Read: John 6:22-71; Mark 7:1-23; Matthew 15:1-20
The next morning, the crowd looked for Jesus and the disciples and didn’t know that they had crossed to the other side during the night. They finally did find them on the other side and questioned them about how they got to the other side since they would have known their was a storm that night. Jesus told them that they were looking for him because he fed them but they missed the message of his miracles. They were more than miracles, they were signs that He was the Messiah and there were purposes to everything Jesus did. Jesus’ miracles were to point to the true bread that Jesus offered. It was eternal life.
In the time of the Exodus, God send food down from heaven as a type of the true bread he was going to send down from heaven in the form of his Son.
The words that Jesus taught were hard for many of his disciples to understand because they were trying to understand with their minds. Only the spirit in a man can understand spiritual things because they offend our minds. Jesus offended many minds.
He offended the Pharisees because Jesus disciples didn’t do the ritual hand-washing that they required. Hand-washing is not one of God’s laws so Jesus asked them why they obeyed this law but didn’t honor their parents which was one of God’s laws. They were not taking care of their elderly parents using the excuse that they were giving that money to the synagogue.
Jesus turned to the crowd and taught them that saying the right thing is not right if your heart is not right. All sin stems from the heart. The heart is the thing that needs to be changed.
Lord, give us your heart to love and forgive. You have written your laws on our heart. May we obey them.
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