#Pure hearts and clean hands how to#
#Pure hearts and clean hands full#

I think about this picture in Psalm Chapter 22, “Who may ascend the hill of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy place? Who has clean hands?” I guess I would just ask you the question as we meditate on this verse, are your hands clean before God? I would encourage you to examine your heart. In Christ, we can ascend the hill of the Lord and stand in His holy place.

None of us can stand before God on our own merit.

#Pure hearts and clean hands how to#

For god sake, wash your hands.” Psalm 24:3–4 Shows Us How to Reach God I’m not asking you to do anything world-shaking. I’ve shown how it can be prevented, I’ve proven all I’ve said, but while we talk, talk, gentlemen, women are dying. He said, and I quote, “This fever is caused by decomposed material conveyed to a womb. All you have to do is wash your hands, but people around him didn’t believe him and he was speaking to a convention to his colleagues one time. They would just wash their hands and they would go from the morgue to the birthing room and they dropped the death rate in their area from one in six to one in fifty. They didn’t understand germs in that time so doctors would go from morgues were they would prepare dead bodies for burial directly into the birthing rooms to deliver babies, and they started to experiment with a chlorine situation. He started to study and found something today that we would think is appalling. He wanted to find out why all these women were dying. I heard an illustration once that I’m reminded of in this verse. Ignaz Semmelweis was born in 1818 into a world of dying women, so one in every six women were dying in childbirth and he became a doctor. Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,Īnd everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.“Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord, and who shall stand in His holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false, and does not swear deceitfully.”

#Pure hearts and clean hands full#

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visitorphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.īut the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure but both their minds and their consciences are defiled. So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart. The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.ĭo not be hasty in the laying on of hands, nor take part in the sins of others keep yourself pure. 3 But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.Īnd it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more,with knowledge and all discernment, 10 so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christįinally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.įor I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband,to present you as a pure virgin to Christ. The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord,Īll the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes,Įven a child makes himself known by his acts,īy whether his conduct is pure and upright.īlessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God Who does not lift up his soul to what is falseĪnd righteousness from the God of his salvation. Like silver refined in a furnace on the ground,