Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up

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Will the Real Jesus Please
Stand Up?

• Jesus Bible-Belt Preacher

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• Then some Pharisees and teachers of the law came
  to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked, "Why do your
  disciples break the tradition of the elders? They
  don't wash their hands before they eat!" Jesus
  replied, "And why do you break the command of God
  for the sake of your tradition? For God said,
  'Honor your father and mother' and 'Anyone who
  curses his father or mother must be put to
  death.' But you say that if a man says to his
  father or mother, 'Whatever help you might
  otherwise have received from me is a gift devoted
  to God,' he is not to 'honor his father' with it

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• Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of
  your tradition. You hypocrites! Isaiah was right
  when he prophesied about you "'These people
  honor me with their lips, but their hearts are
  far from me. They worship me in vain their
  teachings are but rules taught by men.'" Jesus
  called the crowd to him and said, "Listen and
  understand. What goes into a man's mouth does
  not make him 'unclean,' but what comes out of his
  mouth, that is what makes him 'unclean'"

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• Then the disciples came to him and asked, "Do
  you know that the Pharisees were offended when
  they heard this?" He replied, "Every plant that
  my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled
  up by the roots. Leave them they are blind
  guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both
  will fall into a pit." Peter said, "Explain the
  parable to us." "Are you still so dull?" Jesus
  asked them. "Don't you see that whatever enters
  the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of
  the body? But the things that come out of the
  mouth come from the heart, and these make a man
  'unclean'

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• For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder,
  adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false
  testimony, slander. These are what make a man
  'unclean' but eating with unwashed hands does
  not make him 'unclean'" Matthew 151-20

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• Random Principle 1- Any time traditions,
  opinions of men or church methods are elevated to
  the level of the authority of scripture, Gods
  Spirit is grieved

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• Random Principle 2- As followers of Christ, we
  are a direct reflection upon our Teacher. How we
  act and respond and treat people and live tells
  the world around us what Jesus is like
• Message Version- Jesus put it right back on
  them. Why do you use your rules to play fast and
  loose with God's commands?

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• Random Principle 3- Worship that engages the
  heart is true worship, worship that God accepts
• Random Principle 4- Living based on the
  authority of Gods Word alone honors God and is
  beautiful in his sight

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• Random Principle 5- Truth offends. Each person
  has to decide for himself or herself, What am I
  more committed to? The truth of Gods Word? Or
  the approval of people?

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• Rules and traditions never make anyone closer to
  God
• Since you died with Christ to the basic
  principles of this world, why, as though you
  still belonged to it, do you submit to its rules
  "Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!"?

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• These are all destined to perish with use,
  because they are based on human commands and
  teachings. Such regulations indeed have an
  appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed
  worship, their false humility and their harsh
  treatment of the body, but they lack any value in
  restraining sensual indulgence -
  Colossians 220-23

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• Rules-oriented living leads to sin. Because its
  based on my performance, not my relationship.
  And its external rather than internal

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• Observation- The biggest hypocrites are the ones
  who spend the most time putting up a religious
  front
• Actions dont make people unholy. They only
  demonstrate whats already there

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• Observation- Religious people are interested in
  external rules. Jesus is interested in a
  relationship that continually produces a changed
  heart

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• Key Words External Rules
• Real Words Internal Heart-Change