Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

Matt.15:15 Peter answered him, "Explain the parable to us."
15:16 So Jesus said, "Do you also still not understand?
15:17 Don't you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body? 15:18 But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man. 15:19 For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies. 15:20 These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn't defile the man."

Human identify with the flesh they put on a uniform and act the part. In other words, human think often that position, the thing they are driving makes them into a different person. In all societies throughout the history of the human race this is found to be true, accept at man creation where neither Adam or Eve had attire for the flesh to give them identity.

Genesis 2:25 They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Revelation 16:15 "Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn't walk naked, and they see his shame."

Revelation 17:16 The ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute, and will make her desolate, and will make her naked, and will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire.

Here the apostles of Christ thought they gained cleanness and identity of cleanness by what they did or did not put into their mouths, they like so many claiming to be Christian's put on an identity, by religious words, acts, gestures, speech, clothes, or where they worship, and so on. . .

Revelation 3:17 Because you say, 'I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;' and don't know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

Hebrews 4:13 There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

What is shocking to the flesh is one cannot make themselves clean before God by any action or reaction in their flesh. To put away the filth of ones flesh requires an act of God and not man! Once a sinner, that is, unclean there nothing man can do to make themselves a non-sinner, did you know that? No! One must be purchase, redeemed by God for a price to pay for their sins, by life, the source of life is in the blood.

1 Peter 3:21 This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you--not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Revelation 12:11 They overcame him because of the Lamb's blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn't love their life, even to death.

Hebrews 9:22 According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

False religion is about the flesh, the appearance is paramount to false religion, it is a competition of the flesh with flesh, whom can look and sound better in speech, appearance, power, wealth . . . But false religion will be found naked in God's judgment. Nothing clean comes from the sinful flesh that is life in the Spirit, the flesh has no purpose in Spirit and truth where the source of life is found without sin.

John 6:63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Romans 8:6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

What is clean before God? It is a sinless person who stand in truth, like Adam and Eve without a pretense of cloth, without hidden agendas, but truth and Spirit. Can any of us say we are clean, we have made ourselves clean? Let us not boast in the flesh, but we do, lets us not judge unrighteously, but we do. Than let us walk in humility, knowing that even if our hearts condemn us God is greater than our hearts.

1 John 3:20 because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

Revelation 18:7 However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, 'I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.'

Let us understand we have been paid for, by a precious holy, clean life, and which life has been given each of us by God's love freely so we can have a clean conscious. Let us not boast in works for they are of the flesh, let us boast in truth, the Christ, his works have saved us!

1 Peter 1:22 Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:

James 1:26 If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.

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