“laying aside the commandment of God” Laying aside or abandoning the commandments of God. For what purpose? To follow human traditions. These big shots from Jerusalem were not helping here in Gennesaret. When these Scribes and Pharisees saw what was happening did they praise God? No! They found fault. Jesus tells them in verse 9 that they were willing to reject God Commands in order to keep tradition.
Mark 7:9 (KJV) And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
Mark 7:10 (KJV) For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
God by Moses wrote Honor Parents with your words as well as your deeds. Provide for them, when? When they are in want and distress, through poverty and old age. That’s a lot of work, what’s in it for me? Well first, that’s the wrong attitude, that’s a me attitude which is all about you and no one else. But God will reward you. Exodus 20:12 (KJV) Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. Honor mom and dad and God says “that thy days may be long upon the land” but you are to busy exercising and eating right so your days will be long upon the land. Go take care of your mom and dad and you might hear the doctor say “I just can’t understand why you are in such good health being so overweight as you are.” Excuse me while I have another one of those jelly filled donuts; no make it two.
Mark 7:11 (KJV) But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free. Now I’ll be truthful. I didn't understand all of what this verse meant but I do understand the subject which is being taught here. I think it all boils down to this, watch out that tradition doesn’t override God’s Commandments. Traditions change, Commandments don’t. Traditions can’t give promises Commandments can and do. Commandments don’t restrict nor do they hold you back. My Pastor James A Peppers said it like this. Down the street from the Church there was a dog in a backyard with a fence. Up next to the fence there was no grass because the dog kept running up next to the fence chasing cars as they went by. The fence was there to protect not to harm. Do away with the fence and the dog would be no more. That is what has happened here in our country, no commandments, it’s like taking down the fence. What happened to the dog? There are results for removing the fence. Moms and dads dying alone among strangers, because children don’t step up to the plate. Confused sexually yes, that happened the same way when you are told to head south and you drive north. You don’t get to the right place and you can’t make Alaska Florida! You can think it’s Florida you can act like it’s Florida but winter is coming and so is the darkness. Oh I went by that house where the dog had chased cars until the grass refused to grow. Well the grass is growing, the yard looks green and really nice. I looked closer to see that the fence was gone, and so was the dog. Just a simple word picture you can take down the fence and all can look so pretty. You can disregard the commandments and it all looks fine. Those commandments are old and we are living in a different world now than Bible days. Let’s remove the commandments we don’t need anymore. So we have and now it looks good why it look that the yard where the dog was after the fence was removed.
Wonder what happened to the dog?
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