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Lady Macbeth: “Out Damned Spot!”

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Lady Macbeth:

“Out Damned Spot!”

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“Here’s the smell of the blood still: All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh! oh! oh!”

Lady Macbeth, Macbeth Act V, Scene I

“Out Damned Spot!”

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“Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas’d,Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain,And with some sweet oblivious antidoteCleanse the stuff’d bosom of that perilous stuffWhich weights upon the heart?”

Macbeth, Macbeth Act V, Scene III

“Out Damned Spot!”

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“Out Damned Spot!”

We all have a senseof being ‘unclean’

Point 1:

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“What comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this is what defiles. For out of the heart come evil intentions, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a person.”

Jesus, Matthew 15:18-19

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“Out Damned Spot!”

We can’t cleanse ourselves

(as hard as we try)

Point 2:

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“‘Are you also still without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach, and goes out into the sewer? But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this is what defiles.”

Jesus, Matthew 15:16-17

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“Out Damned Spot!”

Only Jesus can cleanse us

Point 3:

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“‘Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile, since it enters, not the heart but the stomach, and goes out into the sewer?’ (Thus he declared all foods clean.)”

Jesus, Mark 7:18-19

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“For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”

Paul, 2 Corinthians 5:21

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“Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.

Psalm 51:10

“A Cleansed Heart!”