A reminder to consider others Please: Turn off your cell phone or set to vibrate only Use the nursery or cry room if your child is fussy Get up during the preaching only if absolutely necessary (please sit in back if you must leave early)

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The love of God is greater far Than tongue or pen can ever tell. Frederick M. Lehman © 1997 Integrity’s Hosanna! Music and Word Music ARR UBP – CCLI License No. 378119

It goes beyond the highest star And reaches to the lowest hell.

The guilty pair, Bowed down with care,

His erring child He reconciled And pardoned from his sin. God gave His Son to win; His erring child He reconciled And pardoned from his sin.

O love of God, How rich and pure!

How measureless and strong! It shall forever more endure-- The saints and angels song.

When years of time shall pass away And earthly thrones and kingdoms fall,

When men, who here, refuse to pray On rocks and hills and mountains call,

God’s love so sure shall still endure, And measureless and strong: Redeeming grace to Adam’s race-- The saints and angels’ song.

O love of God, How rich and pure!

How measureless and strong! It shall forever more endure-- The saints and angels song.

Could we with ink the ocean fill And were the skies of parchment made,

Were every stalk on earth a quill And every man a scribe by trade,

To write the love of God above Would drain the ocean dry,

Though stretched from sky to sky. Nor could the scroll contain the whole Though stretched from sky to sky.

O love of God, How rich and pure!

How measureless and strong! It shall forever more endure-- The saints and angels song.

How measureless and strong! It shall forever more endure-- O love of God, How rich and pure! How measureless and strong! It shall forever more endure-- The saints and angels song.

Grace Bible Church Glorifying God by Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

A reminder to consider others Please: Turn off your cell phone or set to vibrate only Use the nursery or cry room if your child is fussy Get up during the preaching only if absolutely necessary (please sit in back if you must leave early)

Conflict with Traditions Matt Conflict with Traditions Matt. 9:14-17; Mk 2:18-22; Lk 5:33-39; John 5:1-18 A tradition is a long-established custom or belief passed on from one generation to another Some traditions are good - 1 Cor. 11:2; 2 Thess. 2:15; 3:6

Conflict with Traditions Matt Conflict with Traditions Matt. 9:14-17; Mk 2:18-22; Lk 5:33-39; John 5:1-18 The reasons for a tradition can be forgotten and so it loses it meaning A tradition that replaces the word of God is bad - Isaiah 29:13; Mark 7:3-13

Confusion of John's Disciples Mt 9:14-17; Mk 2:18-22; Lk 5:33-39 Context: The Pharisees grumbled that Jesus was dining with Matthew’s friends who were sinners Jesus came for sinners, not the righteous - the self-righteous Pharisees rejected Jesus Jesus is asked additional questions regarding fasting

Confusion of John's Disciples Mt 9:14-17; Mk 2:18-22; Lk 5:33-39 Luke 5:33: The disciples of John the Baptist and possibly the disciples of the Pharisees ask the question John’s disciples should have been following Jesus, but they are following traditions similar to the Pharisees

Jesus' Response Luke 5:34-39 Luke 5:34-35, It would be inappropriate for them to fast while Jesus was with them, they will fast later

Jesus' Response Luke 5:34-39 Clothing: Luke 5:36 – You cannot fix old cloth with a new patch, it only makes the tear worse Pharisaical Judaism cannot be patched up by moral reforms

Jesus' Response Luke 5:34-39 Wineskins: Luke 5:37-38 – New wine in old wineskins will cause them to burst

Jesus' Response Luke 5:34-39 Refusal: Luke 5:39 – If you already like what you have, you are not interested in something new The scribes and Pharisees would stick with their traditions, they were not interested in anything new

Jesus' Response Luke 5:34-39 Works based systems of righteousness cannot be reformed, they must be replaced

Three Evidences of a New Heart Matthew 9:9-17 There is a forsaking of sin There is an abounding joy in the forgiven sinner New desire: Though we will struggle against sin in this life, the forgiven sinner has a regenerated heart

The Pool at Bethesda John 5:1-5 John 5:1 - Jesus left Galilee for Passover in Jerusalem in April, A.D. 28

The Pool at Bethesda John 5:2-3 The sick, blind, lame & withered are under the porticoes around the pool of Bethesda   

The Pool at Bethesda John 5:3b-4 John 5:3b-4 - a marginal note inserted into the text to explain verse 7

The Pool at Bethesda John 5:3b-4 They believed that when an angel stirred the water, whoever got in first would be healed

The Pool at Bethesda John 5:5 A man who has had an incapacitating illness for 38 years is lying there

Jesus’ Compassion John 5:6-9a Jesus understood the man’s condition and questioned him to bring out his desires John 5:7 The man laments that he does not have help to make it into the pool in time

Jesus’ Compassion John 5:6-9a Man is self-centered by nature, and the Mosaic Law could not change the heart of men All legislation is a moral statement about what is right and wrong - and hence teaches a moral standard

Jesus’ Compassion John 5:6-9a Jesus heals him by a simple and direct command John 5:9 The man does not know Jesus, but he obeys and is immediately and completely healed

The Response of the Jews John 5:9b-16 It was the Sabbath, and the man was challenged for breaking man-made Sabbath laws John 5:11 The man emphasizes that he had been healed, and simply followed the man’s instructions

The Response of the Jews John 5:9b-16 They are so blinded by their traditions that they ignore the fact the man had just been healed John 5:13 He did not know the man that healed him and Jesus had slipped away

The Response of the Jews John 5:9b-16 Jesus also had compassion on the man’s soul and warned him to not sin anymore John 5:15 The man proclaimed that Jesus had healed him, but the Jews continued to ignore the healing

The Response of the Jews John 5:9b-16 The Jews persecuted Jesus because He had violated their Sabbath traditions

Jesus’ Declaration John 5:17 Jesus claims deity - God is His Father and He is doing the Father’s work

The Hatred of the Jews John 5:18 They understood Jesus claim, but their traditions where more important to them than truth

Conclusions Learn the meaning and purpose of your traditions Keep those that are true the word of God Reject those that are not

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King of the ages by angels adored; Name of All Majesty #116 Name of all majesty Fathomless mystery King of the ages by angels adored; Timothy Dudly-Smith / Michael Baughen, Noel Tredinnick © 1984 /1982 Hope Publishing : ARR UBP – CCLI License No. 378119

Pow’r and authority, Splendor and dignity, Bow to His mastery - Jesus is Lord!

Love of the Father on sinners outpoured; Child of our destiny, God from eternity, Love of the Father on sinners outpoured;

See now what God has done Christ the beloved One - Sending His only Son, Christ the beloved One - Jesus is Lord!

Darkdess defeated and Eden restored; Savior of Calvary, Costliest victory, Darkdess defeated and Eden restored;

Nailed to a cross on high, Cold in the grave to lie - Born as a man to die, Nailed to a cross on high, Cold in the grave to lie - Jesus is Lord!

Source of all sov’reignty Life everlasting and heaven assured Light, immortality, Life everlasting and heaven assured

So with the ransomed, we Praise Him eternally, Christ in His majesty - Jesus is Lord!

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