MATTHEW 15 1-20

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1 - Some Pharisees and scribes came along, from Jerusalem and asked Jesus, 2 “Why do your disciples break the - tradition - of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat.” 3 He answered, “Why do you break the commandment/instruction/law - of God - for the sake of your tradition? 4 For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘the one who curses father or mother in death ends.’ 5 But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, “What I would have given to you as aid {in your old age} is instead given [is in trust, as an offering] to God,” 6 then they need not honor mother or father.’ So for the sake of your tradition, you have annulled the word of God. 7 You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said 8 “‘These people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. 9 In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments, (guidance, instructions) of men.’”

     10 And he called the people to him and told them, “Hear and understand, 11 it’s not what goes into the mouth that ruins a person, but what comes out of the mouth.”

     12 A little later, the disciples said to him, “Do you know the the Pharisees were offended at what you said?” 13 He answered them, “Every plant my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up. 14 Let them be, they are blind guides. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a pit.” {The wolf puts on sheep’s clothing. “The World” talks a good talk, and many are misled.} 15 But Peter said, “Explain the parable to us.” 16 And Jesus said, “Are you too without understanding, and still don’t see? 17 What goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled? 18 But what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart, and this ruins a person. 19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness/accusation, slander. 20 These are what pollutes. But to eat with unwashed hands does not pollute.” {Speaking slander and accusation, as they did about Jesus and later believers, is evidence of contamination of the heart. Blind guides guiding - embrace hate, division is unity, the ‘us and them’ mentality the world and its powers find so very useful. Pollutions of heart.. blind leading the blind who receive it.. Also the spiritual teaching of lawlessness. We cannot be transformed by - rules and laws which are external - proven failed with one nation, with the first human pair, and pre flood was hands off, but “the seed” Jesus implanted, and nurtured and watered, does away with lawlessness and the (selfish, lower vibration if you will) pollutions of the heart and mind. And we grow and mature to fuLL transformation at (one of two) vivifications which is the “putting on of perfection/incorruptibility” thus the enduring Life.. Which following blind guides of any sort just slows, delays, stagnates the process. Anything unTrue is a waste of time. 2Tim.3:16 is better, Psalm 1, with offering and sacrifices of praise and thanksgiving.. singing in heart and spirit, with the habitual practice of quiet listening/“waiting upon God”. This will rebound into fruits of the Spirit rather than the common pollutions of the heart, that often masquerade as being the greater good. Fruits of the flesh, “wars among you”, slander, accusations, division, factions, discord and dispute, (embrace the hate) as somehow righteous, Gal.5:19-26. Habitually human, same old, same old, since Cain slew Abel.}

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Tomorrows verses - John 6:41-51

My own studies and thoughts. Verses paraphrased.