When Jesus Breaks the Religious System
Before The Noise
Chad Prather
5.0 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In this powerful teaching through Mark 2:18-22, we uncover the collision between dead religion and the living Christ. The Pharisees wanted rules, rituals, and spiritual performance, but Jesus came offering something far more dangerous: transformation.
Why were the disciples not fasting? Why did Jesus call Himself the Bridegroom? What did He mean by new cloth and new wine? And why does the Gospel refuse to fit inside man-made religious systems?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to Before the Noise, the place where we slow down before the chaos kicks in every weekday. |
| 0:05.2 | Join us for more at BeforeThe Noise.com. Let's go. |
| 0:08.3 | Hey, good morning, everybody. It is May 6th. Wednesday. |
| 0:12.8 | It is Wednesday. Yeah. |
| 0:14.2 | Hey, glad you guys are here. Welcome to Before the Noise. My name is Chad Prather, and these are my devotional thoughts. |
| 0:20.1 | You guys get to sit in with me as i |
| 0:22.6 | work my way through the scripture we're in the book of mark we're in mark chapter two i'm glad you guys |
| 0:27.8 | are here hey they're in the chat let me ask you guys a question if you're watching on rumble |
| 0:32.4 | youtube x or facebook i'm glad you guys are here if you're listening by way of podcast welcome |
| 0:38.2 | this is what we've established so far in the book of Mark, and this is what I want you to see. |
| 0:43.0 | Religion says try harder. Jesus says you're dead. You can't try harder. You need new life. |
| 0:51.0 | That's the tension we're finding ourselves in Mark chapter two it's not bad versus good it's dead |
| 0:57.3 | versus alive it's not the rule breakers versus the rulekeepers it's the people that are clinging |
| 1:04.6 | you know the people clinging to control and their religious exercises versus people who are surrendering to a Savior |
| 1:13.6 | name Jesus. So that's what we're talking about. And if we're honest, most of us, we don't mind the little Jesus, do we? |
| 1:19.3 | As long as he doesn't interrupt us or tear up the system that we've built to feel safe. |
| 1:24.7 | Let me ask you this morning in the tension here that I want us to really settle into, and I've got to be careful not to get on my soapbox today, I might do it a little bit. And that's okay. I'm giving myself permission because I'm pretty fired up about it. What if the very thing, what if the very thing you're holding on to today is the reason you're tired, |
| 1:45.0 | the reason you've given yourself a spiritual hernia, you're anxious, full of anxiety, full of |
| 1:50.0 | depression, you feel empty, if everything feels worthless, it feels hopeless. What if |
| 1:55.1 | what if Jesus didn't come to fix your system, but to break it. |
| 2:03.7 | And instead of souping you up and giving you an overhaul, he came to break you down |
| 2:10.4 | and give you something infinitely better. |
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