Thursday, February 3, 2022

Matthew 15:20 - which defile

 Matthew 15:19-20 (KJV) 
19
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies 20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man


Matthew 15:20 (The living Bible, paraphrased)
These are what defile; but there is no spiritual defilement from eating ...


Now these are the things which defile a man, v. 20. Note, Sin is defiling to the soul, renders it unlovely and abominable in the eyes of a pure and holy God; unfit for communion with him, and for the enjoyment of him in the new Jerusalem, into which nothing shall enter that defileth or worketh iniquity. The mind and conscience are defiled by sin, and that makes every thing else so.  This defilement by sin was signified by the ceremonial pollutions which the Jewish doctors added to, but understood not. See Heb. 9:13, 14; 1 Jn. 1:7.
from: Matthew Henry’s commentary 


Titus 1:15 (NKJV)
To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled.


1 John 1:7 (KJV) 
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. 


Saints,
Please don't defile self. 
Chase the presence of the Holy Spirit.

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