Discipleship Living: To Become like Him
To Become Like Him

Issues of the Heart

Mark 7:17–23: When He had entered a house away from the crowd, His disciples asked Him concerning the parable. So He said to them, “Are you thus without understanding also? Do you not perceive that whatever enters a man from outside cannot defile him, because it does not enter his …

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Discipleship Living: To Become like Him
To Become Like Him

Inside Out

Mark 7:14–16: When He had called all the multitude to Himself, He said to them, “Hear Me, everyone, and understand: There is nothing that enters a man from outside which can defile him; but the things which come out of him, those are the things that defile a man. If …

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Discipleship Living: To Become like Him
To Become Like Him

What is “Corban?”

Mark 7:10–13: For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’ But you say, ‘If a man says to his father or mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban”—’ (that is, a gift …

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Discipleship Living: To Become like Him
To Become Like Him

There is No Substitute for God’s Word

Mark 7:6–9: He answered and said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘This people honors Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me. And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ For laying aside the …

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Discipleship Living: To Become like Him
To Become Like Him

His Truth, Not My Tradition

Mark 7:1–5: Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes came together to Him, having come from Jerusalem. Now when they saw some of His disciples eat bread with defiled, that is, with unwashed hands, they found fault. For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they …

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Discipleship Living: To Become like Him
To Become Like Him

His Words are Eternal

John 6:67–71: Then Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you also want to go away?” But Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. Also we have come to believe and know that You are the Christ, the Son of the …

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Discipleship Living: To Become like Him
To Become Like Him

At the Crossroads

John 6:65–66: And He said, “Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by My Father.” From that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more.

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Discipleship Living: To Become like Him
To Become Like Him

Jesus Knows Everything About You

John 6:60–64: Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying; who can understand it?” When Jesus knew in Himself that His disciples complained about this, He said to them, “Does this offend you? What then if you should see the Son of Man …

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Discipleship Living: To Become like Him
To Become Like Him

No Longer a Spectator

John 6:57–59: As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me. This is the bread which came down from heaven—not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will …

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Discipleship Living: To Become like Him
To Become Like Him

The Secret of Abiding with Jesus

John 6:52–56: The Jews therefore quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this Man give us His flesh to eat?” Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. …

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