The Road to Calvary - Day 8: Religiosity Exposed
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 9 April 2025
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Summary
It is time to confront a tragic truth: the 21st-century church has a perception problem. Many view religion—and Christians particularly—as cruel, unforgiving, and even scandalous. So, where did the church go wrong? In this program, Chip talks about the alarming rise in counterfeit faith and examines how Jesus confronted the religious hypocrisy of His day. Hear how He exposed the duplicity between the Pharisees' outward piety and inward corruption and why we are to live lives of authenticity and integrity.
Main Points
I. The tradition of men demonstrated = Mark 7:1-23- Public confrontation = Mark 7:1-16
- Private interpretation = Mark 7:7-23
- Miracle #1 – External defilement rejected = Mark 7:24-30
- Miracle #2 – Internal defilement rejected = Mark 7:31-37
- Miracle #3 – The needs of “all” men provided = Mark 8:1-10
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About Chip Ingram
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About Living on the Edge
Living on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Christianity in the 21st century is often viewed as hypocritical instead of authentic, cruel |
| 0:07.3 | instead of loving, humiliating instead of forgiving, and scandalous instead of genuine. |
| 0:13.5 | Where did the church go wrong? |
| 0:15.0 | And is there hope to restore our Savior's reputation? |
| 0:18.3 | Well, coming up on living on the edge, Jesus will unmask the deceitful nature |
| 0:22.5 | of the religious leaders of his day and share some wisdom to identify false faith. I'm Dave Drury, |
| 0:29.3 | and we appreciate you joining us today as we pick up in our new series The Road to Calvary. |
| 0:34.3 | And we're a little over halfway through this study, but it's not too late to sign up for |
| 0:38.3 | our new digital devotional, which follows our journey through Mark's Gospel. |
| 0:43.1 | Go to Living on the Edge.org to learn more. |
| 0:46.3 | Well, with that, let's join our Bible teacher, Chip Ingram in Mark Chapter 7 for today's |
| 0:50.6 | message, Reliiosity Exposed. Welcome to Day 8 of our study of the Gospel of Mark. |
| 0:58.0 | I know when you get right about here, your life gets busy, |
| 1:01.0 | and that's one reason why we're just doing it Monday through Friday, |
| 1:04.0 | giving people time on the weekend to pause, reflect, maybe catch up. |
| 1:09.0 | But most of all, as we move toward the cross and Easter |
| 1:13.4 | and the resurrection, we want to prepare our hearts and do sort of a you are there walk with |
| 1:19.8 | Jesus. Where we're at the end of chapter 6, his popularity is mushroomed. I mean, he's the most |
| 1:26.6 | popular person, and it's not just now in |
| 1:29.0 | Judea and Jerusalem, but the Gentile areas. And so remember that in the first half of the |
| 1:35.0 | book, there's three oppositions. And the first one was pretty strong and abrasive, and now |
| 1:41.2 | they're going sort of an end run. And so we'll have a big controversy about tradition versus the truth. |
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