Lord help me not to be self righteous but to exalt Your righteousness! Help me to walk humbly with You. Help me to hear You clearly and without prejudice.
The state of Your Body, the Church, seems totally out of Your will based on the Scriptures.
Help us to be doers of Your Word not just hearers.
Jesus contrasts external purity (proper behavior) with internal cleansing (transformation of the heart). Faithlife Bible.
The Pharisees washed the outside of cups, making sure that the cups had not become unclean through contact with a dead insect. Jesus pointed out that the Pharisees concerned themselves with outward appearances and ritual cleanness, while what was inside, what really counts, was full of selfishness and evil.We should be more concerned about renewing our mind and focusing it on Jesus than observing a list of rules that have no biblical support. The inside of the cup represents a person’s character. Sometimes those who most loudly protest the sins of others are secretly guilty of those or worse sins themselves. NKJ Bible.
Luke 11:39–40 (NKJV)
39 Then the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees make the outside of the cup and dish clean, but your inward part is full of greed and wickedness. 40 Foolish ones! Did not He who made the outside make the inside also?
Matthew 23:25 (NKJV)
25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and self-indulgence.
Genesis 1:27 (NKJV)
27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Titus 1:15 (NKJV)
15 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.
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