Ch07_02_Sermon_Acknowledge the word and seek mercy (Mark 7:1–23)

Today I want to speak about this matter of sin. I want to talk together with you a little about what sin is. Mark chapter 7 tells us well about sin, about what kind of thing sin is. People each have their own ideas about this matter of sin. Some people think that trespasses are sin. And that is how they understand it. And some people think that their own conduct not being upright is sin. In some countries, when one’s parents pass away, people think that filial piety is to lay them well in a grave in the ground, then raise a burial mound, cover it with turf, and, for as long as the children live, tend the turf of that grave well several times a year throughout their whole lives. But it is said that certain tribes in Papua New Guinea or in the Brazil region thought that, when their parents died, the way to practice filial piety toward those parents was for all the children to gather around and sit down and eat the whole of their parents’ bodies, so that no beast or worm could gnaw even a bit of their parents’ flesh. So this concept of filial piety, too, varies.

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