Jesus Challenges the Status Quo
John 5:18-47
The religious people were having a problem. Here is this new upstart: working on the Sabbath, telling the Sabbath Police their law keeping was wrong, and now He is telling everyone He is God. He's got to go.
Jesus was a political problem for the Pharisees because He made them look bad. Pharisees were the elite of the religious world and Jesus dared to usurp their authority and replace it with His own. He not only refuse... Read More
The Difference Between Worship and Work
John 5:1-17
It's really interesting how humans spin things to make us appear as if by working for God we are doing Him a favor.
That's how I see the attitude of the Pharisees as they beleaguered Jesus continually trying to best Him or catch Him doing something wrong.
They haunted Him in an effort to justify their own behavior.... Read More
