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Hey, everyone, I'm having the awesome Wednesday, an awesome week

and awesome somewhere that you've been able to go to

the pool, go to the beach least it's on good

stuff and just have fun overall.

But today we are going to be focusing by feelings,

so let's get into it.

So where he's always think on the parable of heart

of man in the Gospel of Mark after seven vs

14 through 23.

No, the main thing that it focuses on is a

clean heart versus unclean heart.

So just to give you kind of a quick summary

of what was happening during this time is that Jesus

and his disciples were sitting down in their ending and

they haven't washed their hands beforehand.

So the fair sees in other people who solely focused

on the law.

We're trying Teoh always find ways to punished Jesus or

to find ways to get in, to break the law,

anything of that nature.

And so they catch him not following this law, which

says you have to clean your hands before you eat

you. Jesus ends up telling them that it's not about

what's when the outside, or whether my hands are unclean,

that's all.

It makes me a queen.

It's what's inside the heart that makes it clear.

And Jesus says in verses 14 and 15 he says

again, Jesus called the crowd and said, Listen to me

everyone and understand this.

Nothing outside of man can make him unclean by going

into him.

Rather, it is what comes out of a man that

makes him unclean.

And then he re passed a repeated itself again because

sometimes the people didn't understand the inverse in 19 he

says, for it doesn't go into his heart into his

stomach and then out of his body and saying this

Jesus declared.

Often it's clean.

So what kind of talk about some of the differences

between ah, clean heart versus and unclean and use also

give thoughts of description of what unit, Frankly, heart.

He says that some of the things that come from

the heart that unclean could be evil thoughts, theft, greed,

malice, air against so thinking that you're better of someone,

a lack of competence senses well, and she's just use

these examples to show that it's what, um, indict that

can really impact how you react show other people and

how people respond to you.

And it's very easy to having unclean heart.

We might want to seek revenge from someone who did

something to us.

If they upset us in any way, we might cost

up and say bad things about some, even if they're

not true.

And sometimes we could say things we don't mean just

purely out of anchor.

And all of those things are what can make a

seeming clean.

Doesn't matter how many times we shower or wash your

face or wash her hands.

Oh, what makes us unclean?

That God is looking at the heart.

It's about the heart and our intentions of hurt.

So why was it important to make that distinction?

Why did you just say that?

What's in the heart?

It's not about what you eat, but it's about what

you're in taking and heart is because everything we do

and everything you say flows from the heart.

It is a flow from what we eat.

Guess what we eat does impact our bodies and things

like that.

But everything that we say and do does come from

our heart comes from our intentions.

And if we're not focused on certain things.

It can be very easy to haven't unclean heart and

not have the best intentions.

So what really can determine our cleanliness and how we

can get a clean heart is focusing on the different

fruits of the spirit and also making sure that we're

guarding our hearts as well.

So if we go to Proverbs for in 23 it

tells eyes to actually card our hearts, and our hearts

are places that should be kept sacred.

Probably 4 23 says, Guard your heart for everything you

do flows from it.

So it again just reiterates what Jesus said.

That everything we do and everything we say it comes

from a please from our hearts.

So for our hearts are guarded in our heart, all

right, rooted in God and were not allowing God to

work with interest and grow within us.

Then it's gonna be difficult for good things to come

from our breast is a good things or for us

to have peace.

And one of the ways that we can juice to

guard our hearts is it depends on what?

Listen to what we look at and really just staying

for good born God is the main important thing and

that's how we Congar our hearts and we have to

keep our hearts filled with the things of God.

So even in Galatians Highs versus 22 23 we have

to keep our eyes focused on the front of the

spirit which are love, joy, patients, kindness, dental.

This piece also self control as well.

And so if we allow ourselves to be focused one

thes first of the spirit than everything that we do

is going to exude Love is going, Teoh, bring out

joy is gonna be kind and it's gonna be a

lot easier for us as Children of the kingdom to

reflect who got is when we keep our hurts filled

with the things of God.

And so how completely apply this in life.

I know that it can be really hard sometimes to

have a clean heart all the time.

I know that even for me it's hard.

Um and you might say the wrong things.

You're not always going to get it right.

But whenever you feel like you're going to do or

say something wrong, just think about the act of washing

your hands everyone's been washing your hands a lot lately

for I hope you can if you're not sure you're

washing your hands.

Oh, and you're taking soap, right?

You're washing your hands and your getting rid of all

that dirt in your getting rid of all those impurities.

And then not only are using sober using water, so

you're allowing the water, too.

Rinse everything off and make it clean so we can

think about that as God, not only cleaning our hands,

but also the fact that we're cleaning her heart's as

well. So it might be hard, but you can just

think about, you know, just wash your hands, wash your

heart. That might be a phrase that you want to

say any time you get mad, just to think, you

know, I need to wash my heart right?

And I think that's just once in a way that

we can remind ourselves anytime we feel like something unclean

might be coming out to remind ourselves that we are

called Children.

Now we have the first of the spirit inside of

us, and those are the things that should be coming

out, not the unclean things.

So whenever we might feel angry.

Or if I feel like we're about to say something

that we don't mean, Just take a moment and just

say wash my heart and you can even use this

gesture here just to say, you know, I'm washing off

the unclean nature and just being cleansed by the level

God, um, And when you're allowing yourself to be cleansed

by the love of God, you're just being renewed and

you're allowing your spirit, too.

Be filled with love, Julian.

Peace and kindness and all of those great things.

So prayer that I would love for you guys to

focus on for this.

And if you're struggling with this even right now, this

prayer would be great for you just to say throughout

the rest of the week and the fire.

Just as Lord, I thank you for keeping in difficult

times, Lord alli your peace to guard my heart.

Even when I'm upset a lot of your piece to

keep me and reflect who you are.

I pray you can remind me of your love for

me and the love that I should give others that

could only flow from my heart.

So I hope that you learned something from is I

know that I did, because this is definitely something there

I still struggle with from time to time, and I'm

not always going to get it right.

But this was a really good reminder for me.

Whatever. Really angry or upset or just any negative feelings

to just think about.

I've been reminding myself toe have a clean heart in

that as a child of God, I need to constantly

be focusing on things of God.

And that will been a lot of my heart to

be clean and the long hurt to reflect God.

And then I could be a reflection of God, which

is our purpose.

So I hope that you guys have and awesome rest

of your day often rest of your week.

See you next week.

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