Title: Purity and Uncleanness /Mark 7:1-23
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Verses 1-23 of the main text are recorded in Matthew 15:1-20. A biblical scholar named Cara used these words as the main theme of the New
Controversy between the religion of ceremonies and sacrifices and the religion of the heart, or the righteousness of the law spoken of by the Apostle Paul and the righteousness of God through faith
was said to be a summary. The debate began with the Pharisees' question about handwashing, and
Direct vigilance on righteousness, instruction for the crowd, and furthermore, toward the disciples, purity of heart rather than outward purity
You are teaching. First, he taught about ceremonial cleansing (verses 1-8). At this time, Jesus was in the region of Gennesaret.
appears to have been there. Seeing that the Pharisees and the scribes were sent by the Jerusalem Council,
I heard As Jesus' popularity and authority began to rise, the Pharisees became jealous and fearful, and the scholars
It seems that they were planning to fight Jesus by inviting them from Rusalem. They went to get material to accuse Jesus.
I explored. But there was one good thing. Some of Jesus' disciples wash their hands in their sight
I ate food without it. This has been the subject of debate. At that time the Jews believed that Moses and the law were
Believed to have inherited only the oral traditions, so to speak, the oral traditions explain the written law, so that the oral traditions are further enhanced.
It has been thought that if the law is water, then heredity is like wine. So, this tradition is first given by Moses to Aaron.
and Aaron to his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, and also to the 12 elders who were representatives of the 12 tribes, and thus the last successor
Codified a long oral tradition, the Mishna. For example, hand washing is one of the heredity, and the climate and hands of the dusty holy land.
It is a religious commandment that was enacted because it was hygienically necessary according to the custom of eating food as a snack. By the way
This has literally become a legacy that must be preserved. According to records, a man named Rabbi Aqaba was imprisoned.
It is said that he was given a small amount of water to barely sustain his life, but even then, he was prepared to die and washed his hands with that water. this much that
At that time, the Jews worked hard to preserve the heredity. But when Jesus' disciples ate without washing their hands, they stayed still.
there was no way Verse 5 So the Pharisees and the scribes asked Jesus, Why did your disciples give you the tradition of the elders?
Do you eat bread with unclean hands? That is, the disciples of Jesus followed the pious oral tradition of the Jews.
They felt that it was the responsibility of the leader, Jesus, to act against the law. So the motive and rationale for the action
asked Jesus to explain. The form is a question, but the actual content is an attitude of harsh criticism. Jesus' Answer
What was this? Hypocrites ( ) in verse 6 means actors. As Bruce said, there is no compromise at all.
is an outright open battle. The peculiarity of our Lord's teaching was its thoroughness. I didn't hesitate to ask
is. He showed mercy to the pure seeker, seeking the one lost sheep, but he did not compromise on injustice.
treated with a firm demeanor. In fact, this is the attitude of our Christian life that learns and imitates Christ today.
you will have to go The prophet Isaiah has already prophesied well to hypocrites like you. Quoting Isaiah 29:13
you said This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; they teach me the commandments of men, teaching me in vain.
I worship again. Isaiah pointed out a fundamental error in the faith of the people of Israel. They are the commandments of men, that is, artificial
Due to the traditional inheritance, they pretended to be believers with their mouths, but there was no God in their hearts. God is spirit, spirit
and true worship (John 4:24), and that worship belongs to the realm of the heart. Therefore, their religion that is not in their heart.
The ritual was vain worship. This vain worship was not found in the days of Isaiah, nor in the New Testament, nor in any age.
It must be a fundamental contradiction of the believer. Watson Clarke argued that, in all these cases, religion is nothing more than form, sentimentality or superstition
Instead of going to God, people's hearts are oppressed by perplexity and various kinds of worship, resulting in self-righteousness.
He said that the sense of duty to holiness is lost. That is, the words of Jesus here are the faith and form of their lips.
This is a rebuke to the hostile worship and hypocritical life. The fact that the commandment of God was substituted for the commandment of man is Isaiah's
You attacked with words. He said that you forsake the commandments of God and keep the traditions of men. original one
Your commandments are communicated to humans through human words. Therefore, human beings can communicate through the transmitted human speech.
You should be able to reach the will of God, but if you fail to do so and end up staying with human words, that is the form of religion.
that will cause anger. The Word of God revealed through the teachings and life of Jesus materializes in our lives
If it fails to become a concept and stops at the stimuli of emotion, it can only be said that it is also Pharisaic.
There is not. If we are not careful and do our best, there is a danger that we too will turn the words of Jesus into human commandments.
All. Second, he taught about the separation of worship and life (verses 9-13). Even the precious inheritance of our ancestors, to put it into practice
If you find something that contradicts God's commandments, you should be able to throw away the tradition and consider God's commandments as important.
However, the Pharisees, on the contrary, often forsook God's commandments in order to keep traditions (verse 9). Exodus 20:20
In verse 21:17, Deuteronomy 5:16, the fifth commandment among the ten commandments is to honor your parents. This commandment must be
It is a great commandment to be obeyed. As Calvin puts it, our reverence is not blind obedience, but to the extent that it constitutes our spiritual salvation.
must be implemented within. Christianity is a religion that never ignores filial piety, but rather emphasizes it. but how was it
are you? (Verse 11) The meaning of the word gorban is to make an oath to God in the sense of offering it to God. ha
When one interprets the Pharisee view that duty to God is supreme, and that it must precede duty to man
is the result of something like this. After much discussion, the Jewish Code of Mishnah finally took the pretext of Gorban to make a statement about parents.
It was decided that duty should not be neglected, but there were still various discussions in Jesus' time, and some extreme
Newists argued that vows to God were more important than obligations to parents. Here Jesus is about people
He taught that the way of love is the way to serve God. Serving God and Being in the World
The teaching of Jesus is to see that different styles achieve unity in God. If we do something in us
If you hold on to me and forsake the other, you are making the word of God in vain. Jesus' time to God
It is an era in which duty to humans was viewed as a release from duty to humans. But today, on the contrary, the duty to man is
It is an era that sees it as the release of duty to God. Both of these ideas are nothing more than humanism. That
At that time, the Pharisees disregarded God's Word as a false God-centered focus, but today's people are different from that.
We are ignoring the eternal Word of God by falling into a central error. Third, a lesson on the meaning of negation
He did it (verses 14-23). Here he aroused the attention of the common masses, and taught them what the meaning of uncleanness was.
I did. What goes into the mouth, as verse 15 says, is food. Is there a hygienic difference between washing your hands and not washing your hands?
It cannot have any moral significance. But the problem is that it comes out through the mouth from the inside of a person. mouth
It is from the heart that comes from the heart, and the thoughts of a person, and the negation of those thoughts is to defile a person morally.
And it goes on to destroy it. Specifically, washing your hands or not washing your hands does not determine whether you are clean or not.
Yo, the attitude of the heart toward God defiles and purifies a person. That is, to be unclean is external, or
It's not a conscious state, it's a matter of the mind. Look at verse 19. Point out the path of the plant most blatantly
He teaches us that such substances can never defile a person. According to Leviticus 11, among the foods that are clean,
There are things that are unclean and things that are unclean, and these are strictly separated. God ordained this as a law
It was to remind the people of Israel that by observing this law, they would become a holy and clean people.
Observance of the law does not in itself make us a holy people. Nevertheless, the Pharisees of that time
Because they misunderstood and formalized it, Jesus corrected this by saying that all plants are clean. Jesus is
Here you have removed the distinction between the cleanliness of the food itself. Indeed, this was the law at the time
It is also a revolutionary rebuttal to those who insisted on strict adherence. In fact, what is unclean in the sight of God comes from man
is coming From ( ) is a preposition indicating cause. Then come out of the heart that makes people unclean
What are the things? Verses 21-22 speak of twelve evil thoughts, which are representatives of all sins.
do. This is a problem of original sin. Sin that occurs naturally in the human heart is theologically called original sin. Platon
There is something similar in the words of All good and evil in a man's body or character arises from his soul, and from there
It flows from the head as if from the eyes. Therefore, if you want to improve your mind or body, you must start by rebuking the soul.
Xunzi's theory of good and evil can also be compared with this. But human nature in its relation to God is transformed into good and evil and again good.
There are characteristics of biblical original sin theory in dealing with it. The Jewish precept, which discriminated against food, did not allow Christianity to spread to the Gentile world.
and created a big problem. Especially when dining with Gentiles, Jewish believers have a long-standing habit.
It became a problem because it was forbidden to put sacrifices to idols on the table. If you think that idols are nothing
This was because the superstitious tendency to believe that idols were evil spirits in Seodo had not completely disappeared. So, if you look at the Bible (Galatians 2:1
1-15, Acts 15:20-29) There was a great controversy between the leaders of the early church, and a church meeting was held.
But today's text is Jesus' revolutionary declaration that all food and drink are clean. Jesus is the purity of man
My uncleanness is by no means determined by the hands or food that belongs to the outside, but by the condition of the heart of the one who is inside.
You emphasized that it was decided. But who dares to say that it does not conflict with the 12 items the Lord has enumerated?
how? Humans are, in fact, defiled beings that cannot have fellowship with God. We ourselves like washing our dirty hands
can't wash away the dirt of your heart. How can we wash away this filth? but like a lamb without blemish and without spot
There is nothing but the atoning blood of Jesus Christ. Therefore, before washing our hands and vessels, we must wash our hearts.