Invalidating the Word

Outlines from Mark and Acts 12. Obeying God’s Word—Mark 7

Rejection—v. 9. They rejected God’s laws, accepting tradition!

Mark seems to have Two goals

One is to show the diametrical opposition between Jesus and the Pharisees on the question of the oral tradition.

The second effect is to underscore for Mark’s readers the radical difference between Christians and Jews on questions of foods, cleansing, and the essential meaning of morality and what is pleasing to God.

The difference between inner motives (v. 21) and ceremonial observances (v. 18)

Recognizing Mans traditions

Mark 7:9 (CSB): “You have a fine way of invalidating God’s command in order to set up your tradition!”

The Mishnah or the Mishna is the first major written collection of the Jewish oral traditions that are known as the Oral Torah

This should ring off as a true timeless warning to every follower of God.

How do we invalidate Gods word?

Decentralize Gods word

allowing experience to supersede the scriptures

God told me to I should be happy so

Bad interpretation

Find an upturn alternate word

Christ is rebuking anyone who places human traditions on an equal or higher authority than the Word of God.

Jesus charged the leaders with setting aside God’s Word for tradition. Religious traditions may be described as institutional or personal.

1. Institutional traditions are such things as rituals, rules, regulations, schedules, forms, services, procedures, organizations—anything that gives order and security to the persons involved.

2. Personal traditions are such things as church attendance, prayers, habits, ceremonies, objects which a person uses (somewhat superstitiously) to keep himself religiously secure.

There are so many helpful things that come along to help guide us to have a faithfully walk

Man’s traditions are not on par with The Holy word of God.

“Never eat yellow snow”

“Don’t tear a fence down until you know why its there” “Laurel Lake”

We should be cautious of traditions and feasting on the Word

10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee was standing and praying like this about himself:I ‘God, I thank you that I’m not like other people—greedy, unrighteous adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of everything I get.’

13 “But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even raise his eyes to heaven but kept striking his chest and saying, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’ 14 I tell you, this one went down to his house justified rather than the other, because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”at

If anyone tells his father or mother: Whatever benefit you might have received from me is corban’ ” (that is, an offering devoted to God), 12 “you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother. 13 You nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many other similar things.”

Corban is a Hebrew word adopted into the Greek of the New Testament and left untranslated. It means a gift or offering consecrated to God. Anything over which this word was once pronounced was irrevocably dedicated to the temple.

Jesus rebukes the Pharisees for their false doctrine, because they had destroyed the commandment that requires children to honor their father and mother, teaching them to find excuse from helping their parents by the device of pronouncing “corban” over their goods, thus releasing them from all obligation to sustain their parents. It did not, however, bind them to consecrate their goods to sacred uses. These could be used for their own purposes, or given to whomever they pleased, except to those to whom they had said, “It is corban.”

Lip service is not enough

Isaiah 29:13 ESV

And the Lord said: “Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men,

Closed caption: Words are not matching their action

I want your affections, and I want your affection and your words to match

When things match it looks like it was planed

Theres been some work done here

I’ve seen unfettered anger and selfish reactions

“How to tell the truth” He was so far from God he couldn’t see the problem

Dance move

We love large dance numbers because without any background information we know it took a lot of work to organize and practice

Heres the move

John 13:34 “I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

Standard

Convergence: red,blue, green

a clear picture of Jesus

Christian transformation starts from the inside out

Mark 7:18–23 (CSB): Are you also as lacking in understanding? Don’t you realize that nothing going into a person from the outside can defile him? 19 For it doesn’t go into his heart but into the stomach and is eliminated” (thus he declared all foods clean,). 20 And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. 21 For from within, out of people’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders, 22 adulteries, greed, evil actions, deceit, self-indulgence, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness. 23 All these evil things come from within and defile a person.”

Volcano

Out of People’s hearts

If you build a Holy compound, homeschool your kids, go off the grid with solar panels (Fortnite)

Genesis 6:5“The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”

1 📷 yēʹ·ṣěr something made into shape; inclination, striving

NASB Dictionaries a form; framing; purpose

Our unregenerate hearts and minds are framed towards wrong.

Matthew 23:25-26  “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside of it may also become clean.

John 3:7 (CSB): you must be born again

Ezekiel 36:24–29 (CSB): For I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries, and will bring you into your own land. 25 I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols. 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will place my Spirit within you and cause you to follow my statutes and carefully observe my ordinances. 28 You will live in the land that I gave your ancestors; you will be my people, and I will be your God. 29 I will save you from all your uncleanness.

Telling the surgeon what to do

Rom 12:2 Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.