance and the excitement surrounding the occasion, it would be impossible to fast during this time.
While the bridegroom is here, it is a time of celebration.
It is a time of happiness and joy.
Jesus says that they CANNOT fast while He is here, it is inappropriate and impossible to fast during this time.
Jesus has brought with Him a new age, not simply to teach or reinforce old rules and regulations, but to bring salvation to the world.
Wedding feasts lasted up to a week in those days.
Family and friends would come and stay for the entire week feasting and celebrating and taking joy in the fellowship they had with one another as well as in the reason for the celebration.
Jesus has brought with Him a new age, not simply to teach or reinforce old rules and regulations, but to bring salvation to the world.
Jesus has arrived and brought with Him a new age.
Jesus' entire ministry is an example of fellowship and celebration.
He does not condemn the practice of fasting, but the reason behind it.
If it does not sway God's favor or acceptance, then why do it?
Jesus' entire ministry is an example of fellowship and celebration.
He does not condemn the practice of fasting, but the reason behind it.
If it does not sway God's favor or acceptance, then why do it?
Jesus' entire ministry is an example of fellowship and celebration.
He does not condemn the practice of fasting, but the reason behind it.
If it does not sway God's favor or acceptance, then why do it?
Fasting because of external rules of because of the time of year is to be rejected.
It is only meaningful when the reason is rooted deep in the truth of God's Word.
Sacrificing your own comforts in order to give to others.
Denying yourself to try and overcome your own selfishness.
Seeking God's face and direction about a situation or decision that needs to be made.
The act in itself does not bring glory to God, nor does it do us or those around us any good.
It's only when done with the right heart, when values are given priority causing lesser things to fall away, that we offer real praise to God.
We should approach our religious observances in a way that shows the meaning and the love that we have for God as well as the love that He has for us.
Christianity is not a ball and chain that weighs us down, it is the freedom of joy and the expectation of the glory to come.
Jesus ushered in a new way of relating to God.
It is good news to those that were before left out and it bothered those that spent their lives clinging to law and tradition.
Which one are you today?
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Do you see your relationship with God as that of a master and a slave or that of a bride and her groom?
Wedding feasts lasted up to a week in those days.
Family and friends would come and stay for the entire week feasting and celebrating and taking joy in the fellowship they had with one another as well as in the reason for the celebration.
Does it bother you when things are done differently than you are used to?
Or do you rejoice in the heart behind the reason things are done?
do you say “They aren’t doing that right”, or do you say “i love that they are worshipping and celebrating Jesus”?
Do you take joy today and celebrate the time you have with Jesus?
Do you take joy in the fact that your God loves you immeasurably more than you could ever understand?
So let’s look at the examples Jesus gives to support His answer:
Mark 2:
The two types of cloth do not go together.
Concert tshirts, look great when they are new, but shrink after a wash and never look or fit right again.
But I continued to buy them, never learning my lesson because I had an impulse in the moment that I needed one of those shirts!
You can’t put new wine in old skins.
What does that mean?
Explain:
One will destroy the other.
Neither does new wine and old skins.
They will both be ruined.
In v. 20, we saw the future that would overcome the past (Jesus overcoming the world), and now we see the new that will replace the old (Jesus overcoming the world).
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The new teachings of Jesus cannot be attached to or pieced together with the old law of religion.
The Pharisees and their religion had stripped God's law of all of it's substance and turned it into a dry shell of what it used to be.
The new will destroy the old.
Jesus says that He did not come to destroy the law but to fulfill it.
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He is not telling us that the law is dead, but that the way we have used it to our own purposes is dead.
Jesus is fulfilling the law, filling in the gaps of what we missed, taking it back to what it was meant to be, thus making it new again so that we now have new wine in a new wineskin.
He is not telling us that the law is dead, but that the way we have used it to our own purposes is dead.
Jesus is fulfilling the law, filling in the gaps of what we missed, taking it back to what it was meant to be, thus making it new again so that we now have new wine in a new wineskin.
We have to let go of external (religious rules) and the internal (the way we think) in order to become one with the new covenant of grace and faith.
2. Once a person responds to Christ, we must take on our new identity by leaving behind the old one.
Many people today try to take pieces of Jesus and patch their lives with Him, picking and choosing what parts of salvation they want and which ones they don't.
We try to pour the newness of Christ into the same shell of sin that we have been living in all of our lives.
We think that we can continue to live the lives we have been living, the lives WE want to live and still call ourselves Christians because we sew on a little Jesus patch on Sunday morning.
Many of us approach it like a buffet line.
We take what we want and leave the rest, fixing ourselves a plate of religion that reflects all the things we like and none of the things we don't.
We cannot put God in a box.
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