Mark 7:1-23: Foundational to our faith, the Hebrew writer says, is instruction about washings. Washings have an important role in cleansing us so that we may approach our Father by faith.

1. Washings
Mark 7:1-23, NT p. 71-72

2. Maturity
Oracles of God
Word of Righteousness
Doctrine of Christ
repentance from dead works
faith toward God
instruction about washings
BasicPrinciples

3. Text

4. and all were baptized into Moses
in the cloud and in the sea
1 Corinthians 10:2, NT p. 294

5. Text
When they go into the tent of meeting, or
when they come near the altar to minister, to
burn a food offering to the Lord, they shall
wash with water, so that they may not die.
Exodus 30:20, OT p. 136

6. Text
Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes;
cease to do evil, learn to do good
Isaiah1:16-17, OT p. 1083

7. And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why
do your disciples not walk according to the tradition
of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?”
Mark 7:5, NT p. 71-72

8. Text
There is nothing outside a person that by going into
him can defile him, but the things that come out of
a person are what defile him.
Mark 7:15, NT p. 72

9. Text
Do you not see that whatever goes into a person
from outside cannot defile him, since it enters not
his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?
Mark 7:18-19, NT p. 72

10. Text
According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices
are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of
the worshiper, but deal only with food and drink
and various washings, regulations for the body
imposed until the time of reformation.
Hebrews 9:9-10, NT p. 385

11. Text
What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For
from within, out of the heart of man, come evil
thoughts … All these evil things come from within,
and they defile a person.
Mark 7:20-21, 23, NT p. 72

12. Text
For from within, out of the heart
of man, come evil thoughts
Mark 7:20-21, 23, NT p. 72

13. Text
I baptize you with water for repentance
Matthew 3:11, NT p. 4

14. Text
they were baptized in the name
of the Lord Jesus
Acts 19:5, NT p. 238

15. Text
one baptism
Ephesians 4:5, NT p. 334

16. how much more will the blood of Christ, who
through the eternal Spirit offered himself
without blemish to God, purify our conscience
from dead works to serve the living God.
Hebrews 9:14, NT p. 385

17. Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves
you, not as a removal of dirt from the body
but as an appeal to God for a good conscience,
through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
1 Peter 3:21, NT p. 405

18. We implore you on
behalf of Christ,
be reconciled to God.
2 Corinthians 5:20

19. Text
Maturity
Oracles of God
Word of Righteousness
Doctrine of Christ
repentance from dead works
faith toward God
instruction about washings
laying on of hands
resurrection of the dead
eternal judgment
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23. Basic Principles
#10
Washings
Mark 7:1-23
Compiled and Presented by:
Dave Stewart
2018 September 2
www.1corinthians1614.com
Synopsis: Foundational to our faith, the Hebrew writer says, is instruction about washings. Washing have
an important role in cleansing us so that we may approach our Father by faith.
“Let all that you do be done with love.”
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