Sermon Notes from Sunday 5.23.10

Here are the sermon notes from Sunday, 5.23.10.  As always, you can find the sermon audio at sermons.heritagepark.org or on iTunes.

A Controversial Sunday

Mark 2.23-3.6

4 Pieces that Frame Sabbath

• Rhythm – a pace that sustains us.
• Rest – a practice that sustains us.
• Reflect – a place in God’s story.
• Reorient – a perspective that readies us.

Pharisees’ Concern

Preservation of Institution over the people the Institution was designed to serve (2.24).

•  Those who appeal to the law first are those who have something to lose. 

Position of prestige of being the gatekeepers of the right way to believe and behave (2.26).

• Definitions of boundaries typically are used for self-justification and looking for loopholes. 

Power of condemnation toward those who don’t keep the accepted rules (3.2-4).

• The rightness of a rule is contingent upon its tie to love for God and neighbor.

Jesus’ Response

Bible (2.25-26)

• Both instruction and exception are included in the Scriptures.

Supremacy (2.27-28)

• If your religious rules obscure Jesus’ glory, you’re an idolater.
• If your religious rules conceal Jesus character, you’re ignorant.

Anger (3.5)

• Anger is the appropriate response to wrong in the world.
• Righteous anger is mixed with grief over its cause.

Healing (3.5)

• Religion doesn’t inhibit Jesus’ agenda – the religious just miss it.