Friday, September 7, 2018

Who is Jesus? chapter 22


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Come Heal my Tormented Daughter 

Who is Jesus? chapter 22 
Jesus explains about tradition; Heals a young girl and opens deaf ears.   Our message today is taken from Mark's gospel chapter seven.

When their boat had crossed over, they came to the land at Gennesaret.  And the people immediately recognized Jesus and ran about the whole region and began to bring the sick people on their beds to wherever they heard he was.  And wherever he came, to the villages, cities, or countryside, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged him that they might touch even the fringe of his garment. And as many as touched him were made well.

Now when the Pharisees with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were not properly washed.  (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands in special ways by their tradition. And there are many other traditions that they observe.  


And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of our fathers, but eat with defiled hands?”  And Jesus said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, "This people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine the man made commandments." You leave the commandments of God in order to carry out your traditions.

And he called the people to come close and said to them, “Listen, and understand:  There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”
  
Now when he had entered the house and left the people, his disciples asked him to explain what he had just told the people.   And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, since it enters his stomach and is expelled and not his heart?” (Thus he declared all foods to be clean.)  

And he continued saying; “What comes out of a persons mouth is what defiles him.  For from within, out of the heart of a person, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,  coveting, wickedness, deceit, envy, slander, pride, and such foolishness.  All these evil things come from within, and they degrade a person.”

And after they had a time of rest, Jesus arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon.  And he entered a house and tried not to let anyone know where he was, but he could not be hidden.  

Immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet.  Now the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.  And he said to her, “Let the children be fed first, for it is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”  But she answered him, “Yes, Lord; yet even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”  And he said to her, “For this statement you may go your way; the demon has left your daughter.” And she went home and found her child resting quietly and the demon was gone.

Then he returned from the region of Tyre and going through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, in the area of  Decapolis.  And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had a problem with his speech, and they begged Jesus to lay his hand on the man.  

And taking him aside from the crowd privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and after spitting touched his tongue.  And looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, “Ephphatha,” that means, “Be opened.”  And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly. 

And Jesus  charged them to tell no one. But the more he charged them, the more zealously they proclaimed it.   And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”

My prayer today for you is that your spiritual eyes and ears will be opened to Listen to Jesus saying:  Come onto me and I heal your heart, your eyes and ears, and cause you to become a new person as you follow me.

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