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Today's Devotion:
"Leaving TRUTH for TRADITION"
HI!
Sometimes, people follow traditions
rather than the Bible.
For instance, a Christian man worked
in a factory, and production was behind.
So, he was asked to work on Sunday.
He thought it would be once.
Next week, the same problem.
Well, he went ahead and worked.
However, the 3rd week he refused.
The boss said, "Doesn't your Bible say
that if the ox falls in the ditch on the
Sabbath, that you should rescue it?"
The man said, "Yes. But if that ox KEEPS
falling in the ditch, you either FILL the
ditch or get RID of the ox!"
_______SCRIPTURE____________
Mark 7:5-8
5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him,
"Why do Your disciples not walk according to
the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with
unwashed hands?"
6 He answered and said to them, "Well did
Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written:
'This people honors Me with their lips, But their
heart is far from Me.
7 And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as
doctrines the commandments of men.
8 "For laying aside the commandment of God,
you hold the tradition of men--the washing of
pitchers and cups, and many other such things
you do."
NKJV
_______THOUGHT______________
Even today, there are people who, like the
Pharisees and scribes above, who just wanna
find fault with Christians.
They do not read the Bible to find what God says.
That's because they don't WANT to know TRUTH.
They just want to do what FEELS right to them!
There were many laws concerning washing in
the Old Testament. (See Ex. 19:10, Ex. 29:4,
Ex. 29:7, Ex. 30:18-21, Ex. 40:12, Ex. 40:30)
But NEVER was there an instance to wash
before eating!
TOO OFTEN people lean on TRADTION yet
never learn TRUTH!
Jesus pointed these men to the TRUTH!
He said they were laying aside the the command-
ments of God, and they were teaching for doctrine
the commandments of men!
Sometimes tradition can be taught so strongly that
soon TRUTH is not really known!
John caught this, and later warned that we should
TEST teachers (and preachers) to see that their
teaching was aligned with the TRUTH!
"Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the
spirits, whether they are of God, because many
false prophets have gone out into the world."
(1John 4:11)
When men make what God calls SIN a LAW,
it is STILL a SIN!
STUDY the Bible.
Be sure you follow TRUTH!
Love ya!
Bro. Bruce