Our Sabbath Is About Who Not When (11 of 48)
Series: The Gospel of Mark
Bob Ingle
Mark 2:23-3:6
All right, take out your bibles and turn to the Gospel of Mark. We're going through, verse by verse, chapter by chapter. We're going to finish chapter 2 today and even into chapter 3. The subject, or the topic of today, is probably not one of those sizzling conversation starters with friends and family that you're going to banter back and forth and think deeply upon most of the time. But it doesn't make it any less important to talk about.
The subject I'm referring to is the Sabbath. With transparency, I'm going to tell you, as a preacher's kid, as a little boy growing up in a pastor's home, the equivalent to Sabbath, when I heard ''Sabbath,'' I thought ''bored out of your skull.'' So that was ''Sabbath'' for me. I kind of was taught that it was a day of church and nothing else. So we went to church from morning to noon, we went home to take a nap, and then we woke up in order to go back to church for choir practice at 5, and training union at 6, and worship service at 7, so that we could be back home in bed by 8:30, so we could get ready for prison - I mean, school - the next day.
So that's how, when I heard ''Sabbath,'' I would hear deacons just praying saying, ''Oh Lord, thank You for this Sabbath day,'' and in my mind, I'm thinking, ''I hate this. It's so boring, the Sabbath day.'' It was a day of doing nothing, especially if it was fun. No. ''Mom, can I go to Tommy's house?'' ''Bobby, this is the Sabbath day. This is the Lord's day, this is a church day, this is a nap day, this is a rest day, this is a day that we sit and we think on holy things. You sit over there, and you think holy thoughts, because this is the day that the Lord has made, and you will rejoice and be glad in it.''
Now, I'm exaggerating just a little bit, but in my little boy mind, that's what I heard. Sabbath day means being really bored and not doing anything fun. Let me just tel ...
Series: The Gospel of Mark
Bob Ingle
Mark 2:23-3:6
All right, take out your bibles and turn to the Gospel of Mark. We're going through, verse by verse, chapter by chapter. We're going to finish chapter 2 today and even into chapter 3. The subject, or the topic of today, is probably not one of those sizzling conversation starters with friends and family that you're going to banter back and forth and think deeply upon most of the time. But it doesn't make it any less important to talk about.
The subject I'm referring to is the Sabbath. With transparency, I'm going to tell you, as a preacher's kid, as a little boy growing up in a pastor's home, the equivalent to Sabbath, when I heard ''Sabbath,'' I thought ''bored out of your skull.'' So that was ''Sabbath'' for me. I kind of was taught that it was a day of church and nothing else. So we went to church from morning to noon, we went home to take a nap, and then we woke up in order to go back to church for choir practice at 5, and training union at 6, and worship service at 7, so that we could be back home in bed by 8:30, so we could get ready for prison - I mean, school - the next day.
So that's how, when I heard ''Sabbath,'' I would hear deacons just praying saying, ''Oh Lord, thank You for this Sabbath day,'' and in my mind, I'm thinking, ''I hate this. It's so boring, the Sabbath day.'' It was a day of doing nothing, especially if it was fun. No. ''Mom, can I go to Tommy's house?'' ''Bobby, this is the Sabbath day. This is the Lord's day, this is a church day, this is a nap day, this is a rest day, this is a day that we sit and we think on holy things. You sit over there, and you think holy thoughts, because this is the day that the Lord has made, and you will rejoice and be glad in it.''
Now, I'm exaggerating just a little bit, but in my little boy mind, that's what I heard. Sabbath day means being really bored and not doing anything fun. Let me just tel ...
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