"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. Outward Beauty “Society today is more focused on the outward appearance than the condition of their hearts. God desires the truth in the inward parts Behold, You desire truth in the innermost being, And in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom. Inward Purity "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. He continued to debate his case until finally the medical field listened. The hospital and doctors raised a stink and did the only thing they knew to do…they fired Dr. He began a crusade for washing the hands between procedures but whether you can believe it or not…it fell on deaf ears. Phillip began to observe that doctors went from autopsies of cadavers in the morgue to birthing babies-without washing their hands. When the baby died they called it “The Childbed Fever.” Vienna General called it “bad luck.” Blame went everywhere, especially onto the foreign doctors until Dr. Phillip Semmelweis became the assistant obstetrician at Vienna General. Introduction: The death rate of babies born at Vienna General Hospital was five times higher that that of woman who had their babies at home. Supplemental Passage: Jas 4:8b “Cleanse your hands, you sinners and purify your hearts, you double-minded.” Amen.Message Point: We must have clean hands and pure hearts to come before God. May Your Spirit work within us as a refining fire, consuming all that is not from Your will. Prayer: Father, above everything we have ever asked from You, may we have clean hands and a pure heart, as we know this is the source of all lasting joy and accomplishment, and we can choose nothing better for our soul. Praise God that He has made a way for us to be cleansed, and purchased back from death and corruption! Let us choose cleanness, and let all deception become a thing of the past. The dirt, which defiles us, is the selfishness and deception, which lies in the heart of each of us, and must be cleansed by Christ's blood, and by the Holy Spirit, who is sent to all who will receive Him. Finally, I realized that this "dirt" was within me, not outside of me. What was wrong with it? It was good dirt, clean dirt, and it didn't hurt anyone.Īs I grew up, I realized that there is another dirt, which does alienate one from God, and, like everyone from Eve on down, I had to taste it, for fear I was missing out on something good. When I first heard the saying, "Cleanliness is next to godliness", I didn't really understand it, as I thought it was talking about the physical dirt I enjoyed playing in so much. I had been given several toy tractors, bulldozers, graders, and cranes, so I spent many hours moving the sand and soil of my backyard from one place to another, and often carried some of it into the house on my hands and clothing. When I was a little boy, I liked nothing better than to play in the dirt. Psalm 24:3-4 – Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not life up his soul to what is false, and does not swear deceitfully.
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