Inside Out

Where does sin come from? From inside or outside?

It has been a minute or two but Jesus is met with critism once again. This time is the classic antagonists the Pharisees.

They had come 80 miles.

even today this is a 2 hour and 3 minute car ride.

It is like walking from Kearney to Sadaila, MO

Mark (1) Concerning Unwashed Hands (7:1–8)

The “tradition of the elders” is simply the oral, scribal interpretation of the written, Mosaic law. This tradition was later (ca. A.D. 220) collected and reduced to writing in the Mishna. The “elders” were scribes, Pharisees, leaders of synagogues, and revered persons in general.

Compare this was verse 7

Not it is written but you have heard it said. There is a difference between the written Word of God and the spoken word of man. scripture vs tradition.

The Bible Knowledge Commentary 7:6–8

They were “hypocrites” because they made an outward profession of worshiping God but gave Him no genuine worship from their hearts, the hidden centers of their thoughts and decisive choices

Jame McDonald

There was a lady crying in the parking lot because she had lost 200 dollars cash.

I gave her 40 of the 200 I had found because when God blesses you, you should bless others.

The Bible Knowledge Commentary 7:11–12

“Corban” is the Greek (and Eng.) transliteration of a Hebrew term used to refer to a gift devoted to God. It was a dedicatory formula pronounced over money and property donated to the temple and its service by an inviolable vow. Such gifts could only be used for religious purposes.

If our service to God comes at the expence of others that is a crime.

addition by subtraction… I want to ask this in a negative way. Is it possible to have subtraction by addition?

The more you add. The less you have. In fact if you add anything, you have nothing at all

Because Jesus plus nothing equals everything!

The Bible Knowledge Commentary 7:14–16

Jesus spoke in a moral not a medical sense. A person is not defiled morally by what he eats even if his hands are not ceremonially washed.

Sin proceeds from within not from without. This is different from the view of the Rabbis at that time. They like we sometime do today blamed their failings on the uncleaness of others.

If you expect relationship perfection form people then they have not failed you by meeting your expectation, you failed them. - Pastor Graves Anchor Church

The Bible Knowledge Commentary 7:14–16

A Jew who ate “unclean” food was defiled not by the food, but by His disobeying God’s command.

The Bible Knowledge Commentary 7:20–23

The catalog of evil Jesus gave has a strong Old Testament flavor and consists of 12 items.

There are 6 that are wicked acts. There are also 6 acts that depict an evil disposition.

The Christian life is lived from the inside out not the outside in.

Halloween and the dad at our old church who took his kids Trick-or-Treating.

The external is always less important than the internal because the internal is eternal.

By the way interesting that Mark uses the word heart here. After it has just been noted that the disciples had hard hearts in chapter 6 after Jesus walked on the water.

You don’t think the internal is more import than the external. The disciples were in the same boat as Jesus and their hearts were hard. The inside was pretty messed up.

Maybe we need to worry less about the current state of America and more about the current state of our hearts.

Is the fall of Roman comparable to the current state of America? NO! Rome had good road.