
RELIGION’S DIRTY TRICK
Whatever you’re feeling is wrong
SOCIETY’S DIRTY TRICK
You do you
JESUS’S SOLUTION
Jesus’s solution doesn’t
- Shame you for the dirt
- Hate you for the dirt
- But it certainly doesn’t ignore the dirt either
MATTHEW 23:25-26
““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.” —https://www.bible.com/bible/111/MAT.23.25-26.NIVJeremiah 17:9-10
“The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure.
Who can understand it? —https://www.bible.com/bible/1/JER.17.9-10.KJVMatthew 15:18-19
“But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come
from the heart, and these defile them. For out of the heart
come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality,
theft, false testimony, slander.” —https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2015%3A18-19&version=NIVPsalm 51:10
Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast
spirit within me. —https://www.bible.com/bible/111/PSA.51.10.NIV1 Samuel 16:7
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his
appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The
Lord does not look at the things people look at. People
look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the
heart.” —https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Samuel%2016%3A7&version=NIVMatthew 22:37
Jesus replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart
and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ —https://www.bible.com/bible/111/MAT.22.37.NIV
OUR HEARTS ARE A RESULT OF WHAT WE GIVE OUR TIME, MONEY, AND ENERGY TO
Proverbs 4:23
Above all else, guard your heart For everything you do flows
from it —https://www.bible.com/bible/111/PRO.4.23.NIVProverbs 27:19
As water reflects the face, so one’s life reflects the heart —https://www.bible.com/bible/111/PRO.27.19.NIV
3 Steps to dealing with the INSIDE DIRT
1. Assess the source of the dirt
2. Address the actionable steps that you need to take to change
3. CLEAN IT UP
You cannot surprise Jesus with who you are! If you can assess it, if you can address it, you can open your heart for Jesus to get to work.