[:en]To the hypocrites, Jesus said: :These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. they worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men” (v. 6-7)
Application: We honor God by our living testimony. We worship God in truth from our hearts.
Concerning the clean and unclean, Jesus said: “Nothing outside a man can make him unclean by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him ‘unclean. (v. 13) “All these evils (evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly come from inside and make a man ‘unclean'” (vs. 21-23)
Application: Be careful of the evils that comes out from our hearts. Follow the commands of God and not the traditions of men.
The Faith of a Syrophoenician Woman saved her daughter from the demon.
Application: If you have REAL FAITH in God, He WILL do what you ask for according to His will.
Jesus used the sense of touch (by putting his fingers into the man’s ears and touched his tongue), sight (by looking up into the heavens) and speech (by saying ‘Be Opened’) to heal a deaf and a mute man.
Application: God created man with the sense of touch, sight, hearing, taste and speech for us to do remarkable things.[:]