WALKING THE PURE MODE
"To the pure all
things are pure; but to them that are defiled and unbelieving nothing is
pure" Titus 1: 15
These words closely follow a reference
to "Jewish
fables, and commandments of men," and this fact helps us to
understand them. The whole system of living by tradition was unutterably evil;
and our Lord Himself and His Apostles protested against it. Such traditions
constantly led men to a burdensome life, in that they made actions to be sins
which were no sins, and left the truly sinful things of the inner life
untouched. It is so even today. Man made regulations as to what men may do or
not do are the greatest enemies to real spiritual life that it is possible to
conceive. These words, then, touch the true deep note about life. The "all
things" refers to everything which is non-moral; such as
appetite and food, desire and marriage, exchange and commerce, weariness and
recreation, and so on through all the varied realm of life. To the pure all
these things are pure, and they will be maintained in purity. And A man walking
towards perfection of his life is unseen and denied by the man walking in
impurity. To the impure, every one of them may be made the vehicle and occasion
of impurity. No traditions, no commandments of men, no rules and regulations,
can save the ordinary things of human life from positive obscenity, if the man
handling them is himself as impure man. On the other hand, the man who is pure
may enter into them all; and not only will he not be defiled by them, but will
not defile them; he will hold them in pureness. To all of which the words of Jesus
testify, that not what goes into a man defiles, but that which cometh out of
him.
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