Mark 3: Spirit's True Obedience, ☧ Confronts Dead-Set Enemies

Rev. Scott Adle, pastor of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Collinsville, Illinois, joins host Rev. AJ Espinosa to study Mark 3.

“Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?” In Mark 3, Jesus ☧ heals a man’s atrophied hand in the middle of the synagogue on the Sabbath, putting the Pharisees’ hypocritical non-answer on public display.

He remains tight-lipped, though His twelve-man inner circle has kingly overtones. Only the unclean spirits have begun to utter the full truth: He is “the Son of God,” the ☧ and King that Israel has been waiting for. Focused on preaching, He forces the question: what do the Commandments really mean? If the corrupt Jerusalem elite condemn the Holy Spirit’s work in Him, then they have aligned themselves against the only source of forgiveness. Like them, we naturally justify our own hypocrisy in the name of the greater good, but true virtue is obtained only in ☧ through His forgiveness and faith.