PRaP
1/4/08
“Clean
Up Clean Up Everybody Everywhere”
Yeah
I know I am losing it already only 4 days into the new year and I have lost it.
OK for those of you that said, “I have to have something before I can
lose it”, I heard that, or any of those other humorous but mostly true
remarks.
For
you kids it’s a blast from your past an old Barney song.
Seems at the beginning of the year and this goes for me too, we want to
clean out the old so we can make room for the new.
We start cleaning out file cabinets and drawers and closets of all that
junk from our past. Well for some
of us we have to do this in order to find all of our tax records we need for the
tax person. Sometimes we find
things we didn’t expect to find you know like that missing sock or last years
cheese sandwich you couldn’t remember where you left.
Send that to Pastor Mary for analysis, it could have the cure for some
rare disease growing on it LOL.
This
makes me think about my life as well and I know that I am covered by the Blood
of Jesus and have my Salvation in check but there are so many out there that
don’t. Jesus says that today is
the day of Salvation. What are you
waiting for? To clean up?
Well don’t worry about that part Jesus will help you clean up your
mess. He just wants you as you are
because if you are clean you don’t need a bath.
Jesus is the Living Water that cleanses completely.
Not just a shower that you clean the outside of your body but He cleanses
the inside and if the inside is clean the outside will be clean as well.
Here try this, fill a sink or a bowl with warm soapy water and take a
dirty cup and wash the inside of that dirty cup inside the sink of soapy water.
Now not only is the inside of the cup clean but the outside is also
cleaned. Jesus does that for us.
All we have to do is ask. Need
cleansing click the link http://www.c2cministry.org/salvation.htm
Start
this new year off with a BANG!!! Accept Jesus Christ today and begin 2008 clean.
Cleaning
the cup there are 3 verses in the New Testament so I also looked up prepare and
came up with 176 results and the last one in the NIV I think has a most
important message for preparation:
Revelation
21:2
I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.
Revelation
21:1-3 (in
Context) Revelation
21 (Whole
Chapter)
Do
you need any more reason to prepare your heart?
"See, I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me.
Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; the messenger of
the covenant, whom you desire, will come," says the LORD Almighty.
Malachi
3:1
Key Verses:
Luke
19:9
Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, because this
man, too, is a son of Abraham.
Luke
19:8-10 (in
Context) Luke
19 (Whole
Chapter)
Matthew
23:25
"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean
the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and
self-indulgence.
Matthew
23:24-26
(in Context) Matthew
23 (Whole
Chapter)
Matthew
23:26
Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside
also will be clean.
Matthew
23:25-27
(in Context) Matthew
23 (Whole
Chapter)
Luke
11:39
Then the Lord said to him, "Now then, you Pharisees clean the outside of
the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.
Luke
11:38-40
(in Context) Luke
11 (Whole
Chapter)
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and AGAPE LOVE, Pastor, Dad, DJ Dude
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The Desk Of:
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Stephen Eldridge
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