Clean Heart: Passion Monday

Clean Heart

New Living Translation Chapter 21

12 Jesus entered the Temple and began to drive out all the people buying and selling animals for sacrifice. He knocked over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves.

The temple look good on the outside but on the inside was where the problems were discovered. (

We need to expose our hidden issues and remove them.

They are blocking the new growth in your life.

Clog arteries.

Clogged pipe.

You are doing the job but not to your full ability and lack of integrity.

Do not let your heart deceive you to steal form your future.

Heart is deceitful

““The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it? “I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give to each man according to his ways, According to the results of his deeds.” ( NAS95)

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Who can truly understand your heart?

We fool ourselves when we think we an truly know ourselves.

Only God knows our true selves.

God searches our heart and tests us and rewards us according to our deeds.

May God clean our heart and remove the deceit, anger, unforgiven heart, jealousy, malice and all that pulls away from God’s love.

What does God need to clean out of your heart?

Some issues we do not know of but God can still expose them and remove them from our heart to bring us healing.

Make Room for Prayer

When we clean out hearts we keep it clean by staying in prayer.

New Living Translation Chapter 21

13 He said to them, “The Scriptures declare, ‘My Temple will be called a house of prayer,’ but you have turned it into a den of thieves!”*

Prayer life is a life devoted to meditating and doing the will of God.

Prayer is not just moving of lips. Prayer is the devoted heart to the things that honor God and seeking such things.

Prayer brings us to the presence of God.

Through prayer God speaks to us.

Prayer changes us by seeking to be formed into God’s image

Prayer makes room for God to heal us by removing the issues we have allowed to easily entangle us.

New Living Translation Chapter 21

14 The blind and the lame came to him in the Temple, and he healed them.

Remove what is keeping God out.

When you make room for God you make room for your healing.

Clean Heart Worships God the Father in Spirit and Truth

When the temple was clear it allowed the hurt to be addressed and healed.

Jesus in completing his mission to the Cross is steal healing the blind and the lame.

Jesus has come for the least, the lost, and the lame. He is able to save them.

God desires clean hands and pure heart.

New Living Translation Chapter 21

14 The blind and the lame came to him in the Temple, and he healed them. 15 The leading priests and the teachers of religious law saw these wonderful miracles and heard even the children in the Temple shouting, “Praise God for the Son of David.”

But the leaders were indignant. 16 They asked Jesus, “Do you hear what these children are saying?”

“Yes,” Jesus replied. “Haven’t you ever read the Scriptures? For they say, ‘You have taught children and infants to give you praise.’*” 17 Then he returned to Bethany, where he stayed overnight.

God desire a clean hands and pure heart.

New Living Translation Psalm 24

3 Who may climb the mountain of the LORD?

Who may stand in his holy place?

4 Only those whose hands and hearts are pure,

who do not worship idols

and never tell lies.

5 They will receive the LORD’s blessing

and have a right relationship with God their savior.

6 Such people may seek you

and worship in your presence, O God of Jacob.*

3 Who may climb the mountain of the Lord?

Who may stand in his holy place?

4 Only those whose hands and hearts are pure,

who do not worship idols

and never tell lies.

5 They will receive the Lord’s blessing

and have a right relationship with God their savior.

6 Such people may seek you

and worship in your presence, O God of Jacob.*

* 24:6 As in two Hebrew manuscripts and Greek and Syriac versions; most Hebrew manuscripts read O Jacob.

Tyndale House Publishers, Holy Bible: New Living Translation (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2013), Ps 24:3–6.

Surrender to God and worship Him.

“Who may ascend into the hill of the LORD? And who may stand in His holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, Who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood And has not sworn deceitfully. He shall receive a blessing from the LORD And righteousness from the God of his salvation.”

Praise God for the Son of David.

Praise God for our salvation.

Praise God for defeating Death and restoring us to Him.

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