Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Stretch out your hand and calm down my heart

Mark 2:23-3:19
Jesus said to Pharisees, "The Sabbath was made for man, not  man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath."
Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?
He looked around at them in anger and deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to them man, "stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored. Then the Pharisees went out and began to plot with the Herosidans how they might kill Jesus.
Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the lake.
Jesus went up on a mountainside and called to him those he wanted, and they came to him. He appointed twelve - designating them apostles - that they might be with him and that he might send them out to preach and to have authority to drive out demons.
Jewish interpretation of the commandment to keep the sabbath as a work-free holy day, had hedged it about with so many petty rules and restrictions that its primary purpose was lost.
The day of rest was intended for people's physical and spiritual good, not to deny them food and help. It is a day for doing good and not only in an emergency. Mark reports  two clashes over the issue, in the cornfield, when Jesus' disciples are hungry and in the synagogue, a case of human need. Jesus apparent defiance triggers a terrible reaction: a dead-plot against him.
Jesus chose an inner circle of 12 who became counterparts of Jacob's 12 sons, who gave their names to the tribes of Israel.
Why?
Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath, the day of rest is intended for people's physical and spiritual good, not to deny them  food and help.
Stretch out your hand, to receive the healing from Jesus. needed people have to stretch out his hand to Jesus Christ for help. This is showing what I wanted and do in action.
Jesus like withdrew to lake and went up on a mountainside, he keep away from crowd, Jesus need time to calm down and let him more closed to the Lord, instead of be honored by people. He is the king but not the king of people thought.
How?
Calm down my heart. more closer to the Lord, instead get the honor of man.




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