{"id":5176,"date":"2019-09-30T03:47:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/sermon-life-over-law\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T03:47:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:47:17","slug":"sermon-life-over-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/sermon-life-over-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Sermon: Life Over Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon in series &#8220;The Quest for the Real Jesus,&#8221; #13.       Matthew 12:1-8<\/p>\n<p>                              LIFE OVER LAW<br \/>\n                              =============<\/p>\n<p>     I. Ancient rules.<br \/>\n         A. Many Jews live in the northeast.<br \/>\n         B. Jesus had issues with this kind of religious system.<br \/>\n         C. Today&#8217;s principle can open a can of worms.<\/p>\n<p>    II. Jesus confronts his critics on a weekend.<br \/>\n         A. The Sabbath was important.<br \/>\n         B. But some were stricter than others.<br \/>\n         C. Sabbath observance was one of his key conflicts with the Jews.<\/p>\n<p>   III. Two analogies and a principle.<br \/>\n         A. Jesus makes a point about King David.                1 Samuel 21<br \/>\n         B. Jesus makes a point from the Torah.<br \/>\n         C. Jesus draws a principle from a prophet.              Hosea 6:6<\/p>\n<p>    IV. Where&#8217;s the concrete?<br \/>\n         A. If some laws can be bent, the rest can become Jell-O.<br \/>\n         B. We must be led by the Spirit.<br \/>\n         C. Human nature prefers rigidity.<\/p>\n<p>     V. Jesus is our authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon in series &#8220;The Quest for the Real Jesus,&#8221; #13. Matthew 12:1-8 LIFE OVER LAW ============= I. Ancient rules. A. Many Jews live in the northeast. B. Jesus had issues with this kind of religious system. C. Today&#8217;s principle can open a can of worms. II. Jesus confronts his critics on a weekend. A. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4593,4592,704,4591],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}