What sort is your life’s effluence?

His statement above came as a point of correction to the Pharisees’ traditional belief that eating with unwashed hands made a person a sinner before God.
In effect, the Lord was saying that the source of sin is never outside but inside one’s heart.
A graphical illustration of His argument can be derived from a fruit’s effluence. When you squeeze a lemon fruit it produces sour juice, but when you squeeze an orange fruit it produces sweet juice.
If you ever want to change the taste of the fruit, you must first change the chemical composition of the trunk’s sap because fruit is just gathered sap.
You just affect the internal part of the trunk and the change will spread to the fruit.
The same applies to our Christian life. You cannot differentiate a good Christian from a bad one by their adherence to church creeds and religious rites.
One can do this from an external point of view, but if you squeeze them or put them under pressure you will really know what sort is the effluence of their lives. 
Someone sagely said that crises, whether of good or evil opportunity, do not make a man, but they only serve to disclose. Habits and actions reveal our dispositions and the profession of our lips reveals unerringly the hidden man of the heart, which is the real man.
The Bible says, “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.” This means as within, so is without. Did you know that a man is never really surprised into any of the grosser sins listed above like adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, pride and others?
Of course onlookers may be surprised, but the man knows full well the secret process which has long gone on.
It is in the thought that every unholiness finds its root and it is in that same place that Christ’s control must be manifested if His salvation is to be effective in any life.
If the effluence of your life is not good then do not try to look for the cause in the effluence itself for the root cause is in the heart.
If you have problems with lust for women know that the problem is not with ladies, but deep down in your heart.
Someone once said to me, ‘Pastor I desire very much to serve and worship the Lord, but my problem is lust for women.’
Then he gave me the solution to his problem, ‘Pastor, if only God could wipe away all females from the face of the earth I would be a very good Christian.”
His solution was rather ridiculous, but he meant it. God needs not kill all females.
All we really need is the circumcision of hearts through the word of God, for the word of God is active and powerful, it is sharper than a two-edged sword; it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow (see Heb-rews 4:12).
In the medical cure of diseases there are basically two approaches. One is symptomatic, meaning the prescribed drugs address the symptoms like pain and temperature.
The other is causative, meaning the curing of the actual cause of the sickness for example, the bacteria causing the sickness.
You can easily see that the causative approach is more effective as it uproots the cause. Thank God, His word is designed to cure the root problem. The word of God can keep our thoughts from ranging over forbidden fields and inspire us to think on what is pure, lovely, good, praiseworthy and so on (see Philippians 4:8).
In addition to God’s word, dwelling richly in your heart, you need to walk by the Spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
Has it dawned upon you that both the word of God and the Spirit of God work from the interior towards the exterior. Let your heart be controlled by the those two and your effluence will be automatically good, for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
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