Ritual, Religion, and Regeneration (Part b)

Message Notes:

The Gospel According to Mark

Evaluating One’s Spirituality

C. Jesus’ Ministry Transitioning (6:1-8:26)

7. Ritual, Religion, and Regeneration: The Law in the New Age (7:1-23) (Part a)

a. The Controversy Between Jesus and the Religious Leadership: Ritual Revisited (7:1-13)

1) The Setting of the Controversy: The Rebuke by the Religious Leadership (7:1-5)

2) The Snuffing out of the Controversy: The Rebuttal by Jesus (7:6-13)

a) Jesus’ Verdict on the Leadership: Hypocrites (7:6a)

b) Jesus’ Biblical Denouncement of Their Hypocrisy (7:6b-8)

(1) The Situation in Isaiah 29

(2) The Comparison with Isaiah 29

● neglecting to send away, leave, dismiss

● hold to seize, grab,

(3) The Implications for Us

c) Jesus’ Illustration of Their Hypocrisy (7:9-13)

(1) The Result of the Practice of Corban (7:9)

● nicely good, healthy, beautiful

● set aside to declare something invalid, to do away with it, to nullify it

(2) The Practice of Corban (7:10-12)

(a) The Biblical Framework for Evaluating Corban (7:10)

(b) The Practice’s Implications (7:11-12)

(3) The Judgment of Corban (7:13)

● invalidating to annul something by either rescinding or overriding it