Charge and publish without understanding

 

March 29, 2021 for 44.0 pm / 2:44 pm April 1, 2021

“but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it;”

How Christ honored children. Funny that he said you have to become like little children to enter into his kingdom. Matthew 18.3 What did he mean? The innocence. Didn’t he say his yoke is easy and his burden is light? Matthew 11:28-30 He said when you are laden in heavy labor to come to him and he will give rest. And he spoke about children and how the kingdom of heaven is theirs. So I just want to reiterate a scripture today being Mark 7.

Now Jesus the messiah told the lady to let the children have what is theirs. What is on the table is theirs but the woman knew that the dogs were taking the crumbs that belong to the children and eating it. I’m going to post the whole scripture here. 

This is from Mark 7 (King James Bible).

7 Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.

2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.

3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.

4 And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.

5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?

6 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.

9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.

10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:

11 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.

12 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;

13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

14 And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:

15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.

16 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.

17 And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.

18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;

19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?

20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.

21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

24 And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid.

25 For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:

26 The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.

27 But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.

28 And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.

29 And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.

30 And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.

31 And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.

32 And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.

33 And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;

34 And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.

35 And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.

36 And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it;

37 And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.

https://word66.blogspot.com/2021/03/when-mammon-becomes-your-god.html

So there are a few things that brought me to look at this.

The conundrum is the traditions of men. You will keep your own traditions making to none affect the word of God. The other thing is I don’t think the Lord likes the prosperity gospel. He didn’t charge a dime or even a penny for this lecture let alone casting out demons. The other thing that the Lord explained what truly makes a person not clean. He talked about honoring him with the lips only. And that such people’s/their hearts are far from him. He reiterated Isaiah‘s prophecy about these people having wax in their ears and he called them hypocrites. So from 21 - 23 it tells us what really defiles a man? See people have selective hearing. They are so easily deceived and they become  none profitable. They are dull of hearing.

The more he charge them not to tell anybody the more they were astonished and they published it. We are reading about it centuries later. They shout it out from the rooftop. They have selective hearing.

So what defiles a man or even a woman is what comes out of their mouth which comes from their heart. What comes out of their heart that de-files them is those thoughts of wickedness that they may act upon.

So the meat a man eats does not defile him. It turns into waist and comes out.

Sure we know if people smoke cigarettes they can get cancer. Second hand smoke can give people cancer so it’s still sin. Sure we know some foods people are allergic to such as peanuts. Sure we know alcohol causes Liver damage and other damages. But that’s not the just of this teaching. Man will not live on bread and water alone but by every idle word that comes forth from the mouth of God. Man is going to give an account for every idle word that left his mouth unless he is covered by the blood of the lamb and forgiven. Swearing, slander, taking the name of God in vain, all sorts of foolish talk is wicked and ungodly.

You see one of the greatest points he didn’t charge a dime. There was no prosperity gospel. He cared about the children. They are innocent. And it also shows that even the disciples or the apostles and the Pharisees for that matter weren’t listening. They just couldn’t hear what he meant. What we have these days is many reprobates. What we have today is people that want to be filled with worldliness but don’t have ears for the truth. He is the way, the truth and the LIFE!

Final thoughts...

The double idiom is that for a certain Syrophenician woman, wasn’t really listening at first but begging as she wanted her daughter to be clean. But she had great faith and she was persistent. There is word that she was an enemy of the Jews. There are different accounts of the story. The child who had been infected by wicked spirit well who’s fault was it? Do you think it might’ve been the parent fault being the woman. Because of her persistence and her acknowledgement of the Lord in gentle respect Jesus Christ seen she had faith. The Lord healed her daughter.

Some peoples have wax in their ears and they hold onto their own traditions. Even in vain do they worship him? He opened the ears that weren’t listening and cast out Demons. He gives sight to the blind too.

Blessed is the man who sees and hears for many would’ve wanted to see and hear what some others do see and hear.

I thought this woman situation could use a little bit of explanation more in depth..Syrophenician Woman’s faith.

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