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Holding unforgiveness in your heart is definitely playing around in the mud.

It's like taking poison hoping your enemy will die. I'm Joyce Meyer. I've seen God's power transform my own life and he will do it for you.

Temptation comes to everybody, but you can cut it off right at the head. I want you to think about what goes on inside of you.

That's really the main message I want to get across to you tonight is start paying attention to what goes on in you

because that's what God is the most concerned about.

Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God. What does that mean you'll see God? I think it means you'll hear more clearly from him.

You'll have more discernment. You'll enjoy more of his presence.

The Bible says that God loves a quiet, gentle, good heart.

He talks about not worrying so much about your hairdo and your jewelry

and all this outward stuff, but paying more attention to what goes on inside.

What would happen if you worked on your inside as long as you worked on your outside. I have a feeling that we would behave a lot different

I have a feeling that we would behave a lot different than what we do.

Matthew 23 is a great chapter in the Bible. I mean Jesus just took the Pharisees apart.

They were hypocrites. They told other people what to do but they didn't do it themselves.

Starts out in verse 25, chapter 23, 25,

whoa to use scribes and Pharisees.

For a long time, I didn't know what Woe was,

but I finally looked it up,

tried to study it a little bit,

and it's just like really the worst kind of misery you can have.

Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees, pretenders and hypocrites, for you clean the outside of the cup and the plate

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