What Really Defiles

                                           Matthew 15:19
                       "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts,
                          murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts,
                                    false witness, blasphemies."

        It is good to study our Lord’s list of the sources of soul-pollution. Evil thoughts come first. We cannot prevent an evil suggestion being presented to our minds, but we can refuse to dwell on it. To resist to dwell on it strengthens us in the opposite direction; to yield to it is to commit the sin in our heart, which, in God’s sight, is equivalent to the outward act. Notice that railing, that is, unkind and uncharitable speech, is in this black-list.
        The heart, rather than the body, is the source of sin. Out of the heart! The body is the note pad on which the soul registers its improvement or deterioration. Do not find fault with your members: look to your heart and keep it beyond keeping, for out of it are the issues of life. Ask God to create in you a clean heart. See that you distinguish between the first Adam and the second. Deny what you inherit of human weakness and sin, and affirm all that is of Christ’s imparting. The cross of Calvary and the Resurrection of the living Christ are facts of God's love toward us.
        Amen!!

Reading: (Matt. 15:1-20)
                (Mark 7:1-23)

                                          May God Bless You
                                           And Your Families

                                                       Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.
                                                       The Cross Life Ministry