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Good morning Rivertree!
It is a joy to be with you today.
Whether you are here at this campus, worshiping at south our watching online I just wanted to let you know I am excited to be with you!
Ross is out for the next 2 Sundays on mission in poland so I’ve got the joy of being with you as we continue our series in the gospel of Mark.
In case you weren’t here last week we looked at .
In we see the disciples face yet another great storm in fact the storm was so great mark says
48 And he saw that they were making headway painfully, for the wind was against them.
And about bthe fourth watch of the night7 he came to them, walking on the sea
at first they think it’s a ghost but then they realize it’s Jesus when he speaks to them.
and the verse that really ministered to my heart was
51 And he got into the boat with them, and the wind ceased.
And they were utterly astounded,
and I loved how Ross pointed out that our destenation is where Jesus is.
That no matter what storms come our way, no matter if we feel like we are making progress or not, when Jesus is with us we realize we are exactly where we are suppose to be.
and that ministered a lot to me this last week.
I know some of you are aware of thiss and some of you aren’t but back in late april I was diagnosed with a cornea diseae called Kertaconus.
Through Gods grace and awesome doctors and a few surgerys my vision has been really improved over the last 2 months.
bowever there have been some moments of discouragement and disappointment.
ONe of those has been it’s hard to read with 2 eyes opened so even in prepping for this talk today I had to really on one eye which a great eye doctor made a speciality contact for.
and it’s in my moments of discouragement and disappointedment that I am grateful that Jesus is in the boat with me.
That he hasn’t left me alone to firgure out this storm.
and I’ve settled in my heart while this has been disappointed Jesus has something for me in it.
And I am Hopeful not to miss what he has for me.
having this cornea diseas has also made sense of some things.
Like how I don’t see crums on the floor, or coffee beans when I accidently spill them......and really it’s help me realize why My basketball career never quite panned out.
It wasn’t the fact I couldnt jump very high or that I was only 5’9.....It was that my vision was off so my shooting wasn’t as good as it could have been.
But then the other day my wife sent me an articale, it was titled 13 people who have keretacounus.
The # 1 person on the list was steph curry......in case you don’t know who that is he is one of the greatest shooters in NBA history.
so yeah.....that excuse doesn’t work I guess...
(transistion statement)
Something we all have in common
It’s what those in are trying to make sense of also.
Let’s read
7 pNow when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes qwho had come from Jerusalem, 2 they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were rdefiled, that is, unwashed.
3 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly,1 holding to sthe tradition of tthe elders, 4 and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash.2
And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as uthe washing of vcups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.3) 5 And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to sthe tradition of tthe elders, wbut eat with rdefiled hands?” 6 And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you xhypocrites, as it is written,
y“ ‘This people honors me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me;
7  in vain do they worship me,
teaching as zdoctrines the commandments of men.’
8 You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.”
9 And he said to them, “You have a fine way of arejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!
10 For Moses said, b‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, c‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’
11 But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban” ’ (that is, given to God)4— 12 then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother, 13 thus dmaking void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down.
And many such things you do.”
What Defiles a Person
14 And he called the people to him again and said to them, e“Hear me, all of you, and understand: 15 fThere is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”5
17 And when he had entered gthe house and left the people, hhis disciples asked him about the parable.
18 And he said to them, “Then iare you also without understanding?
Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, 19 since it enters not his heart jbut his stomach, and is expelled?”6
(kThus he declared all foods clean.)
20 And he said, l“What comes out of a person is what defiles him.
21 For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, mmurder, adultery, 22 coveting, wickedness, deceit, nsensuality, oenvy, pslander, qpride, rfoolishness.
23 sAll these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
RIght away we are introduced to 2 groups of people in mark 7. A group of pharisees and scribes had traveld from Jerusalem to where Jesus was in order to once again try and trap Jesus.
The pharisees where the religious leaders of the day and the scribes were this group of people who were the strictess keepers of the law.
and as the arrive to where Jesus they notice we’ve got him.
His disciplles don’t was their hands when the eat.
Therefore they said Jeuss’ disciples hands were defiled.....or in other they were unclean.
know the phariess aren’t talking about hygenie here they are talking about something much more complex in their culture
The word unclean meant that they would be ritually unacceptable.
in other word they were unclean before God.
This was a huge fear in the phariees minds as mark points out in verse 3
3 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly,1 holding to sthe tradition of tthe elders, 4 and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash.2
And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as uthe washing of vcups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches
They were washing all the time!
It was what they had to do.....it was never ending.
Becuase they coulnd't risk what it might mean for them or say about them if they were unclean.
Before meals they would pour a little water over their hands, elevating them slightly so the water would run down to the wrist, and then would rub their hands together.
Next they would lower their hands and rinse them, allowing the water to run off their fingertips.3
This was just for meals.
If they were returning from a place where they could be defiled, such as the marketplace, because they were scared someone who was uncleans shadow might have gone over them.
“According to the cleanliness laws, if you touched a dead animal or human being, if you had an infectious skin disease like boils or rashes or sores, if you came into contact with mildew (on your clothes, articles in your home, or your house itself), if you had any kind of bodily discharge, or if you ate meat from an animal designated as unclean, you were considered ritually impure, defiled, stained, unclean.
That meant you couldn’t enter the temple—and therefore you couldn’t worship God with the community.”
they went to greater extremes.
Some commentators think the language of our text means they took a bath
and it even got more intense when it came to washing dishes.
There was a book that was 35 pages long to washing vessels in Jesus day
It got so extreme that onece a rabbi omitted washing his hands before eating bread and his was kicked out of his community.
another rabbi was imprisoned by the romans and he died because he used a ration of drinking water to ritually wash himself instead of drink it to stay alive.
it’s becasue
and that seems extreme right?
Like the idea that they would bathe coming back from teh store, or rather die then be unclean
and that seems extreme right?
Like the idea that they would bathe coming back from teh store, or rather die then be unclean
but the reality is this.....while it may seem extreem it makes sense also.
This came from a pretty good place in thier minds.
They had this sense of something being wrong in life, they carried around the guilt and shame sin produces and this was there way of dealing with it.
It was the way they could be sure they were right with God. and in reality if this is what made them “ok” it makes sense they would go to great lengths even death to make sure they were right with God, that they were ok.
and it’s something we share in common with them.
While maybe we’ve abadon this ancient way of thinking we still have this sense that is inescapable that if we were actually examined we would be rejected.
We’ve got this sense we have to hid our truth self or at least control what is happening on the outside of us to make it look like we have it all together.
Tim Keller said in his book Jesus the King
Secretly we feel that we aren’t acceptable, that we have to prove to ourselves and other people that we’re worthy, lovable, valuable.z’
So what do we do?
We go to the same kind of measures to make things ok?
but I want to pose a question I think it’s one Jesus is posiong in the text what if the very thing you were doing to prove to oursleves, others, and God that we are worthy, that we are lovable, and that we are valuable is the very thing Jesus wants us to let go of?
What if it’s not what’s on the outside that really is the problem but it’s what’s on the inside
it’s the unseen
it is our hearts that are the problem?
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