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Only Love Can Heal What Love Has Broken
Teenagers growing up in a hard world....
Emotions are a sign of weakness.....
The weak are preyed upon and exploited by others.....
They seek safety by adopting a lifestyle and mentality of being unaffected by the situations around them.....
Home life, school, relationships, loss, etc.
We do it too, heartbreak, failures, disappointments in our lives cause us to withdraw into ourselves out of fear of being hurt again.
This kind of life kills our joy, spirits, keeps us from experiencing fulfillment in that we always have our guards up.
It desensitizes us to the good and the bad things around us, keeps us from real relationships and human connection.
It keeps us from opening up to others, being real, being honest, and we end up hurting others because of it.
Hurt people hurt people,
These things are caused by a lack of love because of some sin in our lives that has taken it away from us or someone else’s sin that has caused us to turn our back on it.
Only Love Can Heal What Love Has Broken
they were hungry, it was legal to pick grain or corn (especially for the needy), as long as you didn't use a sickle.
The law in question was the one about working on the Sabbath.
Fourth commandment: Remember the Sabbath, keep it holy
: Work 6 days, rest on the 7th
: buying and selling on the Sabbath was desecration
the Pharisees had some 34 laws about what one could not do on the Sabbath.
Under each law there were 6 divisions.
They were serious about their laws!
If you hadn't prepared food the day before, then you just needed to go without and hopefully be better prepared the next week.
, Jesus justifies the actions of David and his men because there was a need.
How much more are Jesus and His disciples justified?
Jesus always has an answer.
To every question, every problem, He has an answer.
It might not be the answer we want, but he always has one.
It’s one of the things I enjoy most about reading scripture, and it’s also one of the thing I enjoy least.
Here He is, again, quoting OT scripture to support the things He is saying and doing in a way that the Pharisees can understand and relate to.
But it’s the next verse that is interesting:
Mark 2:27
The Sabbath was made for man.
It was given to us for our benefit, rest, restoration, and well being.
Once again, the Pharisees had taken something meant to prosper us and turned it into something burdensome and cold.
As we’ve seen before, what God created to help us is now being used to opress over us.
The Jewish people were constantly trying to prove themselves to God by living by a set of laws that was impossible to keep.
This is why they offered sacrifices, to atone for their sins and failures, but those sacrifices were only temporary.
They had to be repeated over and over again.
Which is why God sent us Jesus.
tells us that Jesus was the one sacrifice for sin that would last forever for all people.
He was the last and ultimate sacrifice so that we may rest in God permanently.
Jesus is saying that the rest provided to us by the Sabbath is now found in Him.
He is our rest now and forever.
We no longer have to rest from the work of attaining God’s favor, Jesus is the Sabbath and therefor fulfills the Law by satisfying it’s requirements.
But He doesn’t stop there, look at the next verse:
Just as we can rest in Him every day of our lives, we can also worship Him every day of our lives, and we should.
Only Love Can Heal What Love Has Broken
Jesus also claims lordship over the sabbath, which gives Him authority over it laws and limitations.
Again, Jesus answers the Pharisees by asserting His identity as God which He has done throughout the entire book of Mark.
While we are here today arguing over who’s interpretation is right and who’s is wrong, (its arrogant of us to think that any one of has interpreted God’s Word flawlessly)
Jesus says, “I Am Lord, I Am God, I Am Messiah, I Am the Sabbath,
Jesus says, “I Am Lord, I Am God, I Am Messiah, I Am the Sabbath,
I AM!!!
But, for some us, that’s not good enough.
We continue to doubt, sneer, conspire, look for ways to disprove His truth.
The Pharisees were watching Him so that they could accuse Him of breaking the law and going against God's word.
Such a thing was punishable by death.
They were no longer curious about who Jesus was or what He was teaching, they were out to get Him.
They wanted Him gone and were looking for the opportunity to do so.
Knowing that, look at what Jesus does:
Mark 3:
Think about the question.
A simple question with a simple answer.
Not too much thought needed to go into the answer.
Without judgement, presumptions about who was asking or what it meant, the answer is easy.
Jesus didn’t do this to spite them or to rub something in their faces, He gave them an opportunity to hear what He was saying and to respond to it, but they did not.
They were so hard hearted and so focused on what they thought and what they wanted and their agenda, that they completely missed the point of what Jesus was doing.
They were so determined to catch Him breaking the law so that they could accuse Him that it blinded them to everything and everyone else around them.
Has that ever happened to you? Have you ever been so focused on a goal or destination, or so consumed by you own emotions that you completely miss the fact that you are hurting the people around you?
It’s difficult to see ourselves as the Pharisees.
We do it all the time!
Jesus saw this happening inside of them and He became angry and grieved because of it.
He knew that these would be the people that would murder Him and that His love for them would not change them.
Jesus saw this happening inside of them and He became angry and grieved because of it.
He knew that these would be the people that would murder Him and that His love for them would not change them.
It grieves Him when we don’t see what’s right in front of us.
Because He loves us.
Only Love Can Heal What Love Has Broken
For being a group of men that were all about keeping the Sabbath holy, they sure didn't hesitate to go out and plot murder on the very same day.
When our hearts go unchecked, we end up in some dark places, living lives that we never intended to live and hurting people we never intended to hurt.
Religion doesn't make you a good person.
All of us are broken and sinful and in need of a Savior.
We need Jesus.
The Point
We need to always ask ourselves whether what we do helps or hinders those that are in need.
If what we do conflicts with the command to love our neighbor, then we must reevaluate what it is we are doing.
If we are not doing good, we are doing evil .
The Pharisees had become so indoctrinated by the law that their hearts had become hardened to everything else.
The Law was everything and people were expendable.
It grieved Jesus.
God is grieved by the hardness of our hearts.
None of us are immune to it.
Why is the heart hardened?
Sin (unconfessed and unrepentant),
pride (arrogance deceives us into denying God),
selfishness, (focusing on what we want rather than on what God wants)
Many of us are walking around today with hard hearts and we don’t even know it.
We’ve been living in them so long that we don’t even see them anymore.
We just continue living our lives.
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