You aren't what you eat (Mark 7:9-19)

David Last, 16/05/2021
Part of the Mark series, preached at a Sunday Morning service

Tags: Clean, Conscience, Covenant, Crowd, Food, God, Heart, Honour, Jesus, King, Kingdom, Law, Lawyers, Outward, Parable, Parents, Pharisees, Tradition, Unclean, Wash, Worship

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Mark 7:9–19 (Listen)

And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition! 10 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘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)—12 then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother, 13 thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”

14 And he called the people to him again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand: 15 There 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.” 17 And when he had entered the house and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable. 18 And he said to them, “Then are 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 but his stomach, and is expelled?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)

(ESV)

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