Topic: “Traditions – The Bad & The Good”
Speaker: Gene Rupel
Date: Jan. 12th, 2020
Text: Matthew 15: 1-9 (NASB):
1About this time some Pharisees and teachers of the Law of Moses came from Jerusalem. They asked Jesus, 2“Why don’t your disciples obey what our ancestors taught us to do? They don’t even wash their hands before they eat.”
3Jesus answered:
Why do you disobey God and follow your own teaching? 4Didn’t God command you to respect your father and mother? Didn’t he tell you to put to death all who curse their parents? 5But you let people get by without helping their parents when they should. You let them say that what they have has been offered to God. 6Is this any way to show respect to your parents? You ignore God’s commands in order to follow your own teaching. 7And you are nothing but show-offs! Isaiah the prophet was right when he wrote that God had said,
8 “All of you praise me
with your words,
but you never really
think about me.
9It is useless for you
to worship me,
when you teach rules
made up by humans.”