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马太福音15：10-14：10耶稣就叫了众人来，对他们说：“你们要听，也要明白。11入口的不能污秽人，出口的乃能污秽人。”12当时，门徒进前来对他说：“法利赛人听见这话不服，你知道么？”〔不服原文作跌倒〕13耶稣回答说：“凡栽种的物，若不是我天父栽种的，必要拔出来。14任凭他们吧！他们是瞎眼领路的，若是瞎子领瞎子，两个人都要掉在坑里。”
法利赛人为什么对耶稣说的话感到被冒犯？这是因为耶稣称呼他们“不洁净”。无论法利赛人做任何事情，他们都会小心翼翼不触摸、甚至不接近那些不洁净的东西，比如大麻风病人、死尸或不洁净的食物。这就是为什么他们要在吃饭前洗手的缘故，以防万一他们触摸了某个接触过不洁净东西的人。
耶稣在这段话里对我们的教导很重要。入口的不会污秽我们，出口的才有可能污秽我们。在雅各书中，我们了解到控制我们的舌头和口里的污言秽语有多难，雅各书3章7-8节，“各类的走兽、飞禽、昆虫、水族，本来都可以制伏，也已经被人制伏了；惟独舌头没有人能制伏，是不止息的恶物，满了害死人的毒气”。诽谤，污秽的言语，不必要的批评，八卦的流言蜚语，傲慢的言辞，还有法利赛人的错误教导。他们是瞎子领瞎子。
耶稣会一直冒犯我们的罪性。我们不愿意听到“我们是不洁净的”。但只有听到这样的话语，我们才能知道我们自己是救不了自己的；只有听到这样的话，我们才能知道我们迫切需要一位救主。
祷告：亲爱的耶稣，请对我这颗罪恶的心说话，并粉碎我内心的骄傲。当你打碎我灵的时候，请用宝贵的福音托起我，宣告我所有的罪都得赦免。只有当我被你的宝血洗净，我才真正地洁净了。阿们！
Matthew 15
Matthew 15: 10-14: 10 Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen and understand.11 What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.” 12 Then the disciples came to him and asked, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this?” 13 He replied, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots. 14 Leave them; they are blind guides. If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
Why were the Pharisees offended by what Jesus said? It was because Jesus had called them “unclean.” If there was anything that a Pharisee did, he meticulously avoided touching and even being close to anything that was unclean, like lepers or dead bodies or unclean food. That’s why they washed their hands before they ate, just in case they had touched someone who touched someone who was unclean.
Jesus teaches us something very important in these words. It’s not what goes into our mouths that makes us unclean, but what comes out of them. In the book of James, we get a picture of how hard it is to control our tongues and what comes out of our mouths. Slander. Foul language. Critical remarks that are unnecessary. Juicy gossip. Proud words. And in the case of the Pharisees, false teaching as well. They were like the blind leading the blind.
Jesus will always offend our sinful natures. We don’t like to hear that we are unclean. But how else will we know that we cannot save ourselves? How else will we know that we desperately need a Savior?
Prayer: Lord Jesus, speak boldly to my sinful heart and crush the pride that is in me! But when you have broken my spirit, then lift me up with the precious message of the gospel that declares all my sins forgiven. Only when I have been washed in your blood will I be truly clean! Amen.
马太福音 15:15-20: 15彼得对耶稣说：“请将这比喻讲给我们听。”16耶稣说：“你们到如今还不明白吗？17岂不知凡入口的、是运到肚子里、又落在茅厕里吗？18惟独出口的、是从心里发出来的、这才污秽人。19因为从心里发出来的、有恶念、凶杀、奸淫、苟合、偷盗、妄证、谤讟，20这都是污秽人的。至于不洗手吃饭、那却不污秽人。”
校园枪击案（校园霸凌，校园暴力案件）；父母将子女关在笼子里（父母把孩子从楼上扔下去摔死），家庭暴力案件；神职人员性侵那些信任他们的孩子；表面看上去很能适应人际关系的青少年却选择自杀；成年人因为赌博输掉自己的房子和存款。当人们从新闻里面听道这样的报道，他们会问怎样的问题呢？“哪有人会做这样的事情？”
如果你认为自己不会做这些可怕的事情，那你就大错特错了。你很愿意这样做。事实上，这些罪潜藏在你心灵和罪性里看不到的角落。让我们听一听耶稣列出的事项吧。凶杀，奸淫，苟合，偷盗，妄证，谤讟。圣经上说，大卫是合上帝心意的人，但他和拔示巴通奸，还谋害了她的丈夫来掩盖他的出轨行为。这一切都从何而来？来自他罪恶的内心。我们每个人都可能在任何时候犯任何罪。
与此同时，我们内心都有一个新我，是按着上帝的样子造的。这就是为什么每一天都是一场征战。我的新我想要做上帝喜爱的，而我的老我想要做上帝恨恶的。感谢耶稣藉着他的死和复活为我们胜过了罪恶。与此同时，永远也不要放松警惕！当你听说别人做出可怕事情的时候，也要为你内心不好的念头悔改，奔向上帝的施恩宝座前，乞求怜悯和力量。
祷告：上帝啊，求你在我里面造清洁的心，使我里面重新有正直的灵。求你使我仍得救恩之乐，赐我乐意的灵扶持我。我就把你的道指教有过犯的人，罪人必归顺你。（诗篇51:10-12，大卫的祷告）
Matthew 15
Matthew 15: 15-20: 15 Peter said, “Explain the parable to us.” 16 “Are you still so dull?” Jesus asked them. 17 “Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? 18 But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these defile them. 19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. 20 These are what defile a person; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them.”
School shootings. Parents keeping their children in cages. Clergy abusing children that trust them. Seemingly well adjusted teenagers committing suicide. Adults gambling away their families home and savings account. What’s the question that people ask when they hear stories like this in the news? “How could anyone do such a thing?”
If you think you are above doing something awful, then you are wrong. You are not above it at all. In fact, these sins lurk in the hidden corners of your heart, in your sinful nature. Listen to the list that Jesus makes. Murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. The Bible says that David was a man after God’s own heart, and yet he committed adultery with Bathsheba and murdered her husband to cover up his affair. Where did that come from? From within his sinful heart. Everyone of us is capable of any sin at any time.
At the same time, we have a new person inside of us that is created to be like God. That’s why every day is a battle. My new self wants what God loves and my old self wants what God hates. Be thankful that Jesus has given us the victory over sin by his death and resurrection. At the same time, never let your guard down. When you hear of the terrible things that people do, repent of the evil desires in your heart and flee to the throne of God’s grace for mercy and strength.
Prayer: Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. Then I will teach transgressors your ways, so that sinners will turn back to you. Amen. (Psalm 51:10-12 – David’s Prayer)