Mark 7:1 KJV
Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and
certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem
Not everyone
who comes together around the Lord does so for good reasons.
These highly
religious and prestigious Pharisees and scribes had not come together into The
Lord to worship or to learn or to follow Jesus in the way.
They came to
find fault.
They may not
have even known what it was they would find fault with when they came, but
fault finders always find fault.
Our goal must
not be simply to gather and keep a crowd together. That sort of business may be
merely training fault finders and introducing them to one another (the scribe
and Pharisees were habitual attendees at religious events). The work of the
ministry must be to call a people
- Out of worldliness
- Out of selfishness and
even
- Out of religiousness
to be followers, worshipers and disciples of The Lord Jesus Christ.
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