Matthew: The King and His Kingdom_Mt.15.10 20
Building off last week’s encounter with the Jewish religious leaders Jesus uses this as a teachable moment with crowds and the disciples. To show them that clean hands are not as important as a clean heart, and what goes into a person’s mouth according to Levitical Law is not what defiles them, but what comes out of their mouth makes them unclean. Jesus would agree with his half -brother James, that warns us against the dangers of a dirty mouth and the damage it can do, (10) from the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. (11) Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? (12) Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water (Jas. 3:10-12 ESV). Going deeper in his diagnosis of our sinful nature, Christ gives Peter a lesson on the anatomy of our souls explaining to him that the mouth is connected to the heart, which is the fountain of our thoughts and actions. We must ask ourselves the penetrating question if the Great Physician examined us how would he describe our hearts?
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- 4. First Point The Offensive Parable Matthew 15:10-14
- 5. Second Point The Repulsive Explanation Matthew 15:15-19
- 6. Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?”
- 7. James 3:6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.
- 9. Michael Green “The commandments, which had been given as curbstones along the path of loving obedience, had in much later Judaism been taken to be the path itself. And that is an attitude Jesus powerfully repudiates.”
- 10. Mark 7:18b-19 18b Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, 19 since it enters not his heart but his stomach and is expelled?” (Thus, he declared all foods clean.)
Hinweis der Redaktion
- First Point The Offensive Parable Matthew 15:10-14 10 And he called the people to him and said to them, “Hear and understand: 11 it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.” 12 Then the disciples came and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?” 13 He answered, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up. 14 Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
- Second Point The Repulsive Explanation Matthew 15:15-19 15 But Peter said to him, “Explain the parable to us.” 16 And he said, “Are you also still without understanding? 17 Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled?[d] 18 But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. 19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.
- Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?”
- Third Point The Landmark Decision Matthew 15:20 20 These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.”
- Michael Green “The commandments, which had been given as curbstones along the path of loving obedience, had in much later Judaism been taken to be the path itself. And that is an attitude Jesus powerfully repudiates.”
- Mark 7:18b-19 18b Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, 19 since it enters not his heart but his stomach and is expelled?” (Thus, he declared all foods clean.)
- Anglican Bishop, John C. Ryle made the following powerful statement which summarizes our text: What is the first thing we need in order to be Christians? A new heart.—What is the sacrifice God asks us to bring to him? A broken and a contrite heart.—What is the true circumcision? The circumcision of the heart.—What is genuine obedience? To obey from the heart.—What is saving faith? To believe with the heart.—Where ought Christ to dwell? To dwell in our hearts by faith.—What is the chief request that Wisdom makes to every one? “My son, give me thine heart.”