LET US CLEANSE OURSELVES

Sunday Morning: May 16, 1999

Text: 2 Corinthians 6:17-18 "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, 18. And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."

2 Corinthians 7:1 "Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God."

AN ABUNDANT ENTRANCE

2 Peter 1:11 "For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ."

CLEANSE THE FLESH AND SPIRIT

2 Corinthians 7:1 "Having therefore these promises (Father, sons, daughters), dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God."

BLAMELESS SPIRIT

NO FEAR OF GOD

Romans 3:13-18 "Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

LEARN THE FEAR OF THE LORD

Deuteronomy 31:12-13 "Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law: 13. And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, &ldots;."

SINS OF THE FLESH

Galatians 5:19-21 "Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20. Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21. Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God."

SINS OF THE SPIRIT

Ephesians 4:31 "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:"

BITTERNESS

PRIDE

REBELLION AND STUBBORNNESS

PUT OFF

Colossians 3:8-9 "But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. 9. Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;"

PUT ON

SPIRIT OF SONSHIP

Romans 8:15 "For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father."

ANOTHER SPIRIT

SPIRIT RECEIVED THROUGH DOCTRINE

WALK AFTER THE SPIRIT OF ADOPTION

Romans 8:1 "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit."

REFRESHED SPIRIT

2 Corinthians 7:13 "Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all."