Clean Sweep (Lesson One)

Setting our self aside for God’s service is important

2 Chronicles 29:3-5 NASB

(3)  In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the LORD and repaired them.

(4)  He brought in the priests and the Levites and gathered them into the square on the east.

(5)  Then he said to them, "Listen to me, O Levites. Consecrate yourselves now, and consecrate the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers, and carry the uncleanness out from the holy place.

Dedicating our self to God, means getting everything cleaned up and ready to worship God.  It should be a deliberate part of our lives.

Peter shows us that we need to cleanse ourselves in order to be fit to present ourselves before God.

1 Peter 1:13-16 NASB

(13)  Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

(14)  As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance,

(15)  but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior;

(16)  because it is written, "YOU SHALL BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY."

What is our standard of Holiness?  The Holy One who called us.  JESUS

What makes us Holy before God?  Jesus Christ. 

When we accept Jesus Christ as our Savior and Lord, His blood shed on Calvary covers us.  God then sees us through the Blood.  When this happens, God sees us as if we had never sins.

That is JUSTIFICATION