What makes a person impure?

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 defiled a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man."

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Staff Writer

The Patriot Ledger

Today's chapter is Matthew 15. Here we get some incredible words on what it means to live the type of life that God wants us to live. Again, I want to emphasize, that it's by faith in Jesus Christ alone by which we're saved, but the result of salvation will always be a changed life. Good works flow from salvation, not the other way around. You can't be saved by doing good things (Ephesians 2:8-9)! To get to the verses I wanted to hit on, let's look at 18-20: "...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 defiled a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man." In their day, the Jews had created certain traditions which they had incorrectly evelvated to the same level of authority of Scripture. Hand washing was one of them. Having grown from what the Law had originally intended, they had corrupted it and made it into something that God had never wanted it to be. To them, if you wanted God to be happy with you, it was a requirement to wash your hands in their special way. Either do it their way or God wouldn't want anything to do with you. Unfortunately, they had taken what was initially intended and made it to work to their advantage! Much like religion today that tells us we have to say something a hundred times before God will forgive us or that we need to go and see a "religous" person of one denomination or another to get forgiveness for our sins, the Bible itself - God Himself - teaches the exact opposite! 1 John 1:9 says that if we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. We don't need to ask a hundred times and we clearly don't need to go to anyone else to ask for us! This is man's corruption of what God intended! When we stop and think about what makes a person unholy, then, Jesus is here telling us that it's the thoughts and the intents of the heart that matter which is where our actions come from. It's not the hands of the murderer that are sentenced to jail but the man himself who is responsible! It comes from the heart and that's what Jesus is saying here.

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Jesus says that if we lust after a woman (or man) we've committed adultery (Matthew 5:28). A few verses prior to this Jesus had said that if you were angry at someone without cause it was as bad as murder! This again shows us that we've all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23)! No one will be able to stand before God and say, "I was a good person so I deserve to come in..." Instead, Jesus is again emphasizing in this chapter that the problem is not the environment we live in. It's not society's fault or our parents fault or anyone else's fault other than our own. Our sin comes from our hearts which means it comes from us. We'll be responsible for it on our own and no excuse or blame-game will get us off the hook. Jesus is here confronting religion so that we can know that it has nothing to do with how good we think we are or how much good we think we do. It comes down to the simple fact that Jesus knew we couldn't pay the price of our sin on our own and so He came to pay it for us. When we stop and think about our words, our attitudes, our thoughts, our intentions, it becomes very clear that there is none righteous, no not one (Romans 3:10). Thank God for His Son who came and paid for our sins so that we can be saved through faith in Him!