WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:12.480 Great to see you again. Things move really quickly, don't they, these days. You can't really be blamed for being behind the times a little bit, can you? 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:23.539 Things advance so quickly. But is there a point where living in the past, living in history, becomes a worrying habit? 00:00:24.339 --> 00:00:39.880 As a ridiculous example, just imagine today that if I turned up to the lunchtime talks on a horse-drawn carriage, wearing a pair of tights and a cravat, smoking a pipe, Mr. Darcy style. 00:00:39.880 --> 00:00:51.160 Well, if I live in the Victorian era, when it's the information era, you would instinctively know that there is something seriously wrong with me, wouldn't you? 00:00:52.040 --> 00:01:02.939 You can't mix the old and the new. Sometimes things just happen in history, don't they, which mean that you can't live in the same way anymore. 00:01:02.939 --> 00:01:17.079 You can't mix the old with the new. The past can no longer fit with the present. New times roll in, don't they? The new millennium. The digital age. 00:01:17.780 --> 00:01:27.420 The old must go and the new must come. Get with the times, people say. Don't get stuck in a time warp, they say. 00:01:27.420 --> 00:01:41.799 And it turns out that that is what's happening in Jesus' day when he arrives. It's as if a new era begins when Jesus arrives to proclaim the kingdom of God. 00:01:41.900 --> 00:01:45.480 Have a look back at verse 15 of chapter 1. 00:01:45.480 --> 00:01:55.760 Jesus appears in Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God and saying that time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand. 00:01:56.420 --> 00:01:59.060 Repent and believe in the gospel. 00:02:00.340 --> 00:02:07.140 But as he appears, people are caught in a kind of spiritual time warp. 00:02:07.140 --> 00:02:19.240 Now, very early in this book, Mark has shown us the growing and intensifying hatred towards Jesus from different people around him. 00:02:20.039 --> 00:02:31.879 And questions are fired at Jesus, not really to get answers, but to put him on the spot, aiming to destroy him, to accuse him, to undermine him. 00:02:31.879 --> 00:02:34.519 Just listen to some of those questions now. 00:02:34.879 --> 00:02:37.159 Chapter 2, verse 7. 00:02:38.379 --> 00:02:39.639 Chapter 2, verse 7. 00:02:39.740 --> 00:02:41.900 Why does this man speak like that? 00:02:42.539 --> 00:02:43.979 He is blaspheming. 00:02:44.060 --> 00:02:46.879 Who can forgive sins but God alone? 00:02:47.079 --> 00:02:49.479 Chapter 2, verse 16. 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:53.460 Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners? 00:02:54.620 --> 00:02:56.439 Chapter 2, verse 18. 00:02:56.439 --> 00:03:02.479 Why do Jesus' disciples not fast like the other disciples? 00:03:03.359 --> 00:03:05.199 Chapter 2, verse 24. 00:03:06.460 --> 00:03:10.319 Why are your disciples doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath? 00:03:11.620 --> 00:03:19.919 And then as chapter 3 opens, the implied question in the synagogue is why does Jesus heal on the Sabbath? 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:28.319 Intensifying hatred, accusations to Jesus and to his disciples. 00:03:29.319 --> 00:03:39.699 And if you look at the world today, that is not that different from how the world treats Jesus and his disciples today in most of the world. 00:03:39.699 --> 00:03:49.959 But Jesus' explanation of this hatred is to do with people's willingness to get with the times. 00:03:50.959 --> 00:03:54.219 To live in the era that he has brought about. 00:03:55.039 --> 00:04:00.679 Because with the arrival of Jesus is an altogether new time for humanity. 00:04:00.680 --> 00:04:04.939 The time is fulfilled, Jesus says. 00:04:05.560 --> 00:04:11.099 And the old must go, and the new must come. 00:04:11.700 --> 00:04:18.579 Just listen again to what he says in verse 21 to 22 of chapter 2. 00:04:18.699 --> 00:04:23.199 And note the words old and new here. 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:29.039 No one shows a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. 00:04:30.039 --> 00:04:32.599 If he does, the patch tears away from it. 00:04:33.159 --> 00:04:35.240 The new from the old. 00:04:35.759 --> 00:04:37.279 And a worse tear is made. 00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:42.360 No one puts new wine into old wineskins. 00:04:42.819 --> 00:04:45.060 If he does, the wine will burst the skins. 00:04:45.459 --> 00:04:46.860 And the wine is destroyed. 00:04:47.699 --> 00:04:48.800 And so are the skins. 00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:54.460 But new wine is for fresh wineskins or new wineskins. 00:04:55.879 --> 00:05:02.460 Now there, Jesus is giving illustrations from common everyday experience that the people would have known. 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:08.280 Where it would have been inconceivable to mix old things with new things. 00:05:09.300 --> 00:05:12.580 So if you've ever tried making wine, I don't know if you have. 00:05:12.900 --> 00:05:15.980 But you start with the fruit, the juice, and you add sugar. 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:18.019 And you wait for it to ferment, don't you? 00:05:18.019 --> 00:05:18.799 The new wine. 00:05:19.060 --> 00:05:22.299 And as it does that, it expands in volume. 00:05:22.659 --> 00:05:23.159 It grows. 00:05:24.399 --> 00:05:33.579 So to put new fermenting wine into old, already stretched wineskins would be really silly. 00:05:34.779 --> 00:05:38.259 It would split the old wineskins as it grows. 00:05:38.819 --> 00:05:40.779 And you'd lose all of your wine. 00:05:40.779 --> 00:05:47.739 Similarly, if you're doing a bit of patchwork on an old pair of jeans, 00:05:47.739 --> 00:05:53.119 And you put unshrunk denim on the patch, you put it in the wash, 00:05:53.539 --> 00:05:58.779 The unshrunk new patch shrinks, and it tears the old jeans around it. 00:05:58.779 --> 00:06:06.359 So they're just normal examples of silly things you wouldn't do to mix old and new. 00:06:06.360 --> 00:06:13.020 And so Jesus is saying that the problem for these haters around him, 00:06:13.020 --> 00:06:16.300 Is they're trying to do the silly thing with Jesus. 00:06:17.420 --> 00:06:21.280 They want to keep old ways that they have, 00:06:21.920 --> 00:06:24.400 The old skins and the old jeans, 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:28.759 But Jesus appears and brings a new way, 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:32.179 That if you try to mould it onto your old ways, 00:06:32.279 --> 00:06:34.519 He will simply tear it away. 00:06:36.120 --> 00:06:37.599 Jesus comes and he says, 00:06:37.759 --> 00:06:39.479 You've got to get with the times. 00:06:40.439 --> 00:06:42.159 Or putting it more accurately, 00:06:42.679 --> 00:06:45.139 You've got to get with my times. 00:06:45.139 --> 00:06:48.039 Because I'm bringing a new era. 00:06:48.599 --> 00:06:50.899 They're stuck in a spiritual time warp. 00:06:51.779 --> 00:06:54.079 They're being spiritual Victorians, 00:06:54.399 --> 00:06:57.139 In the modern day era when Jesus comes. 00:06:57.279 --> 00:06:59.579 So just exactly what is it, 00:07:00.019 --> 00:07:02.079 That Jesus has come to change? 00:07:03.060 --> 00:07:04.500 What was old, 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:06.800 And what exactly is it, 00:07:06.860 --> 00:07:09.120 That is new with Jesus? 00:07:10.500 --> 00:07:12.779 Well I think we get clues about that, 00:07:12.779 --> 00:07:16.299 By looking at the three kind of accusations, 00:07:16.619 --> 00:07:17.979 That are made in this passage, 00:07:17.979 --> 00:07:20.359 There are three incidents here, 00:07:20.459 --> 00:07:20.819 Aren't there? 00:07:20.899 --> 00:07:23.619 Where the old clashes with the new. 00:07:24.699 --> 00:07:28.199 One of them has to do with a question about fasting, 00:07:29.139 --> 00:07:33.119 And the other two are about behaviour on the Jewish Sabbath day. 00:07:33.959 --> 00:07:34.299 Now maybe, 00:07:34.439 --> 00:07:36.759 I think we've probably only got time for the first two, 00:07:37.199 --> 00:07:37.719 This afternoon. 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:40.039 So let me try and talk you through them. 00:07:40.139 --> 00:07:41.819 So incident number one, 00:07:42.779 --> 00:07:46.459 Jesus brings an era of feasting, 00:07:46.979 --> 00:07:48.619 Not false fasting. 00:07:49.219 --> 00:07:50.579 An era of feasting, 00:07:50.659 --> 00:07:51.459 Not false fasting. 00:07:51.559 --> 00:07:53.259 Look at verse 18, 00:07:53.479 --> 00:07:54.279 Again there. 00:07:55.339 --> 00:07:58.199 Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, 00:07:59.019 --> 00:08:00.819 And people came and said to him, 00:08:00.899 --> 00:08:04.199 Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, 00:08:04.719 --> 00:08:06.619 But your disciples Jesus, 00:08:07.259 --> 00:08:08.239 Do not fast. 00:08:08.240 --> 00:08:13.540 So Jesus and his disciples are compared with, 00:08:13.879 --> 00:08:15.900 Other popular leaders of the time, 00:08:16.019 --> 00:08:17.180 So the Pharisees, 00:08:17.780 --> 00:08:19.180 Maybe John the Baptist. 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:21.740 And he's different, 00:08:21.840 --> 00:08:24.079 Because his disciples don't fast. 00:08:25.420 --> 00:08:28.160 Now fasting is a common thing in the Bible, 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:31.320 It is to abstain from food, 00:08:31.800 --> 00:08:33.000 For a day or so, 00:08:33.680 --> 00:08:35.240 And in the Old Testament, 00:08:35.420 --> 00:08:36.220 God had said, 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:37.580 God had given a command, 00:08:38.340 --> 00:08:39.779 For the people to fast, 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:41.019 Once a year, 00:08:41.519 --> 00:08:43.080 On the day of atonement. 00:08:44.100 --> 00:08:45.379 That's all he said. 00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:48.820 You could do extra fasting, 00:08:48.940 --> 00:08:49.560 If you wanted, 00:08:49.700 --> 00:08:51.240 It could have been a good thing to do. 00:08:51.240 --> 00:08:55.480 But the fast was designed to help people remember, 00:08:56.159 --> 00:08:57.680 Sorrow for sin, 00:08:58.460 --> 00:09:00.600 And to humble themselves before God. 00:09:00.659 --> 00:09:03.019 It was a somber thing to do, 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:05.360 Once a year at the day of atonement. 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:11.120 So in the time that Jesus arrives into here, 00:09:12.019 --> 00:09:15.320 It seems like fasting has now been changed, 00:09:16.080 --> 00:09:18.379 Into a regular work of religion. 00:09:18.379 --> 00:09:22.460 We are not told it's the day of atonement, 00:09:22.580 --> 00:09:23.039 Are we? 00:09:23.919 --> 00:09:25.960 There are no particular reasons, 00:09:26.659 --> 00:09:28.460 For a national fast here. 00:09:29.460 --> 00:09:32.220 So what they're doing is using fasting, 00:09:32.939 --> 00:09:36.039 As an outward sign of piety and virtue, 00:09:36.159 --> 00:09:37.279 It's like a badge of honour. 00:09:38.919 --> 00:09:41.539 Jesus enters this old world, 00:09:41.700 --> 00:09:44.320 Obsessed with religious cliques, 00:09:45.059 --> 00:09:47.559 Who do outward religious work. 00:09:48.379 --> 00:09:49.840 That's the old era. 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:52.379 So what is new, 00:09:52.980 --> 00:09:54.320 About Jesus appearing? 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:56.480 Well you might expect him to say, 00:09:56.559 --> 00:09:57.379 Might you at this point, 00:09:57.500 --> 00:09:58.899 Guys, come on, 00:09:59.220 --> 00:10:02.100 You know that fasting is not supposed to be like this. 00:10:03.220 --> 00:10:04.240 Just think, 00:10:04.620 --> 00:10:06.399 How your fathers, 00:10:07.139 --> 00:10:09.159 Displeased God in the same way. 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:11.700 You can read chapters like Isaiah 58, 00:10:12.559 --> 00:10:13.799 With false fasting. 00:10:14.399 --> 00:10:15.960 This isn't from the heart, 00:10:16.039 --> 00:10:16.679 Is it guys? 00:10:16.679 --> 00:10:18.519 You're just being outwardly religious. 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:20.120 He could have said that, 00:10:20.779 --> 00:10:22.019 And he would have been right. 00:10:22.859 --> 00:10:25.120 But his answer is really surprising. 00:10:26.959 --> 00:10:28.579 His answer is to say, 00:10:28.899 --> 00:10:30.919 In my new era, 00:10:31.959 --> 00:10:34.819 All fasting is now inappropriate. 00:10:34.820 --> 00:10:38.000 Look at verse 19, 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:39.360 There. 00:10:40.080 --> 00:10:41.000 Jesus said to them, 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:42.900 Can the wedding guests fast, 00:10:43.560 --> 00:10:45.600 While the bridegroom is with them? 00:10:46.400 --> 00:10:48.980 As long as they have the bridegroom with them, 00:10:49.580 --> 00:10:50.879 They cannot fast. 00:10:52.800 --> 00:10:54.720 I wonder if you've ever received, 00:10:54.820 --> 00:10:55.980 A wedding invitation, 00:10:56.860 --> 00:10:57.660 That says, 00:10:58.340 --> 00:10:59.440 Dress code, 00:10:59.940 --> 00:11:00.500 Black, 00:11:00.500 --> 00:11:02.379 No dancing, 00:11:03.100 --> 00:11:03.879 No talking, 00:11:04.059 --> 00:11:04.620 No laughing, 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:06.019 No eating, 00:11:06.840 --> 00:11:07.879 RSVP. 00:11:08.559 --> 00:11:09.779 Of course not, have you? 00:11:09.940 --> 00:11:11.899 Weddings are for feasting, 00:11:12.559 --> 00:11:13.360 And enjoying, 00:11:14.120 --> 00:11:16.059 Not for fasting in. 00:11:17.139 --> 00:11:18.820 When the bridegroom is there, 00:11:18.899 --> 00:11:20.460 You cannot fast, can you? 00:11:20.500 --> 00:11:21.700 It just would be really silly. 00:11:21.799 --> 00:11:22.980 You can't go to a wedding, 00:11:23.379 --> 00:11:24.700 Sit at the top table, 00:11:24.779 --> 00:11:25.820 Next to the bridegroom, 00:11:25.919 --> 00:11:27.679 And sit there and refuse to eat, 00:11:27.679 --> 00:11:29.259 The reception meal. 00:11:30.859 --> 00:11:32.019 And Jesus' time, 00:11:32.139 --> 00:11:32.899 His new era, 00:11:33.019 --> 00:11:34.679 Is like a wedding party, 00:11:35.439 --> 00:11:37.599 Where sorrow and fasting, 00:11:37.839 --> 00:11:39.559 Are just silly behaviour. 00:11:41.239 --> 00:11:42.739 And just listen to these promises, 00:11:42.979 --> 00:11:43.839 That God makes, 00:11:44.199 --> 00:11:47.219 To his people in Isaiah chapter 62. 00:11:48.439 --> 00:11:49.299 He says, 00:11:49.419 --> 00:11:50.739 You shall be called, 00:11:51.319 --> 00:11:52.319 My delight, 00:11:53.339 --> 00:11:54.379 And your land, 00:11:54.599 --> 00:11:56.000 Married for the Lord. 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:58.360 The Lord delights in you, 00:11:58.419 --> 00:12:00.139 And your land shall be married. 00:12:00.759 --> 00:12:02.980 As the bridegroom rejoices, 00:12:03.100 --> 00:12:04.000 Over the bride, 00:12:04.659 --> 00:12:06.220 So shall your God, 00:12:06.299 --> 00:12:07.500 Rejoice over you. 00:12:07.980 --> 00:12:08.399 You see, 00:12:08.500 --> 00:12:09.159 They're stuck, 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:11.139 In a spiritual time warp, 00:12:11.980 --> 00:12:12.980 Because God, 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:14.200 The bridegroom, 00:12:14.980 --> 00:12:16.620 Is now finally with them. 00:12:17.639 --> 00:12:19.340 He is right with them. 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:21.980 The time is fulfilled, 00:12:22.580 --> 00:12:24.019 And the kingdom of God, 00:12:24.139 --> 00:12:24.879 Is at hand. 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:27.519 Jesus' time, 00:12:28.159 --> 00:12:30.360 Is the time for God, 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:32.759 To delight in his people, 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:34.439 And to marry them. 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:37.200 But they're living in the past. 00:12:37.980 --> 00:12:39.059 The past, 00:12:39.500 --> 00:12:40.860 That they have constructed, 00:12:41.139 --> 00:12:41.899 Of piety, 00:12:42.779 --> 00:12:44.100 And of outward religion. 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:46.039 Dress code black, 00:12:46.500 --> 00:12:47.200 No dancing, 00:12:47.620 --> 00:12:48.200 No singing, 00:12:48.340 --> 00:12:48.820 No eating. 00:12:48.820 --> 00:12:50.560 They totally miss, 00:12:50.620 --> 00:12:51.800 That the bridegroom, 00:12:52.540 --> 00:12:53.720 Is there with them. 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:55.420 And they fast, 00:12:56.200 --> 00:12:57.020 And they fast. 00:12:58.540 --> 00:12:59.460 But then there's, 00:12:59.500 --> 00:13:00.920 Incident number two, 00:13:01.040 --> 00:13:01.300 Isn't it? 00:13:01.320 --> 00:13:02.020 Which shows us, 00:13:02.120 --> 00:13:03.400 That Jesus' era, 00:13:04.220 --> 00:13:05.100 Is an era of, 00:13:05.100 --> 00:13:06.320 His lordship, 00:13:06.980 --> 00:13:08.379 Not our legalism. 00:13:08.980 --> 00:13:09.920 His lordship, 00:13:10.020 --> 00:13:10.980 Not our legalism. 00:13:11.040 --> 00:13:12.340 Look at verse 23, 00:13:13.020 --> 00:13:14.420 To 24 there. 00:13:14.419 --> 00:13:15.319 One sabbath, 00:13:15.879 --> 00:13:16.959 Jesus was going through, 00:13:17.059 --> 00:13:17.879 The cornfields, 00:13:17.879 --> 00:13:19.620 And as they made their way, 00:13:19.939 --> 00:13:21.079 His disciples began, 00:13:21.240 --> 00:13:22.479 To pluck ears of corn, 00:13:22.860 --> 00:13:23.740 And the pharisees, 00:13:23.740 --> 00:13:24.419 Were saying to him, 00:13:24.479 --> 00:13:24.699 Look, 00:13:24.819 --> 00:13:25.339 Why are they, 00:13:25.399 --> 00:13:26.179 Why are they doing, 00:13:26.259 --> 00:13:27.199 What is not lawful, 00:13:27.259 --> 00:13:28.059 On the sabbath? 00:13:29.740 --> 00:13:30.000 Now, 00:13:30.099 --> 00:13:30.979 And the word sabbath, 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:32.279 It means to cease, 00:13:32.279 --> 00:13:34.059 To cease, 00:13:34.059 --> 00:13:34.819 From work, 00:13:34.919 --> 00:13:35.360 And again, 00:13:35.500 --> 00:13:37.079 God had given commands, 00:13:37.639 --> 00:13:38.679 In the old testament, 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:40.439 About stopping work, 00:13:40.819 --> 00:13:42.459 On one day in the week, 00:13:42.519 --> 00:13:43.480 On the sabbath day, 00:13:43.959 --> 00:13:44.939 And the point of that, 00:13:45.019 --> 00:13:46.480 Was to stop work, 00:13:47.019 --> 00:13:47.980 And to remember, 00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:49.699 All that God had worked, 00:13:49.699 --> 00:13:50.319 For them, 00:13:50.379 --> 00:13:51.399 In their salvation, 00:13:52.299 --> 00:13:53.399 To stop from work, 00:13:53.439 --> 00:13:54.279 And to remember, 00:13:54.860 --> 00:13:56.299 The rest that they had, 00:13:56.379 --> 00:13:57.059 In God, 00:13:57.679 --> 00:13:58.919 In his care for them, 00:13:59.279 --> 00:14:00.839 The sabbath day of rest, 00:14:00.840 --> 00:14:02.680 Was a rest, 00:14:02.780 --> 00:14:03.759 From work, 00:14:04.320 --> 00:14:04.920 A rest, 00:14:05.360 --> 00:14:06.060 For blessing, 00:14:06.340 --> 00:14:07.120 For the people, 00:14:08.399 --> 00:14:09.200 But you see here, 00:14:09.259 --> 00:14:11.019 Jesus comes into an era, 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:13.120 Into their era, 00:14:13.700 --> 00:14:14.860 Where the sabbath, 00:14:14.920 --> 00:14:15.780 Has been twisted, 00:14:15.940 --> 00:14:16.560 And corrupted, 00:14:17.780 --> 00:14:18.500 By the Jewish, 00:14:18.500 --> 00:14:19.840 Religious leaders, 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:22.120 And they had the bible, 00:14:22.259 --> 00:14:22.620 Didn't they, 00:14:22.700 --> 00:14:23.060 But they, 00:14:23.100 --> 00:14:24.680 They made an extra book, 00:14:25.139 --> 00:14:25.780 Of rules, 00:14:25.920 --> 00:14:26.519 And laws, 00:14:27.060 --> 00:14:28.040 Extra standards, 00:14:28.139 --> 00:14:28.840 Which had to be, 00:14:29.280 --> 00:14:29.960 Followed, 00:14:30.840 --> 00:14:32.160 Where the sabbath, 00:14:32.220 --> 00:14:34.060 Became a much tighter thing, 00:14:35.220 --> 00:14:36.080 Rather than being, 00:14:36.120 --> 00:14:37.100 A day of rest, 00:14:38.019 --> 00:14:39.500 It becomes a day of work, 00:14:39.600 --> 00:14:40.139 Doesn't it? 00:14:41.120 --> 00:14:42.200 The pharisees, 00:14:42.280 --> 00:14:43.660 Worked out this book, 00:14:43.720 --> 00:14:44.379 Of rules, 00:14:45.019 --> 00:14:46.320 Which gave a rule, 00:14:46.440 --> 00:14:46.960 Or a law, 00:14:47.080 --> 00:14:47.780 Or a precedent, 00:14:47.960 --> 00:14:49.379 For every single, 00:14:49.899 --> 00:14:50.980 Eventuality, 00:14:51.080 --> 00:14:51.860 On the sabbath, 00:14:52.820 --> 00:14:53.840 So, 00:14:53.980 --> 00:14:55.080 They were more holy, 00:14:55.240 --> 00:14:55.780 Than God, 00:14:55.920 --> 00:14:56.300 Weren't they, 00:14:56.360 --> 00:14:57.440 If I can put it like that? 00:14:57.440 --> 00:14:59.120 Let me give you, 00:14:59.120 --> 00:14:59.820 Some examples, 00:14:59.980 --> 00:15:01.080 It was against the law, 00:15:01.160 --> 00:15:01.980 On the sabbath, 00:15:02.600 --> 00:15:03.160 To fix, 00:15:03.160 --> 00:15:04.920 To fix a dislocated, 00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:06.120 Ankle or a wrist, 00:15:06.760 --> 00:15:08.240 It was against the law, 00:15:08.300 --> 00:15:08.940 On the sabbath, 00:15:09.120 --> 00:15:10.900 To repair a fallen roof, 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:12.740 It was against the law, 00:15:12.800 --> 00:15:13.300 On the sabbath, 00:15:13.320 --> 00:15:14.320 To walk more than, 00:15:14.380 --> 00:15:15.240 800 metres, 00:15:15.820 --> 00:15:17.000 It became, 00:15:17.160 --> 00:15:17.980 Unbearably, 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:18.880 Scrupulous, 00:15:19.760 --> 00:15:20.500 So, 00:15:20.620 --> 00:15:21.520 Jesus' disciples, 00:15:21.660 --> 00:15:22.420 Get slammed, 00:15:23.140 --> 00:15:24.180 For picking corn, 00:15:24.220 --> 00:15:24.960 On the sabbath, 00:15:25.640 --> 00:15:26.500 When they were hungry, 00:15:26.500 --> 00:15:29.120 So, 00:15:29.279 --> 00:15:30.100 Just think again, 00:15:30.220 --> 00:15:30.419 Here, 00:15:30.500 --> 00:15:32.019 About what Jesus could say, 00:15:32.399 --> 00:15:33.759 To these Pharisees, 00:15:34.200 --> 00:15:35.259 Guys, 00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:36.399 You know, 00:15:37.299 --> 00:15:38.480 That what God's law, 00:15:38.620 --> 00:15:39.879 Really asks from us, 00:15:39.940 --> 00:15:41.159 Is not like this, 00:15:42.059 --> 00:15:42.779 And you've added, 00:15:42.960 --> 00:15:44.200 All these extra rules, 00:15:44.659 --> 00:15:45.820 So just chillax, 00:15:46.460 --> 00:15:47.480 He could have said that, 00:15:47.519 --> 00:15:48.019 Couldn't he? 00:15:48.220 --> 00:15:49.580 And he would have been right, 00:15:50.779 --> 00:15:52.179 But his answer, 00:15:52.179 --> 00:15:53.580 Is surprising again, 00:15:54.440 --> 00:15:55.899 Look at verse 25, 00:15:56.500 --> 00:15:57.700 He said to them, 00:15:57.820 --> 00:15:59.179 Have you never read, 00:15:59.580 --> 00:16:00.620 What David did, 00:16:00.679 --> 00:16:01.580 When he was in need, 00:16:01.620 --> 00:16:02.320 And was hungry, 00:16:03.399 --> 00:16:04.019 He and those, 00:16:04.120 --> 00:16:04.820 Who were with him, 00:16:04.940 --> 00:16:05.620 How he entered, 00:16:05.720 --> 00:16:06.480 The house of God, 00:16:06.539 --> 00:16:07.220 In the time of, 00:16:07.519 --> 00:16:08.740 Abiathar the priest, 00:16:09.360 --> 00:16:10.179 And ate the bread, 00:16:10.240 --> 00:16:10.820 Of the presence, 00:16:11.740 --> 00:16:13.019 Which is not lawful, 00:16:13.120 --> 00:16:13.460 For any, 00:16:13.559 --> 00:16:14.759 But the priests to eat, 00:16:15.419 --> 00:16:16.600 And he also gave it, 00:16:16.600 --> 00:16:17.080 To those, 00:16:17.200 --> 00:16:18.059 Who were with him, 00:16:18.059 --> 00:16:20.620 It's great, 00:16:20.720 --> 00:16:20.980 Isn't it? 00:16:20.980 --> 00:16:22.600 He says to the Bible experts, 00:16:23.300 --> 00:16:24.580 Have you never read, 00:16:24.899 --> 00:16:26.100 What David did, 00:16:26.139 --> 00:16:27.379 Have you ever read the Bible, 00:16:27.720 --> 00:16:28.639 He reminds them, 00:16:28.740 --> 00:16:29.940 Of a famous moment, 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:30.940 In the Old Testament, 00:16:31.159 --> 00:16:32.340 Where King David, 00:16:32.560 --> 00:16:33.440 In 1 Samuel, 00:16:34.240 --> 00:16:35.220 Took his men, 00:16:35.340 --> 00:16:36.700 Into God's house, 00:16:37.180 --> 00:16:38.879 And ate some of the holy bread, 00:16:39.000 --> 00:16:39.960 The special bread, 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:41.700 It was a bread, 00:16:41.700 --> 00:16:42.899 That only the priests, 00:16:42.899 --> 00:16:44.100 Were allowed to eat, 00:16:44.300 --> 00:16:45.480 It was a serious, 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:46.440 Crime really, 00:16:46.440 --> 00:16:48.800 But as God's, 00:16:48.800 --> 00:16:49.760 Anointed king, 00:16:49.940 --> 00:16:50.360 David, 00:16:51.680 --> 00:16:52.540 It seemed as though, 00:16:52.600 --> 00:16:53.800 He had the authority, 00:16:54.100 --> 00:16:56.000 To obey the spirit, 00:16:56.640 --> 00:16:57.860 Of God's command, 00:16:58.760 --> 00:17:00.080 Rather than the letter, 00:17:01.740 --> 00:17:03.240 To obey God's command, 00:17:03.380 --> 00:17:04.340 As a blessing, 00:17:05.279 --> 00:17:06.840 And not as a burden, 00:17:08.420 --> 00:17:09.640 King David, 00:17:09.759 --> 00:17:10.660 Could do that, 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:13.460 And as a direct, 00:17:13.539 --> 00:17:15.080 Descendant of David, 00:17:15.079 --> 00:17:17.279 Jesus is, 00:17:17.639 --> 00:17:18.039 King, 00:17:18.779 --> 00:17:20.960 In David's royal line, 00:17:21.779 --> 00:17:22.259 He is, 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:23.039 Lord, 00:17:23.839 --> 00:17:24.859 God's Lord, 00:17:25.339 --> 00:17:26.159 Verse 28, 00:17:27.159 --> 00:17:28.319 He is even Lord, 00:17:28.399 --> 00:17:29.079 Of the Sabbath, 00:17:30.919 --> 00:17:31.939 But they're stuck, 00:17:32.039 --> 00:17:32.859 In a time warp, 00:17:34.019 --> 00:17:35.179 God the bridegroom, 00:17:35.339 --> 00:17:36.480 Is right with them, 00:17:37.599 --> 00:17:38.619 King Jesus, 00:17:39.539 --> 00:17:40.859 From David's line, 00:17:41.079 --> 00:17:42.019 Is right there, 00:17:43.000 --> 00:17:44.379 The time is fulfilled, 00:17:45.079 --> 00:17:45.980 And the kingdom, 00:17:46.119 --> 00:17:46.819 Is at hand, 00:17:47.980 --> 00:17:48.679 The past, 00:17:48.779 --> 00:17:49.480 Of piety, 00:17:50.179 --> 00:17:51.259 And outward religion, 00:17:51.460 --> 00:17:52.699 Dress code black, 00:17:53.359 --> 00:17:54.099 No dancing, 00:17:54.259 --> 00:17:54.779 No singing, 00:17:54.899 --> 00:17:55.519 And no eating, 00:17:56.019 --> 00:17:56.639 They've actually, 00:17:56.799 --> 00:17:58.519 Turned a day of rest, 00:17:58.599 --> 00:18:00.220 Into a religious work, 00:18:01.220 --> 00:18:02.220 And they miss, 00:18:02.279 --> 00:18:03.139 The bridegroom, 00:18:03.619 --> 00:18:04.299 They miss, 00:18:04.299 --> 00:18:05.819 The Lord himself, 00:18:06.460 --> 00:18:07.559 The king, 00:18:07.639 --> 00:18:08.259 Of the Sabbath, 00:18:08.259 --> 00:18:10.700 Jesus brings, 00:18:10.779 --> 00:18:12.160 A new era, 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:12.779 Era, 00:18:13.779 --> 00:18:14.920 He is the God, 00:18:15.420 --> 00:18:16.420 The bridegroom, 00:18:16.539 --> 00:18:17.099 The king, 00:18:17.980 --> 00:18:18.539 And he says, 00:18:18.619 --> 00:18:19.759 Get with the times, 00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:21.839 Because I'm here now, 00:18:23.299 --> 00:18:24.879 As we close, 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:25.160 Folks, 00:18:25.200 --> 00:18:25.859 I just want to, 00:18:25.859 --> 00:18:27.359 Bring out some implications, 00:18:27.359 --> 00:18:28.279 From this, 00:18:28.940 --> 00:18:29.900 For us today, 00:18:30.960 --> 00:18:31.940 There are a few things, 00:18:31.940 --> 00:18:32.200 That, 00:18:32.539 --> 00:18:34.180 That are significant, 00:18:34.379 --> 00:18:35.319 In this difference, 00:18:35.319 --> 00:18:36.720 Between the old era, 00:18:37.359 --> 00:18:38.599 Of the Jewish religion, 00:18:38.859 --> 00:18:40.279 And the newness of Jesus, 00:18:40.819 --> 00:18:42.519 We see two lives here, 00:18:42.579 --> 00:18:43.099 Don't we? 00:18:43.579 --> 00:18:44.599 Two possibilities, 00:18:46.139 --> 00:18:47.500 The old life, 00:18:48.179 --> 00:18:49.240 Is centred on, 00:18:49.359 --> 00:18:50.359 Outward religion, 00:18:51.359 --> 00:18:52.939 Whereas the new life, 00:18:53.039 --> 00:18:54.319 Is centred on Jesus, 00:18:55.359 --> 00:18:56.579 The old life, 00:18:56.659 --> 00:18:57.240 Is centred on, 00:18:57.539 --> 00:18:58.119 Outward religion, 00:18:58.679 --> 00:18:59.839 The new life, 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:01.039 Is centred on Jesus, 00:19:02.399 --> 00:19:04.000 As we read, 00:19:04.200 --> 00:19:05.059 Those passages earlier, 00:19:05.059 --> 00:19:06.039 I wonder which, 00:19:06.659 --> 00:19:07.819 People you would, 00:19:07.919 --> 00:19:08.639 Rather be, 00:19:09.679 --> 00:19:10.519 The Pharisees, 00:19:10.579 --> 00:19:11.559 Or the disciples, 00:19:12.460 --> 00:19:14.019 The Pharisees, 00:19:14.079 --> 00:19:15.019 Living life, 00:19:15.139 --> 00:19:16.720 Based on outward piety, 00:19:17.460 --> 00:19:18.379 On approval, 00:19:18.579 --> 00:19:19.339 On rivalry, 00:19:20.059 --> 00:19:21.139 About whose disciples, 00:19:21.279 --> 00:19:22.039 Are doing what, 00:19:22.799 --> 00:19:24.139 On religious points, 00:19:25.220 --> 00:19:26.639 Or the disciples, 00:19:27.419 --> 00:19:28.240 Who have a life, 00:19:28.319 --> 00:19:29.440 Centred on Jesus, 00:19:30.839 --> 00:19:31.740 Who feast, 00:19:32.519 --> 00:19:33.399 And enjoy, 00:19:33.480 --> 00:19:34.740 Their bridegroom, 00:19:35.059 --> 00:19:36.399 And their Lord, 00:19:37.399 --> 00:19:38.440 Their lives, 00:19:38.500 --> 00:19:39.379 Are centred on him, 00:19:39.440 --> 00:19:40.240 And how different, 00:19:40.339 --> 00:19:41.200 Their lives are, 00:19:41.299 --> 00:19:41.779 Aren't they? 00:19:42.980 --> 00:19:43.879 Which life, 00:19:43.960 --> 00:19:44.240 Do you think, 00:19:44.279 --> 00:19:45.579 Is more hard work, 00:19:46.220 --> 00:19:47.200 Out of the two? 00:19:48.079 --> 00:19:48.960 Which life, 00:19:49.019 --> 00:19:49.940 Is more tiring, 00:19:50.319 --> 00:19:50.839 Do you think? 00:19:50.839 --> 00:19:53.279 So the old life, 00:19:53.279 --> 00:19:53.959 Is centred on, 00:19:53.959 --> 00:19:54.779 Outward religion, 00:19:54.779 --> 00:19:56.419 The new life, 00:19:56.419 --> 00:19:57.179 Is centred on, 00:19:57.259 --> 00:19:58.299 Jesus the Lord, 00:19:58.759 --> 00:19:59.379 Secondly, 00:19:59.519 --> 00:20:00.279 The old life, 00:20:00.419 --> 00:20:01.279 Corrupts, 00:20:01.279 --> 00:20:02.059 God's law, 00:20:03.159 --> 00:20:04.220 But the new life, 00:20:04.319 --> 00:20:04.939 With Jesus, 00:20:05.399 --> 00:20:06.039 Upholds, 00:20:06.199 --> 00:20:06.819 God's law, 00:20:07.679 --> 00:20:08.379 The old life, 00:20:08.439 --> 00:20:09.059 Corrupts, 00:20:09.059 --> 00:20:09.679 God's law, 00:20:10.240 --> 00:20:11.220 But the new life, 00:20:11.299 --> 00:20:11.799 Upholds, 00:20:11.939 --> 00:20:12.559 God's law, 00:20:12.819 --> 00:20:13.699 Now the Pharisees, 00:20:13.759 --> 00:20:14.639 Have the Bible, 00:20:15.539 --> 00:20:16.500 That is the ironic, 00:20:16.500 --> 00:20:17.099 Thing here, 00:20:17.099 --> 00:20:17.899 But naturally, 00:20:18.099 --> 00:20:18.980 Like the disciples, 00:20:19.240 --> 00:20:20.259 The Pharisees, 00:20:21.119 --> 00:20:22.980 We take God's word, 00:20:23.519 --> 00:20:24.419 And we make it, 00:20:24.579 --> 00:20:26.219 Into what we want it to be, 00:20:26.980 --> 00:20:28.240 We naturally, 00:20:28.439 --> 00:20:28.980 Turn it, 00:20:29.039 --> 00:20:30.539 Into rules, 00:20:31.299 --> 00:20:32.819 Into what suits us, 00:20:33.719 --> 00:20:34.379 Into ways, 00:20:34.459 --> 00:20:35.519 That we can control, 00:20:35.639 --> 00:20:36.579 Our own morality, 00:20:37.639 --> 00:20:39.339 They misrepresent, 00:20:39.459 --> 00:20:40.240 God's word, 00:20:40.959 --> 00:20:42.319 But Jesus, 00:20:42.319 --> 00:20:42.939 Gives us, 00:20:43.019 --> 00:20:43.879 God's word, 00:20:44.219 --> 00:20:44.639 Proper, 00:20:45.819 --> 00:20:46.439 He gives us, 00:20:46.519 --> 00:20:47.039 The Bible, 00:20:47.619 --> 00:20:47.980 Proper, 00:20:48.119 --> 00:20:48.699 Doesn't he, 00:20:49.879 --> 00:20:50.619 God's word, 00:20:50.799 --> 00:20:51.659 As it's supposed, 00:20:51.779 --> 00:20:52.759 To be lived out, 00:20:53.099 --> 00:20:54.899 So we can see, 00:20:55.039 --> 00:20:56.459 How living God's law, 00:20:57.059 --> 00:20:58.439 Is meant for blessing, 00:20:59.179 --> 00:21:00.639 And not for burdens, 00:21:01.899 --> 00:21:02.839 The old life, 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:04.199 Corrupts God's law, 00:21:04.959 --> 00:21:05.819 But the new, 00:21:06.079 --> 00:21:06.399 Jesus, 00:21:07.079 --> 00:21:07.579 Life, 00:21:07.779 --> 00:21:09.099 Upholds God's law, 00:21:09.579 --> 00:21:10.259 And thirdly, 00:21:10.259 --> 00:21:10.699 And lastly, 00:21:10.879 --> 00:21:11.779 The old way, 00:21:12.419 --> 00:21:13.419 Brings death, 00:21:14.419 --> 00:21:15.079 But Jesus, 00:21:15.319 --> 00:21:15.839 New way, 00:21:15.959 --> 00:21:16.740 Brings life, 00:21:16.740 --> 00:21:19.120 Jesus shows us, 00:21:19.180 --> 00:21:19.660 Doesn't he, 00:21:19.759 --> 00:21:20.900 How upholding, 00:21:20.900 --> 00:21:21.740 God's commandments, 00:21:22.700 --> 00:21:24.579 Doesn't crush my life, 00:21:25.400 --> 00:21:26.019 Like the life, 00:21:26.079 --> 00:21:27.000 Of the Pharisees, 00:21:27.079 --> 00:21:27.759 But it gives it, 00:21:27.819 --> 00:21:28.460 Back to me, 00:21:29.519 --> 00:21:30.720 Not to starve me, 00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:32.740 But to feed me, 00:21:32.740 --> 00:21:32.759 But to feed me, 00:21:32.759 --> 00:21:36.160 The problem is, 00:21:36.160 --> 00:21:37.039 That actually, 00:21:37.180 --> 00:21:38.039 We all like, 00:21:38.100 --> 00:21:38.940 The old way, 00:21:39.579 --> 00:21:40.339 Don't we? 00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:42.100 The old way, 00:21:42.100 --> 00:21:43.059 Of Israel, 00:21:43.500 --> 00:21:44.640 In Jesus' day, 00:21:44.640 --> 00:21:45.640 We like, 00:21:45.640 --> 00:21:46.280 We like, 00:21:46.280 --> 00:21:47.759 The old genes, 00:21:47.759 --> 00:21:49.400 Of man-made, 00:21:49.400 --> 00:21:49.980 Of man-made religion, 00:21:49.980 --> 00:21:51.920 And we love, 00:21:51.920 --> 00:21:53.440 The old wineskins, 00:21:54.039 --> 00:21:55.200 Of controlling, 00:21:55.200 --> 00:21:56.599 Our own morals, 00:21:56.819 --> 00:21:58.079 Having outward work, 00:21:58.180 --> 00:21:58.619 To do, 00:21:59.660 --> 00:22:00.440 We're stuck, 00:22:00.519 --> 00:22:01.240 In a spiritual, 00:22:01.240 --> 00:22:02.140 Time warp, 00:22:02.140 --> 00:22:03.099 Aren't we? 00:22:03.099 --> 00:22:05.259 But if you try, 00:22:05.359 --> 00:22:06.259 And hold Jesus, 00:22:06.419 --> 00:22:07.000 Into that, 00:22:07.099 --> 00:22:07.959 He will simply, 00:22:07.959 --> 00:22:08.879 Tear away, 00:22:09.679 --> 00:22:10.579 What you have, 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:12.379 Jesus comes, 00:22:12.439 --> 00:22:12.879 And he says, 00:22:13.019 --> 00:22:13.799 You've got to get, 00:22:13.879 --> 00:22:14.859 With the times, 00:22:16.159 --> 00:22:17.279 Or more accurately, 00:22:17.539 --> 00:22:18.939 With my time, 00:22:19.579 --> 00:22:20.819 The new era, 00:22:21.259 --> 00:22:22.000 The era of, 00:22:22.159 --> 00:22:22.639 Feasting, 00:22:23.599 --> 00:22:24.219 And not, 00:22:24.419 --> 00:22:25.259 False fasting, 00:22:26.379 --> 00:22:27.379 The era of, 00:22:27.379 --> 00:22:28.719 My lordship, 00:22:29.399 --> 00:22:30.500 Over your life, 00:22:30.500 --> 00:22:31.720 And not, 00:22:31.720 --> 00:22:32.880 Your legalism, 00:22:33.599 --> 00:22:34.720 It's the era, 00:22:34.799 --> 00:22:35.880 Of the bridegroom, 00:22:36.839 --> 00:22:37.720 Of the lord, 00:22:38.619 --> 00:22:39.819 So, 00:22:40.180 --> 00:22:41.460 Get out of the time warp, 00:22:42.660 --> 00:22:43.440 Let's pray.