Let's Go: "Clean Hearts"

I. Heart Over Mouth (Mark 7:1-8)

Romans 10:2

“There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which everyone in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people…ever imagine that they are guilty themselves…There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in our selves. And the more we have it ourselves, the more we dislike it in others…Pride or Self-Conceit…Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.” (C.S. Lewis in Mere Christianity 108-9)

James 4:6

Matthew 23:12 – “Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”

II. Word over Traditions (Mark 7:9-13)

Exodus 20:12

Exodus 21:17

Isaiah 40:6b–8

III. Clean Hearts Over Clean Actions (Mark 7:14-23)

Matthew 22:37–38

Zechariah 3