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Clean hand pure hearts scripture4/2/2024 The Pharisees wanted the whole country of Israel to be as holy as the temple. They must wash with water whenever they go into the Tabernacle to appear before the Lord and when they approach the altar to burn up their special gifts to the Lord – or they will die! They must always wash their hands and feet, or they will die.Īt the time of Jesus in the New Testament, No sickness or ugly spots, nothing unclean or wrong Īnd before the priests went into the temple, they had to wash very carefully The priests and the offerings had to be perfect, The priests in the temple who bring offerings to worship God. What is the most holy place, where the presence of God really is? Today we are going to think more about what it means to be holy, to be clean and pure inside.Īnd to help us understand, we’ll look at another fight between Jesus and the Pharisees about holiness.įirst some background from the first part of the Bible, the Old Testament. Holiness as the presence of God, closeness to God. We finished with a third meaning of holiness, maybe the most important. He wants to heal broken hearts and broken relationships, to make them healthy and whole again. Holiness also had another meaning: wholeness and healing. They asked, doesn’t Jesus want to be holy and clean? The Pharisees even stayed away from people who were sinful and unclean.īut Jesus went to parties with those sinful unclean people. Holiness means staying away from what is wrong, keeping spiritually clean and pure. They had different ideas about what holiness is.įor the Pharisees, holiness meant separation from sin. We looked at an argument between Jesus and the group of religious leaders called the Pharisees “You must be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy” (Leviticus 11:44, 19:2). I talked about an important verse in the Bible: It doesn’t just show your face, your skin, what you look like on the outside.īut it shows you what your heart looks like. Now I’m all clean and beautiful for people to see me. Oh no, it’s a pimple, a spot, a wrinkle! – Get some cream to cover itĪrgghhh – Here is a grey hair – I got it! Here’s some dirt – get the soap, wash my face.
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