What's Coming Out?

Mark 7: 15, “There is nothing outside the man which can defile him if it goes into him; but the things which proceed out of the man are what defile the man.”

Jesus summarized His point of view post an attack from the Pharisees of His disciples unlawful habit of not washing before eating. Here the religious leaders come and condemn Christ’s disciples based on the Law of Moses. Blind... I wonder if they ever saw what Paul did when He said, “there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” (Romans 8:1)

Jesus when describing the kingdom of God describes Himself as a man who sowed seed. The enemy came and sowed tares among the same field. (Tares representing evil and the seed being good.) And what does the man (Christ) say of the good and evil existing together in the field? He says, “Allow both to grow together until the harvest…” (Matt 13:30) (The harvest being the end of time and the judgment day of our Lord.)

What of the woman caught in the very act of adultery in John 8? Out of the months of the religious came condemnation and judgment upon the woman. While out of Jesus’ mouth came this, “He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone.”

There are those that would like to say that the defilement that comes out or a mouth is cussing or bad language, and for the individual this may very well be, but the judgment is the defilement. There are those that condemn drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, and needing prescription medications to cope or survive. And yet Christ turned water into wine. He was called a drunkard. (Out of their mouths they were defiled) His disciples were called “sinners.” And little did they know it was their judgments and their words that defiled them. (Matt 11:19)

“Christians” condemn and judge, and like the Pharisees use the word of God as justification. Scriptures like, “your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit” (1 Cor. 6) to justify all manner of rules concerning eating and drinking and activities. Christians spout “prophesies” of old, and call for a return to a law. They use Matthew 5:18 where Christ said, “For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is accomplished.”

News flash… Christ dying on the cross was all being accomplished. That is why He was also able to raise from the dead. Get it? The law of sin is death. But when the law is fulfilled, when it is accomplished then death has no more power. This is not an excuse to go and sin. This is the basis for not judging and condemning others. 

I don’t see this pattern of condemnation ever ending. Judgments are just a few of the tares that will remain until the final harvest. But I choose today to not be a part of the judgments of men. I choose to not be in the camp of Satan as an accuser of the brethren.