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And He (Jesus} was saying, “That which proceeds out of the man, that is what defiles the man.”
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The Pharisees along with the scribes and the lawyers, the religious leaders of Israel, were following the traditions of the elders at the cost of putting aside the commandments of God. {Mar.7:8-9}

The Levitical laws of Israel, 613 in number, and the way they were taught to the Jews were the reason that Jesus said that He had come to set the captives free. When Paul, certainly the most knowledgeable of the apostles regarding those laws, wrote to the believers in Galatia he said that it was for freedom that Christ set us free. {Gal.5:1} Set free from the burden of those laws.

As a child and a young man I was willing to risk eternal damnation in order to have a hot-dog on a Friday, which was, along with any other meat strictly forbidden by Catholic Canon Law, now reduced to only (really?!) 1752 in number since the mid-1960’s— far more than the Levitical Law! And you can be sure that In spite of 12 years of Catholic parochial school, I had not ever read or been told of what Jesus said in today’s Bible verse!

When Jesus went to Bethany the home of Martha and Mary the sisters of Lazarus who had died and out in a tomb He called him out of the tomb, out of darkness and into new life. The Lord told those who were there to ‘unbind him’ as he came forth. He had to come into a new life without all of the garments of death—and the things that were not of God…..

So, we Bible-believing Christians are now set free from the burden of the Law, Levitical and Canonical, and are only responsible to keep 2 laws: and just as Jesus responded to a lawyer testing Him asked: ‘Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law? And He said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and foremost commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.” {Mat.22:36-40}

The Royal Law of Love, as James calls it, and Paul’s words makes everything so easy to understand: love is the fulfillment of the law. {Rom.13:10} Men’s laws are as changeable as the weather, while God’s Word stands forever, ‘The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever.” (Is.40:8) The Holy Spirit will speak to your heart and make that the reality of your life as you choose to live it. And this is the Word of God: (and don’t miss the”all”)

“Hear, O Israel! The Lord (YHWH) our God, the Lord is one! And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart; and you shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.” (Deuteronomy 6:4-7)

TEST EVERYTHING BY THE WORD OF GOD