Welcome to Timeless Truth with Pastor Jim Thomas. In season 2, Pastor Jim is leading us in a study of Mark. Today’s passage is Mark 2:18-22.
Three new ways to think about the kingdom of heaven.
- It’s like a wedding feast vs fasting as a way of life.
- It’s like getting a brand new wardrobe.
- Bumping up to new level of wine will require new wineskins.
“Pharisaic righteousness was an outward conformity to human traditions; Christian righteousness is an inward conformity of mind and heart to the revealed will of God.”
– John Stott, Christ the Controversialist
“Pharisees, the persons in the first century who knew the words of scripture well but heard the voice of God not at all… They separated the book from the human act of hearing, which would become believing, following, and loving. Printer’s ink became embalming fluid.”
– Eugene Peterson, Reversed Thunder
“Christian freedom comes not from restraining desires by rules and regulations but from the death of evil desires and the springing to life of good desires by virtue of Christ being in the Christian and the Christian in Christ.”
– William Barclay
“The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.”
― Timothy Keller
