Cleanliness and Godliness
Talk 7 of 16 in the series Mark 2008 given at St Andrews Cathedral.
The next talk in the series is Passing the Test of Life…Who Do You Think Jesus Is?
- The cleanliness dispute
- cleanliness symbol
- Pharisaic cleanliness
- washings
- traditions
- the two conflicts
- Conflict of traditions
- Pharisaic opposition (7:3, 5)
- vain worship (7:7)
- teachings of men (7:7 – 9)
- commands of God (7:7 – 9)
- Corban example (7:10 – 12)
- adding to God’s word (7:13)
- Conflict of externals
- Pharisaic opposition (7:1 – 2, 5)
- food laws
- lips and hearts (7:6)
- outside entering (7:14 – 23)
- inside going out (7:14 – 23)
- Jesus
- the unclean woman (7:24 – 30)
- who does he think he is? (7:31 – 37)
- Relating to God
- real not symbolic
- by Jesus
