If you're ready for the word, say yes.

Yes.

All right, so I want to go to the Gospel of Mark chapter number three, beginning at verse 1. We're in a series. I teach in series. That means I take a character from the Bible, a theme in the Bible, or a book of the Bible, and we spend several weeks exploring what the Bible has to say about that and how it actually applies to our daily life. And so we're in this series called Alterations, which is actually a series on worship as a spiritual

discipline.

And March chapter 3, verse 1, I'm reading this from the English standard version.

The NIV.

I like the NIV because it's a of, it's a thought for thought translation,

so it's not a formal equivalence.

ESV tries to be more of a word for a word translation.

And so I think there's some nuance between the ESV and the NIV that required a little more

etymological accuracy here.

And so that's why I chose the ESV today.

And it reads, again, he entered the

synagogue and a man was there with a withered hand. And they watched Jesus to see whether he would

heal him on the Sabbath so that they might accuse him. And he said to the man with a withered hand,

come here. And he said to them, is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or do harm to save or to kill but

they were silent and he looked around at them with anger greed at their hardness of heart and said to the

man stretch out your hand and he stretched it out and his hand was restored.

I want to talk from this subject.

I'm at the 1230, so I don't have to ask for amen's.

But the topic of today's teaching is very simple.

Where them hands at?

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