#defilement

That Which Defiles

10 And He called the crowd to Him and said to them, Hear and understand:

11 It is not that which enters into the mouth that defiles the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.

12 Then the disciples came and said to Him, Do You know that the Pharisees were stumbled when they heard this word?

13 And He answered and said, Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted shall be rooted up.

14 Let them be. They are blind guides of the blind; and if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.

15 And Peter answered and said to Him, Explain this parable to us.

16 And He said, Are you also still without understanding?

17 Do you not understand that everything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled into the drain?

18 But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and those defile the man.

19 For out of the heart come evil reasonings, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies.

20 These are the things which defile the man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile the man.

The Faith of a Canaanite Woman

21 And Jesus went from there and withdrew into the parts of Tyre and Sidon.

22 And behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders and cried out, saying, Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter suffers terribly from demon possession.

23 But He did not answer her a word. And His disciples came and implored Him, saying, Send her away, for she is crying out after us.

24 But He answered and said, I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

25 But she came and worshipped Him, saying, Lord, help me!

26 But He answered and said, It is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs.

27 And she said, Yes, Lord, for even the little dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.

28 Then Jesus answered and said to her, O woman, great is your faith! Be it done to you as you wish. And her daughter was healed from that hour. — Matthew 15:10-28 | Recovery Version (REC) The Recovery Version of the Holy Bible © 2016 Living Stream Ministry. All rights reserved. Cross References: Genesis 6:5; Numbers 22:29; Proverbs 4:23; Isaiah 9:16; Isaiah 31:3; Isaiah 60:21; Isaiah 61:3; Matthew 4:24; Matthew 7:6; Matthew 8:2; Matthew 9:22; Matthew 9:27; Matthew 10:6; Matthew 11:6; Matthew 11:21; Matthew 12:34; Matthew 13:18; Matthew 13:36; Matthew 15:9; Mark 7:19; Mark 7:24; Mark 7:27-28; Luke 16:21; Acts 3:26; Acts 10:14-15; Romans 15:8; 1 Corinthians 6:13

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Living Water

“After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.” John 19:28KJV

2018 We traveled to Luke AFB to visit our grandson, receiving training there. He invited us to go to church with him in Scottsdale AZ.

Mark Driscoll pastored Mars Hill Church, Seattle with 14,000 attendees. Leaving Mars Hill at God’s direction he studied a few years in Rome and Jerusalem. He returned stateside founding a church in Scottsdale. We attended his Good Friday funeral service there.

During Driscoll’s studies a guide took him through the ancient Roman toilets/latrines. A long rock shelf with various holes were the toilets used for toileting. Under the shelf was the collection area. What was behind the shelf brought questions from Driscoll. Answer— slaves stood in the trench behind the shelf. A wall separated them with an opening about a foot wide on the side facing the toilet holes. Slaves took a stick with a rough sponge on the end. They dipped the sponge in vinegar and wiped the backsides of each user. These exact same sponges and a small stick was a part of every Roman soldier’s gear.

Golgotha, the place of Christ’s crucifixion, was the scene of Roman soldier’s doing the dirty work for Pontus Pilate. They suspended the beaten, partially skinless and muscleless man, Jesus Christ about a foot higher than their height, upon that cross, low enough for people to spit upon Jesus and rail at Him, while He looked closely upon His tormentors. (This information Driscoll learned in his Rome and Jerusalem studies.) That cross, at just the right height to be reached with a small stick with the germ-laden, fecal-covered sponge dipped in vinegar.

There was a slight variation of the vinegar used. Matthew 27:34NLT said, “wine mixed with bitter gall, but when He had tasted it, He refused to drink it.” It was enough that Christ was defiled by the taste upon His lips. He refused any comfort from the “bitter gall,” a substance similar to today’s pain killer.

“If you knew the gift of God and Who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked Him and He would have given you living water.” John 4:10NIV Jesus told the woman at the well. The source of all life-giving water suffered such defilement for you and I. He could’ve drawn from His well of living water, instead of crying “I thirst.”

When Christ had called for the final defilement of the sponge, the moment He cried out “I thirst” Driscoll explained, Jesus did this for everyone who had been violated sexually, and abased beyond measure. I found myself totally wrecked, a sobbing mess. My Savior had taken into Himself this final defilement for you and me. Not because He had to, but because He wanted to take our defilement on our behalf.

The thought occurred to me, Jesus also did this for us to learn to “thirst” for His life-giving water. John 7:38NIV, Jesus said: “Whoever believes in Me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”

Life deals everyone very harsh blows. In those harsh situations, we have choices to make. We can become bitter or better. The pain and agony can take us into bitter unforgiveness, anger, hatred, a desire for revenge, when we don’t guard our hearts and minds. Or better when we thirst for Christ’s living water. Those harsh circumstances are to create an insatiable thirst for Christ, making our hearts stalwart and worthy of the name, Christ-ian. We’re being molded into His image, “…with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another…” 2Corinthians 3:18ESV.

Will we thirst for Him, and then pour out the life giving water on others? It’s your choice. You choose.

LET’S PRAY: LORD God, we thirst. Give us You living water in the name of Jesus Christ I pray.

First of all these Restless Dead feels OFF, like, Incomplete, Dirty, Heavy, Polluted, Impure, Defiled. 

Secondly, they are Desperate, like they are Thirsty, Hungry. Longing, Wanting, Needing.

so I was wondering if any of ya’ll ever found any historical information on The Dead that explain or say how different these kind of Dead Peeps, with the Honored/Venerated Dead Peeps that we tend to read about mostly in Ancient Egypt?

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