Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life.

In the time it takes to get to work, I'm Keith Simon.

I have a friend who's really open to conversations about faith, but who will be the first to tell you that he is not a

Christian. Several years ago this friend and I were waiting to pick our kids up from practice

when out of nowhere he said he hated how hypocritical Christians are.

This sent him on a brief rant about all the ways Christians turn him off to

Jesus. I totally get it. Sometimes the behavior of those

who call themselves Christians can be an obstacle keeping some people from Jesus. I

said to my friend the more you talk about how much you dislike hypocrisy the more you sound like

Jesus now he was surprised to hear that to say the least he thought his disdain for

hypocrisy was a

reason to reject Jesus, and I was telling him that his disdain for hypocrisy was making him sound more like Jesus.

I'm not sure anyone has taken a more public and forceful stand against

hypocrisy than Jesus.

And one place we see that play out is Mark Chappell. stand against hypocrisy than Jesus.

And one place we see that play out is Mark Chapter 7 in a discussion that Jesus had with

the Pharisees about the Old Testament law.

See for a few centuries before the time of Jesus, some Jewish groups, including the Pharisees, had created laws that governed people's behavior.

While these laws were not found in the scriptures, they were wrongly given scriptural authority.

Jesus called these man-made laws.

He called them the tradition of the elders, or human traditions.

These human traditions became a big issue when the

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