To: ALL WHO HAVE EARS TO HEAR
From; GOD THE FATHER, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
HIS SON and Ministered through the HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD, The Helper,
that He may be with you forever. [John 14:16]
Subject: MY WORD
Mark 7:1–24 (The Living Bible) 1 One day some Jewish religious leaders arrived from Jerusalem to
investigate him, 2 and noticed that some of his disciples failed to
follow the usual Jewish rituals before eating. 3 (For the Jews,
especially the Pharisees, will never eat until they have sprinkled their arms
to the elbows, as required by their ancient traditions. 4 So when
they come home from the market, they must always sprinkle themselves in this
way before touching any food. This is but one of many examples of laws and
regulations they have clung to for centuries, and still follow, such as their
ceremony of cleansing for pots, pans, and dishes.) 5 So the
religious leaders asked him, “Why don’t your disciples follow our age-old
customs? For they eat without first performing the washing ceremony.” 6
Jesus replied, “You bunch of hypocrites!
Isaiah the prophet described you very well when he said, ‘These people speak
very prettily about the Lord but they have no love for him at all. Their
worship is a farce, for they claim that God commands the people to obey their
petty rules.’ How right Isaiah was! 8 For you ignore God’s specific
orders and substitute your own traditions. 9 You are simply
rejecting God’s laws and trampling them under your feet for the sake of
tradition. 10 “For instance, Moses gave you this law from God:
‘Honor your father and mother.’ And he said that anyone who speaks against his
father or mother must die. 11 But you say it is perfectly all right
for a man to disregard his needy parents, telling them, ‘Sorry, I can’t help
you! For I have given to God what I could have given to you.’ 12 And
so you break the law of God in order to protect your man-made tradition. And
this is only one example. There are many, many others.” 14 Then
Jesus called to the crowd to come and hear. “All of you listen,” he said, “and try to understand. 15 Your
souls aren’t harmed by what you eat, but by what you think and say!” 17
Then he went into a house to get away from the crowds, and his disciples asked
him what he meant by the statement he had just made. 18 “Don’t you
understand either?” he asked. “Can’t you see that what you eat won’t harm your
soul? 19 For food doesn’t come in contact with your heart, but only
passes through the digestive system.” (By saying this he showed that every kind
of food is kosher.) 20 And then he added, “It is the thought-life that pollutes. 21 For from within,
out of men’s hearts, come evil thoughts of lust, theft, murder, adultery, 22
wanting what belongs to others, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander,
pride, and all other folly. 23 All these vile things come from
within; they are what pollute you and make you unfit for God.” 24
Then he left Galilee and went to the region of Tyre and Sidon, and tried to
keep it a secret that he was there, but couldn’t. For as usual the news of his
arrival spread fast.
Isaiah 29:13–17 (NASB95) 13 Then the Lord said, “Because this people draw near with their words And honor Me with their
lip service, But they remove their hearts far from Me, And their reverence for
Me consists of tradition learned by rote, 14 Therefore
behold, I will once again deal marvelously with this people, wondrously
marvelous; And the wisdom of their wise men will perish, And the discernment of
their discerning men will be concealed.” 15 Woe to those who deeply
hide their plans from the Lord, And
whose deeds are done in a dark place, And they say, “Who sees us?” or
“Who knows us?” 16 You turn things around! Shall the potter be considered as equal
with the clay, That what is made would say to its maker, “He did not make me”; Or
what is formed say to him who formed it, “He has no understanding”?
Jeremiah 18:1–10 (The Living Bible) 1 Here is another message to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 Go
down to the shop where clay pots and jars are made, and I will talk to you
there. 3 I did as he told me and found the potter working at his
wheel. 4 But the jar that he was forming didn’t turn out as he
wished, so he kneaded it into a lump and started again. 5 Then the
Lord said: 6 O Israel, can’t
I do to you as this potter has done to his clay? As the clay is in the potter’s
hand, so are you in my hand. 7 Whenever I announce that a
certain nation or kingdom is to be taken up and destroyed, 8 then if
that nation renounces its evil ways, I will not destroy it as I had planned. 9
And if I announce that I will make a certain nation strong and great, 10
but then that nation changes its mind, turns to evil, and refuses to obey me,
then I, too, will change my mind and not bless that nation as I had said I
would.
[Please
Note: Always Read the Word of God in
Context, reading the entire chapter or book, asking the Holy Spirit of the
Living God to give you the interpretation.
2 Peter 1:16–21
(Williams) 16 For it was not mere stories of fancy
that we followed when we told you of the power and coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ, but we had been eyewitnesses of His majesty. 17 For when He
received such honor and glory from God the Father, when from the majestic glory
there was borne to Him a voice like this, “This is my Son, my Beloved, in whom
I take delight.” 18 we heard this voice ourselves borne from heaven
while we were with Him on that sacred mountain. 19 So we have the
message of the prophets more certainly guaranteed. Please pay attention to this message as to a
lamp that is shining in a dismal place, until the day dawns and the morning
star rises in your hearts; 20 because you recognize this truth above
all else, that no prophecy in Scripture
is to be interpreted by one’s own mind, 21 for no prophecy has
ever yet originated in man’s will, but men who were led by the Holy Spirit
spoke from God.]
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