1. Proofing that man is the confusing party not God.
2. Christ has made us clean and we need not cleanse ourselves anymore. We only need to confess His word and believe.
3. Explain in detail, why we are clean even when we don’t feel so. Which part of us that is perpetually clean
Let us begin with Heb 10:10 By which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
G2178 ἐφάπαξ ephapax ef-ap'-ax
From G1909 and G530; upon one occasion (only): - (at) once (for all).
Will God give us a detergent that can only clean us half way? Or will God finish cleaning us completely at the CROSS. (John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.)
I believe God’s gift to us is perfect. He won’t provide us a sub standard gift. His gift is not sub standard. He won’t cut corners or budgets to deliver you an imperfect gift. Jesus is God’s only son and He gave it away to die for us.
But this perfect gift has been turned away by us without us knowing. The devil and his cohorts have sowed so much mental block in our mind that we thought we humble our ways to help God.
Imagine when you cleanse yourself and not wanting Jesus blood to clean you up, you are effectively rejecting Christ. If you accept his blood but yet, you still believe you need to cleanse yourself, you are also rejecting Jesus blood. You are effectively saying His blood is temporal and His blood can only cleanse you for a moment.
Before we go further, maybe it would be best that we understand what did Jesus cleanse and which part of us remains clean yesterday, today and tomorrow?
When we accept Christ as our personal saviour, our old self dies. And He gives us a new Spirit. Our Spirit is a New Creation. Clean and remains clean forever.
2Co 5:17 “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
Hope you will see that the Spirit that God gave us allows us to worship him in Spirit and in truth. See in John 4:24 “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” We do not worship our God in Body or FLESH. Nor do our Flesh boast in the presence of our God (See 1Co 1:29 That no flesh should glory in his presence) Nothing good comes out from our flesh. (See Isa 64:6 But we are all unclean things, and all OUR righteousness are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away)
It is very easy for us to doubt that we are clean, because we live in the “sense” world. We rely on our five senses of our body to tell us that we are still the same and unclean with all the nonsense inside us. But in reality, the TRUTH is greater than how we feel. We are to rely on His word and not our feelings.
I re-tabulate the diagram with our Spirit in a smaller size. I don’t like this slide simply because our Spirit is never smaller than our flesh. But I made the Spirit smaller in size just to show you how our 5 senses ( smell, sight, touch, taste and hear), in our BODY feeding into our Soul, rule over our Spirit. We tend to be led by our Body rather than by our Spirit in Christ. Our belief in our “sense” world is stronger when our faith in Christ is weak. As we feed on our “sense” world, we make our Spirit self full with doubt and weak in faith. Making our Spirit smaller and ineffective. Effectively we are not feeding on His word, His promises for us. As we choose to forgo eating His word daily, we are effectively putting our Spirit on a CRASH DIET. Our Spirit shrink in size and goes weaker and weaker………so much so it has no impact on us.
Paul explained in Gal 5:17 The Spirit and your desires are enemies of each other. They are always fighting each other and keeping you from doing what you feel you should. (Contemporary English Version-CEV)
Thus it is important that you confess (eat) His words so that your Spirit is big, strong and can overcome your flesh’s desires.
This is a perfect slide. When we confess His Word, our Spirit becomes stronger and grows in size and power. Our Spirit filled with faith in Christ, will be powerful to overcome any challenge in your Body. ( Your Spirit has the same power like Christ’s Spirit and will help you to overcome your challenges in your Body, be it sickness, cancer, lust, bad behavior etc etc) What it takes is only for us to confess His word daily (CONFESS = EAT His Words) See Rom 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he that raised Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Conclusion:
If you have to cleanse yourself before God can use you mightily, you are effectively insulting Christ has no power to cleanse you once and for all. He has temporal power only. His power is substandard. You are also insulting our Heavenly Father that He gave His son to us in the same category of “rejected goods.” Our Heavenly Father did not give His best to us. He gave His rejected and unpowered son to us.
In addition those who teach believers that they need to cleanse themselves or attend cleansing the temple classes, are declaring believers to be unclean when our Christ has declared us clean. See Act 10:28 And he said to them,………. Yet God showed to me NOT to call a man common or unclean
Do not think for one moment that you need to cleanse yourselves up. You need to work on your own righteousness. If you do so, you have a right to boast in the presence of Chirst that your flesh did it for Him, which effectively, your flesh rejected His blood doing the job for you.
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