• Your Real Problem isn’t What You’ve  Let in , It’s What’s  Already  There

1. Truth Brings Clarity not Confusion

Matthew 15:10–11 NIV

¹⁰ Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen and understand. ¹¹ What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.”

2. Truth will Offend  &  Correct 

Matthew 15:12–14 NIV¹² Then the disciples came to him and asked, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this?” ¹³ He replied, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots. ¹⁴ Leave them; they are blind guides. If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

Matthew 15:15–16 NIV¹⁵ Peter said, “Explain the parable to us.” ¹⁶ “Are you still so dull?” Jesus asked them.

3. Truth Reveals the  Problem 

Matthew 15:17–20 NIV¹⁷ “Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? ¹⁸ But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these defile them. ¹⁹ For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. ²⁰ These are what defile a person; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them.”

4. Truth Points to the  Solution 

Matthew 11:27 NIV

²⁷ “All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

John 14:6 NIV

⁶ Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me