physical outside of our lives, while the inward affections remain unchanged, is deadly. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean. (Matt. 23:25–26) “Greed and self-indulgence” must be replaced with contentment (Heb. 13:5–6) and the treasuring of Christ over the comforts of this world
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