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What Defiles Man Is What Proceeds Out Of His Mouth

“Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? 
But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. 
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. 
These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man” ( Mathew 15:10-20).

When we read the Old Testament we see that the meaning of purity was simply the washing of the body externally, refraining from eating some kinds of food, and avoiding touching certain things, etc.
All these rules in the old were for the purpose of personal hygiene as well as they were Jewish traditions. 
In the Gospel of Mathew we read that the scribes and the pharisees clashed with Jesus over this concept and said to Him, “Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? 
For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread” (Mathew 15:2). 
Jesus answered them with the deep meaning of purity in the New Testament. 
He gathered the people and told them “Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? 
But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. 
In these verses Jesus had laid down new definition of what is uncleanness and what is purity, which is different from what the Old Testament established for primitive people that would help them to avoid disease and pollution through cleanliness and external washing. 
Jesus went into the depth of man’s entity and explained that impurity comes from the heart, the mind, and the thoughts that exude on the body and defile it. 
It is not the consumption of certain foods and drinks with unwashed hands that defile man. 
Impurity comes from inside not from outside; a sinful heart, evil thoughts, and  lusts of the body are what makes man impure. 
The main goal of every Christian who has believed in Jesus Christ and has received Him in the Holy Spirit is to become in unity with Him and be more and more like Him each day. 
To be in unity with Jesus Christ means practically that you must be putting off the old way of life of which sin was in control, and conforming one's thoughts and actions to the standard put forth in Scripture. 
St. Paul in his epistle to the Romans, chapter eight, has put for us the rule and way to be pure and holy like Jesus, saying, “The power of sin should no longer control the way we live. 
The Holy Spirit should control the way we live. 
So don’t live under the control of sin. 
If you do, you will think about what the spirit wants. ….The mind ruled by the power of sin is at war with God. 
It doesn’t obey God’s law. 
It can’t. 
Those who are under the power of sin can’t please God.” ( Romans 8: 6,7,8.) 
So we all should not let the power of sin controls us, but the power of the Holy Spirit. 
In Him we can say “NO” to every temptation and be able to resist it and reject it.
By doing this we will be united with Jesus in the Holy Spirit. 
Amen.

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