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Mark 7:9

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“How cleverly you set aside God's law so you can support your traditions!” he told them.

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Lord, it's time for you to act, for these people have broken your laws.

The earth is polluted by its people; they have flouted God's laws, violated his regulations, and broken the eternal agreement with him.

The Lord says, “These people come and praise me with their words, and honor me with lip service, but their thoughts are miles away. Their worship of me only consists of them following rules people have taught them.

The king will do whatever he wants, praising himself and considering himself greater than any god, even saying outrageous things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of anger has finished, for what has been decided will be accomplished.

He will speak words of defiance against the Most High and oppress the dedicated people of the Most High, and attempt to change times and laws, and they will be placed under his power for a time, two times, and half a time.

By means of this tradition of yours that you pass down, you make God's word null and void. You do many other things like this.”

(The Pharisees and all Jews don't eat until they wash their hands, following the tradition of their ancestors.

So the Pharisees and religious leaders asked Jesus, “Why don't your disciples follow the tradition of our ancestors? They eat food with unclean hands.”

Does that mean that by trusting in God we do away with the law? Of course not! In fact we affirm the importance of the law.

If anyone comes and tells you about a different Jesus to the one we shared with you, you easily go along with them, accepting a different spirit to the one you received, and a different kind of good news to the one you believed.

I surpassed my contemporaries in the practice of the Jewish religion because I was so fervently devoted to the traditions of my ancestors.

How could I dismiss God's grace? For if we could be made right through keeping the law then Christ died a pointless death!

He is the enemy of God, and proudly sets himself up over everything that is called God and is worshiped. He even installs himself in God's Temple, claiming to be God.




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