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Introduction:
All of us are probably well acquainted with mom rules.
These are rules that mom’s tend to follow like when she wets her finger and wipes the dirt off of your face, or she fixes your ruffled shirt, or she tells you to tuck in your shirt tail.
Mom’s seem to often be consumed with cleanliness.
So naturally the expression, “Cleanliness is next to godliness,” is often used by mom’s as the gospel truth, but it is also often a phrase that people believe is in the Bible itself.
1.
Only God Can Cleanse Our Heart (vv.
1-2)
Psalm 24:2-5
2.
An Unclean Heart is an Offense to God (vv.3-4)
David had sinned against a whole host of people.
He had committed adultery.
Some might even say that he used his power and forced Bathsheba into a relationship with him.
Was she to refuse the king?
Did she feel powerless?
But then He tried to lie about it and have Uriah come home to cover up his sin.
Next, he intentionally got Uriah drunk.
He then had him murdered.
In all these offenses against people, David’s greatest offense was against God.
He had broken nearly every commandment in this one treacherous affair.
David recognized this, which is why he claimed that his sin was an offense to God.
He calls his sin what it is: pure evil.
David also understood the power of a guilty conscience.
That word conscience comes from two words: con, meaning with, and knowledge.
David sinned with full knowledge of what he had done.
God has designed our conscience, or our heart, to work with the Holy Spirit.
It aches in our chest until we get resolution.
Worse than elbows on the table or smacking or talking with your mouth full, an unclean heart is an offense to One so much greater than your momma!
It is a sin and offense to a holy God!
Illustration: Rev. Dimmesdale in the Scarlett Letter
3. We Are Born Unclean (v.5)
Babies aren’t born clean either.
They have to be cleaned off and have diapers changed.
They spit up and do other unmentionable things.
But even worse, they intentionally wait until you are just about to fall asleep and then they cry out.
They are angelic on the outside, but depraved on the inside.
They are like gremlins!
The reason the Virgin Birth matters is because man is born tainted with original sin.
We have a hard wiring towards evil because of the Fall.
Evolutionists and humanists argue that we can be good for goodness sake.
We can just get along.
But the human heart is infected with such a viral disorder that it can’t help but exalt itself above any other that would challenge it.
James 4:1-
4. A Clean Heart Comes from Genuine Confession of Sin (v.6)
5.
A Clean Heart Comes Through the Work of the Holy Spirit (vv.
7-10)
John 15:7-
6.
A Clean Heart is Required for Fellowship with God (vv.
10-12)
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7. A Clean Heart Helps Clean Other Hearts (vv.
13-19)
Conclusion:
Mamma was right to worry about your cleanliness.
She knew that dirtiness eventually led to sickness and sickness if it gets bad enough can even lead to death.
But what is even worse is a sick heart.
I dirty heart.
There isn’t a soap on the planet that can cleanse it.
There isn’t enough power in mamma’s spit to clean you up.
You need the cleansing of Christ.
The cross was what made it possible for us to be clean.
The invitation today was given long ago by the prophet Isaiah.
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