Worship Call 0664 The Lawgiver

Mark’s gospel emphasis the Son of Man and the authority bestowed upon Him. Jesus, them continually works outside of the custom and turns over the religious apple carts.

it is kind of like… You can’t do it like that Jesus! You are out of line. this is the we have always done it.”

With Christ old things have passed away, behold new things have come

and this is another fine day in the Lord

We left off with those who lowered the Mat down through the ceiling in order that the friend or relative or maybe just some man that these others had great compassion for, could be healed by Jesus. Being impressed with the faith go as far as to bust a hole in the ceiling and go to the effort to lower this man down, Jesus says to the Man on the mat.

Mark 2:5 (NASB95) — 5, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”

The reason for the man’s ailment that he had to be confined to his bed was the result of some person sin or maybe prolonged sin.

Not all physical problems are due to sin.

John 9:1–3 (NASB95) — 1 As He passed by, He saw a man blind from birth. 2 And His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?” 3 Jesus answered, “It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was so that the works of God might be displayed in him.

Jesus knew this man who was born blind. Jesus knew the parents; He knew their hearts their lives. He knew them perfectly and completely before the foundation of the world.

He knows yours. Every thought, motive, and action. He knows of the hatred you carry for your neighbor, and for your brother. He knows the unkind word that is spoken against another. Jesus knows of the offenses your eye, and your hand. He knows your idolatry as he knows mine and that of every living human being, past present and future.

He knows that it was not the result of the parent’s sin that the man was born blind.

But Jesus also knows that the man who came through the ceiling was confined to that mat because of sin.

What was the sin?

We don’t know.

Perhaps, it was known or unknown by others in that room. The sin could have been blasphemy which even in that day the average man or even religious priest or otherwise would not be laying hands on a person and proclaiming him cleaned healed and especially that one’s sins were forgiven outside of the normal practices of Judaism.

The day of atonement fell on the Jewish calendar only once a year. The Day of atonement or Yom Kippur was the day that sin offering was brought to the temple for the cleansing of ones sin.

There was a protocol in place. this was how one’s sins were handled.

Jesus not only cleansed Leper early in the Gospel of Mark, but Jesus said

Mark 1:41 (NASB95) —, “I am willing; be cleansed.”

For the Jews who were witnessed to this were left with questions. What Jesus did was outside of his Jurisdiction and practice of even the priests. When by the authority of his word he tells the leaper that he is clean and to go present himself to the priest for validation and reentrance back into fellowship.

You will run into those who disregard the dispensational age of the bible and say that we need to be keeping every letter of the bible even Jewish customs. Dietary laws, circumcision, even sacrifices.

Here is a news flash.

Not even Jesus followed strictly the Jewish custom. He broke from the religious system. Jesus is the Lawgiver. The authority does not lie with the religious leaders or their religious system of Judaism.

But you say that the scripture lays out the ordinances and Jesus said that he did not come to do away with the Law but to fulfill it.

The Law came from his hands. Jesus established the law for his people and why was the Law established?.

Galatians 3:23–26 (NASB95) — 23 But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, being shut up to the faith which was later to be revealed. 24 Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith. 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. 26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

Well, they were standing before the one who bears absolute authority and the lawgiver who trained the saints of old to what was coming which is now here.

Jesus said

John 8:12 (NASB95) — “I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.”

2 Corinthians 5:17 (NASB95) — 17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

WE are no longer under the tutor. We are now under the authority of Christ.

That authority stood before the religious leaders.

But Jesus is intimate with ever aspect of this man’s life.

Jesus is the Judge. He has opened the books. If indeed this man was a blasphemer in some fashion or way which caused his disability , then it is that this man stands before the very judge who issued the sentence in the first place.

Jesus does not deal first with the consequences of the sin; he goes straight to the root of the problem which lies in this man’s personal sin against God.

All sin is against the Lawgiver.

Psalm 41:4 (NASB95) — 4 As for me, I said, “O Lord, be gracious to me; Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.”

Psalm 51:3–4 (NASB95) — 3 For I know my transgressions, And my sin is ever before me. 4 Against You, You only, I have sinned And done what is evil in Your sight, So that You are justified when You speak And blameless when You judge.

And while we do confess our sins to one another when we do transgress against a brother or a neighbor, ultimately the sin is against the lawgiver himself and it is he that we must come and confess our sins to.

David was an adulterer

David was a murderer

David’s sins were against others.

But ultimately the sin was against the Lawgiver who said

“Thou shall not murder”

“Thou shall not commit adultery”

And it was David who was about to die because of those sins. But when David was confronted with his sins and that he was sentenced to death, David confessed his sin to God and he was granted a pardon. But even though David was granted a pardon He still suffered from the consequences of his sin.

The others are victims, but the king of Israel, David, does not have to answer to them. And the sins that we commit against other we may leave those we transgress behind. Or We may make amends with them, and they indeed may forgive us.

But still, we are accountable to God.

Have we gone to the lawgiver for justification and the forgiveness of our debt?

Psalm 66:18 (NASB95) — 18 If I regard wickedness in my heart, The Lord will not hear;

So, before the audience in the house of Peter (assuming that it was peter’s house that now has a gaping hole in the roof) Jesus breaks the Jewish custom and pronounces once again another cleansed from sin.

Mark 2:5 (NASB95) — 5 And Jesus seeing their faith said to the paralytic, “Child, your sins are forgiven.”

Jesus calls him

Child τέκνον [teknon /tek·non/] n

A child is under the authority of his parents. As this man now subjugates or orients to the authority of God.

Under the parental control the parent can issue the discipline, and that discipline can be light, or it can be extreme as the parent would dictate. The parent can also choose to pardon the Child and exercise grace and mercy. That is the Parents prerogative.

It is God’s prerogative in the exercise of grace and mercy.

Romans 9:15–18 (NASB95) — 15 For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” 16 So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy. 17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I raised you up, to demonstrate My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed throughout the whole earth.” 18 So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires.

Nope!

Jesus does not consult the priests.

Nope

Jesus does not look at the calendar to see if it is the day of Atonement.

Nope

Jesus does not call for a sin offering.

He makes the bold statement.

Your sins have been forgiven.

Mark 2:6–7 (NASB95) — 6 But some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, 7 “Why does this man speak that way? He is blaspheming; who can forgive sins but God alone?”

And right you are, Scribes.

Take note of this.

There is something greater than the Law that you are witnessing.

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