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We are in Matthew chapter 15 it's great to be here with everyone and let's look down at your Bibles Matthew chapter 15 in verse number 17 it says do not ye yet understand that whatsoever enterth in at the mouth goeth into the belly and is cast out into the draft but those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man but to eat with unwashed hands defileth not a man. It's how to determine this morning is things that are truly toxic things that are truly toxic now today in 2019 we have this phrase that's being thrown around a term that's thrown around that and it's often in relation to relationships to comments on YouTube or you know when we pass a judgment on a heretic or a reprobate you know they'll often say this about masculinity as well and they'll say it's toxic it's toxic you know toxic masculinity hey that attitude is toxic that comment is toxic this is very toxic but really what this is is just the rhetoric of liberals it's the rhetoric of watered-down Christians it's the rhetoric of people who get easily offended to try to fend off people from listening to people like us right that's what it is and really today what I want to do is take what they're what they're saying is basically turn around and show you things that are truly toxic right now today it seems that we constantly have to redirect people redirect the masses to what really is just common sense right and we don't really have to say much to be radical to be zealous to be crazy we just have to say what the Bible says right but what the Bible says is so different and so opposite to what the world is saying they're gonna look at us and say that's crazy that's toxic now before we get into that let's look down at your Bibles and Matthew chapter 15 what's what's taking place here in this chapter well what you have is the scribes and the Pharisees having this dialogue with Jesus Christ and of course we understand that the Pharisees and the scribes adhere to the false religion of Judaism they upheld the tradition of the elders more than the commandments of God and really what they're doing is bringing this stupid really accusation or the stupid doctrine that hey you have to make sure that you wash your hands before you eat now look I'm all for washing my hands before I eat I think it's a good thing I think you should too but I I will never teach that as a doctrine of God you should never get behind the pulpit and preach your preferences right as though it's the commandments of God and look down at your Bibles at verse number two says why do thy disciples transgress the trend tradition of the elders he doesn't say why do they transgress the Bible why because it's not in the Bible right for they wash not their hands when they eat bread so what are they saying they're basically insinuating hey your disciples are defiled that's the filing hey that's toxic for them to do something like that now what does Jesus do well first he just want to throw this in there he advocates the death penalty in verse number four just want to let you know that you know let him die the death you know that's in the New Testament okay well look at your Bibles at verse number 11 he basically redirects their attention and shows them what is it that truly defiles what is it that's truly toxic is it because you don't wash your hands before you eat no he says in verse number 11 not that which goeth into the mouth defileth the man but that which cometh out of the mouth this defileth the man so what is he saying here look it's not about your outward appearance because that's exactly what the Pharisees would emphasize he's saying is that which comes out of your mouth because it proceeds from the heart that is what is toxic that is what defiles the man that is what God looks upon and then later on you see that the disciples didn't really quite understand it right so he kind of further explains it in verse number 17 he says do not yet understand that whatsoever enter within at the mouth goeth into the belly and is cast out into the draft but those things which proceed out of the mouth cometh forth from the heart and they defile the man such as what for out of the heart proceed evil thoughts murders it says they're adulteries fornications thefts false witness blasphemies these are the things which defile a man but to eat with unwashing hands defileth not a man and you know what the Pharisees were basically guilty of most of those things you know it's no coincidence that he's telling them that that which proceeds from the mouth comes from the heart these are the things to file a man and then he looked down at verse number eight he says this people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth but honors me with their lips but their heart is far from me so what do we see here what are the Pharisees guilty of well the Bible tells us that beware of the leaven of the Pharisees which is what hypocrisy and that's exactly what we see in verse number eight they draw nigh unto God with their mouth they honor him with their lips but their heart is far from him what is that saying they're hypocrites what they say and what they do are two different things right and he's saying you are actually the ones who are defiling the people you know what's interesting is the people who typically have that rhetoric of all this is toxic they're typically the ones who are actually toxic not just their message not just what they're saying but they themselves are toxic