April 7 – Building from the Inside Out

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in Scripture and relevant
for today, April 7th.

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Building from the inside out.
Most of us spend a lot of time

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thinking about the outside of
our lives, what people think of

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us, how we come across, whether
we seem strong, successful,

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spiritual, or put together.
But Jesus always brings us back

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to the deeper place, the hidden
place, the place beneath

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appearances.
Proverbs chapter 14, verses one

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to two says that wisdom builds,
but folly tears down.

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And in Mark Chapter 7, verses 21
to 23, Jesus says that the

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things that defile a person come
from within the heart that is

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deeply honest and deeply hopeful
at the same time.

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Honest because it means our
biggest problem is not just out

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there somewhere, it is in here.
Pride, envy, bitterness,

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selfishness, lust and deceit can
quietly grow inside us long

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before anyone else notices.
We can look fine on the outside

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while something unhealthy is
shaping us from within.

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And eventually what is inside
spills out.

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It affects our words, our
relationships, our decisions,

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and what we are building with
our lives.

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But this is also hopeful because
Jesus is not just exposing the

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problem.
He is inviting transformation.

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He is able to cleanse what is
hidden and rebuild what has been

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weakened.
He can deal with the motives

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beneath the behavior and the
wound beneath the reaction.

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He does not just want better
habits from you.

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He wants your heart.
A wise life is built from the

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inside out.
It starts with surrender.

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It starts with letting God
search you honestly.

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Where is jealousy taking root?
Where is anger controlling you?

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Where is pride making you hard
to teach?

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These are not questions meant to
shame you.

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They are invitations to healing.
You do not have to keep patching

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the outside while the inside
cracks.

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Bring your heart to Jesus.
Let Him make it new.

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What He changes within you will
begin to shape everything around

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you.
Let’s pray.

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Heavenly Father, thank You that
You care about my heart, not

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just my image.
Search me and show me anything

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in me that needs your healing
and truth.

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Clean out what is sinful,
bitter, proud, or unloving and

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fill me with a heart that
reflects you.

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Help me build my life with
wisdom, integrity and surrender

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so that what grows in me honors
you in Jesus name, Amen.

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What if you could rise up and
declare with full spiritual

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authority, I shall not die, but
live?

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Proverbs chapter 14 verses one
to two World English Bible.

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Every wise woman builds her
house, but the foolish one tears

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it down with her own hands.
He who walks in his uprightness

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fears Yahweh, but he who is
perverse in his ways despises

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him.
Mark Chapter 7 World English

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Bible.
Then the Pharisees and some of

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the scribes gathered together to
him, having come from Jerusalem.

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Now when they saw some of his
disciples eating bread with

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defiled, that is, unwashed
hands, they found fault.

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For the Pharisees and all the
Jews don’t eat unless they wash

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their hands and forearms,
holding to the tradition of the

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elders.
They don’t eat when they come

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from the marketplace unless they
bathe themselves.

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And there are many other things
which they have received to hold

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to washings of cups, pitchers,
bronze vessels and couches.

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The Pharisees and the scribes
asked him, Why don’t your

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disciples walk according to the
tradition of the elders, but eat

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their bread with unwashed hands?
He answered them, Well did

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Isaiah prophecy of you
hypocrites as it is written.

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This people honors Me with their
lips, but their heart is far

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from me.
They worship Me in vain,

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teaching as doctrines the
commandments of men.

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For you set aside the
commandment of God, and hold

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tightly to the tradition of men
the washing of pitchers and

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cups, and you do many other such
things.

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He said to them Full well, do
you reject the commandment of

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God, that you may keep your
tradition.

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For Moses said, honor your
father and your mother, and he

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who speaks evil of father or
mother, let him be put to death.

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But you say if a man tells his
father or his mother whatever

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profit you might have received
from me is Corbin, that is to

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say, given to God, then you no
longer allow him to do anything

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for his father or his mother,
making void the word of God by

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your tradition which you have
handed down.

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You do many things like this.
He called all the multitude to

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himself, and said to them, Hear
me, all of you, and understand.

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There is nothing from outside of
the man that going into him can

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defile him.
But the things which proceed out

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of the man are those that defile
the man.

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If anyone has ears to hear, let
him hear.

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When he had entered into a house
away from the multitude, his

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disciples asked him about the
parable.

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He said to them, Are you also
without understanding?

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Don’t you perceive that whatever
goes into the man from outside

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can’t defile him, because it
doesn’t go into his heart but

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into his stomach, then into the
latrine making all foods clean?

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He said that which proceeds out
of the man that defiles the man.

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For from within, out of the
hearts of men, proceed evil

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thoughts, adulteries, sexual
sins, murders, thefts,

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covetings, wickedness, deceit,
lustful desires and evil eye,

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blasphemy, pride and
foolishness.

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All these evil things come from
within and defile the man.

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From there he arose and went
away into the borders of Tyre

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and Sidon.
He entered into a house and

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didn’t want anyone to know it.
But he couldn’t escape notice,

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for a woman whose little
daughter had an unclean spirit,

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having heard of him, came and
fell down at his feet.

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Now the woman was a Greek, a
Seraphonician by race.

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She begged him that he would
cast the demon out of her

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daughter, But Jesus said to her,
Let the children be filled

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first, for it is not appropriate
to take the children’s bread and

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throw it to the dogs.
But she answered him, Yes, Lord,

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yet even the dogs under the
table eat the children’s crumbs.

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He said to her, For this saying,
Go your way, the demon has gone

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out of your daughter.
She went away to her house and

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found the child having been laid
on the bed.

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With the demon gone out again.
He departed from the borders of

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Tyre and Sidon and came to the
Sea of Galilee through the

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middle of the region of
Decapolis.

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They brought to him one who was
deaf and had an impediment in

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his speech.
They begged him to lay his hand

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on him.
He took him aside from the

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multitude privately and put his
fingers into his ears, and he

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spat and touched his tongue.
Looking up to heaven.

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He sighed and said to him, If
Fatha that is be opened

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immediately his ears were opened
and the impediment of his tongue

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was released, and he spoke
clearly.

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He commanded them that they
should tell no one, but the more

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he commanded them so much the
more widely they proclaimed it.

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They were astonished beyond
measure, saying He has done all

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things well.
He makes even the deaf here and

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the mute speak.
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