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MY
PRESENT PREDICAMENT BEFORE GOD
My eyes
are to see with so I look; my ears are to hear with so I listen, and I
remember all. I call everything to mind.
Mark 8:18 (Isaiah)
I notice the warnings
all around me about the crisis ahead.
Luke 12:56
I see for myself what
is right.
Luke 12:57
I am not harmed by what
I eat. I am harmed by what I think and say.
Mark 7:15-16
It’s what I say and
think that makes me unclean.
Matthew 15:11
Evil and ungodly words
come from my evil and ungodly heart and mind, the centre of my feelings,
impulses, inclinations, affections and desires and these evil and ungodly
words defile, pollute and make unclean those of us who say them.
Matthew 15:18
It’s my thought- life
that pollutes and makes me foul and filthy,
Mark 7:20
For from my heart and
mind, the centre of my feelings, impulses, inclinations, affections and
desires come evil and ungodly thoughts against the laws of God.
Matthew 15:19 Mark 7:21
These are what defile
and pollute me and make me unclean.
Matthew 15:20
All these vile, impure
and bad things come from within; they are what pollute me and make me
foul and filthy and make me unfit, unworthy and unprepared for God.
Mark 7:23
Murder, lust, adultery,
fornication, indecency, theft, lying, wickedness, slander, deceit, wanting
what belongs to others, to other people, envy, pride and all other folly.
Mark 7:21-22
All these vile, impure
and bad things come from within; they are what pollute me and make me
foul and filthy and make me unfit, unworthy and unprepared for God.
Mark 7:23
Some synonyms
about internal pollution, defilement and corruption are displayed.
MURDER IS
The hatefully planned
and deliberate killing, slaughter, homicide, and putting to death of other
persons like us.
LUST IS
All craving, yearning
and desiring for those things not approved by God and against his laws.
ADULTERY
IS
Sexual intercourse of
two persons, either of whom is married to a third person.
FORNICATION
IS
Sexual intercourse between
an unmarried man and an unmarried woman.
INDECENCY
IS
Unseemliness, indecorum, immodesty, intemperance, impropriety, coarseness,
foulness, grossness, outrageousness, impurity, vileness, lewdness (provoking
lust), lasciviousness
(lust and craving), licentiousness (sexual immorality), obscenity and
pornography.
THEFT IS
Stealing, larceny, pilfering,
purloining, embezzlement, cheating, swindling and fraud.
LYING IS
Speaking falsely and
against the truth, fact and reality.
WICKEDNESS
IS
An evil eye, wrongdoing,
lawlessness and ungodliness; all thoughts speech and actions against God’s
Laws.
BLASPHEMY
IS
Evil thinking and reasoning
and speaking and writing irreverently about and against God and sacred
matters. Using offensive and obscene language in speech and writing.
SLANDER
IS
False statements or charges against a person, misrepresentation, defamation,
backbiting and malicious gossip.
DECEIT IS
Misrepresentation, misleading
appearance, deception, imposition, slyness, pretence, sham, hypocrisy,
double dealing, duplicity, cheating, fraud, trickery, cunning, treachery
and betrayal.
COVETOUSNESS
IS
Grasping, overreaching,
excessive want and desire, hankering after, longing for, yearning for
and lusting for that which belongs to others.
ENVY IS
Bitter and longing consideration
and grudging contemplation of another person’s better situation, fortune,
success or qualities.
PRIDE IS
Self-importance, loftiness,
conceit, presumption, arrogance, insolence and impertinence.
ALL OTHER
FOLLY IS
Imprudence, unwise conduct,
indiscretion, nonsense, silliness, foolishness, stupidity and absurdity.
Mark 7:21-22
My inside
is foul and filthy, polluted and unclean with extortion, seeking to obtain
results by force or threats or oppression and greed, that is, an overeagerness
to obtain food and wealth and power.
Luke 11:39
Matthew 23:25
My heart,
the centre of my feelings, impulses, inclinations, affections and desires
is besmirched, soiled and polluted with every sort of hypocrisy and pretence
and sin, those thoughts, speech and actions against God’s laws.
Matthew 23:28
How shall we escape
the judgment, sentence and punishment of hell, the home of the damned?
Matthew 23:33
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