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GRATEFUL LIVING UNDER GOD’S MEANS OF GOVERNING

GRATEFUL LIVING UNDER GOD’S MEANS OF GOVERNING

October 3, 2021

Matthew 15:1-9

Traditions and Commandments

1 Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, 
2 “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat.” 
3 He answered them, “And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? 
4 For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ 
5 But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, “What you would have gained from me is given to God,” 
6 he need not honor his father.’ So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God. 
7 You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said: 
8 “‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; 
9 in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'”