45 Days To Read The Gospel Challenge – The Gospel of Mark Chapter Seven: What Comes Out of a Man is What Defiles Him.

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How to Get the Most Out of The Challenge

The Gospel consists of four books in the New Testament—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John—that share the teachings of Jesus Christ. You can start the FREE “45 Day Challenge” at any time by visiting the ePrayer Circle homepage and selecting the “45 Day Challenge” menu option. Feel free to share these lessons and print them for use in your Bible study groups. You can also translate the content into multiple languages using the Google Translate menu bar on the homepage.

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Transcript:  HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF THIS CHALLENGE

Step One.  Start in the order of: the Gospel of John, Luke, Mark and Matthew for understanding.

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Step Two.  Each lesson takes about 35 minutes to complete: 20 min to study the lesson and take the quiz. 15 minutes to read the Bible resource

It is recommended to read the entire post and then take the quiz before reading or listening to the bible resources. Each lesson is self-contained and includes all resources needed.

Step 3:  You should complete two lessons a day.  5 Days a week in order to complete the “45 Days to Read The Gospel Challenge in 45 days”.

There is no law that says you have to complete these lessons in 45 days. You are free to work at your own pace. Study the lesson and take the quiz in the morning, and later listen to or read the bible resources.

Step 4: Get organize with pen and paper.  Take notes.  Each lesson contains: Header Sections (Table of Contents): (1) chapter summary, (2) objectives, (3) outline, (4) reflection question,  (5) chapter highlights, (6) resources, (7) interactive quiz, and (8) a call to salvation.

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Overview of The Gospel of Mark

The Gospel of Mark, written by Mark John (also known as “John” in the Book of Acts), is one of the four Gospels in the New Testament. Mark was a close companion of the disciple Peter, who referred to him as his spiritual son. Although Mark did not walk with Jesus personally, he closely followed Peter and recorded much of what Peter witnessed during Jesus’ ministry.

This Gospel is often called the “Memoirs of Peter” because of Mark’s close relationship with him. It was written between A.D. 50-70, before the Book of Acts, and is thought to have been written in Italy.

Mark’s Gospel focuses heavily on the miracles that Jesus performed throughout His ministry in Galilee, showing Jesus’ power over sickness, demons, and nature. Unlike other Gospels, Mark emphasizes Jesus’ human nature, highlighting His emotions and physical limitations. This portrayal of Jesus helps believers understand that He is familiar with the struggles and challenges of being human and can fully sympathize with our problems and situations.

Mark’s work was an important source for the Gospel of Luke, as Luke borrowed many notes from it. Overall, the Gospel of Mark presents a powerful narrative of Jesus’ ministry, filled with miracles and moments that reveal both His divinity and humanity.

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45 Days To Read The Gospel Challenge – The Gospel of Mark Chapter Seven: What Comes Out of a Man is What Defiles Him.

 

OVERVIEW OF  THE GOSPEL OF MARK CHAPTER SEVEN

In this lesson, we will study Mark Chapter 7, where Jesus addresses the Pharisees’ focus on human traditions over God’s commandments. We will explore how Jesus teaches that what comes out of a person’s heart, not what goes into the body, defiles them. This chapter also highlights two powerful miracles: Jesus healing a Syrophoenician woman’s daughter and making a boy who was deaf and mute able to hear and speak. Through these stories, we learn about the importance of faith, humility, and Jesus’ power to heal.

The Pharisees find fault with the disciples for eating with unwashed hands. Jesus accused the Pharisees of being hypocrites. Mark 7:8-9  ⁸For 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. ⁹And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. 

Next, we see the faith of a Syrophoenician woman, who asks Jesus to heal her daughter possessed by a demon. Though Jesus initially tells her that His mission is to the children of Israel, she humbly responds that even dogs eat the crumbs under the table. Impressed by her faith and humility, Jesus heals her daughter.  (Note: Jesus healed the daughter because of the mother’s faith in him to heal but also because of her great humbleness.)

Lastly, Jesus makes a boy who is deaf to hear and dumb to speak. Mark 7:33 And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spits and touched the boy’s tongue.  ³⁴And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. ³⁵And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.  The people were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak.  (Note, Jesus heals with a touch.)

This chapter emphasizes the power of faith, humility, and Jesus’ healing touch.

 

 

 

 

 

Time: 35 minutes to complete lesson: 20 minutes to read the entire post and take the interactive quiz, additional 15 minutes to view video resource and comment on social media

 

Objectives for Chapter Seven: You will learn.

A. Understand Jesus’ response to the Pharisees regarding their focus on traditions

B. Examine the humble and faith-filled response of the Syrophoenician woman

C. Discover how Jesus healed a boy who was deaf and unable to speak

 

Outline for Chapter Seven of the Gospel of  Mark

1   The Pharisees find fault with the disciples for eating with unwashed hands.

2.  Jesus heals the daughter of a Syrophenician woman.

3.  Jesus makes a boy who is deaf to hear and dumb to speak.

 

Reflection and Discussion: Something to think about.

Reflecting and revealing are essential for healing your spirit and growing into spiritual maturity. Jesus said in Mark 7:15, “There is nothing from outside a man that entering into him can defile him; but the things which come out of him, those are what defile the man.” Think about the last thing you said that may have defiled you. Was it cursing, gossiping, lying, or making a false accusation? Have you repented for it?

Pray to the Holy Spirit for guidance. Repent, and if possible, ask the person you offended to forgive you. Could that person have been a family member, friend, co-worker, neighbor, spouse, child, or parent? Matthew 12:36 reminds us, “But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.”

 

Resources For This Lesson

Click here for the King James Bible version in the text (pdf), mobile viewing on the web (KJV), YouTube audio, and video version Chapter 7 (total  time 9 minutes) Part One and Part Two.

 

See “Chapter Seven Highlights” below for scriptures and help with the quiz. If needed, refresh the screen to retake the quiz.

 

1.  You will learn, what Jesus said in response to the Pharisees finding fault with the disciples for tradition’s sake.  Mark 7: 1-24 KJV

¹Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. 

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

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

⁴And 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, brazen vessels, and of tables. 

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

⁶He 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.

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

⁸For 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. 

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

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

 ¹¹But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou might be profited by me; he shall be free.

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

³Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye. 

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

¹⁵There 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.

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

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

¹⁸And 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; 

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

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

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

²²Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: ²

³All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

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

 

2.  You will learn, the humble faith-filled response of a Syrophenician woman in order to get help for her demon-possessed daughter?  Mark 7: 25-30 KJV

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

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

²⁷But 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.

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

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

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

 

3. You will learn, how Jesus healed a boy who was deaf and dumb.  Mark 7:31-37 KJV

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

³²And 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.

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

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

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

³⁶And 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; 

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

 

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Call to salvation:

John 3:16  “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

Romans 10:9-10  9That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation. 

John 3:5-6  5Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is the Spirit.