Jesus Pronounces Woe's

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Wash Hands

We consider cleanliness to be a good thing, hand washing especially since covid we all believe is a good thing to do.
This wasn’t a washing to wash the dirt or germs off. That was the word nipto. The word used here was babtizo. Where we get the word baptize from.
Baptizo is a ceremonial washing.
The pharisees had made it mandatory with traditions to ceremonially wash before eating.
Jesus knows this, and now He is purposely breaking their traditions to show that they are not the commands of God.
Clean the Inside
At the beginning Jesus is showing that they are doing things to clean the outside. But not the inside.
Mark 7:15
Mark 7:15 ESV
15 There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”
Not the things that they eat or whether there hands are spiritually clean, but what fruit are they showing in their lives.
They were doing may outward works, but their works were far from Christ.
What is the fruit in our lives? Are we bringing glory to God with the fruit of the spirit being manifest in our lives, or are we simply trying to do certain things to appear spiritual?

1st Woe

v.42
Major in the Minors, and Minor in the Majors
They would tithe not just their income, but even their herbs. However they wouldn’t show the justice and mercy of God.
Micah 6:6-8
Micah 6:6–8 ESV
6 “With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? 7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?” 8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
More than sacrifice, more than offerings:
God desires justice and mercy.
These are the major things that God was desiring. For His people to be different, to show qualities that demonstrate His character to the rest of the world.
v.42- We should be tithing and not forgetting to show mercy.
Jesus isn’t saying don’t tithe, no that is something that we must do. But they were forgetting the weightier part of the matters.
Today’s polls show that only 10-25% of church attenders tithe. Of those that give the average is 2.5% of their income. The average gift during the great depression was 3.3%.
Here the pharisees were giving even 10% of their herbs.
Some problems we are seeing today is we aren’t paying attention to the majors, or to the minors.

2nd Woe

v.43
Expect to Be Honored
Love doesn’t just mean they enjoy it, no they were expecting it.
They wanted the praise of man they wanted to be honored.
But they were not living honorably before God.
This is still a human problem. We want to be respected, we want to be noticed.
Philippians 2:3
Philippians 2:3 ESV
3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
We are not to be seeking honor but giving honor.
We are to be serving people caring for them, not looking out for our own interests.

3rd Woe

v.44
Numbers 19:16
Numbers 19:16 ESV
16 Whoever in the open field touches someone who was killed with a sword or who died naturally, or touches a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
If you touched a grave you would be defiled for 7 days.
They would paint the graves white, so you could see them and avoid them. The paint could wear off,
People would stand on the death that lies below and be ceremonially unclean without knowing it or realizing it after it was to late.
They Make People Unclean
The people are coming to their religious leaders for help and guidance and without knowing it, are being led astray.
They are ceremonially defiled because they are living lives that are not honoring to God without realizing it.
Even after the ascension, Paul talks about this happening in the early church.
Acts 20:29-30
Acts 20:29–30 ESV
29 I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; 30 and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them.
People, seeking their own desires and it doesn’t matter if the people are destroyed. They will lead them astray.
There are leaders who don’t seek to glorify God they want to grab at whatever power they can. They lead people astray.
DO NOT BECOME LIKE THESE PEOPLE!!, KNOW THE TRUTH!!

4th Woe

v.45
WOW Jesus, your almost insulting us with your words.
v.46
You Burden the People
These were the men in charge of teaching the people the law.
They were taking the traditions of men and teaching it as doctrine.
Mark 7:8-9, 13
Mark 7:8–9 ESV
8 You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.” 9 And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!
Mark 7:13 ESV
13 thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”
They were taking their own traditions and beliefs and teaching them as the commands of God. This isn’t right.
Then they themselves don’t keep it to the full extent that they expect others to live by.
Beloved we must make sure that we don’t do the same thing these people were doing, where we lay laws on people that God hasn’t put on them.
We have our own traditions, our own idea’s and we might end up doing this sometimes, crushing others under the weight of something that God hasn’t commanded.

5th Woe

v.47
They would build huge memorials to the prophets of old, the one’s whom their fathers killed.
Your Hearts Are the Same as Those Who Killed the Prophets
Jesus is saying that you are just as bad as your fathers, for they were about to crucify the one whom the prophets spoke of.
v.51
Acts 7:51-52
Acts 7:51–52 ESV
51 “You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you. 52 Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered,
By rejecting Jesus, they reject everything that the prophets have said before. Because of this, they will be accountable for the blood of all the prophets before.

6th Woe

v.52
Taken the Key of Knowledge
The way they interpreted the law, the Pharisees made it impossible for an ordinary person to understand how to please God.
They had, so much of their own doctrines mixed in that were difficult to follow that the ability to understand how to please God was out of the normal people’s grasp.
They hinder people from entering, and they themselves don’t follow the truth.
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