By Pastor Steve Nickodemus

Dirty No More!

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“But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.”
1 Corinthians 6:11b New International Version

Some days everything goes wrong.  The main water line breaks and the more you try to fix it, the worse it seems to get.  And you are left frustrated, filthy dirty, and with no water to get cleaned up.  That described my actual physical situation about two weeks ago.

But those words – frustrated, filthy dirty, and no way to get clean – even more appropriately apply to my spiritual condition.  I have made a mess of my life with God and with my neighbor.  I have broken God’s commands, polluted my relationships, and I don’t have any way to clean up the sin mess I have gotten myself into.  The more I struggle to fix my soul, the more frustrated I become and the worse it seems to get.

What am I going to do?

I need help.  I need to admit the fact that I need the Lord to rescue me.  Only He can save me, clean me up, get me right with Him and other people.

And God hears our cry for help.  He sent His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, who died to take away our sins and to wash us clean from our iniquity.  His cleansing blood washes us, makes us holy, puts us in a right relationship with God.  As the old hymn says:

“What can wash away my sin?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus;
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Oh! precious is the flow
That makes me white as snow;
No other fount I know,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.”

Thank you, Lord Jesus!  Amen.

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