Commentary On The Gospel Of Mark Chapter 7:17-18

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Chapter 7:17 When he had left the crowd and entered the house, His disciples questioned Him about the parable.

Chapter 7:18 And He said to them, “Are you so lacking in understanding also? Do you not understand that whatever goes into a man from outside cannot defile him,

What Jesus is saying to the disciples is that sin comes from the heart. So for the Jew who ate “unclean” food this was not caused by the food itself but by the heart that acted in disobedience to God. When we truly understand this, we begin to understand sin, its progression and its effects on our lives. Understand the progression of sin (James 1:15) The progression of sin is frightening and certain: lust, sin, and death.

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Commentary On The Gospel Of Mark Chapter 7:14-16

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Chapter 7:14 After He called the crowd to Him again, He began saying to them, “Listen to Me all of you and understand:

Chapter 7:15 there is nothing outside the man which can defile him if it goes into him; but the things which proceed out of the man are what defile the man.

Chapter 7:16 ["If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."]

What is the thing that you struggle with the most? Are you being honest with yourself about  your struggles? Jesus is beginning this part of chapter seven with the recognition of what is really sin. Do we truly realize what is sin in our lives and do we really ask for forgiveness?

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Commentary On The Gospel Of Mark Chapter 7:11-13

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Stained glass at St John the Baptist’s Anglican Church http://www.stjohnsashfield.org.au, Ashfield, New South Wales. Illustrates Jesus’ description of himself “I am the Good Shepherd” (from the Gospel of John, chapter 10, verse 11). This version of the image shows the detail of his face. The memorial window is also captioned: “To the Glory of God and in Loving Memory of William Wright. Died 6th November, 1932. Aged 70 Yrs.” (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Chapter 7:11 but you say, “If a man says to his father or his mother, whatever I have that would help you is Corban (that is to say, given to God),

Chapter 7:12 you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or his mother;

Chapter 7:13 thus invalidating the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down; and you do many things such as that.

What Christ is saying is that they are putting oral tradition above their relationship with their parents and with God.” Corban is the Hebrew word for “gift”. It referred to something given to God by an inviolable vow. Example: If a son declared that the amount needed to support his parents was Corban, the scribes said that he was exempt from his duty to care for his parents as prescribed in the law. Evidently, too, he was not really obliged to devote that sum to the Temple.” This quote was from the New American Standard Ryrie Study Bible Expanded Edition.

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Commentary On The Gospel Of Mark Chapter 7:9-10

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English: Honor Your Father and Your Mother, illustration from a Bible card published 1908 by the Providence Lithograph Company (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Chapter 7:9 He was also saying to them, “You are experts at setting aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition.

Chapter 7:10 “For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, is to be put to death.’;

These and the following verses through verse thirteen are an illustration showing how the Pharisees thought that oral tradition was more authoritative than the written law of the Old Testament. We will see tomorrow the remainder of the illustration.

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Commentary On The Gospel Of Mark Chapter 7:7-8

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Chapter 7:7 ‘But in vain do they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.’

Chapter 7:8 “Neglecting the commandment of God , you hold to the tradition of men.”

Basically what I read here is the problem of sin, we put our desires above our relationship with God. God does not desire a relationship with us that is fifty percent, even ninety percent but he desires our entire being, one hundred percent. He is a jealous God, along with all the other attributes that He is. Let us go out today and give God every

God, the Father watches us all everywhere.

God, the Father watches us all everywhere. (Photo credit: angelofsweetbitter2009)

fiber of our being and glorify Him.

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Commentary On The Gospel Of Mark Chapter 7:5-6

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Chapter 7:5 The Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, “Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with impure hands?”

Chapter 7:6 And He said to them, Rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘This people honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far away from Me.’

This is a perfect example of misunderstanding what putting God first is all about. We will see in the following verses how Christ explains the problems of the Pharisees in their intrepretation and debasement of the law.

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Commentary On The Gospel Of Mark Chapter 7:3-4

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Christ and The Pharisees

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Chapter 7:3 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they carefully wash their hands, thus observing the traditions of the elders;

Chapter 7:4 and when they come from the market place, they do not east unless they cleanse, themselves; and there are many other things which they have received in order to observe, such as the washing of cups and pitchers and copper pots.)

The traditions of the elders were the unwritten body of commands and teachings of honored rabbis of the past, the authoritative source of scribal teachings.

The Pharisees were caught up in religion and did not see the reality of Christ and who He was. I need to ask myself the question: Do I get caught up in ritual or am I truly worshiping?

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