Mutilating the Flesh Doesn't Take Away Sin (TMF:1420)

Friday, July 24, 2020
Peace to Live By: Mutilating the Flesh Doesn't Take Away Sin (TMF:1420) - Daniel Litton
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       In other words, mutilating the flesh will not fix anything for a person. If a person where to tear out his eye or cut off his hand, that person would still have evil on the inside. A person may look at his neighbor’s possessions to covet them, but that feeling of covetousness is not in the eye, but in the person’s mind. So, tearing out the eye isn’t going to do any good. Nonetheless, two different approaches are possible for this passage: one that has believers in view when considering it, and another that has unbelievers in view. And I think that both interpretations work to our advantage, and we can learn different things from each perspective. And in the similar passage in Matthew 18:7-9, it seems to fit believers better, while the passage here may fit unbelievers better. Therefore, for the believer in Jesus, we can note in the most basis sense that God wants us to avoid anything in our lives that causes us to sin.