WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.000 Hello. Hello. 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:05.000 You are confined. 00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:08.000 And what's happened to the audience, 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:12.000 but one is on page one of those. 00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:14.000 Thank you. 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:21.000 I have seen someone speaking to the Lord, 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:23.000 but it comes to the truth to them, 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:25.000 gather their own faces, 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:27.000 and so on this project, 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:31.000 the hands are held by the eyes and washed. 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:34.000 The Pharisees know the name is not used, 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:37.000 unless they get their hands and they are not used to wash them, 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:40.000 or it moves to the position of the elders. 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:42.000 When the people are on the side, 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:44.000 they acknowledge unless they are washed, 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:47.000 and they are served many other conditions, 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:49.000 such as the washing of cups, 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:52.000 dishes and headsets. 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:56.000 The Pharisees are the specific law and the purpose. 00:00:56.000 --> 00:00:59.000 Why do they decide to employ the tradition of the elders, 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:03.000 instead of shooting their fingers and un-community? 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:08.000 Here is why Isaiah is right to move up the side by the hypocrite, 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:11.000 as it is absolutely written. 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:13.000 These people are in the English, 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:15.000 but they are fast-runners. 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:17.000 They worship me, saying, 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:21.000 that the teachings are the rules for all by men. 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:24.000 You have left all the demands of God, 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:27.000 and all the love of the teachings to men. 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:28.000 And he said to them, 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:31.000 you have a fine way to step inside the demands of God, 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:34.000 and all the truth is that they are doing the teachings. 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:35.000 So Moses said, 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:37.000 follow your father and your mother. 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:40.000 From anyone who has been to his father and mother, 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:42.000 what he put to death? 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:43.000 For he say, 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:45.000 and he demands that his father and mother, 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:49.000 whatever else he might otherwise receive from me, 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:50.000 for thee. 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:52.000 That is, I gave his approach to God. 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:56.000 And he know not that that is what he takes from his father only. 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:57.000 He says, 00:01:57.000 --> 00:02:00.000 that he knows how the word of God is sufficient, 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:02.000 and he will understand. 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:05.000 He did many things like that. 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:08.000 Again, he gave his whole life to him and said, 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:11.000 listen to me, everyone, and go to standards. 00:02:11.000 --> 00:02:14.000 Nothing is hard to learn from the nation, 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:17.000 but the only things he did. 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:19.000 Rather, it is what comes out of the nation, 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:22.000 the nation, the nation, the nation. 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:24.000 After he left the tribe, 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:26.000 and then he left his house, 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:28.000 he described the man from the land of the house. 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:30.000 For you don't show me up. 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:33.000 Don't you see that nothing is about any commandment yet 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:35.000 but to make more peace. 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:37.000 For a seven village of the heart, 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:38.000 but it is with stone, 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:40.000 and then I will follow. 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:45.000 The same thing is to bear all these peace. 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:47.000 He went on, 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:49.000 What comes out of the man, 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:51.000 is what makes more peace. 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:54.000 Both from the things I have been taught, 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:56.000 from evil thoughts, 00:02:56.000 --> 00:02:58.000 sexual and evil answers, 00:02:58.000 --> 00:02:59.000 theft, 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:00.000 murder, 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:01.000 adultery, 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:02.000 greed, 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:03.000 malice, 00:03:03.000 --> 00:03:04.000 confusion, 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:05.000 envy, 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:06.000 slander, 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:07.000 haric, 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:08.000 and her body. 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:10.000 All these men will come to the inside, 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:12.000 and make a man come to the inside. 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:21.000 And the other people who are not able to keep Jesus out of their churches, 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:22.000 as they have said, 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:27.000 they have taken away from the big times in the big cities. 00:03:27.000 --> 00:03:32.000 In fact, their plans to do away with Jesus are coming along nicely. 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:34.000 Keep your finger in chapter 7, 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:36.000 and this is the fact that chapter 3, 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:38.000 Mark's Gospel. 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:43.000 Here we see Jesus as just being to the synagogue of the local church, 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:49.000 and he has been challenging the teaching and the tradition of the Pharisees, 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:51.000 the religious people. 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:53.000 So much so, 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:55.000 chapter 3, verse 6, 00:03:55.000 --> 00:04:04.000 that the Pharisees went out and began to stop with the colonial river of the religious people. 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:08.000 How they might kill Jesus. 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:10.000 So there is this stop, 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:16.000 there is this attempt to be now for religious people to get the greatest of Jesus. 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:18.000 Now in chapter 7, 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:22.000 it is reached the point where news has been to the flowering, 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:23.000 and where it went to the church, 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:27.000 that Jesus is still attacking huge giants. 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:33.000 The last report has mentioned a figure of at least 5,000 people. 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:35.000 I've been told them all. 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:40.000 So a meeting has been called, it seems, at HQ back in Jerusalem, 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:45.000 and it's decided to send their very best lawyers and professors 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:48.000 to come down and sort Jesus out. 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:50.000 So chapter 7, verse 1. 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:53.000 The Pharisees and some of the teachers of the law, 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:55.000 who had come from Jerusalem, 00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:58.000 so they've traveled a distance of about 80 miles. 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:01.000 That's a long way when you haven't got a bicycle or a car. 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:03.000 They've walked this way, 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:06.000 so important they want to get to Jesus and sort him out. 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:08.000 They gather around Jesus, 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:15.000 and they saw some of his disciples eating food with hands that were unclean, 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:18.000 that is, unwashed. 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:21.000 This is their big chance. 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:25.000 Disciples with unwashed hands. 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:27.000 Look at verse 5. 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:31.000 So the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, they asked Jesus, 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:36.000 Why don't your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders, 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:41.000 instead of eating their food with unclean hands? 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:45.000 Now we've got to get this clear right at the very beginning, 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:50.000 otherwise we're not going to make sense of what this passage is all about. 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:55.000 Their concern was not so much about a hygiene code. 00:05:55.000 --> 00:05:58.000 This was their holiness code. 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:03.000 Their concern wasn't so much about washing their hands to get rid of bacteria. 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:08.000 It was a religious duty that they performed 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:14.000 in the hope that they could be made clean before God. 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:17.000 Spiritually clean. 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:20.000 Now at one level the Pharisees, the religious people are right, 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:24.000 because we all need to be made clean before God. 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:27.000 But the problem isn't about being clean, 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:31.000 but how we are made clean. 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:34.000 How we are made clean. 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:35.000 That's the critical issue. 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:40.000 And it's so important to Jesus that he will publicly confront 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:42.000 and challenge the religious leaders, 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:46.000 because their teachings and their tradition are in conflict 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:51.000 in conflict with who Jesus is, what he says, and what he has come to do. 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:53.000 So he must expose them for who they are. 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:56.000 And this is what he says about them. 00:06:56.000 --> 00:06:57.000 Look at verse 6. 00:06:58.000 --> 00:06:59.000 He says, 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:02.000 Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites. 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:06.000 In other words, they're people who put on a mask. 00:07:07.000 --> 00:07:10.000 They're people who just act out their faith. 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:12.000 It's not a real faith. 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:15.000 As it is written, these people honour me with their lips. 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:17.000 They talk about Jesus. 00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:18.000 They talk about God. 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:21.000 But their hearts are far from me. 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:24.000 They worship me in vain. 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:29.000 Their teachings are but rules taught by men. 00:07:29.000 --> 00:07:32.000 So in strong language, Jesus is warning us 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:37.000 about trying to make ourselves clean before God 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:40.000 by simple rules and tradition. 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:47.000 So first, why do we want to be clean? 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:51.000 Well, this issue is of critical importance 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:54.000 because all of us want to be clean. 00:07:54.000 --> 00:08:00.000 I don't think there's one person here this morning, myself included, 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:06.000 who doesn't long to have their past erased and wiped clean. 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:10.000 Because we all carry around with us hidden secrets, 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:14.000 things that bring with it feelings of guilt and shame 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:20.000 that we wish we could somehow wash away, never to bother us again. 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:26.000 That's why all the major religions of the world 00:08:27.000 --> 00:08:29.000 have some practice of ritual washing. 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:34.000 Think of the Hindus who go bathing in the river Ganges. 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:40.000 They do it in their desire to be pure before their gods. 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:46.000 The Muslims, they'll wash their hands before going to prayer 00:08:47.000 --> 00:08:50.000 or into the mosque in their pursuit of acceptance. 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:55.000 Christian religions will baptise with water 00:08:56.000 --> 00:08:58.000 in the hope of securing eternal life. 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:01.000 And it's the same with the Jewish religion. 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:04.000 Look at verse 3, chapter 7. 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:09.000 The Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:13.000 unless they give their hands a ceremonial washing 00:09:14.000 --> 00:09:15.000 holding to the tradition of the elders. 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:19.000 You see, their tradition taught that the act of washing 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:24.000 kept yourself pure before God and acceptable before God. 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:29.000 You see, you could become impure by the kinds of food that you ate. 00:09:29.000 --> 00:09:33.000 The certain furniture that you touched 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:36.000 and certain people that you met or bumped into. 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:38.000 They could all make you unclean. 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:43.000 So, verse 4, when they came from the marketplace, 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:47.000 when they've been down to Dunn's stores or down to Tesco's, 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:49.000 well, they couldn't eat unless they washed 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:51.000 because you wouldn't know what food you touched 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:53.000 when you'd been shopping. 00:09:53.000 --> 00:09:56.000 And you didn't know who you'd been bumping into. 00:09:56.000 --> 00:09:58.000 You could have been bumping into somebody from a different race. 00:09:59.000 --> 00:10:01.000 And that would have made you unclean. 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:06.000 And they observed many other traditions, 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:10.000 such as the washing of cups and pitchers and kettles. 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:12.000 Anything that could hold something 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:16.000 had to be cleaned in a ceremonial way. 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:22.000 They went to extreme lengths to experience being clean. 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:26.000 But you see, it's not just religious people who long to be clean. 00:10:27.000 --> 00:10:29.000 Even irreligious people want to be clean 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:33.000 because we've all got our own traditions to wash away, as it were, 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:36.000 our bad experiences and our dark secrets. 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:40.000 Some people try to wash it away through substance abuse. 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:44.000 Others, by immersing themselves into work and hobbies. 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:49.000 Others put on a mask by dressing well 00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:52.000 and keeping their homes in pristine condition. 00:10:53.000 --> 00:10:55.000 It's a facade of cleanliness 00:10:56.000 --> 00:10:59.000 which mirrors their inner longing to be clean. 00:10:59.000 --> 00:11:06.000 Why is it that some people, after some physical or sexual experience, 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:10.000 that they regret have a shower or a bath? 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:13.000 Because they feel dirty 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:16.000 and they want to be clean. 00:11:17.000 --> 00:11:18.000 They want to feel clean. 00:11:19.000 --> 00:11:22.000 And we all have the desire to be clean inwardly, 00:11:23.000 --> 00:11:24.000 to be free from guilt and shame, 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:26.000 free from past secrets, 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:29.000 free from our condemning thoughts. 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:32.000 And that's why Jesus is making such an issue of this, 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:35.000 because he wants to make it crystal clear to us all 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:38.000 the dangers of trying to make ourselves 00:11:39.000 --> 00:11:40.000 inwardly clean, 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:42.000 by religion and by tradition 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:45.000 and all these little rituals that we build up. 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:48.000 He says, rather than actually clean you, 00:11:49.000 --> 00:11:51.000 it's going to break you and destroy you. 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:57.000 So how do we try to get clean? 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:00.000 Well, look at verse 8. 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:02.000 He says, 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:05.000 You have let go of the commands of God 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:09.000 and are holding on to the traditions of men. 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:11.000 And he said to them, 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:14.000 You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:17.000 in order to observe your own traditions. 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:21.000 Now we'll see in a minute that the word of God, 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:24.000 the gospel, is essential for being made clean. 00:12:25.000 --> 00:12:27.000 But like the Pharisees, 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:30.000 we turn away from the word of Christ 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:35.000 and we turn to the traditions of our own. 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:38.000 And we do this in two ways. 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:40.000 We see it in verses 8 and 9. 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:43.000 First, we reject the word of God. 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:44.000 We put it to one side. 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:45.000 Look at verse 8. 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:47.000 He says, 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:51.000 You have let go of the commands of God 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:54.000 and are holding on to the traditions of men. 00:12:55.000 --> 00:12:56.000 Rather than accept the gospel, 00:12:56.000 --> 00:12:58.000 rather than accept what God has to say, 00:12:59.000 --> 00:13:01.000 we consciously reject the gospel. 00:13:02.000 --> 00:13:03.000 We put it to one side. 00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:04.000 We say, It's not for us. 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:06.000 I don't want it. 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:07.000 I don't need it. 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:09.000 I can get clean another way. 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:12.000 So we reject the word of God. 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:14.000 And then second, 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:17.000 we replace the word of God. 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:18.000 Verse 9. 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:20.000 And he said to them, 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:24.000 You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:27.000 in order to observe your own traditions. 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:29.000 So not only do we reject the gospel, 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:33.000 we replace it with something else entirely. 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:35.000 We come up with another way. 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:37.000 There's another means that we can get clean. 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:41.000 We invent our own traditions to clean us. 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:44.000 So in effect what he's saying, 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:46.000 we create our own gospel, 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:47.000 a man-made gospel, 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:50.000 a set of traditions and religious practices 00:13:51.000 --> 00:13:54.000 which have this veneer of cleanliness, 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:57.000 which gives the outward appearance that all is good, 00:13:57.000 --> 00:13:58.000 that we're all okay, 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:05.000 while cleverly hiding the truth that is deep inside us. 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:10.000 Let me give two examples of this. 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:14.000 First, our outward respectability. 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:19.000 These are ways we create our own little gospels and religious practices. 00:14:19.000 --> 00:14:21.000 First, our outward respectability. 00:14:21.000 --> 00:14:26.000 We create this tradition of places we can't go to 00:14:27.000 --> 00:14:29.000 and people that we can't be with. 00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:32.000 In an attempt to keep clean, 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:35.000 we stay clear of those places 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:38.000 and those kinds of people 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:41.000 for fear that if we were with them 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:43.000 we would somehow become unclean. 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:46.000 We would kind of be contaminated or something. 00:14:47.000 --> 00:14:48.000 So we want to be seen, 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:51.000 we're quite happy to be seen at the prayer meeting, 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:55.000 but we wouldn't want to be seen in the pub. 00:14:55.000 --> 00:14:59.000 We want to be seen with respectable Christians, 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:02.000 the ones that don't mess up, 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:03.000 the ones that don't fail. 00:15:04.000 --> 00:15:07.000 But we don't want to be with the other kind. 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:13.000 Now, if we don't adhere to these rules taught by men, 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:15.000 well then we're considered unclean. 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:20.000 So there's this outward respectability that we want to put out. 00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:24.000 Second, there's this outward conformity. 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:30.000 Where we create a tradition of certain beliefs 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:35.000 and a certain kind of behaviour that we must adhere to. 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:38.000 And in a desire to maintain cleanliness, 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:42.000 we must have a certain kind of theology. 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:45.000 And we must adhere to certain practices 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:48.000 according to your denomination. 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:52.000 So we love to be seen with our new ESV, 00:15:53.000 --> 00:15:56.000 but, hmm, I wouldn't read from an NIV. 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:00.000 We want to be known as Reformed, 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:03.000 but don't call me a charismatic. 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:06.000 Oh, I want to be a Baptist and do those things, 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:10.000 but we're not going to mix with those kinds of people over there. 00:16:10.000 --> 00:16:14.000 Now, if we don't observe these man-made traditions, 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:16.000 because that's what they are, 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:18.000 we are considered unclean. 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:20.000 We're not fitting in. 00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:23.000 We don't fit the mould. 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:26.000 And these two things of outward respectability, 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:28.000 outward conformity, 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:31.000 they give this lovely veneer of cleanliness, 00:16:31.000 --> 00:16:34.000 an outward appearance that everything is good. 00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:38.000 My lifestyle is so pure. 00:16:39.000 --> 00:16:40.000 Just look at me. 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:42.000 And my theology is just so sound. 00:16:43.000 --> 00:16:44.000 Listen to me speak. 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:48.000 But inside lurks a heart 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:51.000 that is so unclean. 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:55.000 Look at verse 13. 00:16:55.000 --> 00:17:03.000 Thus, he says, you nullify the Word of God. 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:05.000 You reject it. 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:08.000 You reject the Word of God 00:17:09.000 --> 00:17:10.000 by your tradition 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:13.000 that you have handed down, 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:17.000 and you do many things like that. 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:19.000 You see, it's so easy, 00:17:20.000 --> 00:17:21.000 and look at me here, 00:17:21.000 --> 00:17:24.000 it's so easy just to drop God's Word, 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:26.000 put it to one side, 00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:29.000 and lift up in its place 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:31.000 the teachings and the traditions of men. 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:35.000 In an attempt to get clean and keep clean, 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:37.000 we not only reject God's Word, 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:41.000 we replace it with something else entirely. 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:44.000 We push the Gospel of Jesus Christ to one side 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:46.000 and say, I can get clean another way, 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:49.000 and I'm going to create my own Gospel, 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:50.000 my own tradition, 00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:51.000 my own way. 00:17:58.000 --> 00:17:59.000 Well, somebody doesn't agree up there anyway. 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:06.000 So what is it that makes us really unclean? 00:18:09.000 --> 00:18:11.000 Well, the real danger of tradition 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:18.000 is that it stops us getting to the heart of the problem. 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:25.000 And the heart of the problem is the problem of the heart. 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:27.000 Look at verse 15. 00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:29.000 He says, 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:30.000 It says, 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:35.000 Nothing outside a person can make him unclean by going into him. 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:41.000 Rather, it is what comes out of a person that makes him unclean. 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:44.000 So the problem, he is saying, is not external. 00:18:47.000 --> 00:18:48.000 The problem is internal. 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:50.000 It's our hearts. 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:56.000 And the heart isn't just this organ inside our bodies just for pumping blood all around our body. 00:18:56.000 --> 00:18:59.000 It's the Bible's way of describing who we are as people, 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:01.000 our true self. 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:05.000 Our heart explains our inner character. 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:08.000 So he goes on, verse 20. 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:15.000 What comes out of a person is what makes him unclean. 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:19.000 For from within, out of people's hearts, 00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:22.000 come evil thoughts, 00:19:23.000 --> 00:19:26.000 the nasty things we think about others. 00:19:27.000 --> 00:19:29.000 Sexual immorality, 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:32.000 online porn, 00:19:32.000 --> 00:19:35.000 theft, 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:39.000 misusing the resources that God gives us. 00:19:41.000 --> 00:19:42.000 Murder, 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:46.000 hating other people. 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:49.000 Adultery, 00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:54.000 the way we even look at the opposite sex. 00:19:56.000 --> 00:19:57.000 Greed, 00:19:58.000 --> 00:20:01.000 never content and wanting more. 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:03.000 Malice, 00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:06.000 immoral behaviour. 00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:08.000 Deceit, 00:20:09.000 --> 00:20:11.000 telling those porkies and lies. 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:13.000 Lewidness, 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:19.000 pursuing pleasure through lust. 00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:21.000 Envy, 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:24.000 wanting what other people have. 00:20:25.000 --> 00:20:26.000 Slander, 00:20:27.000 --> 00:20:31.000 tearing people down in our conversations to each other. 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:33.000 Arrogance, 00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:38.000 always thinking that I'm right. 00:20:39.000 --> 00:20:41.000 And folly, 00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:46.000 living life without reference to God. 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:55.000 All these evils come from inside and make a person unclean. 00:20:56.000 --> 00:20:57.000 Now, 00:20:57.000 --> 00:20:59.000 Jesus couldn't be clearer. 00:21:00.000 --> 00:21:04.000 He's saying it's not people and places that make you unclean. 00:21:05.000 --> 00:21:09.000 It's not beliefs and behaviours that make you unclean. 00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:11.000 It's our rotten hearts. 00:21:11.000 --> 00:21:12.000 It's our rotten hearts. 00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:16.000 The source of all of our actions and our attitudes, 00:21:17.000 --> 00:21:18.000 they come from the inside. 00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:22.000 He says our hearts are like a pool of pollution 00:21:23.000 --> 00:21:25.000 and everything that flows out of our lives, 00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:27.000 every thought, every action, every attitude, 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:31.000 it begins to contaminate and begins to affect. 00:21:31.000 --> 00:21:35.000 And we can all look so clean. 00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:39.000 I mean, we all look pretty clean this morning, don't we? 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:43.000 We've all had our showers and new clothes on. 00:21:43.000 --> 00:21:50.000 We can all give this appearance of being clean in the way we talk to one another. 00:21:51.000 --> 00:21:54.000 And we'll go into this coming week acting very clean. 00:21:54.000 --> 00:21:55.000 We're all good at it. 00:21:56.000 --> 00:21:57.000 But deep inside, 00:21:58.000 --> 00:22:01.000 we are all terribly unclean. 00:22:01.000 --> 00:22:02.000 The heaven is still not too clean. 00:22:04.000 --> 00:22:07.000 Now Jesus is not just exposing our hearts. 00:22:07.000 --> 00:22:09.000 He's not kind of tearing us open 00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:12.000 to leave us feeling more guilty and more ashamed. 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:14.000 This is not a kind of like beat you up session 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:16.000 where you're going to be kicked around the place 00:22:17.000 --> 00:22:19.000 because you feel bad enough already 00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:21.000 and now I'm just going to be kicked around and punched even more 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:23.000 because I'm just so awful. 00:22:24.000 --> 00:22:25.000 Yet we know we're awful, 00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:28.000 but He shows us our rotten hearts 00:22:28.000 --> 00:22:34.980 simply for this reason, to expose how hopeless and pathetic it is to think that teachings 00:22:34.980 --> 00:22:39.500 and traditions of people and religion can make you clean. 00:22:40.839 --> 00:22:47.099 To think that an outward observance can deal with our sinful heart is like you or me going 00:22:47.099 --> 00:22:52.420 to the doctor with chronic blocked arteries and saying to your doctor, I need help, and 00:22:52.420 --> 00:22:57.940 him saying, okay, I've got a plan for you, go home and have a lovely hot bath and you'll 00:22:57.940 --> 00:22:58.660 be all right. 00:23:00.800 --> 00:23:03.180 It's absolutely stupid, isn't it? 00:23:04.740 --> 00:23:05.860 Let's think about it. 00:23:05.920 --> 00:23:14.380 When did going to a certain place or not being with certain people free you from sexual immorality? 00:23:14.380 --> 00:23:15.720 It can't. 00:23:15.720 --> 00:23:25.240 When did surrounding yourself with good Christians break the habit of greed and deceit? 00:23:26.440 --> 00:23:27.740 It can't happen. 00:23:28.759 --> 00:23:34.079 When did reading a particular Bible translation break your struggle with lust? 00:23:35.579 --> 00:23:36.779 Daft, isn't it? 00:23:37.579 --> 00:23:41.799 When did holding a certain theology deal with your arrogance? 00:23:43.460 --> 00:23:45.039 It just doesn't work. 00:23:45.720 --> 00:23:48.579 Because it's an issue of the inside. 00:23:49.680 --> 00:23:53.740 And that's why Jesus is so opposed to rules taught by men. 00:23:54.039 --> 00:23:57.940 They offer this veneer of cleanliness, this lovely outside facade. 00:23:58.339 --> 00:24:02.019 They cover up the external while avoiding the internal. 00:24:03.600 --> 00:24:09.700 And traditions that are handed down by churches and by preachers, and that's why you need to 00:24:09.700 --> 00:24:15.299 pay careful attention to whoever is speaking up here to make sure they're not teaching tradition. 00:24:15.299 --> 00:24:17.419 But that they're teaching the gospel. 00:24:18.220 --> 00:24:21.639 Because traditions handed down by churches will not clean you. 00:24:22.319 --> 00:24:25.000 They will ultimately kill you and break you. 00:24:25.000 --> 00:24:35.339 Which leads us on to ask the question, who can make us clean? 00:24:35.339 --> 00:24:44.179 You see, the purpose of Jesus' teaching, and he always does it so well, is kind of to drive us to this point, to the bottom, 00:24:45.699 --> 00:24:49.199 simply to drive us back towards Jesus. 00:24:49.199 --> 00:24:51.679 Because he is our only hope. 00:24:51.680 --> 00:24:53.600 Look at what he says in verse 14. 00:24:53.600 --> 00:24:58.140 Again, Jesus called the crowd to him and said, 00:24:59.220 --> 00:25:04.140 Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. 00:25:04.140 --> 00:25:14.220 In verses 8 and 9, Jesus was accusing the Pharisees of turning away from God's teaching to their own teaching. 00:25:14.960 --> 00:25:18.440 Now Jesus is coming in and it seems as if he's adding his own. 00:25:18.520 --> 00:25:20.280 He says, Now listen to me. 00:25:20.279 --> 00:25:27.259 But what he's really saying is, by listening to me, you're listening to God's words. 00:25:28.420 --> 00:25:37.960 If you listen to my words, if you hear me, my words are going to clean you from the inside out. 00:25:39.519 --> 00:25:40.940 How do we know that? 00:25:41.899 --> 00:25:44.259 Well, go back to chapter 1, verse 40. 00:25:44.259 --> 00:25:50.460 You might remember this encounter of Jesus with a man with leprosy. 00:25:51.240 --> 00:25:57.480 A leprosy, the skin disease, was one of those things that the Pharisees considered unclean. 00:25:57.539 --> 00:25:59.900 And if you touched the person, you became unclean. 00:25:59.980 --> 00:26:04.440 And you had to go through a week of ceremonial washing to make yourself right again. 00:26:05.140 --> 00:26:09.000 So this man with leprosy, we're in verse 40 of chapter 1. 00:26:09.039 --> 00:26:12.079 A man with leprosy came to Jesus and begged him on his knees. 00:26:12.079 --> 00:26:16.539 If you are willing, you can make me clean. 00:26:18.019 --> 00:26:22.899 Filled with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. 00:26:22.980 --> 00:26:24.439 An act of solidarity. 00:26:26.179 --> 00:26:27.500 And then listen to his words. 00:26:28.319 --> 00:26:30.500 I am willing, he said. 00:26:31.199 --> 00:26:33.119 Be clean. 00:26:34.359 --> 00:26:37.619 And immediately the leprosy left him and he was cured. 00:26:37.619 --> 00:26:42.359 Now I know you're thinking that's an external cleaning. 00:26:42.479 --> 00:26:44.899 He had leprosy and physically he's been healed. 00:26:45.079 --> 00:26:54.899 But I think this is a picture of the internal cleaning that comes from Jesus through his words, 00:26:55.000 --> 00:26:57.259 through the gospel, to our lives. 00:26:58.739 --> 00:27:01.219 Let me give you just one cross reference. 00:27:01.379 --> 00:27:03.299 Go to Ephesians chapter 5. 00:27:05.299 --> 00:27:06.799 Ephesians chapter 5. 00:27:06.799 --> 00:27:36.779 Ephesians chapter 5. 00:27:36.799 --> 00:27:37.139 Ephesians chapter 6. 00:27:37.139 --> 00:27:37.279 Ephesians chapter 5. 00:27:37.279 --> 00:27:37.660 Ephesians chapter 6. 00:27:37.660 --> 00:27:37.720 Ephesians chapter 5. 00:27:37.720 --> 00:27:38.599 Ephesians chapter 5. 00:27:38.599 --> 00:27:39.740 Ephesians chapter 5. 00:27:39.740 --> 00:27:40.519 Ephesians chapter 5. 00:27:40.519 --> 00:27:40.839 Ephesians chapter 5. 00:27:40.839 --> 00:27:40.980 Ephesians chapter 5. 00:27:40.980 --> 00:27:42.460 So, husbands, listen up. 00:27:43.259 --> 00:27:46.240 But we'll see the purpose of this. 00:27:46.420 --> 00:27:49.220 So, husbands, love your wives. 00:27:49.539 --> 00:27:51.339 How do husbands love their wives? 00:27:51.440 --> 00:27:56.819 Well, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. 00:27:56.879 --> 00:28:00.200 So, we're to follow the example of Christ who loved the church. 00:28:01.460 --> 00:28:03.639 How did Jesus love the church? 00:28:04.799 --> 00:28:06.240 Well, look at the rest of verse 6. 00:28:06.240 --> 00:28:10.120 cleansing her, that's the church, the people, 00:28:10.299 --> 00:28:14.859 cleansing her by the washing with water 00:28:14.859 --> 00:28:18.660 through the word, through the gospel 00:28:18.660 --> 00:28:23.579 and to present her to himself as a radiant church 00:28:23.579 --> 00:28:29.059 without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish 00:28:29.059 --> 00:28:32.880 but holy and blameless. 00:28:32.880 --> 00:28:36.960 You see, it's the gospel word. 00:28:37.380 --> 00:28:41.940 It's the words of Jesus that are heard, believed 00:28:41.940 --> 00:28:45.060 and applied to our lives that are going to clean us. 00:28:45.500 --> 00:28:49.420 Jesus, by his word, will wash away every stain, 00:28:50.160 --> 00:28:54.120 every blemish and make us clean and beautiful. 00:28:55.340 --> 00:28:58.900 And I think that's what Jesus is getting at in Mark's gospel. 00:28:58.900 --> 00:29:02.500 He's saying, will you stop making up your own silly traditions? 00:29:02.880 --> 00:29:05.340 Stop teaching stupid rules. 00:29:06.200 --> 00:29:10.920 The only way to be clean, the only way to wash yourself is in the gospel. 00:29:12.620 --> 00:29:14.360 Picture this wonderful scene. 00:29:14.460 --> 00:29:17.680 You might be on a tropical island, but just picture yourself there. 00:29:18.460 --> 00:29:23.560 To jump into that pool, to bathe in the pool of God's mercy. 00:29:23.860 --> 00:29:25.220 That's what he's telling us to do. 00:29:25.220 --> 00:29:28.360 To stand underneath the waterfall of God's grace, 00:29:28.660 --> 00:29:31.760 let it fall upon you and cover you and wash you. 00:29:31.759 --> 00:29:36.079 And to swim and immerse yourself in Christ. 00:29:37.339 --> 00:29:40.420 This is what he's calling us to do, to come to him. 00:29:42.299 --> 00:29:45.400 Now it all just seems so easy, doesn't it? 00:29:46.440 --> 00:29:51.180 Simply to come to Jesus and let his words clean us. 00:29:51.180 --> 00:29:58.900 So why is it then that we always seem to turn away from it and do our own thing? 00:30:00.740 --> 00:30:03.000 Well, here's the reason that I think anyway. 00:30:03.640 --> 00:30:08.360 To experience the deep cleansing work of Jesus means that we must show him our heart. 00:30:08.359 --> 00:30:16.699 And to show Jesus our heart, to let him see us as we are, is incredibly painful. 00:30:18.579 --> 00:30:21.699 Because he begins to show us what our hearts are like. 00:30:21.700 --> 00:30:30.500 And as he kind of pulls away the layers of skin and he exposes us to who we are, 00:30:31.220 --> 00:30:34.100 we begin to see things that we don't want to see. 00:30:35.200 --> 00:30:37.580 We begin to see things we don't like. 00:30:37.579 --> 00:30:43.439 And we discover that the fault is no longer out there with other people. 00:30:44.639 --> 00:30:48.460 But the fault is actually deep inside of me. 00:30:50.539 --> 00:30:52.359 And it's terribly painful. 00:30:53.639 --> 00:30:59.159 And our pride resists it and we fight against it and we battle against it on a daily basis. 00:30:59.160 --> 00:31:01.360 But you know what? 00:31:01.519 --> 00:31:07.620 Letting Jesus have access to our hearts is not for the purpose that he kind of pulls open the layers, 00:31:08.040 --> 00:31:11.340 opens our hearts and stamps on us to crush us and say, 00:31:11.800 --> 00:31:13.580 what a naughty person you've been. 00:31:15.400 --> 00:31:20.480 He exposes our hearts not to crush us, but to clean us. 00:31:21.800 --> 00:31:26.840 And that cleaning starts and it continues as we come to the cross. 00:31:26.839 --> 00:31:30.519 And the invitation for us this morning is to come as we are, 00:31:30.839 --> 00:31:34.199 whether you are a believer or whether you are an unbeliever, 00:31:34.379 --> 00:31:37.339 with all of our mess, it doesn't make any difference at all. 00:31:37.439 --> 00:31:41.839 We come as we are with all of our mess, all of our uncleanness. 00:31:43.299 --> 00:31:49.379 And we come to Jesus at the cross and we see Jesus crushed for us. 00:31:50.619 --> 00:31:54.579 He's taken our uncleanness from us onto himself. 00:31:54.579 --> 00:31:59.299 He's crushed for us so that we can be made clean. 00:32:00.399 --> 00:32:05.720 His death on the cross and all the imagery of the blood, 00:32:06.259 --> 00:32:10.619 the crown of thorns, the blood that flows from his hands, from his feet, 00:32:10.899 --> 00:32:16.039 the sword that was thrust into his side, the blood that flows by faith, 00:32:16.039 --> 00:32:22.460 that is what washes away every stain and every blemish, 00:32:22.940 --> 00:32:25.740 making us pure and beautiful. 00:32:27.659 --> 00:32:29.879 This is the gospel. 00:32:30.700 --> 00:32:34.440 This is the word of Jesus which cleans us 00:32:34.440 --> 00:32:38.700 and changes us on a daily basis. 00:32:38.700 --> 00:32:44.200 We don't just start with the cross and offer up a little confession of, 00:32:44.700 --> 00:32:46.819 I'm sorry, please clean me and then that's it. 00:32:47.500 --> 00:32:50.380 This is a daily practice, a daily routine, 00:32:51.080 --> 00:32:54.220 a daily means by which we come 00:32:54.220 --> 00:32:57.920 and know that fresh cleaning every day 00:32:57.920 --> 00:33:00.100 of bathing in the pool of God's mercy, 00:33:00.660 --> 00:33:03.279 standing under the waterfall of his grace 00:33:03.279 --> 00:33:07.299 and immersing yourself in the gospel of Christ. 00:33:08.700 --> 00:33:12.440 Wonderfully clean and wonderfully changed 00:33:12.440 --> 00:33:15.440 to have a heart like him. 00:33:15.440 --> 00:33:21.000 I want you all, please, to turn to Psalm 51. 00:33:23.100 --> 00:33:26.539 We're not going to sing this morning. 00:33:26.620 --> 00:33:28.400 We could try and sing Psalm 51. 00:33:28.620 --> 00:33:29.600 Most of them were sung, 00:33:29.740 --> 00:33:33.620 but we'd all have a different tune 00:33:33.620 --> 00:33:34.720 and it wouldn't be very nice. 00:33:35.759 --> 00:33:42.019 So, we're just going to read Psalm 51 together, 00:33:42.720 --> 00:33:44.320 verses 1 to 12. 00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:51.380 And this is a song of confession to God. 00:33:52.340 --> 00:33:54.259 So, for all of us this morning, 00:33:54.480 --> 00:33:56.640 and you know your past, 00:33:56.759 --> 00:33:57.759 you know your week, 00:33:58.700 --> 00:34:00.120 you know what's gone on, 00:34:00.220 --> 00:34:01.660 you know all of those things, 00:34:01.880 --> 00:34:02.700 and more importantly, 00:34:02.900 --> 00:34:04.559 Jesus knows he sees our hearts. 00:34:05.880 --> 00:34:08.460 And the beauty of opening ourselves to him 00:34:08.460 --> 00:34:09.619 is not to be crushed, 00:34:11.260 --> 00:34:13.200 but it's to be cleaned, 00:34:13.199 --> 00:34:15.079 to be made new, 00:34:15.179 --> 00:34:16.919 to feel and to experience 00:34:16.919 --> 00:34:19.239 his grace in our lives. 00:34:19.980 --> 00:34:21.619 Let me just point out one thing 00:34:21.619 --> 00:34:22.659 before we do read it. 00:34:22.699 --> 00:34:23.399 Look at verse 7. 00:34:23.500 --> 00:34:23.779 It says, 00:34:23.899 --> 00:34:25.059 Cleanse me with hyssop. 00:34:26.339 --> 00:34:28.379 Okay, we haven't got any hyssop branches 00:34:28.379 --> 00:34:29.460 lying around the place, 00:34:29.559 --> 00:34:30.859 so what's hyssop? 00:34:30.860 --> 00:34:32.140 Well, hyssop was the branch, 00:34:32.240 --> 00:34:32.599 remember, 00:34:32.800 --> 00:34:33.760 in the Old Testament, 00:34:34.360 --> 00:34:35.579 the time of Passover, 00:34:36.579 --> 00:34:38.880 where they dipped the leaves of the branch 00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:40.220 into the blood of the lamb, 00:34:40.280 --> 00:34:43.640 and they plastered it on their houses, 00:34:44.519 --> 00:34:46.160 and the angel would pass over, 00:34:46.260 --> 00:34:47.480 and they would be kept safe. 00:34:48.140 --> 00:34:50.320 But the imagery is of blood, 00:34:50.579 --> 00:34:51.220 the protection, 00:34:51.400 --> 00:34:52.420 the safety of blood. 00:34:52.420 --> 00:34:54.599 And it's pointing forward, 00:34:54.760 --> 00:34:55.619 I think, 00:34:55.700 --> 00:34:56.220 to Christ, 00:34:56.340 --> 00:34:57.400 to his death on the cross. 00:34:57.480 --> 00:34:58.780 So when we're reading verse 7, 00:34:59.200 --> 00:34:59.940 think forward 00:34:59.940 --> 00:35:02.180 to Jesus on the cross, 00:35:02.280 --> 00:35:03.960 his death for us. 00:35:04.619 --> 00:35:05.840 So let's read together 00:35:05.840 --> 00:35:07.220 from verse 1 to 12. 00:35:07.320 --> 00:35:08.240 We'll read it slowly. 00:35:08.920 --> 00:35:10.380 Just follow me as we read. 00:35:11.360 --> 00:35:12.579 And then we'll leave a time 00:35:12.579 --> 00:35:14.240 of just reflection at the end 00:35:14.240 --> 00:35:16.619 in quietness. 00:35:16.840 --> 00:35:17.800 And then I'll close 00:35:17.800 --> 00:35:19.019 in prayer. 00:35:19.019 --> 00:35:24.619 Let's read from verse 1. 00:35:25.739 --> 00:35:28.199 Have mercy on me, O God, 00:35:28.980 --> 00:35:31.460 according to your unfailing love, 00:35:32.440 --> 00:35:34.539 according to your great compassion, 00:35:35.320 --> 00:35:37.079 blot out my transgression, 00:35:38.119 --> 00:35:40.219 wash away all my iniquity, 00:35:40.920 --> 00:35:42.679 and cleanse me from my sin. 00:35:43.519 --> 00:35:45.579 For I know my transgression, 00:35:46.440 --> 00:35:48.800 and my sin is always before me. 00:35:49.679 --> 00:35:50.679 Against you, 00:35:51.039 --> 00:35:51.780 you only, 00:35:51.940 --> 00:35:52.900 have I sinned, 00:35:53.440 --> 00:35:54.940 and done what is evil 00:35:54.940 --> 00:35:55.900 in your sight, 00:35:56.599 --> 00:35:58.400 so that you are proved right 00:35:58.400 --> 00:35:59.259 when you speak, 00:35:59.820 --> 00:36:01.840 and justified when you judge. 00:36:02.800 --> 00:36:04.880 Surely I was sinful at birth, 00:36:05.679 --> 00:36:06.980 sinful from the time 00:36:06.980 --> 00:36:08.360 my mother conceived me. 00:36:09.239 --> 00:36:10.920 Surely you desire truth 00:36:10.920 --> 00:36:11.960 in the inner part. 00:36:12.780 --> 00:36:13.980 You teach me wisdom 00:36:13.980 --> 00:36:15.400 in the inmost place. 00:36:15.400 --> 00:36:17.780 Cleanse me with hyssop, 00:36:17.980 --> 00:36:19.280 and I shall be clean. 00:36:19.920 --> 00:36:20.700 Wash me, 00:36:20.960 --> 00:36:22.720 and I shall be whiter than snow. 00:36:23.500 --> 00:36:25.880 Let me hear joy and gladness. 00:36:26.420 --> 00:36:28.900 Let the bones you have crushed rejoice. 00:36:29.900 --> 00:36:31.780 Hide your face from my sins, 00:36:32.480 --> 00:36:34.480 and blot out all my iniquity. 00:36:35.480 --> 00:36:37.519 Create in me a pure heart, 00:36:37.519 --> 00:36:38.179 O God, 00:36:38.480 --> 00:36:41.679 and renew a steadfast spirit within me. 00:36:42.539 --> 00:36:44.719 Do not cast me from your presence, 00:36:45.259 --> 00:36:47.500 or take your Holy Spirit from me. 00:36:48.259 --> 00:36:51.099 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, 00:36:51.679 --> 00:36:53.860 and grant me a willing spirit 00:36:53.860 --> 00:36:55.219 to sustain me. 00:36:56.079 --> 00:36:59.139 let's just take a moment's quietness 00:36:59.639 --> 00:37:00.879 to reflect 00:37:01.299 --> 00:37:03.739 and talk to God.