{"id":968,"date":"2024-09-01T16:47:43","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T15:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/?p=968"},"modified":"2024-09-01T16:51:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T15:51:05","slug":"clean-and-unclean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2024\/09\/01\/clean-and-unclean\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean and Unclean"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today\u2019s sermon was given by our one time vicar Rev Cathy Pullinger on the fortenth Sunday after Trinity. 1st September 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/010924_202409\" width=\"500\" height=\"60\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Download Mp3&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/010924_202409\/010924.mp3\">HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sermon starts at 2:52<\/p>\n\n\n\n<font color=\"red\">Mark 7 v 1-8, 14-15 &amp; 21-23\n<br><br>\nThat Which Defiles<\/font>\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>1<\/b><\/font> The Pharisees and some of the teachers of the law who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>2<\/b><\/font> and saw some of his disciples eating food with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>3<\/b><\/font> (The Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they give their hands a ceremonial washing, holding to the tradition of the elders. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>4<\/b><\/font> When they come from the marketplace they do not eat unless they wash. And they observe many other traditions, such as the washing of cups, pitchers and kettles.)\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>5<\/b><\/font> So the Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, \u201cWhy don\u2019t your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders instead of eating their food with defiled hands?\u201d\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>6<\/b><\/font> He replied, \u201cIsaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written:\n<br>\n\u201c\u2018These people honor me with their lips,<br>\n    but their hearts are far from me.\n    <br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>7<\/b><\/font>  They worship me in vain;\n    their teachings are merely human rules.\u2019\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>8<\/b><\/font> You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to human traditions.\u201d\n<br><br><br>\n\n\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>14<\/b><\/font> Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, \u201cListen to me, everyone, and understand this. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>15<\/b><\/font> Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.\u201d \n\n<br><br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>21<\/b><\/font> For it is from within, out of a person\u2019s heart, that evil thoughts come\u2014sexual immorality, theft, murder, \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>22<\/b><\/font> adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>23<\/b><\/font> All these evils come from inside and defile a person.\u201d\n<br><br>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s sermon was given by our one time vicar Rev Cathy Pullinger on the fortenth Sunday after Trinity. 1st September 2024. Download Mp3&nbsp;HERE! Sermon starts at 2:52 Mark 7 v 1-8, 14-15 &amp; 21-23 That Which Defiles 1 The Pharisees &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2024\/09\/01\/clean-and-unclean\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,31,23,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}