Stain Devils Clean Clothes, Christ's Blood Cleans Souls.

FORGIVEN.

Is all lost? Has God closed His eyes and His ears so that no appeal can be made?

(v18) ‘“Come now, let us reason together”, says the Lord’. Your uttermost depths of sin can be cleansed away, but not by your actions.

God says that their sins are like scarlet and crimson. These are ‘fast colours’, which means that the colours are held within the fibres of the fabric and cannot be removed by washing. Washing powders and stain devils can remove grease and dirt, even ground in dirt (so the adverts tell us), but they cannot remove these fast colours. The stain of sin has become fast held within the clothes and cannot be removed by human cleaning.

Remember, though, the words of 2 Chronicles 7:14 “if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”

What do we have to do?

1. Call upon the name of God,

2. In humility, and

3. in prayer, and

4. In repentance (turn from their wicked ways).

What were the missing ingredients: humility and repentance? We cannot walk into the House of God and demand. God will only hear if we are truly humble of heart and truly repent of our wicked ways. Then we will know forgiveness, God has promised it to us here in 2 Chronicles 7:14. He has also promised it to us in the Blood of Jesus.

Washing powders may clean clothes, but it needs the Blood of Jesus to clean souls.

Once we have been washed in the Blood of Jesus, our hands will no longer be full of blood. They will be clean. Our robes will also be clean. As it says in Rev 7:13, 14 “Then one of the elders asked me, “These in white robes – who are they, and where did they come from?”

I answered, “Sir, you know.”

And he said, “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.””

And Jesus said in Rev 22:12-14 “Behold I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

“Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.”” The New Jerusalem.

Will you have white robes that are cleansed in the blood of the Lamb? Will you have a right to the tree of life? Will you enter the city, the New Jerusalem?

You will if you seek God’s face and truly repent, accepting the only the sacrifice that will leave you without blood on your hands. The sacrifice of Jesus Christ.