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Moral and spiritual purity is demanded by God of his people. God calls his people to be holy, just as he is holy.
Moral and spiritual purity is demanded by God of his people. God calls his people to be holy, just as he is holy.
Purity, moral and spiritual
Purity, moral and spiritual
Divine purity
Divine purity
The purity of God
The purity of God
‘Can mortal man be in the right before God?
Can a man be pure before his Maker?
with the purified you show yourself pure;
and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.
You who are of purer eyes than to see evil
and cannot look at wrong,
why do you idly look at traitors
and remain silent when the wicked swallows up
the man more righteous than he?
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
The purity of Jesus Christ
The purity of Jesus Christ
And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light.
For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.
And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
Fellowship with God demands purity
Fellowship with God demands purity
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.
Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being,
and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
Truly God is good to Israel,
to those who are pure in heart.
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
God’s people are to live pure lives
God’s people are to live pure lives
So keep my charge never to practice any of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.”
“I have made a covenant with my eyes;
how then could I gaze at a virgin?
Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a right spirit within me.
Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.” But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality;
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.
to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Purity is unobtainable by human effort
Purity is unobtainable by human effort
Because of the sinful human nature
Because of the sinful human nature
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
There is not one.
What is man, that he can be pure?
Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
How then can man be in the right before God?
How can he who is born of woman be pure?
Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
Because of the tendency to idolatry
Because of the tendency to idolatry
I have spurned your calf, O Samaria.
My anger burns against them.
How long will they be incapable of innocence?
Because of self-deception
Because of self-deception
Who can say, “I have made my heart pure;
I am clean from my sin”?
There are those who are clean in their own eyes
but are not washed of their filth.
Because of an unwillingness to be cleansed
Because of an unwillingness to be cleansed
On account of your unclean lewdness, because I would have cleansed you and you were not cleansed from your uncleanness, you shall not be cleansed anymore till I have satisfied my fury upon you.
Symbols of purification from sin
Symbols of purification from sin
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar.
John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.
God promises to purify his people
God promises to purify his people
I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.
“For at that time I will change the speech of the peoples
to a pure speech,
that all of them may call upon the name of the Lord
and serve him with one accord.
“On that day there shall be a fountain opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and uncleanness.
Purification through Jesus Christ
Purification through Jesus Christ
Through pardon offered in his death
Through pardon offered in his death
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
Through his word
Through his word
Jesus said to him, “The one who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not every one of you.”
Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.
Through his presence in resisting temptation
Through his presence in resisting temptation
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.
Through hope built on his promises
Through hope built on his promises
training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
Purification through judgment
Purification through judgment
In the OT
In the OT
lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to make you leave the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
The man who acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the Lord your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.
Now therefore give up the men, the worthless fellows in Gibeah, that we may put them to death and purge evil from Israel.” But the Benjaminites would not listen to the voice of their brothers, the people of Israel.
But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap. He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord. Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord as in the days of old and as in former years.
In the NT
In the NT
God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.”
Symbols of purity
Symbols of purity
Whiteness
Whiteness
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
“Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord:
though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow;
though they are red like crimson,
they shall become like wool.
“As I looked,
thrones were placed,
and the Ancient of Days took his seat;
his clothing was white as snow,
and the hair of his head like pure wool;
his throne was fiery flames;
its wheels were burning fire.
And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light.
His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow.
And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were alarmed.
And she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet.
The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire,
Light
Light
Behold, even the moon is not bright,
and the stars are not pure in his eyes;
And upward from what had the appearance of his waist I saw as it were gleaming metal, like the appearance of fire enclosed all around. And downward from what had the appearance of his waist I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness around him.
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true),
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
Washing
Washing
I wash my hands in innocence
and go around your altar, O Lord,
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
and cleanse me from my sin!
Fire
Fire
The sinners in Zion are afraid;
trembling has seized the godless:
“Who among us can dwell with the consuming fire?
Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?”
Then I looked, and behold, a form that had the appearance of a man. Below what appeared to be his waist was fire, and above his waist was something like the appearance of brightness, like gleaming metal.
“As I looked,
thrones were placed,
and the Ancient of Days took his seat;
his clothing was white as snow,
and the hair of his head like pure wool;
his throne was fiery flames;
its wheels were burning fire.
A stream of fire issued
and came out from before him;
a thousand thousands served him,
and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him;
the court sat in judgment,
and the books were opened.
The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire, his feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters.