The Lord of the sabbath.

From Mark Chapter 2:

27 Then Jesus declared, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. 28Therefore, the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”

While God walked the Earth He spoke with wisdom such that a sentence above, His response to being accused of working on the Sabbath, takes months of thinking on to understand.  I'm writing this today to share several months of thinking, and hearing answers, into a quick blog read.

The context is Christ being accused of sin by the religious pharisees because the apostles pulled and ate grains on the Sabbath.

Geocentric to heliocentric.
"The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath".  Jesus here asserts His authority and immediately shifts the paradigm.  Man was given the sabbath by God for rest, not as a means of enacting some earthly law of control disguised as religion.   The world revolves around Him, not vice versa.

Jesus is God.
"Therefore, the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath".  'Son of Man' is an old testament term for the Messiah, son of Adam, who would redeem the world.  The son of Man created man, and created the first commandment.  The son of Man is Lord of man and the Law. With this remark Jesus says, I AM God, and I created you and I created the first commandment.  Read it again, it is all there, it is absolutely astonishing how boldy He states he is God almighty.

But what about all this, we know there are many other instances of healing on the Sabbath Jesus was accused of sin.  This is the incredible beauty of Jesus Christ literally in action.  When He created the world, the Word of God rested on the 7th day.  When the Word of God redeemed the world, He does not rest.  His redeeming work is continuous, constantly healing, never resting.

What a wonderful God we have loving us 24-7.