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899. Jesus Teaches about Inner Purity — Mark 7:1-23

7/2/2019

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899.

Jesus Teaches about Inner Purity 

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Today's Passage: Mark 7:1-23 
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New Living Testament (NLT).


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24th Strategy.
Jesus Speaks
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  • Pray for God to open your heart to hear a new word from Him today.
  • Read the entire passage.
  • Re-read only the words that are written in red. These words signify words that were said by Jesus Christ, himself. Aloud. In this world. Granted the entire Bible are His Words. He, through His Spirit has spoken them. But, these make an interesting word pondering.
  • As you re-read the words spoken by Jesus imagine He is speaking and you are there.
  • Then read the passage surrounding those words.
  • Ask God to show you what He wants you to see.
  • Now re-read the entire passage one more time.
  • Don't forget to thank Him for being with you.
  • Don't forget to thank Him for answering.


1. One day some Pharisees and teachers of religious law arrived from Jerusalem to see Jesus.
2. They noticed that some of his disciples failed to follow Jewish ritual of hand washing before eating.
3. (The Jews, especially the Pharisees do not eat until they have poured water over their cupped hands, as required by their ancient traditions.
4. Similarly, they don't eat anything from the market until they immerse their hands in water. This is but one of many traditions they have clung to — such as their ceremonial washing of cups, pitchers, and kettles.)

5. So the Pharisees and teachers of religious law asked him, "Why don't your disciples follow our age-old tradition? They eat without first performing the hand-washing ceremony."

6. Jesus replied, "You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you, for he wrote,

'These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. 
7. Their worship is a farce, for they teach man-made ideas as commands from God'

8. For you ignore God's law and substitute your own tradition."

9. Then he said, "You skillfully sidestep God's law in order to hold on to your own tradition.
10. For instance, Moses gave you this law from God: 'Honor your father and mother,' and 'Anyone who speaks disrespectfully of father or mother must be put to death.'
11. But you say it is all right for people to say to their parents, 'Sorry, I can't help you. For I have vowed to give to God what I would have given to you.'
12. In this way, you let them disregard their needy parents.
13. And so you cancel the word of God in order to hand down your own tradition. And this is only one example among many others."


14. Then Jesus called to the crowd to come and hear. "All of you listen," he said, and try to understand.
15. It's not what goes into your body that defiles you; you are defiled by what comes from your heart."
16. [If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.] not included in the NLT

17. Then Jesus went into a house to get away from the crowd, and his disciples asked him what he meant by the parable he had just used.
18. "Don't you understand either?" he asked. "Can't you see that the food you put into your body cannot defile you?
19. Food doesn't go into your heart, it only passes through the stomach and then goes into the sewer." (By saying this, he declared that every kind of food is acceptable in God's eyes."


20. And then he added, "It is what comes from inside that defiles you.
21. For from within, out of a person's heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder,
22. adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.
23. All these vile things come from within; they are what defile you."

Mark 7:1-23 NLT

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Scripture quotations marked NLT are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation,copyright©1996,2004.Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved
2 Comments
Bc
7/2/2019 03:53:42 pm

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RC
7/3/2019 12:10:33 am

Food doesn't go into your heart, it only passes through the stomach and then goes into the sewer." (By saying this, he declared that every kind of food is acceptable in God's eyes."


Food...
A continual issue

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