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Us vs. Them
There is a lot of us vs. them in our lives.
ASU, UofA, NAU, GCU
Texas (OK and AR esp)
Sara’s dad, “No need to tell anyone you’re from Texas.
If they ask, OK.
But, no sense in making them feel bad if they don’t.”
I went to grade school in Wichita in the 1960’s just as they started desegregation.
There was a lot of us vs. them, then.
Charleston, VA.
Baltimore, MD
St. Louis, MO
Chicago, IL
There was a time when Isreal believed it was them vs. everybody else in the world.
To a degree, that’s still true today.
But, that’s just what people believe, not what God set up.
With Jesus there is no us vs. them.
There are the forgiven and unforgiven.
But the forgiven are the faithful.
And, those who have faith are called to humility.
“Them” have become “us.”
And “us” is anyone who believes in Jesus regardless of skin color, accent, continent of the origin of ancestors, socio-economics, size and number of your houses, which side of the tracks you live on.
God’s kingdom will have no divisions.
Those of us here who reserve our place in the kingdom there, shouldn’t either.
Jesus is everyone’s Messiah.
How do we know?
Miracles #21 & 22.
; Matthew 15:21-28
But, that’s just what people believe, not what God set up.
Context (Mk.
7:1-23)
Those people don’t keep the law
Them!
Gentile territory
Pharisees came from Jerusalem to confront Jesus
They had a problem w/ Him serving them just as He had the Jews.
“Those people are different” “We are different”
Better.
More right w/ God
What about “us”? (To the Jews)
God gave Israel the law and that set them apart, they were different.
But not like the Pharisee represented here.
Only group to worship God.
Only group to worship and sac like they did.
Only group to take 1 day/wk off and 1 yr/7
Only group to keep Kosher foods
Only have sex w/ your spouse, stay married for life.
Then, don’t inter-marry.
They thought they were better than everybody else b/c they believed they kept the law.
Based on that they criticized everybody else.
They don’t wash their hands before they eat.
So, what they eat “defiles” them
Or, makes them sinful
They bel’d that God loved them more b/c they were less defiled and more obedient.
They were wrong.
Jesus replied to them:
You don’t keep the law
Seriously?
Hand-washing?
The law said to wash hands before eating b/c it kept them from getting sick long before germs were discovered.
It didn’t make them righteous, it kept them well.
Kosher laws and marriage laws did the same thing.
No one is “clean” (right w/ God) b/c they wash their hands.
Nor are they more sinful b/c of what they eat.
Jesus said, “It’s not what goes into your mouth that makes you sinful.
It’s what comes out.”
He was condemning them by what they said about Him.
And, another thing.
Jews didn’t keep the law anyway.
1 example: Honor your father and mother.
Meaning, take care of them in their old age.
They used a loophole in the law and declared their assets dedicated to God so they wouldn’t have to spend anything to care for their aging parents.
So, these people didn’t keep the law.
These people weren’t special.
Besides, keeping the law didn’t give you standing with God.
What about “those people”?
Those people who didn’t wash their hands before they ate and didn’t even try to keep the rest of the law.
What about them?
What was God’s position w/ them?
1 Crumb is Enough for Anybody
Mark 7:2
Who
A Canaanite (non-Jewish) woman.
Not only one of “those people”, but a woman at that.
Her daughter, possessed by a demon was not w/ her.
“Lord, Son of David”
She believed that Jesus is the rightful heir to David’s throne.
The King of God’s kingdom.
Jewish Messiah.
Her Savior.
She didn’t obey the law.
But she had faith in Jesus.
Her approach communicated clearly that she believed everything about Jesus that He has been teaching.
She begged Jesus to deliver her daughter.
You can imagine a mother whose daughter is suffering.
What lengths she would go to to get help.
Responses
The disciples response was to urge Jesus to send her away.
She was persistent and harassing them ()
Jesus’ response seems even colder than the disciples’.
But He has a message in mind He wants us to get.
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