CLEAN from the Inside OutLuke 11:37-44

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Jesus is fearless with Pharisees and scholars. To

get through to them He agrees to eat in the home of

a Pharisee where a religious scholar has also

been invited.

LUKE 11 37 A Pharisee interrupted His speech with an invitation to

dinner. Jesus accepted the invitation and took His place at his

table. 38 The Pharisee was offended that Jesus didn’t

perform the ceremonial handwashing before eating—

something Pharisees were fastidious about doing.

The hands of every Jew, not only the hands of a priest, must be washed

ritually before meals.

Symbolic, Not Hygienic

LUKE 11 Jesus: 39 You Pharisees are a walking contradiction. You are so concerned about external

things—like someone who washes the outside of a cup and bowl but never cleans the inside,

which is what counts! Beneath your fastidious exterior is a mess of extortion and filth.

legalism

legalism“excessive and improper use of the Law”

3 Different Forms of Legalism

Keeps the Law in order to attain

salvation I do not nullify the grace of God; for if

righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died needlessly.

Gal 2:21

Keeps the Law in order to retain

salvation We hold that people are justified, that is, made right with God through faith, which has nothing to do with the deeds the law prescribes. Gal 3:28

Keeps certain laws and judges those

who don’tSo why do you condemn another believer? Why do you look down on another believer? Remember, we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.

Rom 14:10

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FailChrist Alone

Only JesusMATTHEW 5 17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to

fulfill them. 18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear,

not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law

until everything is accomplished.

LUKE 11 Jesus: 40 You guys don’t get it. Did the potter make the outside but not

the inside too? 41 If you were full of goodness within, you could overflow

with generosity from within, and if you did that, everything would be

clean for you.

The Spirit Brings the Good Fruit“Repent and be baptized, every one of you…and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”!

ACTS 2:38

LUKE 11 Jesus: 42 Woe to you, Pharisees! Judgment will come on

you! You are fastidious about tithing—keeping account of every little leaf

of mint and herb—but you neglect what really matters: justice and

the love of God! If you’d get straight on what really matters, then

your fastidiousness about little things would be worth something.

LUKE 11 Jesus: 43 Woe to you, Pharisees! Judgment will come on you! What you really love is having people fawn over you when you take the seat of honor in the synagogue or when you are greeted in the public market.

LUKE 11 Jesus: 44 Wake up! See what you’ve become! Woe to you; you’re like a

field full of unmarked graves. People walk on the field and have no idea of the

corruption that’s a few inches beneath their feet.

“Pastor, that man is smoking.”

ROM 13 9 The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,”

and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”10 Love does no

harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

Clean from the inside out, Jesus was free to

love all His messy, unclean, sinful

neighbors.

Even hard-core legalists like you and me.