Matthew 15
What Pollutes Your Life
1-2 After that, Pharisees and religion scholars came to Jesus all the way from Jerusalem, criticizing, "Why do your disciples play fast and loose with the rules?"
3-9But Jesus put it right back on them. "Why do you use your rules to play fast and loose with God's commands? God clearly says, 'Respect your father and mother,' and, 'Anyone denouncing father or mother should be killed.' But you weasel around that by saying, 'Whoever wants to, can say to father and mother, What I owed to you I've given to God.' That can hardly be called respecting a parent. You cancel God's command by your rules. Frauds! Isaiah's prophecy of you hit the bull's-eye:
These people make a big show of saying the right thing,
but their heart isn't in it.
They act like they're worshiping me,
but they don't mean it.
They just use me as a cover
for teaching whatever suits their fancy."
10-11He then called the crowd together and said, "Listen, and take this to heart. It's not what you swallow that pollutes your life, but what you vomit up."
12Later his disciples came and told him, "Did you know how upset the Pharisees were when they heard what you said?"
13-14Jesus shrugged it off. "Every tree that wasn't planted by my Father in heaven will be pulled up by its roots. Forget them. They are blind men leading blind men. When a blind man leads a blind man, they both end up in the ditch."
15Peter said, "I don't get it. Put it in plain language."
16-20Jesus replied, "You, too? Are you being willfully stupid? Don't you know that anything that is swallowed works its way through the intestines and is finally defecated? But what comes out of the mouth gets its start in the heart. It's from the heart that we vomit up evil arguments, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, lies, and cussing. That's what pollutes. Eating or not eating certain foods, washing or not washing your hands—that's neither here nor there."
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I don't agree with tax payers paying for birth control, there are plenty of places to get that free of charge. And further more, its called "responsibility".Ther's a sayin, "If u wanna play, ya gotta pay".
The other thing, I don't like Rush. I don't listen to Rush. He does not represent my thoughts. Someone on here said, he spoke what I was thinking, but I'm too "Christian to say it out loud"....Oh Good Grief! Jesus also said , "what u think in your heart, so r u".
Maybe I'm more liberal than I thought, but, we r living in the 21st century people! This is what the majority of society does! Its what they've always done. Heathens or saints, have had pre marital sex, fornicated all througout history. There is no way that's gonna turn around or change, just because we want it to. Only Jesus can change the heart and mind set and lifestyle of a person, if that person wants them to.
We can voice our opinions in the media all day long. But the minute we agree with someone like Rush, who "thinks" he is above the law of love, spews his garbage, which BTW, is no different that the garbage that was spewed agains, Laura and Sarah, or when Lettermen did the same. Rush lowered himself to their level of behavior.
Our bible tells us not to judge, less we be judged with same manner.
Now look, we r being judged once again in the media as contemptable! Thanks Rush!
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