True Teaching

True Teaching – Matt 15:1-20 & Mark 7:1-23

                Yesterday we learn how the Pharisees had perverted the word of God for their own purpose.  That even happens today with the cults.  They like one aspect of the gospel but not another or they turn Jesus into a relative of someone or Jesus into a created being.  Jesus would straighten out many truths,

1.        Jesus taught it is not what goes into a person that makes them unclean but it is what comes out of them that makes them unclean.  Food goes into the body and waste comes out.

2.        What makes a person unclean is their vile tongue.  It is what comes from the heart that makes a person unclean.  The mouth only speaks what the heart is full of.  Sexual immorality, theft, murder, vice, adultery, greed deceit, envy slander, lewdness, arrogance and folly.  All these make a person unclean.

3.        Men seem to look at their own and traditions first.  We have to be very careful that we do not put church traditions before the commands of God. 

4.        There is one thing that Jesus could not stand and that was a hypocrite.  Jesus called the Pharisees, blind guides who were leading people down to death.