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Okay, we're going to dive right in.

Can you guys open up your Bibles with me to Mark chapter 7?

We're going to just go straight into the Word of God today.

Mark chapter 7 and starting in verse 14 through verse 23.

And I'm going to be reading out of the new living translation through all my scriptures today.

So if you're wondering why it doesn't quite match yours, that's why.

NLT.

Okay.

Mark chapter 7 verse 14.

Then Jesus called to the crowd to come in here. All of you listen, he said, and try to understand. It's not what goes into your body that defiles you. You are defiled by what comes from your heart. Say what comes from your heart.

Then Jesus went into a house to get away from the crowd and his disciples asked him what he

meant by the parable he just used. Don't you understand either he asked? Can't you see that the food that you put into your body

cannot defile you? Food doesn't go into your heart, but only passes through the stomach and then goes

into the sewer. By saying this, he declared that every kind of food is acceptable in God's eyes.

And verse 20, I want you to stick a pin right here.

And then he added,

It is what comes from the inside that defiles you.

For from within, out of a person's heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder,

adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.

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