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March 18 - Mark 7 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, It is Monday. It is the 18th of March and
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  hello to a new week welcome. So glad that you could invite me
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  into your day. No matter what it's looking
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  like, whether it's full, whether you have got all the time in the
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  world, or whether you are in the midst of it all or even finished
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  with it. Tucking yourself into bed
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  thinking Monday, I laugh at Monday.
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  Bring on Tuesday wherever you are in the spectrum of
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  mundaneness. Hope you're not having a heart
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  attack, because more people have heart attacks on Monday than any
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  other day of the week. Bahama.
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  So if you made it through today, well done, you've survived
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  another Monday. But all that aside, today we
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  continue marching through the book of Mark.
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  We are getting close to the middle, where Peter is going to
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  correctly identify that Jesus is indeed the Son of God.
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  But we're not quite there yet. Mark is still building this
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  argument, building this case that we as the readers can be so
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  clearly convinced by the evidence that yes, he is indeed
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  who he says he is. So why don't we continue going
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  back, joining in hearing, seeing, reliving Jesus as he
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  walks through the streets and blows away the world with his
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  incredible love and compassion? Let's do it, shall we?
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  Let's read together. Mark Chapter 7.
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  One day, some parasites 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 varices, do not eat until
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  they've 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 have immersed their hands
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  in 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 kettles. 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 their hand washing ceremony, Jesus replied.
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  You hypocrites, Aziah was right when he prophesied about you for
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  he wrote. These people honour me with
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  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 skillfully
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  sidestep God's law in order to hold onto your own traditions.
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  For instance, Moses gave you this law from God.
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  Honour your father and mother, and anyone who speaks
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  disrespectfully of father or mother must be put to death.
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  But you say it's 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 cancelled 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
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  came and fell at his 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
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  Syrian Phoenicia, Jesus told her first I should feed the
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  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 true, Lord, but even the
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  dogs under the table are allowed to eat the scraps from the
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  children's plates. Good answer, he said.
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  Now go home, for the demon has left your daughter.
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  And when she arrived home, she found her little girl lying
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  quietly in bed, and the demon was gone.
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  Jesus left Tyre and went up to Sidon before going back to the
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  Sea of Galilee and the region of the 10 towns.
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  A deaf man with a speech impediment was brought to him,
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  and the people begged Jesus to lay his hands on the man to heal
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  him. Jesus led him away from the
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  crowd so they could be alone. He put his fingers into the man
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  ears. Then, spitting on his own
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  fingers, he touched the man's tongue.
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  Looking up to heaven, he sighed and said EFF Utah, which means
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  be opened instantly. The man could hear perfectly,
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  and his tongue was freed so he could speak plainly.
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  Jesus told the crowd not to tell anyone, but the more he told
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  them not to, the more they spread the news.
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  They were completely amazed and said again and again, everything
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  he does is wonderful. He even makes the deaf to hear
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  and gives speech to those who cannot speak.
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  Jesus, we see so clearly your heart in this reading.
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  Your heart for your people. You love them and you want them
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  to be well and Hull. You want us to be well and to be
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  whole and you do not tolerate religion.
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  That piles unnecessary burden onto your people.
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  You want us to have a load that is light and life giving.
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  Thank you. Thank you that you bring healing
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  and kindness and release Jesus. I pray in the areas of our lives
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  where we are struggling. I just pray that you would bring
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  your release, bring your healing.
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  You are a good God, a good God who brings good things to your
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  children. And we are so grateful, so we
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  pray all of this and you're saving name.
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  Jesus, oh man.