You might also like:įour Reasons Why Cleaning Up Your Act Is Not About Looking Good As James wrote, “Let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger.” (James 1:19) Good advice if we are to avoid this judgment of all that we say. If such is the case we must learn to bite our tongues and mind what we say. There is a fearful prospect of judgment in this section too, for Jesus shows we will render account for every careless word we utter. And if the light of knowledge in us is compromised by some darkness of un-truth or lies, how dark is our understanding and where will it end? The answer is to reject all evil and not seek out the darkness but to seek the knowledge of the truth that comes from Jesus Christ and God alone. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!” (Matthew 6:22-23) What he was saying here is that if we take in evil and accept it into our thinking we will be compromised.
OUT OF THE OVERFLOW OF THE HEART THE MOUTH SPEAKS MEANING FULL
So, if your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light but if your eye is not sound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If we accept compromise, how much should we accept before we are totally compromised? Jesus taught about this matter too saying, “The eye is the lamp of the body. 33) “Yin and Yang” teachings are positions of compromise, but the word of God is not compromised. “Either make the tree good and it’s fruit good or make the tree bad and its fruit bad.” (Vs. There are no halfway or partway positions. Jesus shows that we are either one or the other.
Today we see teachings from eastern religions about “Yin and Yang.” This teaching says that in everything good there is some evil and in everything evil, there is some good. This position is different to much modern thinking. And that is why it is out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. They may be able to act for a time and masquerade as being good, but in time the truth will come out and they will be seen for what they truly are. So if the abundance of the heart of a person is fundamentally evil, that is what will come out of them in words, deeds, and behaviour. (Matthew 7:15-20) In that passage, Jesus also made the point that “You will know them by their fruits.” (Matthew 7:20) It is by this method we are to test for false teachers and prophets. He stated as much in the section about being aware of wolves in sheep’s clothing. The point Jesus was making is that it is not possible for an evil person to bear good fruit and vice versa. Thus a person who does evil bears evil fruits and a person who does good bears good fruit in the words, deeds, and behaviour. The words we speak and what we do are controlled by our thoughts and the passions of our flesh. It is out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks and shows the heart of the person. Eating with unclean hands might make you unwell, but speaking evil will cost you your life into eternity. But what comes out of the mouth are the thoughts of men expressed as words and if these are evil, that is what defiles the man. What goes into the mouth is food and it goes to the stomach and passes on. Jesus showed their folly and error and in his teaching made the above point. We know there are hygiene issues today, but the Pharisees were teaching this as a doctrine and making it of greater importance than the law of God. It is out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.Īs he said elsewhere, “…not what goes into the mouth defiles a man, but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.” (Matthew 15:11) In this case he was using the traditions of the Pharisees concerning the washing of hands before eating. Whatever comes out of a person defines who they are. 33) The point he is making is that people are either good or bad and you will know them by what they do. Here he says, “Either make the tree good, and its fruit good or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad for the tree is known by its fruit.” (Vs. Jesus makes an interesting point in this section, and it is rather at odds with some modern thinking.
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