10-11He then called the crowd together and said, "Listen, and take this to heart. It's not what you swallow that pollutes your life, but what you vomit up."
12Later his disciples came and told him, "Did you know how upset the Pharisees were when they heard what you said?"
13-14Jesus shrugged it off. "Every tree that wasn't planted by my Father in heaven will be pulled up by its roots. Forget them. They are blind men leading blind men. When a blind man leads a blind man, they both end up in the ditch."
15Peter said, "I don't get it. Put it in plain language."
16-20Jesus replied, "You, too? Are you being willfully stupid? Don't you know that anything that is swallowed works its way through the intestines and is finally defecated? But what comes out of the mouth gets its start in the heart. It's from the heart that we vomit up evil arguments, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, lies, and cussing. That's what pollutes. Eating or not eating certain foods, washing or not washing your hands—that's neither here nor there."
Jesus is saying that the room of all evil comes from our hearts. He knows our hearts. He can see what is in our hearts. The things that we do, the things that we say, it is rooted in our hearts.
I must keep my heart holy before the Lord. I need to make myself holy, and my heart holy, and whatever comes out from me will be holy.
Father God, I thank you for your word. I thank you for your Son Christ Jesus that he died on that cross for my sins. Lord, I pray that I may become Holy in Jesus name, so that I can have a clean heart. Lord, let me heart be true and clean and new rooted with evil. Lord, I pray that I may show your character to others through a clean heart. I thank you for this Lord. I pray for your strength. I give you all the glory. In Jesus name.
Amen.
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