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๐ง๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐๐๐๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ข๐จ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐ง ๐ฆ๐ฃ๐๐ฅ๐๐ง๐จ๐๐๐๐ฌ (๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ ๐ฎ:๐ฎ๐ฏ-๐ฏ:๐ฒ)
You have to grasp clearly the reason why God instituted the Sabbath Day. He gave us the Sabbath so that we would remember and worship Jesus for His righteous work of salvation that blotted out all our sins, not to receive blessings just by keeping this day in a literal sense. In the Old Testament, God did say countless times that one would be blessed if he kept the Sabbath Day. But we have to realize its spiritual meaning. It means that we must keep the faith that the Lord has blotted out all our sins under all circumstances. Only those who keep this faith in their hearts are blessed by God, and it is on their hearts that the Holy Spirit descends and works.
For this reason then the carnal thoughts of today’s Christians are completely wrong. Unless they cast aside their fleshly thoughts, they will end up standing against Jesus and never be saved, even as they believe in Jesus as their Savior, preach accordingly, and claim to be living for the Lord.
That is why Jesus said that if anyone wants to follow Him, he must deny himself, pick up his cross, and then follow Jesus. Those who cannot deny their carnal thoughts cannot follow the Lord. One must deny his fleshly thoughts, set his mind on the Spirit, and believe in the Word of God based on the fact the Lord has blotted out all his sins through the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Like this, everyone must hold on to the Word of God by faith and follow Him by faith as Abraham had done. Only these kinds of people can follow Jesus. Otherwise everyone else will just turn into Jesus’ enemy just like the Pharisees and the Herodians. Yet sadly, there are so many such people on this earth.
In Mark chapter one, Jesus took upon the sins of mankind by being baptized by John the Baptist, and in Mark chapter two, he spoke to a paralytic and said to him, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.” Then using old garments and old wineskins as illustrations, the Lord said that we must cast aside our fleshly thoughts and conventional wisdom, and instead think and believe exactly according to His Word. In the last few verses of Mark chapter two, we see Jesus arguing with the Pharisees over the Sabbath, but this quarrel did not start by Jesus. Traveling through various towns, Jesus had only spoken of the good news and done good works, but the Pharisees were trying to pick a fight.
The Pharisees are today’s Christian sinners who do not know the gospel of the water and the Spirit. These Christians, even as they claim to...
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Sermons on the Gospel of Mark (I) - WHAT SHOULD WE STRIVE TO BELIEVE AND PREACH? ; Rev. Paul C. Jong
Sermon 6, pages 75-77
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