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0:00Mark 7:1 [music]
0:02The Pharisees and some of the scribes
0:04gathered around him when they had come
0:07from Jerusalem and had seen [music] some
0:09of his disciples were eating their bread
0:11with impure hands, that is unwashed. For
0:15the Pharisees and all the Jews do not
0:17eat unless they carefully wash their
0:19hands, thus observing the tradition
0:22[music] of the elders. And when they
0:25come from the marketplace, they do not
0:26eat unless they cleanse [music]
0:28themselves. And there are many other
0:30things which they have received
0:33in order to observe, such as the washing
0:36of cups [music] and pictures and copper
0:39pots. The Pharisees and the scribes
0:41asked [music] him, "Why do your
0:43disciples not walk according to the
0:45tradition of the elders, but eat their
0:48bread with impure hands?"
0:52And he said to them, "Rightly did Isaiah
0:55prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is
0:58written, this people honors me with
1:01their lips, but their heart is far away
1:04from [music] me. But in vain do they
1:07worship me. Teaching as doctrine the
1:11precepts of men.
1:14Neglecting the commandment of God, you
1:17hold to the tradition of men.
1:21He was also saying to them, you are
1:24experts at setting aside the commandment
1:27in order to keep your tradition.
1:30For Moses said, "Honor your father and
1:34your mother." And he who speaks evil of
1:37father or mother is [music] to be put to
1:39death.
1:41But you say if a man says to his father
1:45or his mother, "Whatever I have that
1:47would help you is corban," that is to
1:50say, given to God, you no longer permit
1:54him to do anything for his father or
1:56mother, thus invalidating [music]
1:59the word of God by your tradition, which
2:02you have handed down, and you do many
2:05things such as that. So, they're coming
2:08to Jesus because they're trying to find
2:11fault. They're desperate to poke holes
2:15in the good thing God [music] is doing.
2:17And so, they they don't have much
2:20grounds, but they seize upon these
2:22peripheral things. It's like, "Oh, we
2:25have this tradition of washing after we
2:28go to the marketplace and ceremonially
2:30cleansing our copper pots and cups,
2:32[music] and your disciples aren't
2:34keeping these traditions." And so Jesus
2:37is saying, "You're hypocrites because
2:41you put more emphasis on the traditions
2:45that you have learned than on the
2:47commandment of God." You're teaching and
2:50and enforcing something that is part of
2:53an oral tradition. It's been handed down
2:55and people have been doing this for
2:57centuries and centuries. You may call it
2:59the Talmud. They probably didn't call it
3:01that yet, but it's the same sort of
3:03principle. But he's saying the Bible,
3:05the word of God, says things that you
3:07ignore all the time. So you're focused
3:10on washing cups and hands, but you teach
3:13people to dishonor their mother and
3:14father. And he says, Moses said, "Honor
3:17your father and mother, and he who
3:19speaks evil of father and mother is to
3:21be put to death." But you say that what
3:24people were going to use to help their
3:25parents can be given to God, and that
3:28way they don't have to honor their
3:30father and mother. So Jesus is angry at
3:33them that they have elevated a tradition
3:35to the same level as scripture. That's a
3:38powerful statement. It's him putting a
3:40hierarchy of priority and importance on
3:43the practices that we observe. Nothing
3:47should trump the commandment of God. And
3:50he quotes Isaiah. This people honors me
3:52with their lips, but their heart is far
3:54from me.
3:56And he tells them that they have they
3:58have invalidated the word of God by
4:01putting a greater emphasis on their
4:03customs than on what the Bible actually
4:06says.
4:08After he called the crowd to him, he
4:10again began saying to them, "Listen to
4:13me all of you and understand there is
4:16nothing outside of the man which can
4:18defile him if it goes into him. But the
4:21things which proceed out of the man are
4:25what defiled him. If anyone has ears to
4:28hear, let him hear. So he's telling
4:31them, what you think makes you unclean
4:34is whether you remembered to
4:36ceremonially wash your hands and wash
4:38your copper cups. But he's saying what
4:41actually makes you unclean is what comes
4:43out of you. What you say, what you
4:46think, how you treat people. That's
4:49where true holiness and unholiness are
4:52determined.
4:54When he had left the crowd and entered
4:56the house, his disciples questioned him
4:58about the parable, the parable of what
5:00goes out versus what comes in. And he
5:03said to them, "Are you so lacking in
5:06understanding also?
5:08Do you not understand that whatever goes
5:11into the man from outside cannot defile
5:14him? because it does not go into his
5:16heart but into his stomach and is
5:19eliminated. Thus he declared all foods
5:22clean.
5:24So Mark is saying Jesus is telling them
5:27if you want to talk about defilement in
5:29terms of righteous or unrighteous,
5:32you can't defile someone by what goes
5:34into them because it goes into his
5:35belly. The only thing that defiles
5:37someone is what goes into his heart.
5:40And what's defiling people is what's
5:42coming out of their mouth from their
5:43heart.
5:44And he was saying that which proceeds
5:47out of the man, that is what defiles the
5:49man. For from within, out of the heart
5:54of men, proceed the evil thoughts,
5:59fornications,
6:01thefts, murders, adulteries, deeds of
6:04coveting, and wickedness, as well as
6:08deceit, sensuality, envy, slander,
6:12pride, and foolishness.
6:15All these things proceed from within and
6:20defile the man. This is holiness.
6:24It's not about the external things that
6:27you can observe. If those external
6:30things are an accurate reflection of an
6:32inner compartment of heart, then praise
6:35God.
6:37But what God is looking on is the
6:39condition of our heart. So the first
6:41thing that he names when he speaks of
6:44the evil that ruins holiness is
6:47thoughts.
6:49Evil thoughts is the first thing he
6:52names in the defilements that ruin the
6:56sanctity of a human being.
6:58Fornications,
7:01thefts,
7:02murders, adulteries, all of these are
7:06thoughts. These are feelings. These are
7:09coming from inside and they mature into
7:11actions. And then he names deeds of
7:15coveting and wickedness as well as
7:18deceit, dishonesty,
7:20sensuality, envy, slander, pride, and
7:25foolishness.
7:27All these evil things proceed from
7:31within and defile a man. So when we
7:34encounter these thoughts and we kill
7:37them
7:39when they're still thoughts, they don't
7:42proceed out of us and they don't defile
7:45us. But when we allow ourselves to
7:48become a conduit of the evil, of the
7:51thoughts of the vile of our hearts, then
7:54we are defiled by them.
7:58Jesus got up and went away from there to
8:00the region of Ty. And when he had
8:02entered a house, he wanted no one to
8:05know of it. Yet he could not escape
8:07notice. But after hearing of him, a
8:10woman whose little daughter had an
8:12unclean spirit immediately came and fell
8:15at his feet.
8:17Now the woman was a gentile
8:21of the Syrofenician race, and she kept
8:24asking him to cast the demon out of her
8:27daughter.
8:29And he was saying to her, "Let the
8:32children be satisfied first, for it is
8:35not good to take the children's bread
8:38and throw it to the dogs."
8:42Jesus is in a foreign place and a
8:45gentile comes and Mark wants us to know
8:48that this woman is a gentile and that's
8:51why he's treating her this way.
8:53God's grace is flowing within his
8:56covenant of love. And those who are
8:58outside that covenant, they they may
9:01want something from God, but they want
9:03it like spiritual adultery. They want
9:06God to be mixed with their other idols
9:09and false gods and demons that they
9:11worship. And so, it's a matter of
9:14holiness for God that he's not going to
9:16become one of the deities in your
9:19pantheon of false gods. So he's not
9:22going to join with the other idols that
9:24this gentile is worshiping. So he
9:27rejects her and he says it's not good to
9:30take the children's bread. The children
9:33are the lost sheep of the house of
9:34Israel. It's not good to take the
9:37children's bread and toss it to dogs.
9:41He's saying you're not a child. You're
9:43not part of the family. You've put
9:45yourself outside the family. you're
9:47outside the covenant of Israel where the
9:50blessing is coming.
9:52And this is a pretty harsh statement,
9:56but it's not intended to offend this
9:58person. It's not a racist statement.
10:02It's actually an invitation.
10:05It's an invitation that looks like
10:07rejection. But what he's actually
10:09inviting her to do is make a decision
10:12that gets her out of the camp of the
10:15condemned and into the camp of the
10:17blessed. So his provocation is not to
10:21offend her when he calls her a dog. It's
10:23to produce this.
10:26But she answered and said to him, "Yes,
10:29Lord."
10:31Two words, "Yes." She's showing
10:34agreement. She's saying, "That's the
10:36truth." And then she's making a
10:38statement about who her Lord is. She's
10:41calling him Lord. Now, if he's her Lord,
10:43she's no longer a pagan. She's no longer
10:48making him one of the options in the
10:50demons she worships. She's making him
10:53Lord. Yes, Lord. But even the dogs under
10:58the table feed on the children's crumbs.
11:02She's acknowledging, "I don't deserve
11:05it. I'm not special. I'm not part of the
11:08covenant, but I have a need and I'm
11:12willing to change in order to get it.
11:16And he said to her, because of this
11:19answer,
11:21go the demon has gone out of your
11:24daughter.
11:26Literally, it means the demon is thrown
11:29out of your daughter.
11:32This answer released grace into her
11:36family. This answer opened a floodgate
11:41of God's mercy. And the demon [music]
11:44went flying out the opposite end of the
11:46pipe, so to speak.
11:49And going back to her home, she found
11:52the child lying on the bed, the demon
11:55having left. Again he went out from the
11:58region of Ty and came through Siden to
12:01the Sea of Galilee within the region of
12:04Dicopoulos.
12:06They brought to him one who was deaf and
12:09spoke with difficulty and they implored
12:12him to lay his hand on him. Jesus took
12:14him aside
12:16from the crowd by himself and [music]
12:18put his fingers into his ears. And after
12:21spitting, he touched his tongue with
12:23saliva.
12:25And looking up to heaven with a deep
12:28sigh,
12:29he said to him, "Etha,"
12:34that is, "Be opened."
12:38and his ears were opened and the
12:41impediment of his tongue was removed.
12:44And he began speaking plainly.
12:48And he gave them orders not to tell
12:50anyone. But the more he ordered them,
12:52the more widely they continue to
12:54proclaim it. They were utterly
12:57astonished,
12:59saying, [music] "He has done all things
13:02well.
13:04He makes even the deaf to hear and the
13:07mute to speak.
13:12He does all things [music] well.
13:14What a understated
13:17generalization.
13:19But what a powerful commitment and
13:21confession about how God works in our
13:24lives.
13:25If he takes charge, if he touches the
13:29tongue, if he touches the ear, if he
13:33interacts with the pagan, everything
13:35changes. Nothing is the same after an
13:39interaction with God because he does
13:42everything well.

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