and secretly defiling everything and everyone he touched; and the Lord would know all about it. Unless he obeyed the regulations given in God’s law and became clean again, he would be living a lie, doing a great deal of damage and inviting the discipline of God. One of the principles Jesus stressed in the Sermon on the Mount is that we live our lives before the eyes of God, to please Him alone, and not before the eyes of people in order to impress them (Matt. 6:1–18). There are times when what we