Thursday, June 10, 2010

Mark 7

Even by the middle of the first century AD, the elders of the Jewish Church had added so many extrabiblical laws to follow, the Jews were living in bondage. And it still continues today. Christ meant then and means now, Freedom.

"This people honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far away from Me. But in vain do they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men." v.6-7

Jesus sits the disciples down to teach them that they can eat anything; the food isn't what mattered. I believe the elders did this because it is easier to follow those "physical" laws instead of keeping yourself pure from this list below:

"Do you not understand that whatever goes into the man form outside cannot defile him, because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and is eliminated?" (Thus He declared all foods clean.) "That which proceeds out of the man, that is what defiles the man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, deeds of coveting and wickedness, as well as deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride and foolishness. All these evil things proceed from within and defile the man." v. 20-23

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