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The most important event in the history of the world had occurred (the Messiah/King had come to establish the Kingdom of God).

Clearly Jesus was identifying himself with the bridegroom.

Fasting was the last thing people did at a wedding. It would have been unthinkable to be solemn on this occasion.

a wedding was an event of great joy primarily to celebrate along with the one getting married.

Two analogies…why it was not only OK but proper for his followers to break from tradition:ġ st analogy - The presence of the bridegroom:ģ4 Jesus answered, 'Can you make the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? 35 But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them in those days they will fast. Why? Why did he reject aspects of the Old Faith? Jesus obviously had instructed his followers to ignore old fasting traditions and he did so himself…and adopted a new policy in line with the Kingdom of God – eat and drink with sinners. O Eating and drinking didn’t infer partying (hammered and gorging) but relationship – who they hung with.

therein lied the rub…because Jesus disciples did just the opposite…they didn’t’ separate themselves from evil doers…they were Vs.33 “eating and drinking”.

I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.' Luke 18:11-12 The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men-robbers, evildoers, adulterers-or even like this tax collector. O an act whereby you were proved different than the rest of the rabble.

Purposes of fasting: acts of piety/holiness, act of repentance, act of hope and anticipation…and…it was an act of boundary making…a defining behavior.

O Technically only once in the law but expanded greatly over the years in their tradition. O Fasting, almsgiving and prayer where the big 3 in Judaism.

Talk about old faith! they clung to their old systems and customs…one of which was fasting.

Lived by the Torah and the traditions formed over many centuries.200 year old religious party – most influential of all groups.

Per usual his trouble is with the Pharisees = “separated ones” (north to Galilee, reframes his mission, recalls his followers, does some spectacular miracles and gets in loads of trouble for it) Review where we are in the narrative: Legacy 3. 39 And no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for he says, 'The old is better.'' Luke 5:33-39 38 No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. 37 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins.

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If he does, he will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old.

That in a nutshell was what Jesus was trying to tell his naysayers in yet another confrontation in Galilee.ģ3 They (Pharisees) said to him, 'John's disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking.' 34 Jesus answered, 'Can you make the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? 35 But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them in those days they will fast.' 36 He told them this parable: 'No one tears a patch from a new garment and sews it on an old one. You can’t live on old faith if you intend to follow Jesus. Old faith cannot contain the dynamic of the Kingdom of God. And they join the ranks of the bland religious majority they meld into the 66% of Casual Christians in this country. Keep just enough tradition to say they are marginally religious. But most people do neither… they aren’t antagonistic nor nostalgic about their old faith they just let their old faith become part of the wall paper of their lives.they are the Uncle Ricos of the church…nostalgic for the old days when believing in God was so much simpler. There are others who go the other direction…they pine for it.Walk away from organized religion altogether. They realize their religion is stale and useless and turn cynical. There are some who one day wake up and recognize it.I would contend that many Americans are living on old faith (old customs, old forms, old convictions, old liturgies, old theology) The same is true of our spiritual lives… there are people who live with an old faith. … there are people get stuck in the past, all their stories decades old, their jokes, mannerisms and even dress painfully out of date. …Someone living in the glory years – living off of old memories. How awkward is it when you come across someone living in the past?