Mark 7:23
"All these evil things come from within,
and defile the man."
Christ has shown how hard line adherence to the traditional law can actually mean disobedience to the law of God. But here He says something more startling yet. He declares that nothing that goes into a man can possibly defile him, for it goes into the body which rids itself of it in the normal, physical way.
What Jesus was saying is that things cannot be either unclean or clean in any real religious sense of the term. Only persons can be really defiled; and what defiles a person is his own actions, which are the product of his own heart. Jesus declared the whole thing irrelevant and that uncleanness has nothing to do with what a man takes into his body but everything to do with what comes out of his heart. Let us look at the things Jesus lists as coming from the heart and making a man unclean: "For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders. Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness," (Mark 7: 14-23).
My Friends, It is a truly terrible list Jesus covers of the things that come from the human heart. When we read this list a shake or shudder surely passes over us. It is a summons for us to do an honest self examination of our own hearts
Amen!
Reading: Mark 7:14-23
Ref: HG SB
May God Bless You
And Your Family
Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.
The Cross Life Ministry
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