dW 09.21.07

scripture

 

Matthew 23:25-28

"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.”

 

"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.”

 

thought

 

Is Jesus really talking to the Pharisees? The Pharisees by practice were those most concern with the law and keeping themselves pure. However, Jesus points would that although they look beautiful on the outside their insides are unclean. Don’t we do the same thing? We paint the barn to make it look pleasing on the outside but inside we are storing manure. We should ask God to clean the inside first then from its cleanness the outside will reflect it.

 

scripture

 

Luke 11:34-36

Your eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye is sound and fulfilling its office, your whole body is full of light; but when it is not sound and is not fulfilling its office, your body is full of darkness. Be careful, therefore, that the light that is in you is not darkness. If then your entire body is illuminated, having no part dark, it will be wholly bright, as when a lamp with its bright rays gives you light.