Jesus the Sabbath Lord

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Mark Driscoll

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🗓️ 11 June 2015

⏱️ 61 minutes

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The religious legalists swarm around Jesus to argue with him about the Sabbath. They come not to listen, but to criticize. Religious legalism is adding rules to the Bible, and it is the enemy of Jesus Christ. Legalism makes you bold, unbiblical, arrogant, unloving, and dangerous. The result of religion is a paint-by-numbers life. It’s artless and heartless. There are seven steps—to avoid—to become a legalist.

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0:00.0	On behalf of Pastor Mark Driscoll, we want to thank you for allowing us to bring you
0:07.3	Jesus-centered Bible teaching. Like Pastor Mark always says, it's all about Jesus. To get
0:15.1	all Pastor Mark's sermons, blogs, books, and other content, please visit us at markdriscoll.org.
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0:29.1	ministry with a gift of any amount. Thank you. So we're Luke chapter 6 verses 1 through 11. If you've
0:36.4	got a Bible, feel free to go there as we deal Jesus the Sabbath Lord. Let me begin by saying that
0:43.2	what we're talking about today is very important for your life individually. Your family, if you have
0:49.7	a family married children and the like that I've been really blessed traveling. My big travel
0:56.0	season is over. Recently got back from Africa, but it is really amazing to see what God is doing
1:02.4	globally, raising up church planting leaders, young pastors in and around urban centers who are
1:08.7	like-minded and friends and partners. And what could ruin all of this from your life to your family,
1:14.7	to your community group, to your campus, to our network, to our movement, something called
1:19.9	legalism. It's a pernicious continual ever present danger. And as we get into Luke 6 today, the battlefield
1:28.3	is the Sabbath, but the issue is legalism. So let me address both before we jump into the story
1:35.7	in Luke 6 1 through 11. Legalism is the enemy of Jesus Christ. Legalism is religion. Those words,
1:44.3	I will use frequently synonymously. James says that pure religion is to look after widows,
1:50.3	orphans and those in need. What we're talking about is like the band name, bad religion. Bad
1:56.0	religion is rule making. It is legalism. It is living by the letter of the law, not the spirit of
2:03.1	the law, and it is living out of devotion to the law, not out of love for God and people. And so
2:09.8	legalism is where people take the scriptures and they add to it. Oftentimes saying, well, God
2:17.4	wrote a number of rules, but those rules aren't clearly sufficient. So we feel permission to add
2:24.2	to God's rules to make other books and lists. And this gets done by denominations, traditions,
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