Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Sermon given by our reader Julie Taylor on the 29/8/21. In the 13th Sunday after Trinity. This sermon is called ‘Create In Me A Pure Heart’. Sermon starts at 3:21 Download Mp3 HERE! … Continue reading →
Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Sermon given by our reader Julie Taylor on the 29/8/21. In the 13th Sunday after Trinity. This sermon is called ‘Create In Me A Pure Heart’.
Sermon starts at 3:21
Download Mp3 HERE!
James 1: 19-21, 26-27
19 My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: everyone should be quick to
listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry,
20 because human anger does
not produce the righteousness that God desires.
21 Therefore, get rid of all
moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent, and humbly accept the word
planted in you, which can save you.
26 Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on
their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless.
27 Religion
that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans
and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the
world.
Mark 7: 1-8, 14-15, 20-23
1 The Pharisees and some of the teachers of the law who had come from
Jerusalem gathered around Jesus
2 and saw some of his disciples eating food
with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed.
3 (The Pharisees and all the
Jews do not eat unless they give their hands a ceremonial washing, holding to
the tradition of the elders.
4 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.)
5 So the Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, “Why don’t your
disciples live according to the tradition of the elders instead of eating their food
with defiled hands?”
6 He replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it
is written:
“‘These people honour me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.
7 They worship me in vain;
their teachings are merely human rules.’
8 You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to human
traditions.”
14 Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen to me, everyone, and
understand this.
15 Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into
them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.”
20 He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them.
21 For it is
from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder,
22 adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy,
slander, arrogance and folly.
23 All these evils come from inside and defile a
person.”