Wisdom from Above
By Dr. Betty Price

Jesus is telling us that any time we are involved in fornication, adultery, and all the other things He listed in Matthew and Mark, they come out of the heart. That is why you have to protect your heart, in order to keep those things from getting in there.

Luke 6:45 says: “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.” It is up to us as Christians to keep ugly things out of our hearts and to protect our hearts with all diligence by right thinking and right action. So many people bring the types of things listed in Matthew 15 and Mark 7 from the world right into their Christian life because they have never been told that they do not have to keep those things in their hearts and they don’t have to do them. Many believers don’t really know how to take the Word and drive these things out of their hearts.

You might be wondering where the heart is. We know it is on the inside of us. There are many views about the where the heart is. There are some who say the heart is where the spirit and the soul meet. This theory witnesses with my spirit. The Bible indicates that the spirit man is the heart of man. The heart and the soul go together. You can only separate them to talk about them, but they go together. When a person gets born again, he or she is supposed to take his or her born-again spirit—the new man—and renew the new man’s mind, by the Word of God.