Lost in Translation

What if, after all these years, many of us are

actually farther from God without even knowing it?

Can we really blame them for forgetting?

Mark 8 14 The disciples had forgotten to buy provisions, so they

had only one round of flatbread among them.

JESUS

A Grave Warning15 Jesus took this moment to warn them.

Jesus: Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.

The disciples didn’t understand what Jesus was talking about and discussed it among themselves.

Some Disciples: 16 What?

Other Disciples: He’s saying this because we have run out of bread.

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Spiritually Half-blindJesus (overhearing them): 17-19 Why are you focusing on bread? Don’t you see yet? Don’t you understand? You have eyes—why don’t you see? You have ears—why don’t you hear? Are you so hard-hearted?

Don’t you remember when I broke the five rounds of flatbread among the 5,000? Tell Me, how many baskets of scraps were left over?

Disciples: Twelve.

Jesus: 20 And how many were left when I fed the 4,000 with seven rounds?

Disciples: Seven.

Jesus: 21 And still you don’t understand?

Despite all that they had seen Jesus do for them and others, they still really didn’t get how and why God does what God

Because many of us still donʼt get God either, we are too easily co-opted and corrupted by

the YEAST of the Pharisees and Herod.

YEAST | A microscopic, one-celled organism belonging to the group of organisms called fungi.It is used in baking as a leavening agent, where it converts the fermentable sugars present in

dough into the gas carbon dioxide. This causes the dough to expand or rise as gas forms pockets or bubbles.

YEAST OF THE PHARISEES & HEROD | Their ‘yeast’ is their professing. They profess that their work is virtuous, when it only seeks to exploit others and rule over them. Their

intentions are not pure. When they speak, their words seem noble, but they have a hidden agenda. They are power hungry and seek to control those who lend them an ear. Their goal is

to gain advantage in every situation, rather than to seek the good of all.

Pharisee’s Yeast Corrupt Gov’t Yeast

Rigid, controlling, arrogant, graceless

A Hidden Agendain every package!

Their teachings and ways systematically

corrupt everything they are joined with.

They fear and expel those they cannot

control.

Abraham would have condemned the work of the Pharisees. He heard God’s voice speak

inside him, and went on a journey to understand it better. Pharisees clearly had

no idea what this kind of ‘inner’ leading is. They taught that to understand God is to

obey an insanely long list of rules and regulations that govern every action of the

body. But Abraham saw that it wasn’t the outside of a person that matters, but the inside. Thus, he embarked on a journey without knowing the final destination.

In arrogance, the Pharisees claimed to know the way to the Father. Yet

anyone who sought to hear His voice for him- or herself was slandered.

“Do you not see that in slandering those who attempt to hear the voice

of the Father, the Pharisees do not really want to hear what He has to say

to them?”

The Pharisees led God’s people astray. They taught that the outside observances of the law are more important than listening to the voice of the Father that speaks in the heart. But they didn’t

understand that the voice of the Father speaks to what is good, and teaches the one who hears to

Laws that are written outside of the person are obeyed out of fear. They are obeyed for fear of

punishment, exile, loss of social status, and so on. But the person who follows what she or he hears in their heart does so because that person loves truth.

be stilland

KNOWthat I am

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Rule #1Love God = Love People

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Christ’s Perfect Love Should Cast Out All Our Fear

Relationship

From a Recovering PhariseeROMANS 8 1 Therefore, now no condemnation awaits those who are living in Jesus the Anointed, the Liberating King, 2 because when you live in the Anointed One, Jesus, a new law takes effect. The law of the Spirit of life breathes into you and liberates you from the law of sin and death. 3 God did something the law could never do. You see, human flesh took its toll on God’s law. In and of itself, the law is not weak; but the flesh weakens it. So to

condemn the sin that was ruling in the flesh, God sent His own Son, bearing the likeness of sinful flesh, as a sin offering. 4 Now we are able to live up to the justice demanded by the law. But that ability has not come from living by our fallen human nature; it has come because we walk according to the movement of the Spirit in our lives.