Welcome to a year in the Bible with daily grace. From Eden to eternity, the Bible

tells one big story of redemption. My name is Tiffany and I want to spend a

few minutes with you every day walking through the Bible chronologically.

Together, we will explore God's sovereign plan as the events of scripture unfold and point to Jesus.

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Tiffany here, and today we return to the Gospels of Matthew and Mark. Once again, we will see the importance of our heart posture and how it overflows into our actions.

This lesson will come from the Pharisees, a Gentile woman, and even the disciples. We begin with another interaction between

Jesus and the Pharisees.

This narrative might have sounded familiar to several other interactions

Jesus has already had with them, and that is because they just don't seem to understand Jesus's message.

The Pharisees are far more concerned with their outward piety than their inward purity before the Lord.

Once again, the Pharisees call out Jesus and his disciples for not ceremonially washing

their hands before a meal.

As we've mentioned before, during the 400 years between Malachai and Matthew,

the Sanhedron was formed, and over time they continually added to God's law. Ceremonial purity was of

utmost important to these religious men, but in this interaction with them

Jesus calls out their hypocritical practices in both the Matthew

and Mark accounts. They focus so much on outward cleanliness that they neglect the heart. Their unwashed hands don't defile

them but their sinful hearts do. Jesus uses an example of how these religious men have clung to legalism and tradition instead of truly following the law.

He speaks about the command to honor, mother, and father, and how children do not care for them in their old age by claiming

that their money is Corbin.

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