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March 23 - Mark 7 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello, friends. It's Sean.
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  Here it is Monday, it's the 23rd of March.
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  And hey, it is great to have your company.
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  Thank you for tuning in on your wireless or perhaps no one's
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  actually tuning in on the wireless and hasn't done that
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  for a very long time. But thank you for your company
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  as we are going to be continuing reading through this fantastic
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  gospel of Mark walking the streets, rowing the boats,
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  walking the shores, having the crowds pressed up against us as
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  everybody, everybody just wants a piece of Jesus.
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  Isn't it funny how society now wants very little to do with
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  Jesus? I guess they just don't know
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  him. And if they did know him, things
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  would be different, wouldn't they?
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  But we will discover more of this as we read together.
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  So how about let's dive into it, friends.
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  Holy Spirit, come convict us of your truth as we read this
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  gospel. All right friends, let's read
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  together. Mark Chapter 7.
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  One day some Pharisees and teachers of religious law
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  arrived from Jerusalem to see Jesus.
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  They noticed that some of his disciples failed to follow the
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  Jewish ritual of hand washing before eating.
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  The Jews, especially the Pharisees, do not eat until they
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  have poured water over their cupped hands as required by
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  their ancient traditions. Similarly, they don't eat
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  anything from the market until they immerse their hands in
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  water. This is but one of many
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  traditions they have clung to, such as their ceremonial washing
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  of cups, pitches and cattles. So the Pharisees and teachers of
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  religious law asked him, why don't your disciples follow our
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  age old tradition? They eat without first
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  performing the hand washing ceremony.
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  Jesus replied, you hypocrites as I was right when he prophesied
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  about you. For he wrote, these people
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  honour me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
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  Their worship is a farce for they teach man made ideas as
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  commands from God. For you ignore God's law and
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  substitute your own tradition. Then he said, you skilfully
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  sidestep God's law in order to hold on to your own tradition.
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  For instance, Moses gave you this law from God, honour your
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  father and mother, and anyone who speaks disrespectfully of
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  father or mother must be put to death.
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  But you say it is all right for people to say to their parents,
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  sorry, I can't help you, for I vowed to give to God what I
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  would have given to you. In this way, you let them
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  disregard their needy parents, and so you cancel the word of
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  God in order to hand down your own tradition.
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  And this is only one example among many others.
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  Then Jesus called to the crowd to come and hear all of you
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  listen, he said, and try to understand.
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  It's not what goes into your body that defiles you.
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  You are defiled by what comes from your heart.
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  Then Jesus went into a house to get away from the crowd, and his
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  disciples asked him what he meant by the parable he had just
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  used. Don't you understand either?
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  He asked. Can't you see that the food you
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  put into your body cannot defile you?
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  Food doesn't go into your heart, but only passes through your
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  stomach and then goes into the sewer.
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  By saying this, he declared that every kind of food is acceptable
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  in God's eyes. And then he added, it is what
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  comes from inside that defiles you.
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  For from within, out of a person's heart, come evil
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  thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed,
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  wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, envy, slander, pride
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  and foolishness. All these vile things come from
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  within. They are what defile you.
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  Then Jesus left Galilee and went N to the region of Tyre.
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  He didn't want anyone to know which house he was staying in,
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  but he couldn't keep it a secret.
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  Right away a woman who had heard about him came and fell at his
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  feet. Her little girl was possessed by
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  an evil spirit and she begged him to cast out the demon from
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  her daughter, since she was a Gentile born in Syrian
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  Phoenicia. Jesus told her first, I should
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  feed the children, my own family, the Jews.
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  It isn't right to take food from the children and throw it to the
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  dogs, she replied. That's right, Lord.
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  But even the dogs under the table are allowed to eat the
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  scraps from the children's plates.
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  Good answer, he said. Now go home, for the demon has
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  left your daughter. And when she arrived home, she
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  found a little girl lying quietly in bed, and the demon
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  was gone. Jesus left Tyre and went up to
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  Sidon before going back to the Sea of Galilee.
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  In the region of the 10 towns, a deaf man with a speech
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  impediment was brought to him, and the people begged Jesus to
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  lay his hands on the man to heal them.
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  Jesus led him away from the crowd so they could be alone.
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  He put his fingers into the man's ears.
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  Then, spitting on his own fingers, he touched the man's
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  tongue. Looking up to heaven he sighed
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  and said EF Fathah which means be opened instantly the man
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  could hear perfectly and his tongue was freed so he could
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  speak plainly. Jesus told the crowd not to tell
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  anyone, but the more he told them not to, the more they
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  spread the news. They were completely amazed and
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  said again and again, everything he does is wonderful.
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  He even makes the deaf to hear and gives speech to those that
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  cannot speak. Our Lord Jesus, here you are
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  once again turning things on their head.
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  Where this culture believed that what you ate made you clean or
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  unclean, You say no. It's what you give from your own
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  inside, from your heart. Therein lies your cleanliness or
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  uncleanliness. And Lord, you know our hearts.
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  You know our hearts better than we know our hearts.
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  And they are not clean, They are not pure.
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  We have selfish desires. We have thoughts that are not
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  befitting of you, our Lord. And so I just pray for your
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  ongoing work of transformation. Holy Spirit, come and change our
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  hearts every day. Make us more and more like you,
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  so that the thoughts of our minds and the feelings of our
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  hearts would be more and more as you would have them be, so that
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  we can be a force for good in this world and bring about your
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  Kingdom, your Kingdom of generosity and love and
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  forgiveness, so opposed to the ways of the human heart.
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  And thank you, Lord, that you are doing this work in US.
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  And thank you that you are the perfect example of this way of
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  being. So we just lift you up, our
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  perfect example, our wonderful guide, our loving Saviour.
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  We love you and pray all of this in your perfect name, Amen.