Mark 7:1-13
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Read Mark 7:1-13
Read Mark 7:1-13
1 Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, 2 they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. 3 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly, holding to the tradition of the elders, 4 and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.) 5 And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?” 6 And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, “ ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; 7 in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ 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! 10 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ 11 But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban” ’ (that is, given to God)— 12 then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother, 13 thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”
The question
The question
5 And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?”
Why do they act differently
What gives them the right these jews to not observe the laws they have been taught
They are asking why is it that these men who know the rules who understand the traditions can just so easily forsake them
The rules
The rules
You see these pharisees and scribes had created many other rules
Rules that we have gone over before
But these rules were outside of the torah law
That is the law given by God
They moved the line
According to the Old testament only priest required such washings and only before they entered the tabernacle
19 with which Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet.
Or for everyone when they touched bodily discharge
Think going to the bathroom
11 Anyone whom the one with the discharge touches without having rinsed his hands in water shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.
But what the pharisees did was prescribe extra rules
These extra rules came form oral traditions
Extra rules to make sure one was clean
If some is good more is better
The Mishna called this oral law a fence around the torah
The mistake is made when we require more than what this word says
The mistake is made as paul makes the case in galatians when the rules begin to be worshipped
When we cling so tightly and so dogmatically to the rules that they become the focus
The Pharisees had lost perspective
They werent any less sincere as we may think from verse 6
They arent hypocrites because of their lack of devotion
They are hypocrites because of their lost perspective
Jesus makes this clear to them
The Answer
The Answer
6 And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, “ ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; 7 in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ 8 You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.”
Jesus’s answer is a ringing rebuke
You are a people who honor me with your lips but your hearts are far from me
You are a people who have lost perspective
You have exchanged the goodness of God’s law for the tyranny of mans traditions
God the creator of the universe had setup for us the rules in which to live
but you leaders think you know best and setup a ring around my word
You hypocrites you think yourself so holy yet you are cursed
10 For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.” 11 Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.”
Have you not understood that none of us are righteous
You you pharisees your obsession with cleanliness will not save you
There is nothing you can do to cleanse yourself
The prophet Jeremiah himself declared your hearts a deceitful beyond everything else
The rebuke is to these men who have lost perspective and cling to the traditions of men
No Man made rules will ever save you
Then and now
We must not add rules
he continues on
9 And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition! 10 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ 11 But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban” ’ (that is, given to God)— 12 then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother, 13 thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”
This is finger in the eye
he lays the example right in front of them
Look the most basic of rules you have found a way to pervert
They enable people to not honor their parents by saying no no those things I have devoted to God they cannot be withdrawn
And your laws keep them from honoring
You hypocrites you have lost perspective
So why can these guys eat without washing their hands…????
So why can these guys eat without washing their hands…????
Because they are focused on the right thing
They have found their salvation not in the law
As Jesus will get into next week