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-r ■ *♦ Sunday SPcAco/ SPebbon INTRODUCTION As one looks at the teaching of Jesus, at least three emphases seem to stand out. These may be listed as “A stress on the Supernal,” “An Emphasis on the Eternal,” and “An Insistence on the Internal.” Jesus directs our gaze upward from a preoccupation with material nnng« to an awareness of spiritual reality. He wants us to raise our outlook above to an awareness of God. Jesus also wants us to look forward, beyond the flow of time to the life we forever have with God. He spoke of “treasures in Heaven” and His final judgment of men. The worth of earthly things is to be evaluated in terms of that place and life where moth and rust cannot corrupt our treasures there. The point stressed in this lesson is another concern Jesus repeatedly expressed. He wants us to fix our attention on that which is inward. He pointed out the importance of inner attitudes, dispositions, and thoughts as compared with outer deeds. Of course, He was insistent on doing His Father’s will, and He taught that all men should obey Him. * But a mere formal profession of religious life or mechanical, unthinking acts were of no value. He also taught-that bitterness, seething hatred, cold contempt, or burning desire within would have an effect on our conduct shd attitudes in life, ^ce we are all tempted at times to cart^iae a formal pietjNwith vital devotion, we may well give special attention toRis teaching in this area. : j,._ .. MOV. iwavsssoN V : Thai came t Jier^uinp him the Pharisees and certain of the scribes, which chine from Jerusalem. And when they sa\y some of his disciplfes eat bread with defiled, tlwt is to say, with unwashen hands,'JhSy found fault And when they come from the market, except they wash, they Cat not And many other things there be, which they have l[S!d!0i0l?\ai,the of cups, and pots, brazen vessels, and of tables. Then the Phariapds dud scribes with toiwashen spread. Leaders from Jerusalem bad come prtMBilfiSKi for the purpose of scrutinizing the conduct and teaching of this carpenter from Nazareth. Doubtless they had heard tales of unusual healings and startling teachings. No doubt they were also aware of His conflicts with the local rabbis and thpir inability to withstand Him In debate; so they brought their superior learning and status to bear on this One who was setting Himself up as a “teacher of the laC" These religious leaders observed that Jesus’ disciples ate with defiled hands, which means ceremoniously unclean. No doubt the disciples washed their hands before eating, but they did not comply with the ceremonial ts "Washings that the Pharisees carefully observed. There were no regulations in the Old Testament that required > ritual washings before the eating of every meal. These customs, taught and perpetrated by the rabbis, had been elevated to the status of law by the Pharisees them selves. Although the common people looked up to these men as their leaders and tried to follow their teaching they were unable to both work for a living and faithfully observe all the meticulous and multiplied ceremonies the Pharisees required. Thus, the Pharisees felt themselves to be on a higher plain, superior to and holier than the common people. “And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable. And he saith Unto them, Are ye so without under standing also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him Because iPentereth not into his heart, but into the belly and goeth out into the drought purging all meats? And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defitah the man. Far from within, opt of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adultries, fornications, murders. Thefts covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile the man.” (Mark 7:14-28). ... One of the grounds for Jesus’ struggle with the religious leaders was their confidence in externals, in their assur ance of God’s favor because they kept all the minute regulations they had drawn up about what was “legal" and “righteous" and what was not. Jesus bnwhed aside all these man-made ritualistic requirements. He taught that people are to worship God “in spirit and in truth.” Not only did the Pharisees look with pride on their own keeping of ; the law, but they insisted that any man who failed to comply with eten the most minute rule they had invented ! was a law breaker and deserving of censure. They seem to i have paid scant attention to the possession of qualities of l life that irradiate and warm the personality. They would tithe from a sense of compulsion, but seemingly not share from a spirit of compassion. * We sometimes act as if the proper lineup of the deacons f 00 Sunday morning, or the question of how much grape ! juice is in the Communion cups, or of who takes up the r offering, or of what color the Choir robes should be, are ; matters of supreme importance. We find it easy to carry > grudges and difficult to forgive. Our approval in the eyes > of God lies not in the keeping of external matters of man’s origin, but in the possession of the attitude of heart that He , desires. The only way we can impress our great and glorious God is with a lowly and humble heart. For Your Complete Home FumiMng Come By And See Tony STERCHTS * *1« Tackateegee tUid Charlotte, N.C. MMfll By Audrey C. Lodato Poet Staff Writer Jim Richardson, Bob Walton, Pete Cunningham, and Fountain Odom were among the first candidate* to file for elective office when filing opened earlier this week. Filing donee at noon on February 3. Voters will get to cast their ballots at the May « primary for the fal lowing offices: U.S. Senate, U.S. Representative for the Ninth Dis trict, North Carolina Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, judges of the Court of Appeals, Superior Court judges. District Court judges (26th district), District Attorney, Clerk of Court, sheriff, state Senate and House, Board of County Com missioners. Board of Education, and Soil Conservation District Super visor (non-partisan). Jim Richardson, currently N.C. Representative for District 58, filed for the Senate seat presently held by Mel Watt. Cunningham is making a bid for Richardson’s seat. County Commissioner Bob Walton filed for a fifth term, this time to represent District 2. The Commis sion has until now been made up of five at-large seats; fills year marks a change to three at-large and four district members. Mecklenburg County Commission member Fountain Odom was one of four Democrats to file for the U S Senate seat being vacated by Re publican Sen. John East. Hie others were attorney Bill Belk, also of Charlotte; Marvin Blount of Green ville, a former Superior Court Judge; and Betty Wallace, deputy assistant secretary of the N.C. Department of Ftibiic Instruction. Maggie Nicholson, 79, has once I Fountain Odom .Faces three in primary again cast her figurative hat into the ring for the school board race. Nicholson has been trying since 1974 to get on the board. Some others to file earlier this week: -Gretchen Shappert, for District Court. She challenges Chief Resident District Court Judge, James Lanning. Shappert is an • Assistant Public Defender with the Mecklenburg County Public Defen der Office, assigned to the felony unit. -Harry Grimmer, N.C. House, District 57. Grimmer, a Republi can, is seeking the seat currently held by Rep. Roy Spoon He bills himself as "a small businessman concerned about the future of Mecklenburg County and good go vernment in Raleigh." Bob Walton .Choose* district over at-large -Peggy Culbertson, for aa at-large seat on the County Com mission. Culbertson formerly chaired the Chariot te-Mecklenburg Planning Commission. -Jack Black, a Democrat, for N.C. House District 36. Black served two terms in the House before his 1964 defeat to Republican challenger Ray Warren. -Gus Economos, for N.C House District 54. Economos, a Democrat, has eight years experience in the House. He was defeated by one term incumbent Rep. John McLaughlin, also a Democrat, in the 1984 primary. -Sen. Jim McDuffie, Republican, District 34. -Superior Court Clerk Max Blackburn. r— Pete Cunningham .Filet for dbtrict 59 -—-Li-: Either a career in medicine or a career in nuclear physics, that’s what’s ahead for Alan Beamer, the son of James and Susan Beamer. To help him decide which field he’ll pursue, Alan wBl be attending in Wake Forest’s Bowman Gray School of Medicine's ’’Medicine As A Career Prelect,” this summer. Alan states, ’Although I haven’t decided what I want to do, I have narrowed it down to those two areas. I tael that the Wake Forest program and an internship la the nuclear physics field will help me make my declstan.” At Independence High School. Alan to a member of the National Forensics League, the Drama Club, INROADS, and the National 8oc,ety- H* l“rtWpa« l» u Engineering seminar at UNCC while la the eighth grade and was bestowed with the service award at his Junior high graduation. A well-rounded person, Alan enjoys reading, writing, acting, and playing the piano. From.... TILLERS TO. TEACU^m Rent Most A WINTER SKIN BEAUTY For facial beauty, maintain a four-step regimen twice dally. Gently cleanse, tone, energise, and use a moisturizer with broad spec trum sunscreen. Select products for your specific skin type. 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