Food for Thought - Part 7 Luke 11:37-53

1. CLEAN
from the
Inside Out
Luke 11:37-44

2. ebocla

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. The hands of every Jew, not only the
hands of a priest, must be washed
ritually before meals.

6. Symbolic, Not Hygienic

7. 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.

8. legalism

9. legalism
“excessive and improper use of the Law”

10. 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.
HERESY HERESY HERESY
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’t
So 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

11. Christ Alone
Pass
Fail

12. Only Jesus
MATTHEW 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.

13. 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.

14. 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

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. “Pastor, that man is smoking.”

19. 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.

20. Clean from the inside
out, Jesus was free to
love all His messy,
unclean, sinful
neighbors.
Even hard-core legalists
like you and me.