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March 7 - Mark 2 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's shown here. It's Thursday, it's the 7th of
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  March and I hope you are having a fantastic day.
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  Whether it's just started halfway through or you are done
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  and dusted and tucked into bed with a bit of bedtime reading in
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  the gospel. But wherever you are today, so
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  great that we can read this together.
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  Isn't it magical? Isn't it awesome hearing Mark
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  describe Jesus, having him share the words that is shared, and
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  share these stories so that we can be back there with him in
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  the midst of all the action, walking those dusty streets,
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  Palestinian sun beating down on our necks, smelling the markets
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  around us and the chaos and the shouting.
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  Yeah, it's all there. It's all there.
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  What an incredible opportunity. So we are going to do this again
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  and for all 16 chapters, all the way through until Easter.
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  We are going to go back and walk and listen and learn with those
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  disciples as Jesus went about His ministry.
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  And today is no different. Today let's do it, shall we?
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  Let us read together. Mark Chapter 2.
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  When Jesus returned to Capernaum several days later, the news
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  spread quickly that he was back home.
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  Soon the house where he was staying was so packed with
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  visitors that there was no more room even outside the door.
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  While he was preaching God's word to them, four men arrived
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  carrying a paralysed man on a mat.
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  They couldn't bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, so they
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  dug a hole through the roof above his head.
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  Then they lowered the man on his mat right down in front of
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  Jesus. Seeing their faith, Jesus said
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  to the paralysed man. My child, your sins are
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  forgiven. But some of the teachers of
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  religious law who were sitting there thought to themselves,
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  what is he saying? This is blasphemy.
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  Only God can forgive sins. Jesus knew immediately what they
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  were thinking, so he asked them. Why do you question this in your
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  hearts? Is it easier to say to the
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  paralysed man your sins are forgiven or stand up, pick up
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  your mat and walk? So I will prove to you that the
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  Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.
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  Then Jesus turned to the paralysed man and said stand up,
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  pick up your mat and go home. And the man jumped up, grabbed
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  his mat and walked out through the stunned onlookers.
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  They were all amazed and praised God exclaiming We've never seen
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  anything like this before. Then Jesus went out to the
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  Lakeshore again and taught the crowds that were coming to him.
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  As he walked along, he saw Levi, son of Alphaeus, sitting at his
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  tax collector's booth. Follow me and be my disciple,
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  Jesus said to him. So Levi got up and followed him.
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  Later, Levi invited Jesus and his disciples to his home as
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  dinner guests. Along with many tax collectors
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  and other disreputable sinners. There were many people of this
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  kind among Jesus followers. But when the teachers of
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  religious law who were Pharisees saw him eating with tax
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  collectors and other sinners, they asked his disciples why
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  does he eat with such scum. When Jesus heard this, he told
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  them healthy people don't need a doctor.
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  Sick people do. I've come to call not those who
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  think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners.
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  Once, when John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, some
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  people came to Jesus and asked why don't your disciples fast
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  like John's disciples and the Pharisees do?
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  Jesus replied. Do wedding guests fast while
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  celebrating with the groom? Of course not.
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  They can't fast while the groom is with them, But someday the
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  groom will be taken away from them and then they will fast.
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  Besides, who would patch old clothing with new cloth?
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  For the new patch would shrink and rip away from the old cloth,
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  leaving an even bigger tear than before.
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  And no one puts new wine into old wineskins, for the wine
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  would burst the wineskins and the wine and the skins would
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  both be lost. And new wine calls for new
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  wineskins. One Sabbath day, as Jesus was
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  walking through some grain fields, his disciples began
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  breaking off heads of grain to eat.
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  But the Pharisees said to Jesus, look, why are they breaking the
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  law by harvesting grain on the Sabbath?
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  Jesus said to them, Haven't you ever read in the scriptures what
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  David did when he and his companions were hungry?
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  He went into the House of God during the days when Abiathar
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  was high priest and broke the law by eating the sacred loaves
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  of bread that only the priests are allowed to eat.
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  He also gave some to his companions.
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  Then Jesus said to them, the Sabbath was made to meet the
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  needs of people and not people to meet the requirements of the
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  Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord even
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  over the Sabbath. Jesus, you are new wine.
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  You bring not just an amendment to the way that our lives are
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  and the lives of all the people who encounter you, but you
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  completely rewrite how we can engage with our maker and our
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  world. You come with peace and
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  forgiveness and inclusion. You come to show us the heart of
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  God. Help us not try and squeeze you
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  into our old wine skins, our old ways of thinking.
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  Try and put you in a box that makes sense to us.
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  But, Lord, just pry open our hearts to be wide, wide open so
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  that we can be ready for all that you bring, not just what we
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  think you ought to bring. Because you are always, always
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  more creative, more incredible and broader and more magnificent
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  than our human minds can ever manage.
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  So we just give you permission to be God in our lives, moving
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  and shaping us in whatever way you need.
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  We just submit before Your Majesty, Your Authority, and
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  your kingship. We love you, Jesus, and we thank
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  you that you would choose to engage with us and love us and
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  draw us into your family. And we pray all of this through
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  your wonderful name. Ah man.