Inner Cleaning vs Outer Cleaning

The Life and Teachings of Jesus  •  Sermon  •  Submitted   •  Presented   •  31:43
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We’ve always done it this way.
Mark 7:1 NIV
1 The Pharisees and some of the teachers of the law who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus
Mark 7:2 NIV
2 and saw some of his disciples eating food with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed.
“defiled” = Ritually unclean. Understood especially as having the quality of the ordinary as opposed to the “set-apart”.
Mark 7:3 NIV
3 (The Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they give their hands a ceremonial washing, holding to the tradition of the elders.
Mark 7:4 NIV
4 When they come from the marketplace they do not eat unless they wash. And they observe many other traditions, such as the washing of cups, pitchers and kettles.)
Observe & Holding to = Remain firmly commited to. Unmovable.
“Tradition of the elders” and “many other traditions”
Mark 7:5 NIV
5 So the Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, “Why don’t your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders instead of eating their food with defiled hands?”
“live according” = behave in a certain way.
“tradition” = specific practice handed down. Also used to describe being surrendered to or arrested by something.
Mark 7:6 NIV
6 He replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: “ ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
“hypocrites” = Actors. Pretender. Saying and behaving a certain way while keeping your true real self hidden.
“honor” = Show esteem or honor towards someone
Mark 7:7 NIV
7 They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’
“Worship” = show reverence or respect for.
Mark 7:8 NIV
8 You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to human traditions.”
Mark 7:9 NIV
9 And he continued, “You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions!
Mark 7:10 NIV
10 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’
Mark 7:11 NIV
11 But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is Corban (that is, devoted to God)—
Mark 7:12 NIV
12 then you no longer let them do anything for their father or mother.
Mark 7:13 NIV
13 Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.”
Mark 7:14 NIV
14 Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand this.
Mark 7:15 NIV
15 Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.”
Mark 7:17 NIV
17 After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable.
Mark 7:18 NIV
18 “Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them?
Mark 7:19 NIV
19 For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)
Mark 7:20 NIV
20 He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them.
Mark 7:21 NIV
21 For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder,
Mark 7:22 NIV
22 adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.
Mark 7:23 NIV
23 All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”

So what??

Color changing cup. Painting the outside is physical. Replacing what is inside is spiritual. Painting the outside isn’t permanent. Replacing what is inside is permanent. Warm salt water vs Cold Sprite. Someone drinks both. Color changing cup.
What comes out of our inner person that defiles us are the works of the flesh.
Galatians 5:19–21 ESV
19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
God wants to remake your inner person. Jesus’ sacrifice and resurrection. He wants to continue renewing you and producing in you the fruits of the Holy Spirit.
Galatians 5:22–24 ESV
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
This is what we want for you here at WSM.
Colossians 1:28 ESV
28 Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.
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