Jesus and Traditional Religion
- Cleansing for our Inadequacy -
“They worship me in vain. Their teachings are but rules taught by men.” The Pharisees had taken the Old Testament cleanliness rules and distorted them into a means of making themselves presentable and acceptable to God. They refused to see their own heart’s motivation, choosing instead to focus on outward moral behavior to heal the infection of their inadequacy. In Mark 7:1-23, Pastor Mark connects the Pharisees’ obsession with cleanliness to our own inner drive for acceptance and adequacy. This misguided striving for moral rightness illuminates a faulty theology of sin, self and God’s priorities. Christ rebukes this perspective, declaring His personal acceptance, adequacy and cleansing as the only means of healing the infection of our inadequacy.
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