The House Cleaning Choice

  • Pastor Duane Cross
  • Oct 25, 2009
  • Series: Life's Healing Choices

LIFE’S HEALING CHOICES

“The House Cleaning Choice”

  Pastor Duane Cross |  10.25.09

           

House Cleaning Choice:  “I openly examine and confess my faults to myself, to God and to someone I trust.”

 

“Happy are the pure in heart, for they will see God.”      (Matthew 5:8)

 

“I have come in order that you might have life --life in all its fullness.”

(John 10:10, GNB)

 

“Jesus cried with a loud voice, ‘Lazarus, come forth!’ And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, ‘Loose him, and let him go.’”

(John 11:43-44, NKJV)

 

“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.”                  (Galatians 5:1)

 

The basis for a pure heart is not how good you’ve been. The basis for a pure heart is how good God is.

 

1) Take a personal moral inventory.

“Let us examine our ways and test them.”              (Lamentations 3:40)

 

 “Search me O God, and know my heart. Test my thoughts, point out anything you find in me that makes you sad.”                                                                     (Psalm 139:23-24, TLB)

 

2) Accept responsibility for my own faults.

“The Lord gave us a mind and a conscience. We cannot hide from ourselves.”

(Proverbs 20:27, ENB)

 

“If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.”

(1 John 1:8)

 

3) I ask God for forgiveness.

“If we freely admit that we have sinned, we find God utterably reliable. He forgives our sin and makes us thoroughly clean.”                                                  (1 John 1:19, Philips)

 

4) Admit my to another person.

“Admit your faults to one another and pray for each other so that you may be healed.”          (James 5:16, TLB)

 

“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.”                                                                   (1 John 1:9)

 

“I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.”                                                         (Ezekiel 36:26)

 

“For it is Christ who is the ‘Yes’ to all of God’s promises.”             (2 Corinthians 1:20)

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