OUR QUESTION CORNER by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 23, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 50.

OUR QUESTION CORNER.

By Editor

120. WHAT DEFILES.

PLEASE explain the following in the SIGNS: "Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man, but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man." Matt. 15:11.

The text means just what it says. The seat of all sin, of all impurity, of all defilement, is in the heart. If the heart be right, if the whole being be submitted to God, doing God's work, no outward thing can defile the man. But in that case the man will love the things which God loves; he will care for the soul which God has redeemed; he will not defile or destroy the body which Christ has purchased, by wrong habits of eating or drinking or dressing or living. In short, he will eat and drink to glorify God. 1 Cor. 10:31.