PURGE
THE TEMPLE
BREAD
16 Don't
you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in
you?
1 Corinthians 3:16 (NIV)
19 Do you
not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you
have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price.
Therefore honor God with your body.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (NIV)
9 You,
however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the
Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ,
he does not belong to Christ.
Romans 8:9 (NIV)
9 The
heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? 10 “I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind, to reward a man
according to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve.”
Jeremiah 17:9-10 (NIV)
15 ‘For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly
hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see
with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn,
and I would heal them.’
Matthew 13:15 (NIV)
BUTTER
In Surprised By Joy,
C.S. Lewis paints a vivid description of
what he found when he examined his own heart: “A zoo of lusts, a bedlam
of ambitions, a nursery of fears and a harem of fondled hatreds.”
“Tolerate nothing that dulls the
perception of My presence. Cut off,
purge out, plead the blood of Christ, use every avenue available to you to rid
your soul of sin. Never be satisfied
with half measures. Never be deterred
by satisfaction with the progress already achieved. Know that this is only a beginning. Holiness is arrived at by no low road. The road to holiness is narrow and steep and
exceedingly lonely. There is no other road.” Frances J. Roberts
“God is relentless in His hatred
of evil. We may think He tolerates it
awfully well to let the world go on as it has for century upon century. But He hates it. He has demonstrated at every turn His
opposition to anything that conflicts with His character and corrupts His
work. His judgments are certain. God and evil will not forever co-exist.” Chris Tiegreen
“This life
therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness; not health, but
healing; not being but becoming; not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we
shall be, but we are growing toward it. The process is not yet finished, but it
is going on. This is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in
glory, but all is being purified.” Martin Luther
“The
destined end of man is not happiness nor health, but holiness.” Oswald
Chambers
“Be
occupied with acquainting yourself with My character and My person. Revel in My fellowship. Your very association with Me, if
sufficiently consistent, will bring about changes in your personality that will
surprise you when discovered, just as you have so often experienced the joy of
finding a new bloom on a cherished plant.
Turn your face toward Me, and leave to Me the responsibility of probing
your soul. I am the Master Surgeon. I am skilled in all the cures of the soul as
well as those of the body. Let Me care
for your health. Delight yourself in Me,
and I will bring about what you desire to see in your character and
personality. Feed upon My Word. It is there you will come to a clearer
understanding of my Person. Only as you
know Me can you come to be more like Me.
In association with others, people take to themselves a measure of the
mannerisms and ideologies of these other persons. So will it be for those who spend much time
in My company. Silently, and without
conscious effort, you will be changed.” Frances J. Roberts
HEART
SAVOR
- · God hates sin.
- · God desires for me to purge iniquity from my body.
- · My heart is deceitful. I must examine it in light of the Truth of God’s Word – not in light of my opinion or the vain opinion of others. It is easy to delude myself. God’s Spirit convicts me through His Word. When conviction comes I am to change not disregard.
