Fw: [5amcall] Mark 7-8

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From: Jingle <misteringle@aol.com>

Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:02:52 -0800 (PST)

To: <misteringle@aol.com>

Subject: [5amcall] Mark 7-8

   ¹¹But [as for you] you say, A man is exempt if he tells [his] father or [his] mother, What you would otherwise have gained from me [everything I have that would have been of use to you] is Corban, that is, is a gift [already given as an offering to God],
    ¹²Then you no longer are permitting him to do anything for [his] father or mother [but are letting him off from helping them].

Does church business keep me from serving my family?

    ¹⁸And He said to them, Then are you also unintelligent and dull and without understanding? Do you not discern and see that whatever goes into a man from the outside cannot make him unhallowed or unclean,
    ¹⁹Since it does not reach and enter his heart but [only his] digestive tract, and so passes on [into the place designed to receive waste]? Thus He was making and declaring all foods [ceremonially] clean [that is, ^[h]abolishing the ceremonial distinctions of the Levitical Law].

This encourages me that I can sustain a fasted lifestyle (yielded, surrendered) whilst maintaining a healthy diet.


    ²¹And He ^[r]kept repeating, Do you not yet understand?

I know this is the Amplified version, but I like the idea that Jesus asks the question until we get the answer: He never gives up on us.

³⁵ For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel's will save it.

We are to die to a fulfilled and happy life, and as we do we discover the Christian lifestyle of sacrifice and service eminently joyful and rewarding: truly it it is life in all its abundance!

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Posted By Jingle to 5amcall on 2/01/2010 06:02:00 AM