Lord of the Sabbath
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 11 February 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
The Sabbath was meant to be God's gift to mankind, but the Pharisees turned it into a burden by their rules and regulations. Today, R.C. Sproul continues his exposition of the gospel of Mark, examining what Jesus' response teaches us about the identity and authority of Christ.
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| 0:00.0 | And now the rabbinic tradition has turned the Sabbath day instead of a great gift of God, |
| 0:06.2 | it becomes a laborious burden where people have to watch themselves in every way, |
| 0:12.1 | whether they overstep the boundaries of these laws. |
| 0:17.0 | In this final sermon from a brief study of the public ministry of Jesus in Mark's |
| 0:27.8 | Gospel we see the legalism of the Pharisees adding laws upon laws on full display. And sadly, it's a legalism |
| 0:36.8 | that can rear its head even today. This is the Sunday edition of Renewing Her Mind, a daily outreach of Ligonier Ministries. |
| 0:46.3 | As this is the final sermon that you'll hear from the Gospel of Mark, that means that it's also |
| 0:51.0 | the final Sunday that you can request |
| 0:53.0 | R.C. scrolls line by line study through this gospel. |
| 0:56.8 | Request the hardcover edition of his commentary on Mark |
| 1:00.4 | when you give a donation of any amount at renewing your mind.org. |
| 1:05.0 | It's the occasion of the Sabbath that gives us the opportunity to see the legalism of the Pharisees |
| 1:11.0 | and the Lord's response to those who plot evil instead of striving to be obedient to God's |
| 1:17.3 | revealed word. Here's Dr Sproll in Mark chapter 2. |
| 1:30.4 | We're going to continue now with our study of the Gospel according to St. Mark and this morning I will be reading from chapter 2, verse 23 through chapter 3, verse 6. |
| 1:39.8 | And that means, dear friends, that right now you're about to experience the best part of our |
| 1:49.0 | worship service when we get to hear a word from God himself. |
| 1:55.0 | So I'd ask you to stand for the reading of the word of God. |
| 2:00.0 | Now it happened that he went through the grain fields on the Sabbath, and as they went |
| 2:10.6 | his disciples began to pluck the heads of grain. And the Pharisees said |
| 2:17.4 | him, look, why do they do what is not lawful on the Sabbath. |
| 2:24.9 | But he said to them, have you never read what David did |
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