Title: Clean Inside Out
Text: Matthew 15:1-20
Preacher: Rev. Greg Brower
Early one morning, I grabbed a cup from the dishwasher and poured a nice tall glass of water. As I began to take a drink I glanced into the cup and realized the dishwasher had not been run the night before. The cup was filled with nice clean water mixed with floaties and other refuse from a piece of silverware that must have been put in the cup. No matter how clean the water I put in, the water I poured out would be dirty until the cup was cleaned. In our text for today, Jesus challenges us to seek not only an outward purity, but an inward purity of the heart as well.