Today's Topic:
WHAT DEFILES COMES FROM HEART
📖 Bible Reading:
Mark 7:14-23, NLT:-
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14 Then Jesus called to the crowd to come and hear. “All of you listen,”he said, “and try to understand.
15 It’s not what goes into your body that defiles you; you are defiled by what comes from your heart.”
17 Then Jesus went into a house to get away from the crowd, and his disciples asked him what he meant by the parable he had just used.
18 “Don’t you understand either?”he asked. “Can’t you see that the food you put into your body cannot defile you?
19 Food doesn’t go into your heart, but only passes through the stomach and then goes into the sewer.” (By saying this, he declared that every kind of food is acceptable in God’s eyes.)
20 And then he added, “It is what comes from inside that defiles you.
21 For from within, out of a person’s heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder,
22 adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.
23 All these vile things come from within; they are what defile you.”
🔑 Key Verse:
"Again Jesus called the crowd to Him and said, "....Nothing outside a man can make him 'unclean' by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him 'unclean'"
- Mark 7:14-15, NIV
The Message:
The background to this passage has to do with the charge the Pharisees and the Scribes laid against the disciples of Jesus for eating without washing their hands. They claimed that what they did was contrary to the "tradition of the elders" (v. 3). The Pharisees are believed to be the custodian of the law of Moses. They believe that every details of the law must be kept, especially when it comes to cleanliness. However, Jesus teaches that real uncleanness comes from the heart. Simply put, real defilement comes from the evil that is hidden in the heart and not from food that only goes into the stomach.
Jesus' response shows that one may be healthy in his body and be very sick in his soul. Outward conformity is not the same as inner transformation. A person cannot be said to be truly clean if he is not clean within. Can you do a proper checking of your heart today? Can you submit yourself to the scrutiny of the Holy Spirit and pray David's prayer: "Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting" (Psalms 139:23-24).
Birthday Blessing:
“…but that year they ate of the produce of Canaan. " Joshua 5:12
Read Bible Through Passage:
Deuteronomy 21; Psalms 108-109; Isaiah 48; Revelation 18.
Food for Thought:
“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
- Mother Teresa
Prayer Point:
Oh Lord my God, purge my heart of every uncleanness that may contaminate my body and my soul in Jesus name.
💥Good morning beloved. How was your night?
Today, as you march forward in complete obedience, may Heavenly Father, purge you within and deliver you from all forms of defilement, in Jesus' name.💥 (AMEN).
Do Enjoy a HAPPY (Weekend) Saturday.