{"id":7252,"date":"2025-05-29T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/satchurch.lv\/?p=7252"},"modified":"2013-05-04T22:35:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T19:35:32","slug":"we-can-defiled-things-come-within-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/we-can-defiled-things-come-within-2\/","title":{"rendered":"We can only be defiled by the things that come from within!"},"content":{"rendered":"Greetings to you, dear friends! Grace and peace to you from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ!\r\n\r\nWe have been talking about different types of relationships. We said that relationships with people help us to see the true condition of our hearts and the things we need to work on. Through relationships we learn to love and respect each other, to sacrifice and die for our selfish ways.\r\n\r\nI would like to give you a simple example. Some people only think about themselves, but they are not aware of it. For example, there is a celebration in church and the time comes for people to have some refreshments. You know what sometimes happens? Some of the people are ready to eat everything on the table without thinking of others. In these situations it is easy to detect the levels of selfishness and self-love under the slogan of\u00a0<em>being a new creature<\/em>!!!\r\n\r\nApostle Paul rebuked the church in Corinth; some believers there were stuffing themselves during the feast of love, the communion, while others went home hungry.\u00a0<em><strong>\u00abTherefore when you come together in one place, it is not to eat the Lord\u2019s Supper. For in eating, each one takes his own supper ahead of others; and one is hungry and another is drunk. What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you\u00bb<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(1 Corinthians, 11: 20-22).\r\n\r\nWhy do things like that have a place in church? Some people have not changed yet. They do not know they need to think about others and that they need to share with others. Imagine that some people act like that around their house: the wife goes hungry, because the husband eats everything before him. This person does not care about the needs of others because he is selfish.\r\n\r\nWhat about being short-tempered? Someone steps on your toes and you blow up! If you are short-tempered, God wants to change it. He will show you the condition of your heart through the relationships with people. When you are alone, you do not know that you have a problem with anger.\r\n\r\nIf you lack patience, or if you are full of envy and can\u2019t stand other people succeeding and having something you don\u2019t have, but you do not see these faults, then the relationships with people will be the area where all these things will come out and become obvious. For example, you are friends with someone; God starts blessing and exalting him and suddenly the friendship is over. It was caused by your envy. Many people in the situation like that even start slandering their friends, saying that their life is wrong, that they compromise with the world etc. If there is envy in you, then it will show in your relationships with others.\r\n\r\nAlso, the changes in us first are seen in our relationships with other people. If a person is changed then his attitude towards others changes. Such a person looks differently at people. A proud and haughty person looks at others \u2018from above\u2019. But God can change even that, if a person lets Him do it.\r\n\r\nLet\u2019s look at the Holy Scripture and see how God changes us through relationships. It says in the Bible:\u00a0<em><strong>\u00abThere is nothing that enters a man from outside which can defile him; but the things which come out of him, those are the things that defile a man\u00bb<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(Mark, 7:15). This verse reveals to us that it is not other people or their action that defile u s; it is what we have inside.\r\n\r\nJesus also says:\u00a0<em><strong>\u00abWhen He had entered a house away from the crowd, His disciples asked Him concerning the parable. So He said to them, \u201eAre you thus without understanding also? Do you not perceive that whatever enters a man from outside cannot defile him, because it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and is eliminated, thus purifying all foods?\u201d And He said, \u201eWhat comes out of a man, that defiles a man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these things come from within and defile a man\u00bb<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(Mark, 7:17-23).\r\n\r\nWhen we talk about changes, we talk about the condition of one\u2019s heart. What others do to us does not come from us; it is directed towards us to test the condition of our hearts. Our reaction to the actions of others and the outside pressure determine the content of our hearts. We can only be defiled by the things that come from within!\r\n\r\n<em><strong>\u00ab<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life\u00bb<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(Proverbs, 4:23).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWe will continue about it tomorrow!\r\n\r\nI wish you God\u2019s abundant blessings!\r\n\r\nPastor Rufus Ajiboye","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When we talk about changes, we talk about the condition of one\u2019s heart. What others do to us does not come from us; it is directed towards us to test the condition of our hearts. Our reaction to the actions of others and the outside pressure determine the content of our hearts. \r\n\r\n\u00abKeep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life\u00bb (Proverbs, 4:23).","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-word"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":12,"label":"Daily Word"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/red-love-heart-valentines-1024x682.jpg",1024,682,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Pastor Rufus Ajiboye","author_link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/author\/rufus-ajiboye\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":12,"name":"Daily Word","slug":"daily-word","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","parent":0,"count":650,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":12,"category_count":650,"category_description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","cat_name":"Daily Word","category_nicename":"daily-word","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39460,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7252\/revisions\/39460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}