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Mark 7:1-13

Contrast Between Man’s Tradition and God’s Command

Title?: The externals are not what God’s after, He’s after YOUR HEART

A heart consumed with Tradition

A heart consumed in tradition (V3,5)

Produces a heart far from God with superficial lip service (AKA FAKE LIFE!)

In turn producing useless and meaningless worship (V7)

A heart Consumed with God’s Commandments (The Commandments of God are not burdensome tasks to way us down with monotony, rather they are God’s wonderful plan for man to know who he needs to know most: his maker)

“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart mind soul and strength” (Matt 22:37-40)

“If you love me you keep my commandments” (John 15:14)

Product: A heart interwoven with God (God’s desires and yours are the same)

True and upright living

Meaningful worship

Reflections

What is my heart consumed with?

Have i left the commandments of God for the traditions of man? (v8)

Am i living s hypocritical life (saying one thing and living another)?

Why am i living the way i do?

Are my life choices, from the greatest to the least governed by traditions of men or by God’s commands?

God is after your heart

Key Verse:

Mark 7:6 “And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, “ ‘This people honoreth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;”