Dividing Grace | Mark 2:18-3:6 | Don Krafft | Mark: Living for the King in Light of the Cross

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This episode explores how Jesus confronts legalism and offers healing in our brokenness.

What happens when Jesus meets us in our brokenness? In this week's teaching, we explore the Sabbath encounters where Jesus confronts rigid legalism and restores a man's withered hand. Revealing both righteous anger and deep compassion, Jesus shows that healing begins when we honestly acknowledge our need. This sermon invites us to stop hiding behind religious performance and experience Christ as the living healer who still restores lives today. ---------------------- Mark 2:18-3:6 A Question About Fasting 18 Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?" 19 And Jesus said to them, "Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. 20 The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day. 21 No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made. 22 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the…

People in this episode

Guest: Don Krafft

Topics covered

• Sabbath
• healing
• legalism
• compassion
• brokenness
• faith

Keywords

• Sabbath
• Jesus
• healing
• legalism
• compassion
• brokenness
• faith

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Books & works: Mark: Living for the King in Light of the Cross

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