August 12th.

Are you so dull? Don't you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him 'unclean'? For it doesn't go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body.

The key thing said here is that food doesn't go into the heart. In saying this he declared the heart to be the place where the things that truly define a man live. That is, according to how God sees, not other men. The heart is the place where a man can live and be, which he can keep secret from the humans. It is the place where the humans hide according to the curse put on them that makes them afraid. It's why the humans are all so incredibly phony with each other, rarely honest but all the time busy putting up their fronts, their high walls of defense that disallow the others to see who they are. If they claim they don't have those walls that is just the wall they put up, in line with what is common and acceptable amongst the humans according to the conspiracy they all have with one another that says walls are totally acceptable because they all want to be able to do it.

When they violate the terms of the conspiracy, that's when the humans come down on them and frown on their behavior, because they are betraying the rules of the culture that rules them and the others they're busy trying to hide from. The religious humans, in line with the ruling culture of religious and non-religious humans who make the rules, have their gods who are on their side, first as humans and then as the particular brand of religious human, as per the sub-cultural club they've joined whose members, like them, have decided to adhere to a certain set of that sub-culture's rules, a subset within the larger culture of the rules of the ruling humans (rules meaning how to generally be acceptable within the group).

He went on: "What comes out of a man is what makes him 'unclean.' For from within, out of men's hearts, come all these evils from inside which make the man 'unclean.' "

Jesus is speaking about the general condition of the humans here, not just the "bad" ones. The only humans at this point who were clean was Jesus, and those disciples who were chosen to have the word spoken to them so that they would become sons. John had already been killed, but he like the OT prophets and righteous men (right with God because they were chosen by Him and He intended them to be in His family of sons). John was the last of the sons of God from that era, whom the Father intended to be in the family but nevertheless couldn't be until the Son finished the work that the Father had begun, as a good son is expected to do.

When he had received the drink, Jesus said, "It is finished." With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

Without the Son doing the work that the Father had started, none of those humans who had ever lived, in whom His word lived which they were conformed to—so they served Him and not themselves—could be saved from the earth, the grave, the soil that had gobbled them up and made them one with it through decomposition of their natural bodies. What made them clean enough to be specifically remembered by God so that they were pulled from that which wanted to keep them? The specific intention of God who had decided they would be particularly His, that all of those particular men whom He had chosen and had known in the time before the Son came would be with Him because they would be like Him—not natural but recreated into another kind of creature, one like God so that they could know Him and come close to Him, not like the humans who are kept far from Him because they can't come near or they'd just burn up.

You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

Why weren't all of the people who listened to Jesus' teaching clean? Because the Father is particular about who hears His word, or intention—who understands His reality. The word he spoke that made those 12 men clean was the intention of the voice of God which said to the Son, "I desire this to be—let it be so (that these particular humans should become sons in the family I am choosing out of the stock of humans)," just as in the beginning He created all that exists from nothing, saying, "Let there be light." And it was good because it was as He desired it to be. By the word of the LORD all things were made to be. What He said, by the breath of His mouth, that He wanted to exist, became what exists because of the desire of God for it to be.

I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure.

The Son was revealing the Father to those who had been chosen to become sons, who didn't even know it. They had been given particular ears to hear the word that the Son spoke and the eyes to be able to see who he was (according to their true Father), enough to overcome their natural instinct to run and hide like the rest of the humans who couldn't hear or see, therefore weren't able to accept, because that ability to accept only what seemed right to their natural selves came from another place than that which enabled the 12 chosen sons (except one) to be able to accept him and his word to them that they had a Father no one else could see or know. But they could because they were chosen according to the intention of God that it be so.

Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Didn't you agree to work for a denarius? Take your pay and go. I want to give the man who was hired last the same as I gave you. Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?'

So the last will be first, and the first will be last.

Things that God does don't go according to the humans' many assumption about how they want or expect them to go. God is not generally for the humans at large, because they are generally under the curse of that which makes it impossible to know anything true according to God. This is what the Son is saying, that whatever the humans think and assume to be right (first)—according to their cursed nature where everything goes through the filter of themselves right and first all the time (at the expense of God being able to be first)—is actually wrong (last) according to God and His reality, which is opposed to the humans at large.

Whatever the humans agree is true according to themselves is not what is true according to God. Therefore, because God is not for the arrogant, presumptuous humans generally, it is His pleasure for it to be topsy-turvy, the way where whatever seems to be isn't, which Jesus recognizes because the voice of the Father living in him made him able to see (he had been given eyes to see what the others couldn't). Whatever the humans choose, God chooses the opposite to confound them and turn what they try to hold onto and control on its head. What and who God values is hidden from them, and what they value is worthless to God.

God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.

To those who know they are chosen (not those who choose themselves or who choose others, then say God chose them) by the true God (not the made up gods of the humans) the will and desire of God starts to become the only thing that ever matters (instead of their own will and desire for themselves). The Father and His intention is too important for it to be any other way than that which it must be, according to His intention for the way it must be in His family ("Your will be done on earth as it is always done in the place where you live and rule"). As it is now, that is not the case since the earth is ruled by creatures who are ruled by a nature that is hostile to God and what He wants and should expect—to be honored not given lip service while that one's heart is fixed on themselves and what they need, want, expect for themselves all the time, which is what the curse is and does.

Jesus and his disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked them, "Who do people say I am?"

They replied, "Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets."

"But what about you?" he asked. "Who do you say I am?"
Peter answered, "You are the Christ. "

Jesus warned them not to tell anyone about him.

If God wanted to reveal Himself and the Son's identity to everyone in Israel, then that's what would have happened. But it didn't, and the Son's identity was only revealed to those men, particularly and individually chosen by God out of all the men in Israel (many much more "worthy," in human terms, than they were) to accomplish what He desires—to have a family of sons who love Him, and to nullify the humans' systems of pride, value, boasting, egotism, and hypocrisy.

He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are.

He chooses those whom the humans would never choose, and that is the perfect justice of God because as unclean animals the humans have no ability to see what God sees unless they are specifically and purposefully transformed from that condition to one in which they are given eyes to see what's real according to God, by the Son's active and ongoing—living—work. Not merely the work he did on the cross, killing the animal nature, which becomes a thing he did once a long time ago and now there is no more work to do. Even now the Son exists as an active, living teacher to speak the words of the Father to us, through whatever messengers he uses to accomplish it, which is the mechanism how and the substance of what transforms us and makes us clean sons for the Father to be able to enjoy as sons. Otherwise we would just remain as the humans at large remain—dirty, chaotic animals running around like rats, only ever interested in keeping their interests promoted and themselves alive, never one true concern about God's needs because they are stuck in the position they are bound to. Our salvation is not based on a particular thing we may have once done (except perhaps desired God enough to search for Him and not accept the loads of bullshit the humans produce about what they all claim to know about Him), but whether or not the process is continuing in us that makes us clean, which is the sign that we are choosing Him instead of our selves (like rats).

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.

The humans who have been appointed by other humans to the role of assumed leader of God's people read these words and say they live by them, but then they have to do something with them, because what they teach is contrary to this truth about God's desire to choose His own sons. The religious leaders teach that anyone can be a son of God, as long as they believe the correct doctrine (of the club they are a leader of), and perform a certain set of prescribed rituals, which is how they translate being faithful to their gods, what they call the modern method of following their made up jesus god. Because they all choose to adhere to the same lie (what they call belief), they keep reinforcing that lie in one another as the validation they need to keep considering it to be true. When anyone in their group threatens the validity of the lie, they are promptly booted out of that community in the name of, and for the sake of, the lies they maintain about the gods they worship, which not accidentally always act in the group's best interest—they choose for the group and never against it. Every religious group does this without fail—and they all think they're right.

I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours.

You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

How did the word Jesus spoke to them make them clean? The word Jesus spoke to them was the beginning of the process of them being transformed from animal to son. The fact that he spoke the word to them designates that it was God's will that that happen, which also means that it was God's will and desire that they become His sons. They choosing Him back is what completed the deal (new covenant), which allowed the process of transformation to continue just as Abraham completed the deal God had initiated in him by saying with his actions (not just conceptual drivel) that he believed God more than what he could see with his natural eyes, what seemed right according to the humans, and what he wanted to hold on to the most. He wanted God, and his reward was God.

After this, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision:
"Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward."

The story of Judas is the one who was chosen by God, but who didn't want the process of transformation to continue in him. He didn't like where it was going and said no to God. He wanted to conform the Son to his will and desire for the way he wanted things to go, instead of being willing to conform to the way of the Father, to accept what the Son said. Mary anointed Jesus with perfume at Bethany, and Jesus confirmed again that he was going to die—what the disciples at that point did not want to hear. As soon as the words came out of Jesus' mouth which finally convinced Judas that Jesus would not be doing what he wanted him to do, or being who he wanted Jesus to be (his idea of who the Messiah was going to be), he made up his mind to stop the process that had already begun in him.

"Leave her alone," said Jesus. "Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me. She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial." 

Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Jesus to them.

What makes a man clean is the desire of God to transform him from an unclean animal to a clean son, and therefore a part of His family; as we see was the case with the disciples chosen by God to become sons. It also requires a response from the one God chooses, which is him saying, "I am willing to conform to you and what you want, instead of making everything conform to me and my desires for the way I think things should go and be." In effect it's God saying to that one, "I love you enough to want to live with you forever. Do you love me enough to do what I require, for my sake, to show me and the rest of the sons that you love me by conforming to me and my way—what I require from my own sons?"

Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.

Judas rejected the word that the Son was speaking to him—that he had to accept something that he despised and become something he loathed—because the nature that ruled him caused him to love what God hated and hate what God loved (the topsy-turvy deal). In order to be right with God, he would have to become what he feared, despised and loathed—but Judas was unwilling to become that which was the choice he made against the Father and Son. Like an animal with a stiff neck that hardens up when the owner wants it to turn and go a certain way, Judas just said, "No, I'm not going that way. I will go the way *I* know is best, and I don't trust that you know the best way." While he went off to do his own will, the other 11 men hesitatingly remained with Jesus. They were terrified because of the way things seemed to be, but they hung on and remained faithful enough to continue. Though they couldn't even do that very well, nevertheless they were willing for the process of transformation to continue in them, even if begrudgingly.

Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.

It is a personal covenant and promise the firstborn Son makes to his brothers. If we will choose to remain in the teaching that has already been spoken to us, and the process that has already been started in us which is beginning to transform us, Jesus and the Father will remain in and with us, and will accomplish the work that's already been started—he will not leave us alone. We just have to hang on, even though everything else except what lives in us tells us that it isn't and can't be true (because it isn't in the humans and we are alone, just like all of God's sons have been alone, together with only themselves if they are lucky enough to be given another witness to testify to the things that are true according to the Father who initiated what is happening inside them).

I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

Not only would he not leave them in their human existence—he came back to them as promised, in the form God takes, pure spirit, to live in them and be one with them—he would not leave them in the ground, out of sight, to merely rot and be forgotten; just as the Father had not left him there. The same sentiment God had for Jesus, what we can understand about His deliberate act of raising him out of the ground as promised, was extended to those who loved the Son and stayed, who didn't go away from their brothers as Judas had.

Many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist. Watch out that you do not lose what you have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully. Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take him into your house or welcome him.

If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.

The intention to do anything and everything for the sake of the family of brothers was in Jesus because it was first in God, His own intention and desire. And He lived in the Son's body to make it his, just like his Father. The process of Jesus' transformation, from human born of God to ultimately becoming one with God, was already far along.

When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. "Do you understand what I have done for you?" he asked them. "You call me `Teacher' and `Lord,' and rightly so, for that is what I am. Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another's feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. I tell you the truth, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

He could speak the words of the Father with authority because he was already very much a part of His body, one with Him because of the spirit, which is God, that lived in him. In the same way, the process of our transformation from animal to son is making us less animal and more son as we go along and keep responding positively to the work that is being done in us. That we want the process to continue is what the Father wants to hear us say, even though it's difficult and seems impossible.

Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.