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Purging the Heart: Part II
Jesus called the crowd together again and said, "Listen now, all of you - take this to heart. (15) It's not what you swallow that pollutes your life; it's what you vomit - that's the real pollution." (16) When he was back home after being with the crowd, his disciples said, "We don't get it. Put it in plain language." (17) Jesus said, "Are you being willfully stupid? Don't you see that what you swallow can't contaminate you? (18) It doesn't enter your heart but your stomach, works its way through the intestines, and is finally flushed." (That took care of dietary quibbling; Jesus was saying that all foods are fit to eat.) (19) He went on: "It's what comes out of a person that pollutes: (20) obscenities, lusts, thefts, murders, adulteries, (21) greed, depravity, deceptive dealings, carousing, mean looks, slander, arrogance, foolishness - (22) all these are vomit from the heart. There is the source of your pollution." {Mark 7:14-22. (MSG)}
Purging is the purification or cleansing of something causing contamination; which brings us to our subject, the heart. The heart is where the issues of life are generated; therefore, whatever we speak from the mouth flows from the heart. Matthew 12:35 says, "A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things." So today guard your heart by closing these gates; eye, ear, and mind, to the things of this world which are contrary to the Word of God. The things that we see, hear, and think, causes the heart to become polluted with either good or evil. Proverbs 4:7 says, "Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding." The Word of God is purification for the world's contamination in the heart.
Purging the Heart: Part II
Jesus called the crowd together again and said, "Listen now, all of you - take this to heart. (15) It's not what you swallow that pollutes your life; it's what you vomit - that's the real pollution." (16) When he was back home after being with the crowd, his disciples said, "We don't get it. Put it in plain language." (17) Jesus said, "Are you being willfully stupid? Don't you see that what you swallow can't contaminate you? (18) It doesn't enter your heart but your stomach, works its way through the intestines, and is finally flushed." (That took care of dietary quibbling; Jesus was saying that all foods are fit to eat.) (19) He went on: "It's what comes out of a person that pollutes: (20) obscenities, lusts, thefts, murders, adulteries, (21) greed, depravity, deceptive dealings, carousing, mean looks, slander, arrogance, foolishness - (22) all these are vomit from the heart. There is the source of your pollution." {Mark 7:14-22. (MSG)}
Purging is the purification or cleansing of something causing contamination; which brings us to our subject, the heart. The heart is where the issues of life are generated; therefore, whatever we speak from the mouth flows from the heart. Matthew 12:35 says, "A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things." So today guard your heart by closing these gates; eye, ear, and mind, to the things of this world which are contrary to the Word of God. The things that we see, hear, and think, causes the heart to become polluted with either good or evil. Proverbs 4:7 says, "Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding." The Word of God is purification for the world's contamination in the heart.
