How To Stay Clean In A Dirty World

a. Where do we get the cleansing that we need?

b. That cleansing comes from the Word of God.

Joh 15:3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

4. We live in an era that brags about the products we have to get the worst of stains out of just about anything.

a. We have shout and oxy clean.

b. Something to clean up everything.

c. One for ink stains¡Kone for grease stains¡K

d. It seems like there is a ¡§Special Stain Remover¡¨ for everything.

5. We are no different.

a. Our lives are as difficult and our stains are diverse.

b. There are many different things we stain our lives with.

c. The difference however is this¡K

d. We only have to apply one cleanser to all our stains¡K

e. That is the Word of God¡K

f. It is The Word that cleanses us¡K

g. No stain is too tough.

h. No sin can stand up to it¡K

i. Unlike the modern day cleansers, it cleanses completely.

6. BUT¡KBUT¡KBUT¡Kjust like the modern day cleansers¡K

a. If it is not applied it will not clean!!!

b. It does no good in the box¡K

c. Useless if it is not used.

7. How is detergent used?

a. It is mixed with water and then gently stirred.

b. Water is almost always a word picture of God¡¦s Holy Spirit.

c. Detergent without water is useless¡Kit won¡¦t clean anything¡K

1Co 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

d. Daily Bible reading is vital to the daily victory we desire.

e. The Bible will keep you from sin and sin will keep you from the Bible!!!

f. We can¡¦t wait until we are filthy to clean ourselves up.

g. As soon as we see a little dirt, we need to remove it.

h. If we wait until the filth builds up, it takes a lot of scrubbing and scouring to remove the built up filth and grime¡KWe wouldn¡¦t wait six weeks to take a bath would we?

Eph 5:25-26 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; (26) That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

8. The recommended usage for this cleanser¡K

a. Gently apply generous amount gently to the problem areas.

b. Guaranteed to work every time.

C. The Psalmist¡¦s Decision

1. ¡§With my whole heart I have sought thee.

a. There is never any half-way with God!

b. It all starts with a definite decision!

c. We have to decide¡Ktoday is the day¡Know is the time¡KI will make my stand here¡K

d. And then we have to stand!!!

e. Most people never reach this point!

f. They want to have one foot in the world and one foot in the Lord.

g. It don¡¦t work that way!

Jas 1:8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

2. There has to be a point in time when you make a decision.

a. You are either going to live for the Lord.

b. Or live IN the world.

c. But we cannot do both successfully.

d. We have to choose one or the other!

e. There has to come a time when we draw that line and stand fast.

1Co 16:13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong

f. Stand Fast¡Kthis is a military term that means to hold the line¡K