1. THE GOSPEL
ACCORDING TO JESUS
MARK 2:23-28

2. CHRISTIAN FAITH
…..is designed to work like this:
“Freely you have received, freely
give.”
Matthew 10
“The things you have heard from me
among many witnesses, commit to
faithful men who will be able to teach
others also.”

3. Learning a process of accessing and
implementing revelation THAT WILL BE
 SUPERNATURAL That  REPRODUCIBLE
will connect people directly That is simple enough
with God: Father, Son to be practiced and
and Holy Spirit remembered easily so that it
can be reproduced from one
 ACCESSIBLE That believer to the next.
anyone can use from the first
day they decide to seek  UNIVERSAL That
revelation from God until the anyone can use regardless of
last breath they take on their culture, language or
earth. level of education.
 INDIVIDUAL That  COMMUNAL That
depends on self-discovery dignifies the idea that
rather than one person revelation and
explaining their discovery implementation work best
without the second person when it happens between
making their own discovery. two or more people.

5. REVIEW
the previous lesson
Jesus said to them,
“Are the wedding guests able to fast
while the bridegroom is with them?
As long as the bridegroom is with them
they are not able to fast.
20 But the days will come
when the bridegroom is taken away from them
and then they will fast.”
Mark 2:19,20

6. NEW LESSON
MARK 2:23-28

7. MARK 2:23-28
23On one occasion he was house of God during the
walking through the time of Abiathar the High
cornfields on the Sabbath Priest and ate the bread of
and his disciples began to the Presence which no one
pick the ears of corn. 24 The is allowed to eat except the
Pharisees said to priests, and he gave some
him, “Look, why are they to those who were with
doing what is unlawful on him?” 27 He also said, “The
the Sabbath?” 25 He Sabbath was created for
replied, “Haven’t you read man not created for the
what David and those who Sabbath. 28 It follows that
were with him did when the Son of Man is Lord
they were hungry and in even of the Sabbath.”
26

8. QUESTION NO. 1
What
has god made us aware of ?

9. The people
JESUS
THE DISCIPLES
THE PHARISEES

10. The situation
1. It’s the Sabbath
2. Jesus and the disciples are walking through
someone’s corn field.
3. The disciples break with the Jewish traditions
by picking corn cobs and eating them.
4. The Pharisees were watching.
5. The Pharisees challenge Jesus about the
fact that his disciples are breaking the law
– i.e. two laws: reaping grain and sifting it.

11. It might have been a situation
something like this in another century
Ol' man river, cotton, Lif' dat bale!
Dat ol' man river An' dem dat Git a little drunk
He mus'know plants'em An' you land in jail.
sumpin' is soon forgotten,
But don't say But ol'man river, Ah gits weary
nuthin', He jes keeps An' sick of tryin'
He jes'keeps rollin' rollin'along. Ah'm tired of livin'
He keeps on rollin' An' skeered of dyin',
along. You an'me, we But ol' man river,
sweat an' strain, He jes'keeps rolling'
He don' plant Body all achin' an' along.
taters/tators, racket wid pain,
He don't plant Tote dat barge!

12. For jesus this was a kingdom ministry
opportunity
1. When David and his men needed food on
the Sabbath they ate from the consecrated
food in the temple.
2. The Sabbath was made for the well being
of people, not for people to suffer under the
tyranny of religious obligations.
3. I am the one who has authority regarding
the Sabbath.

13. QUESTION NO. 2
WHAT IF
THIS WAS HAPPENING IN MY LIFE ?

14. WHAT IF IT HAPPENED IN THE LIVES
OF THE ORIGINAL HEARERS?
1. They would have realized that King David was
acting within the parameters of the original
intention of God regarding the Sabbath.
2. They would have seen the original intention as
being a loving provision by God for the good of the
people who were created lovingly by him to fulfill a
loving purpose.
3. They would have realized that Jesus was the Son
of God and therefore God.

15. How would that work for me?
1. I would honour God for knowing how I am made
and wanting me to live in physical and emotional
health by allocating a 1 in 7 kind of rotation of work
and rest.
2. I would willingly respond to Jesus as the Son of
God and the one I should look to for working out
how to live out the spiritual principles he modeled
and taught. I would also make sure I helped others
to live in the same way.
3. I would do an audit on the way I live by Christian
values to make sure they are LIFE GIVING and not
just religious.

16. QUESTION NO. 3
TO DO
what do it need to to ?

17. PLAN, PRACTICE PRAY
PLAN
PRACTICE
PRAY