A lot of the time you can tell what is in a person's heart by what the words that they speak. I have known people who had such hatred by how they spoke to and about others.
It is not what we ingest into our bodies that cause us to sin. It is not what a person takes into their body or mind, but what comes out of our mouths and our actions. Those things we take in can cause us to act or say things that defile us, but those things we take in are not the sin, it is how we allow it to change us and act.
Jesus taught this in Matthew 15.
17 “Do you not understand that everything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and is eliminated?
18 “But the things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and those defile the man.
19 “For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders.
20 “These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.”
We have to be careful what we take in to our minds because it can get into our hearts which cause us to act or say things that we shouldn't do or say.
This is the problem with pornography. Pornography gets things into the heart that causes a person to do things that go against what God says is right. It causes people to only care about themselves. It causes a person to be selfish in their desire for sex.
This is the problem with violent video games. They can cause people to lose the ability to know the difference between fiction and reality.
When you let how others treat you affect your heart then it can cause your words or actions to others to defile you.
Thank you Lord for your love and compassion. Help me not to allow things into my heart that will defile me. Help me to keep things from coming into my heart that will cause my words and actions to defile me. I want to be holy before you.
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