"What you would have gotten from me, I've given it to God," Mark 7:11.
Who's talking? Jesus. Well, actually, Jesus is quoting authoritative Pharisees and scribes. (Pharisees - strict followers of religious traditions; scribes - exacting copiers of the Scriptures by hand). Who's Jesus talking to? to those Pharisees and scribes. What's Jesus telling them? that their theatrical religion is just a bunch of human rules made up to reject the word of God. But God's word purifies, reforms, transforms, conforms human hearts in deed to the will of God. And, indeed, not to a spiritual mask. Sky kingdom.
When we see a brother or sister in need today, we share freely with each other from God's bounty. And, banded together in humble thanksgiving, we aspire upward to love truly as Jesus does.
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