WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.800 In 2010, the deep water horizon off the Gulf had a tragic, tragic accident. 00:00:10.439 --> 00:00:16.800 5,000 feet down below that oil platform, there was a breakage. 00:00:17.839 --> 00:00:25.640 And this well, the Macondo wellhead, it burst. 00:00:25.640 --> 00:00:34.799 And so over the next 87 days, 3.19 million barrels of oil flowed into the Gulf. 00:00:36.120 --> 00:00:42.880 That's 130 million gallons of oil flowed into the Gulf. 00:00:44.519 --> 00:00:48.140 It was the largest accidental oil spill in human history. 00:00:48.140 --> 00:00:55.700 And as a result of what that well was spewing forth, it polluted the Gulf. 00:00:57.420 --> 00:00:59.420 It had devastating effects. 00:01:00.899 --> 00:01:02.299 Recovery is still happening. 00:01:03.780 --> 00:01:08.140 This morning, Jesus is going to tell us about a different well. 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:09.519 It's not in the Gulf. 00:01:10.240 --> 00:01:11.620 It's inside of you. 00:01:12.780 --> 00:01:14.460 It's the well of your heart. 00:01:14.459 --> 00:01:24.579 And up from that well is spewing forth things that pollute, that what Jesus says defile, that corrupt. 00:01:25.699 --> 00:01:34.039 Things like murder and adultery, sexual immorality, theft, bearing false witness, slander. 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:36.159 They all come out of your heart. 00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:44.519 Now, if we were to ask someone on the street, why do people do evil things, I'm guessing we get a couple different answers. 00:01:46.319 --> 00:01:47.700 Maybe we'd hear something like this. 00:01:47.739 --> 00:01:48.780 Well, it's the way you're raised. 00:01:50.959 --> 00:01:58.219 The education you received or the home you were raised in or the economic advantages or disadvantages you had 00:01:58.219 --> 00:02:03.420 or the ability to voice where you were or not. 00:02:03.939 --> 00:02:05.079 So it's environmental. 00:02:05.739 --> 00:02:07.659 That would be one option we would hear. 00:02:07.780 --> 00:02:10.280 The other one would be, well, it's genetic. 00:02:11.719 --> 00:02:12.780 It's physiological. 00:02:12.780 --> 00:02:25.000 Maybe they're genetically predisposed to this or that. 00:02:27.219 --> 00:02:35.460 Well, depending on how you answer that question will determine a lot of things. 00:02:36.860 --> 00:02:38.520 Here's what's riding on the answer. 00:02:38.520 --> 00:03:08.500 Here's what's riding on the street. 00:03:09.140 --> 00:03:12.060 Now, are there environmental influences that shape us? 00:03:12.300 --> 00:03:12.659 Yes. 00:03:13.040 --> 00:03:14.620 Are there genetic influences? 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:15.540 Of course. 00:03:18.140 --> 00:03:24.380 But are these the cause of the corruption that we see in our own hearts, our own lives? 00:03:26.780 --> 00:03:34.320 What if the primary source of human evil is neither environmental or physiological, but it's spiritual? 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:37.340 It has to do with our relationship with the living God. 00:03:39.420 --> 00:03:43.340 If that's the case, we're not going to find the ultimate solution in social sciences. 00:03:44.340 --> 00:03:47.939 We're not going to find the ultimate solution in the halls of medicine. 00:03:47.939 --> 00:03:59.020 If you would open up your Bibles to Matthew chapter 15, I'm going to read through verses 1 through 20, and it's like this. 00:03:59.020 --> 00:04:05.340 If we saw Jesus on the street, if we saw Jesus on the street, and we asked Jesus, Jesus, what corrupts a human being? 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:07.660 What defiles a person? 00:04:09.660 --> 00:04:11.560 He would say something like this. 00:04:11.560 --> 00:04:14.879 Would you read with me in Matthew 15? 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:20.759 Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, 00:04:20.759 --> 00:04:27.839 Why do you disciples break the tradition of the elders, that they do not wash their hands when they eat? 00:04:28.740 --> 00:04:29.839 Jesus answered them, 00:04:29.920 --> 00:04:32.839 And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? 00:04:32.959 --> 00:04:38.279 For God commanded, honor your father and your mother, and whoever reviles father or mother must surely die. 00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:46.679 But you say, if anyone tells his father or his mother what you would have gained from me is given to God, he need not honor his father. 00:04:47.199 --> 00:04:50.739 So for the sake of your tradition, you have made void the word of God. 00:04:50.839 --> 00:04:51.519 You hypocrites! 00:04:51.519 --> 00:04:55.019 Well did Isaiah prophesy of you when he said, 00:04:55.680 --> 00:04:59.120 This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. 00:04:59.479 --> 00:05:03.959 In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. 00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:08.019 And he called the people to himself and said to them, 00:05:08.139 --> 00:05:15.039 Hear and understand, it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, 00:05:15.599 --> 00:05:17.899 but what comes out of the mouth. 00:05:17.899 --> 00:05:21.779 But this defiles a person. 00:05:22.500 --> 00:05:24.319 Then the disciples came and said to him, 00:05:24.979 --> 00:05:28.000 Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying? 00:05:28.919 --> 00:05:29.739 Jesus answered, 00:05:30.359 --> 00:05:33.599 Every plant that the heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up. 00:05:34.339 --> 00:05:39.719 Let them alone, their blind guides, and if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit. 00:05:40.120 --> 00:05:41.719 But Peter said to him, 00:05:41.799 --> 00:05:43.299 Explain the parable to us. 00:05:43.620 --> 00:05:44.399 And Jesus said, 00:05:44.799 --> 00:05:46.759 Are you also still without understanding? 00:05:46.759 --> 00:05:51.500 Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled? 00:05:52.199 --> 00:05:55.099 But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart. 00:05:55.659 --> 00:05:58.439 And this defiles a person. 00:05:58.959 --> 00:06:07.620 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. 00:06:08.759 --> 00:06:10.539 These are what defile a person. 00:06:10.540 --> 00:06:17.340 But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone. 00:06:19.540 --> 00:06:22.460 Jesus doesn't use the word pollution. 00:06:22.879 --> 00:06:24.320 He doesn't use the word corrupt. 00:06:24.700 --> 00:06:26.200 He uses the word defile. 00:06:26.700 --> 00:06:27.900 To make common. 00:06:28.540 --> 00:06:31.920 To kind of separate from that what's holy. 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:41.520 Jesus says what defiles a person is not external to you. 00:06:42.319 --> 00:06:44.740 It's internal to you. 00:06:45.220 --> 00:06:47.740 You're not defiled from the outside in. 00:06:47.840 --> 00:06:50.460 You're defiled from the inside out. 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:53.340 Your greatest problem is not outside of you. 00:06:53.439 --> 00:06:56.639 Your greatest problem is within you. 00:06:56.639 --> 00:07:09.300 When Jesus talks about the heart, he's not talking about that fist-sized muscle that is pumping blood throughout your body right now. 00:07:11.180 --> 00:07:13.360 He means the core of who you are. 00:07:14.500 --> 00:07:16.300 Your essential being. 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:18.279 Your inner person. 00:07:18.779 --> 00:07:21.079 Where you think, feel, and make decisions. 00:07:21.079 --> 00:07:26.219 In the Hebrew mind, the heart was the center place of a person. 00:07:26.979 --> 00:07:29.699 It's where they thought, felt, made decisions. 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:35.060 And so what Jesus is saying here in this passage is that your biggest problem is not your DNA. 00:07:36.219 --> 00:07:38.139 It's not the family you were raised in. 00:07:38.799 --> 00:07:40.459 It's not the neighborhood you live in. 00:07:41.139 --> 00:07:43.180 It's not the opportunities you have or don't have. 00:07:44.219 --> 00:07:46.899 The biggest problem you've got is your heart. 00:07:46.899 --> 00:07:56.819 And what that means is we're responsible for what happens in our hearts. 00:07:58.579 --> 00:08:08.959 We are responsible for our thoughts, our feelings, our words, and our actions because they all flow out of the heart. 00:08:09.959 --> 00:08:11.579 Guard your heart above all else. 00:08:11.579 --> 00:08:14.079 For from it flow the wellspring of life. 00:08:14.699 --> 00:08:15.560 Proverbs 4. 00:08:16.899 --> 00:08:20.239 So here's how we're going to move forward this morning. 00:08:20.339 --> 00:08:24.139 We're going to walk through this account and we're going to see three encounters. 00:08:24.939 --> 00:08:25.779 Between Jesus. 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:29.379 Verse 1 is between Jesus and a delegation from Jerusalem. 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:31.759 And then Jesus and the people. 00:08:32.299 --> 00:08:34.439 And the third is Jesus and his disciples. 00:08:35.100 --> 00:08:39.799 And all throughout it, Jesus is dealing with this issue of what defiles a person. 00:08:40.579 --> 00:08:41.799 What makes them unclean? 00:08:41.879 --> 00:08:43.139 Is it washing your hands? 00:08:43.199 --> 00:08:44.179 Is it the food you eat? 00:08:45.679 --> 00:08:46.740 Jesus says no. 00:08:46.899 --> 00:08:48.439 It's from within. 00:08:48.439 --> 00:08:48.500 It's from within. 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:55.779 After we walk through those accounts, I'm going to bring this to a point and then we're going to apply it to our lives. 00:08:55.779 --> 00:09:01.819 So let's begin in chapter 15 verses 1 through 9. 00:09:02.319 --> 00:09:02.799 Jesus. 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:08.480 An encounter between Jesus and a delegation from Jerusalem. 00:09:08.480 --> 00:09:10.019 Now you've got to notice. 00:09:10.019 --> 00:09:17.139 Now you've got to notice in 51, the Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem. 00:09:17.360 --> 00:09:22.940 Up until this point, the Pharisees and scribes that Jesus has been dealing with have been local boys. 00:09:24.060 --> 00:09:24.920 City cops. 00:09:26.039 --> 00:09:26.940 County sheriff. 00:09:26.940 --> 00:09:35.080 And now, the folks down in Jerusalem have gotten word about Jesus. 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:38.480 Now if you look at Matthew 14, 1. 00:09:39.140 --> 00:09:43.560 Remember Herod last week, we learned God word of Jesus fame. 00:09:43.700 --> 00:09:44.600 And he flipped out. 00:09:45.760 --> 00:09:46.700 He thought it was John the Baptist. 00:09:46.820 --> 00:09:47.900 Come back from the grave. 00:09:47.899 --> 00:09:54.419 And here, we have the religious establishment that's in Jerusalem. 00:09:54.620 --> 00:09:55.980 They get wind of Jesus. 00:09:56.679 --> 00:09:57.539 What he's teaching. 00:09:57.539 --> 00:10:02.179 And they're wondering if he's subverting them. 00:10:03.860 --> 00:10:08.759 And so the way to think about these guys is they're not the local law enforcement. 00:10:09.259 --> 00:10:11.039 These would be like the feds coming in. 00:10:12.819 --> 00:10:16.179 Coming in from the capital to check things out. 00:10:17.539 --> 00:10:20.439 The Pharisaical Bureau of Investigation. 00:10:22.279 --> 00:10:26.120 Now in 15.2, they approached Jesus with a question. 00:10:27.539 --> 00:10:30.699 Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? 00:10:31.959 --> 00:10:38.939 They show up and they watch Jesus' disciples eat food without washing their hands. 00:10:39.059 --> 00:10:43.039 Now you may be wondering, what is this tradition of the elders they're talking about? 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:46.779 Well, they're not talking about the Bible itself. 00:10:47.439 --> 00:10:53.699 They're talking about a tradition that had been built around the Bible, the Old Testament, 00:10:53.699 --> 00:10:56.559 to help explain the Old Testament. 00:10:56.559 --> 00:10:59.039 It was an oral tradition. 00:10:59.479 --> 00:11:06.619 Have you ever seen pictures of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. when it was being refurbished? 00:11:07.259 --> 00:11:12.619 It had scaffolding built all around it so workers can work on the outside of the Capitol. 00:11:12.739 --> 00:11:15.639 The only reason why you knew it was a Capitol, you saw the dome on the rotunda. 00:11:15.819 --> 00:11:17.079 You said, something's in there. 00:11:17.080 --> 00:11:27.540 The tradition of the elders was like scaffolding that the religious leaders had built around the Old Testament to help people understand it. 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:32.080 If there was confusion over what a particular passage meant or how it applied. 00:11:32.080 --> 00:11:37.220 And so the intent was a good intent to help God's people understand God's word. 00:11:37.560 --> 00:11:38.420 But here's what happened. 00:11:40.120 --> 00:11:44.340 The scaffolding became permanent and authoritative. 00:11:44.340 --> 00:11:49.660 So instead of appealing to the command, people would appeal to the scaffolding. 00:11:51.399 --> 00:11:52.560 It's kind of like this. 00:11:52.680 --> 00:11:58.960 It's instead of the halls, the acts of kind of our government happening in the Capitol, 00:11:59.120 --> 00:12:01.220 it's like let's bring them out to the scaffolding. 00:12:01.220 --> 00:12:05.160 Come live out on the scaffolding, everyone. 00:12:07.740 --> 00:12:10.920 And so what was taking place was this tradition of the elders, 00:12:11.160 --> 00:12:13.100 what was meant to explain the Old Testament, 00:12:13.580 --> 00:12:17.860 started taking on authority on par with God's Scripture. 00:12:19.519 --> 00:12:24.540 You get a sense of this in 15.2 when they say, 00:12:24.540 --> 00:12:27.500 Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? 00:12:27.779 --> 00:12:31.000 That word break is the word transgress. 00:12:32.220 --> 00:12:34.980 They had raised it to such a degree that it's like, 00:12:35.379 --> 00:12:40.080 Oh, naughty, naughty on you for breaking, transgressing the tradition of the elders. 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:47.399 And then in the second part of verse 2, they point to something. 00:12:47.540 --> 00:12:51.540 Your disciples, they're transgressing the tradition of the elders for, 00:12:51.540 --> 00:12:53.460 you see that at the end of verse 2, middle of verse 2, 00:12:53.779 --> 00:12:55.899 for they do not wash their hands when they eat. 00:12:57.240 --> 00:12:59.420 There's no command in the Old Testament 00:12:59.419 --> 00:13:04.939 that requires all Jews to wash their hands before every meal. 00:13:05.419 --> 00:13:06.199 There's no command. 00:13:07.439 --> 00:13:11.500 There were Old Testament commands that required priests to wash their hands 00:13:11.500 --> 00:13:14.939 before eating something that had been offered as a sacrifice. 00:13:14.940 --> 00:13:21.940 What appears to have happened is that certain Jews took the specific command to priests 00:13:21.940 --> 00:13:26.200 and they generalized the command to all of God's people. 00:13:26.200 --> 00:13:37.960 So when the Jerusalem delegation sees Jesus' disciples not washing their hands before they eat, 00:13:38.360 --> 00:13:42.680 whip, whip, whip, whip, whip, weep, we got a problem. 00:13:42.679 --> 00:13:49.799 Now before you start thinking, man, those Pharisees back in the first century, 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:53.120 they made mountains out of molehills, I'll tell you what. 00:13:55.599 --> 00:14:02.639 No playing cards, no dancing, no alcoholic consumption. 00:14:02.639 --> 00:14:06.860 If you don't homeschool your children, something's wrong with you. 00:14:08.559 --> 00:14:10.860 This kind of thinking exists today. 00:14:12.319 --> 00:14:18.759 We can make things that are not God's Word on the same level as God's Word. 00:14:18.759 --> 00:14:27.659 Now remember, behind all this kind of hand-washing thinking 00:14:27.659 --> 00:14:32.299 is a deep and pervasive concern for ritual purity. 00:14:32.980 --> 00:14:33.860 Being clean. 00:14:34.439 --> 00:14:38.339 If a Jew touched something that wasn't clean, that Jew became unclean 00:14:38.339 --> 00:14:42.719 and they would not be allowed to participate in the religious life of their family and friends. 00:14:44.139 --> 00:14:51.000 Do you remember back in Matthew 9, there's a woman who has this 12-year-old issue of blood? 00:14:52.600 --> 00:14:57.039 And no one would touch her because she was unclean, according to Leviticus. 00:14:57.659 --> 00:15:02.399 If anyone touched her, they would become unclean. 00:15:04.459 --> 00:15:10.000 What's amazing is she once touches Jesus and Jesus doesn't become unclean, she becomes clean. 00:15:11.219 --> 00:15:12.339 That's what Jesus does. 00:15:14.219 --> 00:15:16.039 So what's going on here is this. 00:15:16.299 --> 00:15:19.480 This delegation comes up, they're looking for anything, 00:15:19.699 --> 00:15:22.220 they see Jesus' disciples not washing their hands, 00:15:22.220 --> 00:15:26.040 and they say, hey, you know, you're breaking the transgression, 00:15:26.180 --> 00:15:28.620 you're transgressing the tradition of the elders. 00:15:30.379 --> 00:15:32.040 They're essentially saying, 00:15:32.920 --> 00:15:34.420 you disciples, you're unclean. 00:15:35.560 --> 00:15:37.700 And this guy teaching you, 00:15:38.160 --> 00:15:40.860 he's transgressing the tradition of the elders too. 00:15:41.899 --> 00:15:44.180 He's not teaching what he should be teaching. 00:15:44.179 --> 00:15:48.079 So there's the charge of subversion. 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:49.839 It's implied. 00:15:52.699 --> 00:15:55.159 Now to Jesus' counter charge. 00:15:55.779 --> 00:15:59.539 You're going to see Jesus do something here that may seem a little tough. 00:16:00.519 --> 00:16:03.159 Up until this point, Jesus has kind of swapped some, 00:16:03.259 --> 00:16:05.719 traded some words with the Pharisees. 00:16:05.720 --> 00:16:08.240 We're going to see him bringing up a notch right now. 00:16:09.500 --> 00:16:10.960 And he's going to bring it up a notch 00:16:10.960 --> 00:16:14.440 because what's at stake is the right understanding of God's word 00:16:14.440 --> 00:16:17.080 and rightly understanding the human condition. 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:20.139 That's why he's going to respond the way he does. 00:16:21.060 --> 00:16:23.740 And we see his response starting in verse 3. 00:16:24.259 --> 00:16:25.660 Jesus answered them and said, 00:16:26.180 --> 00:16:29.440 and why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? 00:16:29.759 --> 00:16:35.259 That word break is the same word that the Pharisees had used 00:16:35.259 --> 00:16:36.299 up in verse 2. 00:16:36.679 --> 00:16:40.600 Jesus is saying, let me just use that word transgress rightly. 00:16:42.439 --> 00:16:46.379 You, why are you transgressing the commandment of God 00:16:46.379 --> 00:16:48.179 for the sake of your traditions? 00:16:49.679 --> 00:16:51.319 Jesus doesn't answer their question. 00:16:51.819 --> 00:16:54.059 We're going to see him do this a number of times going forward. 00:16:54.460 --> 00:16:56.000 But he turns it around on them. 00:16:57.279 --> 00:16:59.580 And then he points to his proof. 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:01.580 His support. 00:17:03.580 --> 00:17:04.420 He says, 00:17:04.420 --> 00:17:06.500 in verse 4, 00:17:06.620 --> 00:17:08.440 for God commanded, 00:17:08.700 --> 00:17:10.160 honor your father and your mother, 00:17:10.160 --> 00:17:13.640 and whoever reviles father or mother must surely die. 00:17:14.080 --> 00:17:18.539 Those are both taken from Exodus chapter 120, verse 12. 00:17:18.660 --> 00:17:21.340 That's the fifth commandment in the Ten Commandments. 00:17:21.680 --> 00:17:23.180 And the second one where he says, 00:17:23.279 --> 00:17:25.380 whoever reviles father or mother must surely die. 00:17:25.759 --> 00:17:28.440 That's taken from Exodus 21, 17. 00:17:28.440 --> 00:17:31.700 And what they go to show is that this is God's word, 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:34.860 and it's serious when you transgress it. 00:17:35.660 --> 00:17:37.700 If you revile your mom and your dad, 00:17:38.059 --> 00:17:39.660 that's a capital offense. 00:17:39.660 --> 00:17:48.620 And why he's doing that is because the Pharisees were making a capital offense. 00:17:48.619 --> 00:17:52.399 And so if you notice, 00:17:52.899 --> 00:17:54.359 in verse 5, 00:17:54.359 --> 00:17:54.859 5, 00:17:54.859 --> 00:17:57.439 Jesus sets up the command of God, 00:17:57.719 --> 00:17:58.439 and then he says, 00:17:58.639 --> 00:17:59.399 but you say. 00:17:59.939 --> 00:18:01.439 This is what God's word says. 00:18:01.740 --> 00:18:02.919 Honor your father and your mother. 00:18:03.299 --> 00:18:04.659 But here's what you're saying. 00:18:05.179 --> 00:18:06.359 You are saying, 00:18:06.959 --> 00:18:08.919 if anyone tells his father or his mother, 00:18:09.439 --> 00:18:11.879 what you would have gained from me is given to God, 00:18:12.339 --> 00:18:14.819 he need not honor his father or his mother. 00:18:15.679 --> 00:18:16.719 Here's what's going on. 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:18.900 It's a technical term called korban. 00:18:19.640 --> 00:18:20.240 And what it was, 00:18:20.299 --> 00:18:21.519 it's a kind of vow. 00:18:22.140 --> 00:18:24.059 And the vow that was being made is like this. 00:18:24.900 --> 00:18:26.500 An adult child would say, 00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:27.100 well, 00:18:27.180 --> 00:18:31.600 I have vowed to God to give half my wealth. 00:18:33.360 --> 00:18:36.279 And then if there was a need that came up for his parents, 00:18:36.980 --> 00:18:38.140 the Pharisees were saying, 00:18:38.339 --> 00:18:40.079 don't break your vow to God. 00:18:41.079 --> 00:18:42.660 Don't honor your mother or your father. 00:18:43.559 --> 00:18:45.339 Follow through on your vow to God. 00:18:45.339 --> 00:18:46.879 God, give that money. 00:18:47.740 --> 00:18:48.779 Do you know where the money would go? 00:18:49.679 --> 00:18:50.859 To the temple treasury. 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:53.079 Do you know who was in charge of the temple treasury? 00:18:54.539 --> 00:18:55.599 The Pharisees. 00:18:56.220 --> 00:18:58.539 Do you see what Jesus is putting his finger into? 00:19:00.819 --> 00:19:02.220 He's hitting a wasp nest. 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:07.539 And so Jesus is saying, 00:19:08.019 --> 00:19:09.079 no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 00:19:09.799 --> 00:19:12.559 You guys are breaking a command. 00:19:12.559 --> 00:19:15.159 By you saying, 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:17.259 in your tradition of the elders, 00:19:17.559 --> 00:19:19.119 your tradition, 00:19:19.940 --> 00:19:21.940 if you're saying you can break, 00:19:22.319 --> 00:19:24.359 you don't have to honor your mother and your father 00:19:24.359 --> 00:19:25.440 to keep your vow, 00:19:26.159 --> 00:19:27.599 you're missing it. 00:19:29.519 --> 00:19:31.299 And then Jesus goes on to say 00:19:31.299 --> 00:19:34.119 that they're not only missing it, 00:19:34.179 --> 00:19:36.440 they're invalidating the word of God, 00:19:36.759 --> 00:19:37.460 God's commandments. 00:19:37.460 --> 00:19:40.420 They're making it void. 00:19:42.980 --> 00:19:44.519 It's a serious charge. 00:19:45.240 --> 00:19:48.039 Jesus is very protective of God's word. 00:19:48.680 --> 00:19:50.400 Remember, he came not to abolish it, 00:19:50.460 --> 00:19:51.660 but to fulfill it. 00:19:52.319 --> 00:19:53.340 He holds it up. 00:19:53.700 --> 00:19:55.180 And when people challenge it, 00:19:55.420 --> 00:19:56.380 he challenges them. 00:19:58.860 --> 00:20:00.259 And so he concludes, 00:20:00.980 --> 00:20:03.180 in order to keep a value, 00:20:03.299 --> 00:20:04.440 invalidate God's command, 00:20:04.440 --> 00:20:06.799 and then he accuses them 00:20:06.799 --> 00:20:08.740 of being hypocrites. 00:20:11.740 --> 00:20:12.820 Think about it. 00:20:13.860 --> 00:20:15.980 God incarnate 00:20:15.980 --> 00:20:18.940 is saying these men 00:20:18.940 --> 00:20:20.460 are hypocrites. 00:20:23.400 --> 00:20:24.580 You hypocrites. 00:20:24.779 --> 00:20:26.759 Well did Isaiah prophesy of you. 00:20:27.080 --> 00:20:29.660 And then he quotes Isaiah 29, 13, 00:20:29.660 --> 00:20:31.360 which in its context 00:20:31.360 --> 00:20:33.420 is spoken to Jews 00:20:33.420 --> 00:20:34.960 who are in Jerusalem 00:20:34.960 --> 00:20:38.060 who are just paying lip service 00:20:38.060 --> 00:20:39.080 to God's commandments. 00:20:40.779 --> 00:20:42.660 They were saying one thing, 00:20:43.340 --> 00:20:45.360 but their hearts were somewhere else. 00:20:45.880 --> 00:20:47.660 They were more devoted to human traditions 00:20:47.660 --> 00:20:49.100 than obeying God's commands. 00:20:49.200 --> 00:20:49.960 That's what's going on 00:20:49.960 --> 00:20:50.840 with the Pharisees here. 00:20:51.800 --> 00:20:53.900 They're so focused on the externals. 00:20:54.200 --> 00:20:56.500 They're so focused on their scaffolding 00:20:56.500 --> 00:20:57.580 just to make sure 00:20:57.580 --> 00:20:59.480 you keep the scaffolding right. 00:20:59.480 --> 00:21:01.039 Just make sure you're doing 00:21:01.039 --> 00:21:02.440 the right things in the right way 00:21:02.440 --> 00:21:03.940 and everything's just going to be fine. 00:21:04.559 --> 00:21:07.519 Even if it invalidates God's commands. 00:21:08.759 --> 00:21:09.759 It's Jesus' point. 00:21:11.319 --> 00:21:11.860 And what Jesus, 00:21:12.019 --> 00:21:13.380 by quoting Isaiah 29, 00:21:14.059 --> 00:21:14.579 he's saying, 00:21:15.019 --> 00:21:17.680 they have made their worship of God 00:21:17.680 --> 00:21:18.620 vain, 00:21:19.339 --> 00:21:19.839 hollow, 00:21:20.599 --> 00:21:21.200 meaningless, 00:21:22.880 --> 00:21:23.200 empty. 00:21:23.200 --> 00:21:28.120 They're putting the man-made traditions 00:21:28.120 --> 00:21:29.019 on the same par 00:21:29.019 --> 00:21:31.600 with God's all-authoritative words 00:21:31.600 --> 00:21:32.900 and so he says, 00:21:33.080 --> 00:21:33.940 you're hypocrites. 00:21:36.940 --> 00:21:39.019 My disciples aren't doing anything wrong. 00:21:40.580 --> 00:21:41.519 You are. 00:21:41.519 --> 00:21:48.099 So here we have our feisty Savior. 00:21:49.099 --> 00:21:50.740 Our feisty Messiah. 00:21:51.559 --> 00:21:53.059 And we're caught in between 00:21:53.059 --> 00:21:54.420 the Pharisees and Jesus. 00:21:55.420 --> 00:21:57.039 The Pharisees are saying, 00:21:57.579 --> 00:21:59.799 keep the tradition of the elders. 00:22:00.759 --> 00:22:02.079 Focus on externals. 00:22:02.480 --> 00:22:03.940 Make sure your hands are washed. 00:22:04.259 --> 00:22:05.400 Eat the right foods. 00:22:06.180 --> 00:22:07.599 Don't be subversive. 00:22:07.599 --> 00:22:10.599 Jesus is saying, 00:22:11.599 --> 00:22:12.740 keep the commandment of God. 00:22:13.919 --> 00:22:15.559 Don't build scaffolding 00:22:15.559 --> 00:22:16.679 that is going to challenge 00:22:16.679 --> 00:22:18.279 the authority of God's word. 00:22:19.959 --> 00:22:21.579 He accuses the Pharisees 00:22:21.579 --> 00:22:22.879 of being hypocrites. 00:22:23.019 --> 00:22:24.539 They've invalidated God's commands 00:22:24.539 --> 00:22:25.259 for their tradition. 00:22:25.699 --> 00:22:26.159 So the question, 00:22:26.279 --> 00:22:27.159 who's right? 00:22:28.699 --> 00:22:30.179 Well, we know that Jesus 00:22:30.179 --> 00:22:31.859 was a descendant of David. 00:22:32.619 --> 00:22:33.740 He's born of the Virgin Mary. 00:22:34.259 --> 00:22:35.639 He was tempted by Satan. 00:22:35.799 --> 00:22:36.519 Didn't give in. 00:22:36.519 --> 00:22:38.000 He preached the Sermon on the Mount. 00:22:38.259 --> 00:22:39.339 He healed all sorts of people. 00:22:39.599 --> 00:22:40.639 He did amazing things. 00:22:40.819 --> 00:22:41.900 He spoke with authority. 00:22:42.299 --> 00:22:43.599 He is God in the flesh. 00:22:43.900 --> 00:22:44.680 He is Emmanuel. 00:22:45.220 --> 00:22:46.339 And so Jesus is right. 00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:49.879 He is the all-authoritative one. 00:22:51.039 --> 00:22:52.220 Who is this guy? 00:22:52.879 --> 00:22:54.119 Who is this guy 00:22:54.119 --> 00:22:56.759 that when the Jerusalem delegation 00:22:56.759 --> 00:22:57.420 comes up, 00:22:58.220 --> 00:23:00.980 he just turns the tables on them? 00:23:01.779 --> 00:23:03.200 He turns the tables on them 00:23:03.200 --> 00:23:04.319 and calls them hypocrites. 00:23:04.440 --> 00:23:05.480 Who is this guy? 00:23:05.480 --> 00:23:07.059 Only God in the flesh 00:23:07.059 --> 00:23:07.860 does that kind of stuff. 00:23:10.299 --> 00:23:11.440 The second encounter 00:23:11.440 --> 00:23:13.000 is between Jesus and the crowds. 00:23:14.440 --> 00:23:15.559 And we see that 00:23:15.559 --> 00:23:18.500 in verses 10 and 11. 00:23:19.019 --> 00:23:20.279 And he called the people to him 00:23:20.279 --> 00:23:21.000 and said to them, 00:23:21.420 --> 00:23:22.160 hear and understand, 00:23:22.420 --> 00:23:24.180 it's not what goes into the mouth 00:23:24.180 --> 00:23:25.240 that defiles a person, 00:23:25.380 --> 00:23:26.759 but what comes out of the mouth. 00:23:27.420 --> 00:23:29.099 This defiles a person. 00:23:29.460 --> 00:23:30.900 And in verse 15, 00:23:31.059 --> 00:23:31.940 Peter's going to say, 00:23:32.099 --> 00:23:33.779 explain to us the parable. 00:23:33.779 --> 00:23:35.180 This is what he's talking about. 00:23:35.259 --> 00:23:36.879 This kind of going into the mouth 00:23:36.879 --> 00:23:38.440 and going out of the mouth business. 00:23:38.779 --> 00:23:39.740 That's the parable 00:23:39.740 --> 00:23:41.220 that Peter is referencing about. 00:23:42.079 --> 00:23:42.700 And if you remember 00:23:42.700 --> 00:23:44.000 from when we were in Matthew 13, 00:23:44.139 --> 00:23:46.000 a parable is like vertical blinds. 00:23:46.079 --> 00:23:48.019 It reveals the truth 00:23:48.019 --> 00:23:49.000 of the kingdom to some 00:23:49.000 --> 00:23:50.099 and hides the truth 00:23:50.099 --> 00:23:51.119 of the kingdom to others. 00:23:51.119 --> 00:23:54.319 And so when Jesus calls the crowds, 00:23:54.439 --> 00:23:55.279 the people to him, 00:23:55.319 --> 00:23:56.879 he speaks this parable to them. 00:23:57.179 --> 00:24:01.019 And the focus is on the mouth. 00:24:01.759 --> 00:24:05.159 But it's about what defiles a person. 00:24:06.619 --> 00:24:08.619 And so it has to do with food. 00:24:09.079 --> 00:24:11.559 More importantly, pure food, 00:24:11.739 --> 00:24:13.879 clean food, or unclean food. 00:24:13.880 --> 00:24:16.620 So the disciples are being charged 00:24:16.620 --> 00:24:17.540 with transgressing 00:24:17.540 --> 00:24:18.880 the hand washing regulations. 00:24:19.360 --> 00:24:20.420 And so if they have dirty hands, 00:24:20.480 --> 00:24:21.460 they put it on clean food, 00:24:21.540 --> 00:24:22.880 they make the food dirty. 00:24:23.100 --> 00:24:24.780 And if it goes into your mouth, 00:24:24.860 --> 00:24:26.400 it makes you all the more dirty. 00:24:30.620 --> 00:24:32.760 Here Jesus is focusing on 00:24:32.760 --> 00:24:35.260 the eating of something unclean. 00:24:36.380 --> 00:24:37.920 And what he is saying here 00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:39.620 is such a seismic shift 00:24:39.620 --> 00:24:40.700 for a devout Jew. 00:24:40.700 --> 00:24:42.600 It was phenomenal 00:24:42.600 --> 00:24:44.180 what Jesus is saying here. 00:24:44.920 --> 00:24:46.840 If they had ears to hear. 00:24:48.100 --> 00:24:49.759 Even the disciples who heard this 00:24:49.759 --> 00:24:50.660 didn't quite get it. 00:24:50.720 --> 00:24:51.740 It would take them decades 00:24:51.740 --> 00:24:52.860 to figure this thing out 00:24:52.860 --> 00:24:53.860 with the help of God. 00:24:56.920 --> 00:24:58.420 Remember that this is a parable 00:24:58.420 --> 00:25:00.039 and the kingdom meaning 00:25:00.039 --> 00:25:01.220 would have been hidden 00:25:01.220 --> 00:25:02.340 to many who heard. 00:25:03.819 --> 00:25:06.840 And so Jesus speaks this parable out. 00:25:06.920 --> 00:25:08.720 It's not what goes inside of you 00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:10.140 through your mouth that defiles you. 00:25:10.140 --> 00:25:12.020 It's what comes out of your mouth. 00:25:12.240 --> 00:25:13.680 That's what defiles you. 00:25:14.259 --> 00:25:15.560 So the contrast is between 00:25:15.560 --> 00:25:17.380 coming in and going out. 00:25:17.460 --> 00:25:18.460 What comes into the mouth 00:25:18.460 --> 00:25:19.880 versus what comes out of the mouth. 00:25:21.900 --> 00:25:23.420 It's all about defilement. 00:25:26.240 --> 00:25:27.960 Becoming unclean in God's sight. 00:25:29.860 --> 00:25:31.460 And what Jesus is saying here, 00:25:31.640 --> 00:25:33.900 it's not what goes into your mouth 00:25:33.900 --> 00:25:35.259 that defiles you in God's sight. 00:25:35.259 --> 00:25:38.680 In Mark chapter 7, 00:25:38.819 --> 00:25:39.980 Mark says at this point, 00:25:40.079 --> 00:25:40.759 parenthetically, 00:25:41.359 --> 00:25:42.359 and therefore he declared 00:25:42.359 --> 00:25:43.140 all foods clean. 00:25:44.460 --> 00:25:46.140 So when Jesus says here, 00:25:46.920 --> 00:25:48.440 it's not what comes into your mouth 00:25:48.440 --> 00:25:49.379 that defiles you. 00:25:49.619 --> 00:25:50.180 He's saying, 00:25:50.379 --> 00:25:51.539 go have a ham sandwich. 00:25:53.640 --> 00:25:55.059 It doesn't defile you. 00:25:55.059 --> 00:25:59.779 He says, 00:26:00.139 --> 00:26:01.059 hear and understand. 00:26:01.659 --> 00:26:02.759 Speaking to crowds, 00:26:02.899 --> 00:26:03.539 it's a parable. 00:26:04.220 --> 00:26:05.720 Whatever he's talking about 00:26:05.720 --> 00:26:07.319 is a new kingdom reality. 00:26:08.480 --> 00:26:11.759 It's a new dietary regulation 00:26:11.759 --> 00:26:13.200 for those in the kingdom. 00:26:13.819 --> 00:26:14.460 And what it is, 00:26:14.480 --> 00:26:16.759 is there are no dietary regulations 00:26:16.759 --> 00:26:17.759 for those in the kingdom. 00:26:18.440 --> 00:26:20.519 Because they don't make you unclean. 00:26:20.519 --> 00:26:25.839 We're not told how the crowd responds, 00:26:26.119 --> 00:26:28.319 but we are told 00:26:28.319 --> 00:26:30.139 how the disciples respond. 00:26:30.839 --> 00:26:32.400 So let me draw your attention to that 00:26:32.400 --> 00:26:33.639 in verses 12 through 20. 00:26:35.259 --> 00:26:37.460 This is the third encounter of this passage. 00:26:38.000 --> 00:26:39.400 Jesus with his disciples. 00:26:40.240 --> 00:26:41.960 Then the disciples came and said to him, 00:26:42.339 --> 00:26:43.839 do you know that the Pharisees 00:26:43.839 --> 00:26:45.960 were offended when they heard this saying? 00:26:46.319 --> 00:26:46.940 And he answered, 00:26:48.119 --> 00:26:49.619 and then Peter in verse 15 says, 00:26:49.619 --> 00:26:50.819 explain to us the parable. 00:26:51.159 --> 00:26:52.219 And so when his disciples 00:26:52.219 --> 00:26:53.419 come to him 00:26:53.419 --> 00:26:54.719 and ask for an explanation, 00:26:54.899 --> 00:26:56.739 they actually ask for two explanations. 00:26:58.019 --> 00:26:59.519 What about the Pharisees 00:26:59.519 --> 00:27:00.939 and what about this parable? 00:27:01.739 --> 00:27:03.699 And so Jesus picks up the issue 00:27:03.699 --> 00:27:05.500 about the Pharisees first. 00:27:06.500 --> 00:27:07.379 Did you not know 00:27:07.379 --> 00:27:09.559 that you just offended the Pharisees? 00:27:09.979 --> 00:27:11.459 Now that word offend 00:27:11.459 --> 00:27:13.779 that you see in verse 12, 00:27:14.919 --> 00:27:16.939 you know that the Pharisees 00:27:16.939 --> 00:27:18.679 were offended when they heard this saying? 00:27:18.680 --> 00:27:20.380 Probably talking about 00:27:20.380 --> 00:27:23.019 his quoting of Isaiah 29. 00:27:24.860 --> 00:27:26.100 That word offended, 00:27:26.220 --> 00:27:28.480 if you look back to Matthew chapter 13 00:27:28.480 --> 00:27:30.240 and look at verse 57, 00:27:31.420 --> 00:27:34.240 remember that Jesus went to Nazareth 00:27:34.240 --> 00:27:36.140 and he spoke with authority 00:27:36.140 --> 00:27:38.420 and his hometown peeps, 00:27:38.539 --> 00:27:39.259 do you remember what they did? 00:27:40.360 --> 00:27:41.840 They were offended by him. 00:27:42.820 --> 00:27:43.660 It's the same word. 00:27:43.660 --> 00:27:47.500 What Jesus said was scandalous to them. 00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:51.040 Jesus is being scandalous 00:27:51.040 --> 00:27:51.920 to the Pharisees 00:27:51.920 --> 00:27:52.759 for what he's saying. 00:27:53.200 --> 00:27:54.560 He's speaking with authority. 00:27:54.860 --> 00:27:56.040 He is correcting them. 00:27:56.300 --> 00:27:57.420 He's exposing 00:27:57.420 --> 00:27:59.240 what they're doing is wrong. 00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:01.560 And they're upset about it. 00:28:02.220 --> 00:28:03.259 And so the disciples say, 00:28:03.340 --> 00:28:03.800 hey, did you know 00:28:03.800 --> 00:28:04.680 you just offended them? 00:28:04.900 --> 00:28:06.000 And Jesus responds 00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:08.080 in verses 13 by 14 00:28:08.080 --> 00:28:08.580 by saying, 00:28:08.980 --> 00:28:09.460 you know what? 00:28:09.460 --> 00:28:11.400 They're not planted 00:28:11.400 --> 00:28:12.620 by my heavenly Father. 00:28:13.500 --> 00:28:14.620 They're not from God. 00:28:15.160 --> 00:28:15.500 In fact, 00:28:15.559 --> 00:28:16.579 they're going to be uprooted. 00:28:16.920 --> 00:28:17.559 And the last time 00:28:17.559 --> 00:28:18.640 we read something like that 00:28:18.640 --> 00:28:19.380 in Matthew 13, 00:28:19.600 --> 00:28:20.579 it was uprooted 00:28:20.579 --> 00:28:21.840 and thrown into the fire. 00:28:22.880 --> 00:28:24.120 So what Jesus is saying there 00:28:24.120 --> 00:28:25.200 is they're not from God. 00:28:26.440 --> 00:28:27.259 And then he says 00:28:27.259 --> 00:28:28.019 in verse 14, 00:28:28.740 --> 00:28:29.740 they're blind guides. 00:28:31.819 --> 00:28:33.319 The Pharisees love to be thought 00:28:33.319 --> 00:28:34.120 of being teachers 00:28:34.120 --> 00:28:34.860 of the people, 00:28:34.859 --> 00:28:36.799 of leading people 00:28:36.799 --> 00:28:38.599 into what the Old Testament 00:28:38.599 --> 00:28:39.519 truly says. 00:28:39.819 --> 00:28:40.379 And ironically, 00:28:40.939 --> 00:28:41.699 they weren't. 00:28:43.139 --> 00:28:44.019 Their emphasis 00:28:44.019 --> 00:28:45.119 on their traditions 00:28:45.119 --> 00:28:46.039 kept them from getting 00:28:46.039 --> 00:28:47.019 the true meaning 00:28:47.019 --> 00:28:48.119 of God's Word. 00:28:50.979 --> 00:28:51.979 And so Jesus calls them 00:28:51.979 --> 00:28:53.019 blind guides, 00:28:53.799 --> 00:28:54.639 false teachers. 00:28:55.579 --> 00:28:57.019 And they will lead 00:28:57.019 --> 00:28:58.079 other blind folks 00:28:58.079 --> 00:28:58.839 into a pit. 00:28:59.240 --> 00:28:59.699 You know what? 00:28:59.699 --> 00:29:01.419 Pits aren't good destinations, 00:29:01.699 --> 00:29:02.479 generally speaking. 00:29:03.139 --> 00:29:04.119 They're dangerous places. 00:29:04.119 --> 00:29:05.679 They're deadly places. 00:29:06.719 --> 00:29:08.019 Unless it's a barbecue pit. 00:29:09.959 --> 00:29:11.299 Well, that is a deadly place. 00:29:15.339 --> 00:29:16.719 Jesus sums up by saying, 00:29:17.079 --> 00:29:17.719 let them alone. 00:29:18.759 --> 00:29:19.379 Don't have anything 00:29:19.379 --> 00:29:19.939 to do with them. 00:29:21.079 --> 00:29:22.299 Don't go after their ways. 00:29:22.419 --> 00:29:24.000 Don't let them guide you. 00:29:24.359 --> 00:29:25.619 They're not going to lead you 00:29:25.619 --> 00:29:26.299 into life. 00:29:27.159 --> 00:29:27.899 They're going to lead you 00:29:27.899 --> 00:29:28.479 into a pit. 00:29:29.459 --> 00:29:30.500 So up until this point, 00:29:30.599 --> 00:29:31.739 Jesus has called the Pharisees 00:29:31.739 --> 00:29:33.439 from Jerusalem hypocrites. 00:29:33.440 --> 00:29:36.019 He said that Isaiah 29, 00:29:36.420 --> 00:29:36.980 13, 00:29:37.279 --> 00:29:38.580 they fulfill it. 00:29:38.880 --> 00:29:39.600 They're just paying 00:29:39.600 --> 00:29:40.779 lip service to God. 00:29:40.900 --> 00:29:41.620 They are elevating 00:29:41.620 --> 00:29:42.680 the traditions of man 00:29:42.680 --> 00:29:43.660 on the same level 00:29:43.660 --> 00:29:44.820 the commandments of God. 00:29:45.559 --> 00:29:46.680 He calls them 00:29:46.680 --> 00:29:48.220 not planted by God. 00:29:48.299 --> 00:29:49.240 They're going to be uprooted. 00:29:49.380 --> 00:29:50.059 He tells them 00:29:50.059 --> 00:29:50.740 that they're blind, 00:29:50.860 --> 00:29:52.259 saying that they're blind guides. 00:29:53.900 --> 00:29:54.440 Jesus says, 00:29:54.519 --> 00:29:55.519 have nothing to do with them. 00:29:56.820 --> 00:29:58.420 They don't have 00:29:58.420 --> 00:29:59.860 the words you need. 00:29:59.859 --> 00:30:03.759 And then he turns 00:30:03.759 --> 00:30:04.419 to the parable 00:30:04.419 --> 00:30:06.219 in verses 15 through 20. 00:30:07.579 --> 00:30:08.459 In 15, 00:30:08.699 --> 00:30:09.279 Peter says, 00:30:09.659 --> 00:30:10.759 explain the parable to us. 00:30:10.979 --> 00:30:12.099 And in verse 16, 00:30:12.379 --> 00:30:13.500 Jesus kind of says, 00:30:13.919 --> 00:30:14.939 no kind of about it, 00:30:15.179 --> 00:30:16.179 do you not understand? 00:30:16.979 --> 00:30:17.979 Jesus is surprised. 00:30:18.679 --> 00:30:19.759 You guys don't get this? 00:30:20.699 --> 00:30:21.500 You don't understand 00:30:21.500 --> 00:30:22.039 what I'm saying? 00:30:23.559 --> 00:30:24.799 And so instead of just 00:30:24.799 --> 00:30:25.659 kind of like kicking them 00:30:25.659 --> 00:30:26.639 out of where they were 00:30:26.639 --> 00:30:27.819 and throwing his hands up, 00:30:27.819 --> 00:30:29.079 I give up on you guys. 00:30:30.339 --> 00:30:31.659 He spells it out for them. 00:30:32.559 --> 00:30:33.960 I'm so encouraged by this 00:30:33.960 --> 00:30:34.839 because I'm slow 00:30:34.839 --> 00:30:35.539 to understand 00:30:35.539 --> 00:30:36.480 what Jesus says. 00:30:37.619 --> 00:30:38.720 And so to be able to say, 00:30:38.799 --> 00:30:39.000 Jesus, 00:30:39.099 --> 00:30:40.359 would you just explain this to me? 00:30:41.259 --> 00:30:42.500 He's a risen king 00:30:42.500 --> 00:30:44.399 and he loves 00:30:44.399 --> 00:30:45.599 to make clear his word. 00:30:47.279 --> 00:30:48.619 And so what he says 00:30:48.619 --> 00:30:50.139 is what defiles a person 00:30:50.139 --> 00:30:50.879 doesn't come 00:30:50.879 --> 00:30:52.960 from the outside in, 00:30:53.379 --> 00:30:54.779 but what defiles a person 00:30:54.779 --> 00:30:56.960 comes from the inside out. 00:30:56.960 --> 00:30:58.220 And what he's going to say 00:30:58.220 --> 00:30:59.140 is we all have 00:30:59.140 --> 00:31:00.000 a resident evil. 00:31:01.440 --> 00:31:02.319 In verse 17, 00:31:02.500 --> 00:31:03.640 he explains the first part 00:31:03.640 --> 00:31:04.180 of the parable, 00:31:04.559 --> 00:31:05.940 what comes into the mouth. 00:31:08.059 --> 00:31:09.259 He says this, 00:31:11.120 --> 00:31:11.940 do you not see 00:31:11.940 --> 00:31:12.660 that whatever goes 00:31:12.660 --> 00:31:13.240 into the mouth 00:31:13.240 --> 00:31:14.319 passes into the stomach 00:31:14.319 --> 00:31:15.019 and is expelled? 00:31:16.000 --> 00:31:17.059 His focus is on 00:31:17.059 --> 00:31:19.100 the pragmatics of food 00:31:19.100 --> 00:31:19.980 running its course 00:31:19.980 --> 00:31:21.039 through the human body. 00:31:21.200 --> 00:31:22.440 You eat it 00:31:22.440 --> 00:31:24.299 and then you digest it 00:31:24.299 --> 00:31:25.980 and then you expel it. 00:31:26.139 --> 00:31:26.379 Literally, 00:31:26.500 --> 00:31:27.259 that means it goes 00:31:27.259 --> 00:31:28.079 into the latrine. 00:31:30.119 --> 00:31:31.119 Jesus is removing 00:31:31.119 --> 00:31:32.039 any sort of 00:31:32.039 --> 00:31:33.440 spiritualizing of food. 00:31:35.639 --> 00:31:36.200 Eat it, 00:31:36.359 --> 00:31:36.940 digest it, 00:31:37.399 --> 00:31:38.019 and it ends up 00:31:38.019 --> 00:31:38.960 in the latrine, guys. 00:31:39.279 --> 00:31:40.279 It's just food. 00:31:43.180 --> 00:31:44.119 And again, 00:31:44.259 --> 00:31:45.039 Mark says here 00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:46.440 that he declares 00:31:46.440 --> 00:31:48.379 all foods clean 00:31:48.379 --> 00:31:49.200 at this point. 00:31:50.519 --> 00:31:51.619 Food doesn't make you 00:31:51.619 --> 00:31:52.659 dirty in God's sight. 00:31:58.939 --> 00:31:59.639 He's saying 00:31:59.639 --> 00:32:00.359 to his disciples, 00:32:00.519 --> 00:32:00.959 you no longer 00:32:00.959 --> 00:32:01.979 need to be concerned 00:32:01.979 --> 00:32:03.739 about what you eat. 00:32:05.079 --> 00:32:06.119 You need to be concerned 00:32:06.119 --> 00:32:07.359 about something else. 00:32:08.459 --> 00:32:09.779 And that something else 00:32:09.779 --> 00:32:12.319 shows up in verse 18. 00:32:15.779 --> 00:32:16.519 If we're not 00:32:16.519 --> 00:32:17.199 to be concerned 00:32:17.199 --> 00:32:18.259 about what we eat 00:32:18.259 --> 00:32:19.759 or if we're not 00:32:19.759 --> 00:32:20.379 going to be concerned 00:32:20.380 --> 00:32:21.260 about washing 00:32:21.260 --> 00:32:22.480 our hands rightly, 00:32:23.180 --> 00:32:23.940 what are we going 00:32:23.940 --> 00:32:24.980 to be concerned about? 00:32:26.200 --> 00:32:27.140 Jesus says, 00:32:28.200 --> 00:32:28.760 be concerned 00:32:28.760 --> 00:32:29.440 about your heart. 00:32:30.960 --> 00:32:31.740 Be concerned 00:32:31.740 --> 00:32:32.780 about that thing 00:32:32.780 --> 00:32:33.360 in you, 00:32:33.500 --> 00:32:34.340 that central 00:32:34.340 --> 00:32:36.400 inner being 00:32:36.400 --> 00:32:37.320 where you worship 00:32:37.320 --> 00:32:37.800 from. 00:32:38.200 --> 00:32:38.900 That's what you need 00:32:38.900 --> 00:32:39.700 to be concerned about. 00:32:42.360 --> 00:32:43.300 What comes out 00:32:43.300 --> 00:32:43.820 of the mouth 00:32:43.820 --> 00:32:45.240 proceeds from the heart, 00:32:45.420 --> 00:32:46.060 Jesus says. 00:32:46.360 --> 00:32:47.060 And this 00:32:47.060 --> 00:32:48.740 defiles a person. 00:32:48.740 --> 00:32:50.539 This is what makes 00:32:50.539 --> 00:32:51.599 someone unclean 00:32:51.599 --> 00:32:52.559 in God's sight. 00:32:53.019 --> 00:32:53.920 It's like Jesus 00:32:53.920 --> 00:32:54.539 is saying this. 00:32:54.620 --> 00:32:55.339 Don't get me wrong. 00:32:55.720 --> 00:32:56.880 Defilement is real, 00:32:56.880 --> 00:32:58.480 but food isn't 00:32:58.480 --> 00:32:59.059 the cause 00:32:59.059 --> 00:33:00.200 of real defilement. 00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:01.799 Nor is your washing 00:33:01.799 --> 00:33:02.799 or not washing 00:33:02.799 --> 00:33:03.299 your hands 00:33:03.299 --> 00:33:03.980 the real cause 00:33:03.980 --> 00:33:04.539 of defilement. 00:33:04.700 --> 00:33:05.740 The real cause 00:33:05.740 --> 00:33:06.980 of your defilement 00:33:06.980 --> 00:33:08.079 is in you, 00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:08.960 your heart. 00:33:10.620 --> 00:33:11.420 And then he 00:33:11.420 --> 00:33:12.339 elaborates on it. 00:33:13.519 --> 00:33:14.460 It's what comes 00:33:14.460 --> 00:33:15.620 out of the heart 00:33:15.619 --> 00:33:17.979 is what corrupts us. 00:33:18.359 --> 00:33:19.319 Look at verse 9. 00:33:19.679 --> 00:33:20.279 Verse 19, 00:33:20.399 --> 00:33:20.899 excuse me. 00:33:22.579 --> 00:33:23.339 What proceeds 00:33:23.339 --> 00:33:23.899 from the heart? 00:33:24.439 --> 00:33:25.319 Evil thoughts. 00:33:25.639 --> 00:33:26.399 Now, that might be 00:33:26.399 --> 00:33:26.959 a little tough 00:33:26.959 --> 00:33:28.859 for us as Americans 00:33:28.859 --> 00:33:29.479 because when we 00:33:29.479 --> 00:33:30.259 think about thinking, 00:33:30.419 --> 00:33:31.279 you think with your head 00:33:31.279 --> 00:33:31.699 and you feel 00:33:31.699 --> 00:33:32.199 with your heart, 00:33:32.259 --> 00:33:32.459 right? 00:33:33.099 --> 00:33:34.239 Well, what Jewish 00:33:34.239 --> 00:33:34.719 thinking would do, 00:33:34.799 --> 00:33:35.439 they just kind of 00:33:35.439 --> 00:33:36.479 squish it all together. 00:33:37.339 --> 00:33:38.359 You think and you feel 00:33:38.359 --> 00:33:39.339 in the same place, 00:33:39.699 --> 00:33:40.139 your heart. 00:33:40.859 --> 00:33:41.839 And so it's not unusual 00:33:41.839 --> 00:33:42.879 for Jesus to say, 00:33:43.519 --> 00:33:44.179 evil thoughts 00:33:44.179 --> 00:33:45.159 come from your heart. 00:33:46.579 --> 00:33:48.899 And those evil thoughts 00:33:48.899 --> 00:33:50.179 result in things 00:33:50.179 --> 00:33:51.339 like murders. 00:33:52.059 --> 00:33:52.939 In the Greek, 00:33:53.159 --> 00:33:53.759 it's plural. 00:33:54.259 --> 00:33:55.119 And what that does 00:33:55.119 --> 00:33:56.259 is it makes it 00:33:56.259 --> 00:33:57.139 real concrete. 00:33:58.819 --> 00:33:59.859 Where do murders 00:33:59.859 --> 00:34:00.459 come from? 00:34:02.199 --> 00:34:03.039 One's heart. 00:34:04.339 --> 00:34:05.279 Taking a life. 00:34:05.579 --> 00:34:06.119 Adulteries. 00:34:06.219 --> 00:34:07.679 Taking another person's 00:34:07.679 --> 00:34:08.039 spouse. 00:34:08.380 --> 00:34:09.319 Where does that come from? 00:34:09.440 --> 00:34:10.400 From the evil thoughts 00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:11.059 of your heart. 00:34:12.059 --> 00:34:12.839 Where do sexual 00:34:12.839 --> 00:34:14.119 immoralities come from? 00:34:14.119 --> 00:34:15.219 It's just kind of 00:34:15.219 --> 00:34:15.960 a vague term 00:34:15.960 --> 00:34:17.059 for sexual sin. 00:34:17.239 --> 00:34:17.960 A broad term. 00:34:18.339 --> 00:34:19.380 It comes from your heart. 00:34:20.440 --> 00:34:21.699 Where do thefts, 00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:22.699 it's getting plural. 00:34:22.839 --> 00:34:23.719 All these are plural. 00:34:24.719 --> 00:34:25.619 Where do they come from? 00:34:25.759 --> 00:34:26.739 They come from your heart. 00:34:26.880 --> 00:34:27.599 False witnesses 00:34:27.599 --> 00:34:28.739 denying or distorting 00:34:28.739 --> 00:34:29.159 the truth. 00:34:29.239 --> 00:34:30.059 Where does it come from? 00:34:30.339 --> 00:34:31.719 It comes from within you. 00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:33.239 It's not environmental. 00:34:33.619 --> 00:34:34.400 It's not genetic. 00:34:34.759 --> 00:34:35.920 It's from your heart. 00:34:36.880 --> 00:34:38.500 Where do slanders come from? 00:34:38.579 --> 00:34:39.579 Speaking falsely 00:34:39.579 --> 00:34:40.259 of someone else. 00:34:40.420 --> 00:34:41.719 They come from within you. 00:34:42.639 --> 00:34:43.759 You can't pass the buck 00:34:43.759 --> 00:34:44.460 on someone else. 00:34:44.539 --> 00:34:45.360 They're from inside. 00:34:46.539 --> 00:34:47.420 God's going to hold you 00:34:47.420 --> 00:34:48.239 accountable for that. 00:34:49.699 --> 00:34:50.400 Jesus is saying 00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:51.360 all these come from 00:34:51.360 --> 00:34:52.579 out of your heart. 00:34:52.840 --> 00:34:53.779 Now this isn't like 00:34:53.779 --> 00:34:54.699 an exhausted list. 00:34:54.799 --> 00:34:55.719 There's a whole bunch more 00:34:55.719 --> 00:34:56.440 we can talk about. 00:34:59.920 --> 00:35:00.920 The point is that 00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:03.000 Jesus is making here 00:35:03.000 --> 00:35:03.980 is that defilement 00:35:03.980 --> 00:35:04.759 doesn't come from 00:35:04.759 --> 00:35:05.900 the outside in. 00:35:05.900 --> 00:35:08.480 It comes from the inside out. 00:35:08.760 --> 00:35:10.220 From where we worship. 00:35:12.660 --> 00:35:14.160 People don't murder people 00:35:14.160 --> 00:35:14.980 because they haven't 00:35:14.980 --> 00:35:16.099 washed their hands 00:35:16.099 --> 00:35:17.559 or they've eaten pork. 00:35:18.740 --> 00:35:20.039 People murder because 00:35:20.039 --> 00:35:21.220 there's evil thoughts 00:35:21.220 --> 00:35:22.059 in their hearts. 00:35:23.840 --> 00:35:25.639 So Jesus is lovingly 00:35:25.639 --> 00:35:27.000 explaining to His disciples 00:35:27.000 --> 00:35:27.980 and us 00:35:27.980 --> 00:35:29.660 that there's a resident evil 00:35:29.660 --> 00:35:30.440 within us. 00:35:31.480 --> 00:35:33.300 In the words of Jeremiah 17.9 00:35:33.300 --> 00:35:33.559 it says, 00:35:33.700 --> 00:35:35.079 The heart is deceitful 00:35:35.079 --> 00:35:36.219 above all things 00:35:36.219 --> 00:35:38.079 and desperately sick. 00:35:38.460 --> 00:35:39.840 Who can understand it? 00:35:42.619 --> 00:35:43.639 Jesus gets it. 00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:47.099 John 2.24 00:35:47.099 --> 00:35:50.400 Jesus knows the heart of man. 00:35:52.019 --> 00:35:53.219 He sees the depth 00:35:53.219 --> 00:35:54.119 of our defilement. 00:35:55.179 --> 00:35:55.980 And you know what's amazing? 00:35:57.539 --> 00:35:58.699 He loves us still. 00:36:00.559 --> 00:36:02.139 It's the very reason He came. 00:36:02.139 --> 00:36:05.139 He didn't come for the 00:36:05.139 --> 00:36:06.339 sort of dirty. 00:36:07.279 --> 00:36:08.019 He came for those 00:36:08.019 --> 00:36:09.779 who were really defiled. 00:36:10.519 --> 00:36:11.799 For the murderers 00:36:11.799 --> 00:36:13.000 and the adulterers 00:36:13.000 --> 00:36:13.960 and the immoral 00:36:13.960 --> 00:36:16.599 and those who slander 00:36:16.599 --> 00:36:17.940 and bear false witness. 00:36:18.279 --> 00:36:19.239 Those are the ones 00:36:19.239 --> 00:36:20.039 He came for. 00:36:21.119 --> 00:36:22.359 So Jesus concludes 00:36:22.359 --> 00:36:23.440 in verse 20, 00:36:23.619 --> 00:36:24.799 These are what defile 00:36:24.799 --> 00:36:25.299 a person 00:36:25.299 --> 00:36:26.039 but to eat 00:36:26.039 --> 00:36:27.279 with unwashed hands? 00:36:27.280 --> 00:36:29.380 That does not defile anybody. 00:36:31.380 --> 00:36:32.740 If you were to ask Jesus, 00:36:32.860 --> 00:36:33.080 Jesus, 00:36:33.220 --> 00:36:34.140 what makes someone 00:36:34.140 --> 00:36:35.660 corrupt in God's eyes? 00:36:36.080 --> 00:36:37.040 You know what Jesus would say? 00:36:37.880 --> 00:36:38.660 Their heart. 00:36:39.920 --> 00:36:41.200 The evil that comes 00:36:41.200 --> 00:36:41.800 from their heart. 00:36:41.920 --> 00:36:43.240 And that is the point 00:36:43.240 --> 00:36:44.100 of this passage. 00:36:44.540 --> 00:36:46.040 That's the unique contribution 00:36:46.040 --> 00:36:47.280 of this passage 00:36:47.280 --> 00:36:48.540 to our understanding 00:36:48.540 --> 00:36:50.160 of God's mind. 00:36:50.280 --> 00:36:51.420 He wants us to know 00:36:51.420 --> 00:36:52.660 that our problem, 00:36:52.960 --> 00:36:53.519 biggest problem, 00:36:53.580 --> 00:36:54.820 isn't outside of us. 00:36:54.820 --> 00:36:57.559 it's inside of us. 00:36:59.700 --> 00:37:00.720 And so let's look 00:37:00.720 --> 00:37:01.559 to apply this. 00:37:05.920 --> 00:37:06.400 Jesus, 00:37:06.840 --> 00:37:07.920 the first way 00:37:07.920 --> 00:37:08.980 to apply it is this. 00:37:09.360 --> 00:37:10.539 And it's on a lighter note. 00:37:11.800 --> 00:37:12.780 Since what comes 00:37:12.780 --> 00:37:13.360 into your mouth 00:37:13.360 --> 00:37:14.600 is not what defiles you, 00:37:14.800 --> 00:37:15.900 eat whatever you want. 00:37:16.680 --> 00:37:17.580 Enjoy Doritos. 00:37:18.340 --> 00:37:19.100 Have a Cuban. 00:37:19.580 --> 00:37:20.260 Enjoy it. 00:37:20.880 --> 00:37:22.059 It doesn't defile you. 00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:23.120 It might shorten 00:37:23.120 --> 00:37:24.080 your life a little bit, 00:37:24.079 --> 00:37:25.599 but it doesn't defile you. 00:37:26.340 --> 00:37:27.579 You might put on some pounds, 00:37:27.739 --> 00:37:29.059 but it doesn't defile you. 00:37:30.920 --> 00:37:32.360 So Jesus isn't saying 00:37:32.360 --> 00:37:33.440 throw out wisdom. 00:37:37.119 --> 00:37:38.659 But on a more serious note, 00:37:39.119 --> 00:37:39.779 here's what we see 00:37:39.779 --> 00:37:40.619 Jesus doing here. 00:37:42.099 --> 00:37:43.619 He is authoritatively 00:37:44.219 --> 00:37:45.599 making a statement 00:37:45.599 --> 00:37:47.639 about the human condition. 00:37:48.860 --> 00:37:50.119 He is saying 00:37:50.119 --> 00:37:51.860 this is your real problem. 00:37:51.860 --> 00:37:54.579 Don't buy the externals 00:37:54.579 --> 00:37:55.500 of the Pharisees. 00:37:55.500 --> 00:37:58.160 Let that behavioralism go. 00:38:00.019 --> 00:38:00.500 No. 00:38:01.680 --> 00:38:03.059 Pay attention to your heart. 00:38:03.740 --> 00:38:05.160 Because what controls your heart 00:38:05.160 --> 00:38:06.220 controls your life. 00:38:08.559 --> 00:38:10.059 And so what Jesus does, 00:38:10.120 --> 00:38:10.960 and I just want to expand 00:38:10.960 --> 00:38:11.800 on this a little bit, 00:38:12.800 --> 00:38:15.079 he helps us see 00:38:15.079 --> 00:38:16.280 how wicked our hearts are. 00:38:16.280 --> 00:38:20.260 We've got a radical evil 00:38:20.260 --> 00:38:21.040 inside of us. 00:38:21.140 --> 00:38:22.040 It goes down deep. 00:38:22.760 --> 00:38:24.680 We have a pervasive evil 00:38:24.680 --> 00:38:25.480 inside of us. 00:38:25.540 --> 00:38:26.900 It's what the theologians 00:38:26.900 --> 00:38:28.120 call total depravity. 00:38:28.340 --> 00:38:29.340 We're not as bad 00:38:29.340 --> 00:38:30.519 as we can possibly be, 00:38:30.740 --> 00:38:31.660 but sin affects 00:38:31.660 --> 00:38:33.480 everything that we are. 00:38:34.060 --> 00:38:35.800 It pervades all of our life. 00:38:37.260 --> 00:38:38.940 It's a controlling evil. 00:38:39.320 --> 00:38:40.700 If you point to James 4 00:38:40.700 --> 00:38:41.240 and you ask, 00:38:41.360 --> 00:38:42.260 why are there fights 00:38:42.260 --> 00:38:43.260 and quarrels among you? 00:38:43.260 --> 00:38:44.680 James says, 00:38:44.960 --> 00:38:45.760 is it not because of 00:38:45.760 --> 00:38:46.640 the evil passions 00:38:46.640 --> 00:38:47.700 that war within you? 00:38:48.660 --> 00:38:51.740 It can be a controlling evil. 00:38:52.080 --> 00:38:53.900 It's a polluting evil. 00:38:54.100 --> 00:38:55.000 It's destructive. 00:38:55.340 --> 00:38:56.460 It's disunifying. 00:38:56.640 --> 00:38:57.700 It's divisive. 00:38:59.000 --> 00:39:01.160 It's a deceptive evil. 00:39:01.560 --> 00:39:02.580 The heart is deceptive 00:39:02.580 --> 00:39:03.500 above all things. 00:39:03.800 --> 00:39:05.080 It's a universal evil. 00:39:05.079 --> 00:39:09.019 The heart problem 00:39:09.019 --> 00:39:10.299 is not just limited 00:39:10.299 --> 00:39:12.500 to the young or the old. 00:39:13.000 --> 00:39:15.739 It goes across racial lines. 00:39:15.940 --> 00:39:18.019 It goes across upbringings. 00:39:18.259 --> 00:39:19.019 It doesn't matter 00:39:19.019 --> 00:39:20.219 how much money you've got. 00:39:20.460 --> 00:39:21.019 It doesn't matter 00:39:21.019 --> 00:39:22.380 which neighborhood you live in. 00:39:22.659 --> 00:39:23.559 Kind of how you spend 00:39:23.559 --> 00:39:24.639 your time during the day. 00:39:26.539 --> 00:39:28.579 Everybody's got a heart problem. 00:39:30.019 --> 00:39:31.659 It's a universal evil. 00:39:31.659 --> 00:39:34.460 And it's a capital evil. 00:39:35.699 --> 00:39:37.119 God is not indifferent 00:39:37.119 --> 00:39:38.519 about the resident evil 00:39:38.519 --> 00:39:39.199 in our hearts. 00:39:39.719 --> 00:39:41.519 He's deeply offended by it 00:39:41.519 --> 00:39:42.879 because our hearts 00:39:42.879 --> 00:39:45.279 were created to worship Him, 00:39:45.899 --> 00:39:47.920 not disobey Him, 00:39:48.239 --> 00:39:49.339 not mock Him, 00:39:49.679 --> 00:39:51.239 not idolize other things 00:39:51.239 --> 00:39:52.159 in His place. 00:39:54.139 --> 00:39:55.799 John Calvin called the human heart 00:39:55.799 --> 00:39:57.159 an idol factory, 00:39:57.619 --> 00:39:59.000 just producing one idol 00:39:59.000 --> 00:40:00.119 after the next. 00:40:01.659 --> 00:40:05.339 Jesus prevents us 00:40:05.339 --> 00:40:06.219 from minimizing 00:40:06.219 --> 00:40:07.799 or justifying 00:40:07.799 --> 00:40:09.920 the real problem we have. 00:40:10.259 --> 00:40:11.659 We can't point to others. 00:40:12.059 --> 00:40:13.500 We can't point to our DNA. 00:40:14.039 --> 00:40:15.319 We've got to own 00:40:15.319 --> 00:40:17.139 the problem inside of us. 00:40:17.500 --> 00:40:19.379 It's evil and it's ours. 00:40:20.179 --> 00:40:21.259 And it's against God. 00:40:22.039 --> 00:40:24.139 And He rightfully condemns it. 00:40:24.139 --> 00:40:27.699 But on that day 00:40:27.699 --> 00:40:28.980 when you stand before the throne, 00:40:29.679 --> 00:40:30.679 you will be held accountable 00:40:30.679 --> 00:40:31.899 for every evil deed 00:40:31.899 --> 00:40:33.179 and every evil thought. 00:40:36.960 --> 00:40:37.399 Now, 00:40:37.619 --> 00:40:39.539 if we just wrap things up right here, 00:40:40.440 --> 00:40:41.539 you guys would be like, 00:40:41.799 --> 00:40:42.639 well, that was a bummer. 00:40:44.519 --> 00:40:45.940 I can eat pork now, 00:40:46.039 --> 00:40:46.559 but you know what? 00:40:46.559 --> 00:40:47.519 I'm really bummed out. 00:40:47.519 --> 00:40:47.559 I'm really bummed out. 00:40:47.559 --> 00:40:47.599 God, 00:40:48.239 --> 00:40:52.880 I've got good news for you. 00:40:56.239 --> 00:40:57.460 The good news is that 00:40:57.460 --> 00:40:58.639 God's grace goes deeper 00:40:58.639 --> 00:40:59.579 than your deepest evil. 00:41:00.980 --> 00:41:02.440 A radical problem requires 00:41:02.440 --> 00:41:03.440 a radical solution 00:41:03.440 --> 00:41:04.920 and the cross of Jesus Christ 00:41:04.920 --> 00:41:06.860 is that radical problem 00:41:06.860 --> 00:41:08.099 that goes down deep 00:41:08.099 --> 00:41:09.079 where sin is 00:41:09.079 --> 00:41:10.920 and radically changes it. 00:41:11.320 --> 00:41:12.320 God, by His Spirit, 00:41:12.440 --> 00:41:13.559 comes to indwell you 00:41:13.559 --> 00:41:15.039 and not only changes 00:41:15.039 --> 00:41:15.820 your affections, 00:41:16.039 --> 00:41:17.779 He gives you a new desire 00:41:17.779 --> 00:41:19.279 to worship Him 00:41:19.279 --> 00:41:19.900 and obey Him. 00:41:21.320 --> 00:41:22.440 The good news is that 00:41:22.440 --> 00:41:23.019 God's grace 00:41:23.019 --> 00:41:24.340 is a pervasive grace. 00:41:25.039 --> 00:41:26.099 When a sinner repents 00:41:26.099 --> 00:41:27.059 and trusts in Jesus, 00:41:27.440 --> 00:41:29.400 God claims all of that sinner 00:41:29.400 --> 00:41:30.519 by the blood of Jesus. 00:41:30.759 --> 00:41:31.800 Every square inch 00:41:31.800 --> 00:41:32.940 of your life, Christian, 00:41:33.320 --> 00:41:33.940 is claimed 00:41:33.940 --> 00:41:35.239 by the blood of Jesus. 00:41:35.719 --> 00:41:37.440 His grace will pervade 00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:39.279 every area of your life 00:41:39.279 --> 00:41:40.659 in order to make you 00:41:40.659 --> 00:41:41.500 more like Him. 00:41:41.500 --> 00:41:43.139 the good news is 00:41:43.139 --> 00:41:44.159 that God's grace 00:41:44.159 --> 00:41:45.340 is a pervasive grace. 00:41:45.780 --> 00:41:46.639 The good news is that 00:41:46.639 --> 00:41:47.460 God's grace 00:41:47.460 --> 00:41:53.199 is an overpowering grace. 00:41:55.920 --> 00:41:57.920 God's grace is more powerful 00:41:57.920 --> 00:41:59.800 than sin in you. 00:42:01.840 --> 00:42:03.519 God's grace breaks 00:42:03.519 --> 00:42:05.480 the power of sin in you. 00:42:07.880 --> 00:42:10.019 God's grace is an overpowering grace. 00:42:10.639 --> 00:42:11.440 That's the good news. 00:42:11.880 --> 00:42:12.719 Here's another good news. 00:42:13.079 --> 00:42:15.780 God's grace is a sanctifying grace. 00:42:16.239 --> 00:42:18.500 It cleans up what sin pollutes. 00:42:18.639 --> 00:42:19.420 It transforms. 00:42:20.019 --> 00:42:20.840 It redeems. 00:42:21.199 --> 00:42:22.760 It makes murderers 00:42:22.760 --> 00:42:23.920 into life givers. 00:42:24.239 --> 00:42:25.659 It makes adulterers 00:42:25.659 --> 00:42:27.239 into those who keep their vows. 00:42:27.500 --> 00:42:28.719 It makes thieves 00:42:28.719 --> 00:42:29.780 generous givers. 00:42:29.780 --> 00:42:32.440 It makes liars truth tellers. 00:42:35.820 --> 00:42:36.840 That's the good news 00:42:36.840 --> 00:42:37.719 of God's grace. 00:42:37.719 --> 00:42:41.299 God's grace is a universal problem 00:42:41.300 --> 00:42:42.039 God's grace is that 00:42:42.039 --> 00:42:42.780 God's grace is that the deceptiveness 00:42:42.780 --> 00:42:43.480 of sin, 00:42:43.480 --> 00:42:44.900 it is put, 00:42:45.460 --> 00:42:46.920 it's exposed 00:42:46.920 --> 00:42:48.720 by God's word. 00:42:49.220 --> 00:42:50.060 It's seen 00:42:50.060 --> 00:42:51.600 for what it is. 00:42:52.080 --> 00:42:52.720 God grabs 00:42:52.720 --> 00:42:54.280 onto slippery sins 00:42:54.280 --> 00:42:55.420 and puts them to death 00:42:55.420 --> 00:42:56.160 by His Spirit. 00:42:56.640 --> 00:42:57.640 Romans 8.13. 00:42:58.640 --> 00:42:59.880 The good news is that 00:42:59.880 --> 00:43:00.519 God's grace 00:43:00.519 --> 00:43:01.519 is freely offered 00:43:01.519 --> 00:43:02.240 to all people. 00:43:02.600 --> 00:43:03.480 The resident evil 00:43:03.480 --> 00:43:04.600 in each of us 00:43:04.599 --> 00:43:06.400 is a universal problem 00:43:06.400 --> 00:43:07.199 of all mankind 00:43:07.199 --> 00:43:09.059 and God offers 00:43:09.059 --> 00:43:10.179 a universal solution. 00:43:11.759 --> 00:43:12.400 God's power 00:43:12.400 --> 00:43:13.319 to radically change 00:43:13.319 --> 00:43:13.980 a human heart 00:43:13.980 --> 00:43:14.719 is offered 00:43:14.719 --> 00:43:15.940 to all people 00:43:15.940 --> 00:43:16.539 everywhere 00:43:16.539 --> 00:43:17.299 in the gospel. 00:43:18.079 --> 00:43:18.699 God says 00:43:18.699 --> 00:43:19.480 in 1 Timothy 2 00:43:19.480 --> 00:43:20.519 He wants all people 00:43:20.519 --> 00:43:21.179 to be saved. 00:43:21.599 --> 00:43:22.699 God does not want 00:43:22.699 --> 00:43:23.839 His image bearers 00:43:23.839 --> 00:43:24.819 worshiping things 00:43:24.819 --> 00:43:25.739 that are not Him 00:43:25.739 --> 00:43:27.139 and so the gospel 00:43:27.139 --> 00:43:27.759 goes out 00:43:27.759 --> 00:43:28.679 to change hearts. 00:43:30.099 --> 00:43:30.779 God's grace 00:43:30.779 --> 00:43:32.420 is greater 00:43:32.420 --> 00:43:33.400 than your evil heart, 00:43:33.400 --> 00:43:34.740 anyone's evil heart. 00:43:37.019 --> 00:43:37.860 And finally, 00:43:37.980 --> 00:43:38.440 the good news 00:43:38.440 --> 00:43:38.940 is that God 00:43:38.940 --> 00:43:41.180 graciously offers 00:43:41.180 --> 00:43:41.720 pardon 00:43:41.720 --> 00:43:42.800 to those 00:43:42.800 --> 00:43:45.360 with capital crimes. 00:43:47.099 --> 00:43:47.800 It's true 00:43:47.800 --> 00:43:48.480 that our evil 00:43:48.480 --> 00:43:49.380 sinful hearts 00:43:49.380 --> 00:43:51.000 rightly condemn us 00:43:51.000 --> 00:43:52.480 but the one 00:43:52.480 --> 00:43:53.840 speaking these words 00:43:53.840 --> 00:43:54.940 do you know 00:43:54.940 --> 00:43:55.599 what He's going to do? 00:43:57.019 --> 00:43:58.119 He's going to say it. 00:43:59.500 --> 00:44:00.599 I'm going to give my life 00:44:00.599 --> 00:44:01.519 as a ransom for many. 00:44:01.519 --> 00:44:03.380 He's going to go 00:44:03.380 --> 00:44:04.139 to the cross 00:44:04.139 --> 00:44:05.380 and He's going to 00:44:05.380 --> 00:44:06.539 offer Himself 00:44:06.539 --> 00:44:08.300 as a pardon 00:44:08.300 --> 00:44:09.900 for your capital 00:44:09.900 --> 00:44:10.880 crimes. 00:44:11.559 --> 00:44:12.420 He's going to be 00:44:12.420 --> 00:44:13.079 a ransom 00:44:13.079 --> 00:44:14.019 for you. 00:44:14.880 --> 00:44:16.099 He substituted 00:44:16.099 --> 00:44:17.059 Himself 00:44:17.059 --> 00:44:18.000 in your place. 00:44:18.139 --> 00:44:19.199 He died on the cross 00:44:19.199 --> 00:44:20.739 so that you can be 00:44:20.739 --> 00:44:21.099 forgiven. 00:44:22.280 --> 00:44:22.880 The good news 00:44:22.880 --> 00:44:24.099 is that God's grace 00:44:24.099 --> 00:44:25.340 offers 00:44:25.340 --> 00:44:27.079 a great salvation. 00:44:27.079 --> 00:44:30.659 brothers and sisters 00:44:30.659 --> 00:44:31.420 this morning 00:44:31.420 --> 00:44:32.139 we had to look 00:44:32.139 --> 00:44:32.519 at something 00:44:32.519 --> 00:44:33.299 heavy and hard 00:44:33.299 --> 00:44:35.000 and that's inside 00:44:35.000 --> 00:44:35.380 of you 00:44:35.380 --> 00:44:36.920 in each of you 00:44:36.920 --> 00:44:39.199 but it's not 00:44:39.199 --> 00:44:39.980 bad news 00:44:39.980 --> 00:44:41.840 because it points 00:44:41.840 --> 00:44:42.819 to Jesus 00:44:42.819 --> 00:44:44.539 and our need 00:44:44.539 --> 00:44:44.980 for Him 00:44:44.980 --> 00:44:46.139 and what only 00:44:46.139 --> 00:44:46.739 He can do 00:44:46.739 --> 00:44:48.139 and that is 00:44:48.139 --> 00:44:48.940 to change 00:44:48.940 --> 00:44:49.920 our hearts 00:44:49.920 --> 00:44:51.440 and when He 00:44:51.440 --> 00:44:52.460 changes our hearts 00:44:52.460 --> 00:44:54.219 He changes 00:44:54.219 --> 00:44:55.480 changes our lives. 00:44:56.899 --> 00:44:57.579 Would you bow 00:44:57.579 --> 00:44:57.919 with me? 00:44:59.919 --> 00:45:00.759 God in heaven 00:45:00.759 --> 00:45:03.139 I pray that 00:45:03.139 --> 00:45:03.719 You would make us 00:45:03.719 --> 00:45:04.500 people who pay 00:45:04.500 --> 00:45:05.319 attention to 00:45:05.319 --> 00:45:06.459 our hearts 00:45:06.459 --> 00:45:07.759 and cry out 00:45:07.759 --> 00:45:08.219 to You 00:45:08.219 --> 00:45:08.899 to change 00:45:08.899 --> 00:45:09.559 our hearts 00:45:09.559 --> 00:45:11.159 and in so doing 00:45:11.159 --> 00:45:12.179 change the way 00:45:12.179 --> 00:45:13.079 we live our lives. 00:45:13.759 --> 00:45:14.179 God I pray 00:45:14.179 --> 00:45:14.799 for the parents 00:45:14.799 --> 00:45:15.299 in the room. 00:45:15.679 --> 00:45:16.559 I pray that parents 00:45:16.559 --> 00:45:17.679 God would love 00:45:17.679 --> 00:45:18.299 their children 00:45:18.300 --> 00:45:19.340 beyond making 00:45:19.340 --> 00:45:20.500 them behave right 00:45:20.500 --> 00:45:22.480 to calling 00:45:22.480 --> 00:45:23.340 them to repentance 00:45:23.340 --> 00:45:24.720 to showing 00:45:24.720 --> 00:45:25.120 them their 00:45:25.120 --> 00:45:26.539 hearts are wicked 00:45:26.539 --> 00:45:27.519 in need of a Savior. 00:45:28.360 --> 00:45:28.920 God would You 00:45:28.920 --> 00:45:29.800 make us parents 00:45:29.800 --> 00:45:31.700 who gospelize 00:45:31.700 --> 00:45:32.220 our children. 00:45:33.600 --> 00:45:34.320 God I do pray 00:45:34.320 --> 00:45:35.060 as well for this 00:45:35.060 --> 00:45:35.840 church that we 00:45:35.840 --> 00:45:36.539 would be a people 00:45:36.539 --> 00:45:38.460 who don't focus 00:45:38.460 --> 00:45:39.380 on externals 00:45:39.380 --> 00:45:42.380 for external sake 00:45:42.380 --> 00:45:43.320 but God we pay 00:45:43.320 --> 00:45:43.840 attention 00:45:43.840 --> 00:45:45.400 to the change 00:45:45.400 --> 00:45:46.440 the gospel brings 00:45:46.440 --> 00:45:47.860 to individual hearts. 00:45:48.680 --> 00:45:49.820 Help us to proclaim 00:45:49.820 --> 00:45:50.539 that faithfully 00:45:50.539 --> 00:45:51.400 in Jesus name 00:45:51.400 --> 00:45:52.539 Amen.