Understanding Cleanliness: Physical and Spiritual

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We are jumping right into part two of our lesson, The Law of Cleanliness. The Law of Cleanliness. This is a back to Torah lesson it's a pleasure for me to present this to you today so this is this is entirely a Torah based lesson but it doesn't mean we won't venture into the New Testament from time to time but this is indeed a Torah based lesson so let's take a look real quick and we're gonna jump right into Leviticus 13 Leviticus 13 and when we get there we're gonna start right from the top and we're gonna learn what it means to be clean unto the Lord. Now, the cleanliness that we're dealing with, we're dealing with physical, the outward physical cleanliness. We're going to look at the inward physical cleanliness in our actions and our behavior. And we're also looking at the spiritual uncleanliness. Okay. We want to look at all the aspects or at least as much as we possibly can. And afterwards you go and do further study on the topic. So let's start over in Leviticus 13. if you will, and we're going to start right from the top. And it reads, And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying, When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, a bright spot, and it be in the flesh, in the skin of his flesh, like the plague of leprosy, we spoke about that in part one, then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priest. And the priest shall look on the plague in the the skin of the flesh, and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague is in sight be deeper than the skin of the flesh, it is a plague of leprosy. And the priest shall look on him and pronounce him unclean. And if the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh and in sight be not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned white, then the priest shall shut up him that has the plague seven. days. And the priest shall look on him the seventh day and behold, if the plague in his sight be at a stay and the plague spread not in the skin, then the priest shall shut him up seven days more. So he's looking at this week to week to week just to see what it looks like. This is a physical uncleanness. This is leprosy. So this is how the priests were to treat it. Verse six. The priest shall look on him again the seventh day, and behold, if the plague be somewhat dark, and the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is but a scab, and he shall wash his clothes and be clean. But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin after that he had been seen of the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen of the priest again. And if the priest see that, behold, the scab spreadeth in the skin, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, it is a leprosy. When the plague of the leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought unto the priest, and the priest shall see him, and behold, it means he shall examine him, basically. And the priest shall see him, and behold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising, it is an old leprosy in the skin of the flesh and the priest shall pronounce him unclean and shall not shut him up for he is unclean. Verse 12. And if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin and the leprosy cover all the skin of him that has the plague from his head even to his feet wheresoever the priest look it then the priest shall consider and behold if the leprosy have covered all his flesh he shall pronounce him clean that has the plague, it is all turned white. He is clean. So if it turned white, you look at him from head to toe, then he is pronounced clean. Now verse 14, but when raw flesh appeared in him, he shall be unclean. and the priest shall see the raw flesh and pronounce him to be unclean for the raw flesh is unclean it is leprosy so when we look at raw it's kahi living alive green that's green vegetation flowing fresh with water lively act of a man that is so if it's lively active uh flesh okay reviving springs relative life sustenance maintenance so we kind of get an idea of what uh that is so we see the raw flesh and pronounce him to be unclean for the raw flesh is unclean it is leprosy in verse 16 or if the raw flesh turn again and be changed unto white he shall come unto the priest and the priest shall see him and behold if the plague be turned into white, then the priest shall pronounce him clean that has a plague. He is clean. The flesh also in which even in the skin thereof was a boil and is healed. 19. And in a place of the boy, there'll be a white rising or a bright spot, white and somewhat reddish. It is it be showed to the priest. And if when the priest see it, behold, it be in sight lower than the skin and the hair thereof. be turned white. The priest shall pronounce him unclean. So if the hair is white in that area, it is a plague of leprosy broken out of the boil. But if the priest look on it or examine, look on it and behold, there be no white hairs therein. And if it be not lower than the skin, so it's not skin deep, you know, deeper than skin, but be somewhat dark, then the priest shall shut him up for seven days. And if it spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a plague. So this is how it's supposed to examine this particular situation. 23 verse 23 but if the bright spot stay in his place and spread not is a burning boil and the priest shall pronounce him clean or if there be any flesh in the skin whereof there is a hot burning and the quick flesh that burneth have a white bright spot somewhat reddish or white then the priest shall look upon it and behold if the hair in the bright spot be turned white and it and it be in the sight deeper than the skin it is a leprosy broken out of the burning wherefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean it is the plague of leprosy 26 but if the priest look on it and behold there be no white hair in the bright spot and it be no lower than the other skin but be somewhat dark than the priest shall shut him up seven days and the priest shall look upon him the seventh day and if it be spread much abroad in the skin then the priest shall pronounce him unclean it is the plague of leprosy so it's just kind of a back and forth examination they're looking at it for a week to week to week he wants to see if it changed from dark to white see if the hair in that in the affected area if it's white or not and then he is proceed uh from there that it determines it will determine whether he is clean or unclean okay so we have 28. And if the bright spot stay in its place and spread not in the skin, but be somewhat dark in the rising of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is an inflammation of the burning. If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard, then the priest shall see the plague, and behold, if it be in the sight deeper than the skin, and there be in it a yellow thin hair, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. So if there is a yellow thin hair, the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a dry skull, even a leprosy upon the head or beard. And if the priest look upon the plague of the skull and behold, it be not in be in sight deeper than the skin and that there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall shut him up that has the plague of the skull seven days. And in the seventh day, the priest shall look on the plague or examine it again. Behold. if the skull spread not and there be in it no yellow hair and the skull be not in sight deeper than the skin he shall then shave and he shall be shaven but the skull shall not be shaved and the priest shall shut up him that has the skull seven days more. So another week. And in the seventh day, the priest shall look upon the skull and behold that the skull be not spread in the skin, nor be in sight deeper than the skin. Then the priest shall pronounce him clean and he shall wash his clothes and be clean. Verse 35. But if the skull spread much in the skin after his cleansing, then the priest shall look on him and behold, if the skull be spread in the skin and the Priests shall not seek for yellow hair, he is unclean. 37. But if the skull be in his sight at a stay, and that there is black hair grown up therein, the skull is healed, he is clean, and the priest shall pronounce him clean. skin of the flesh be darkish white it is a freckled spot that growth in the skin he is clean and the man whose hair is falling off his head he is bald yet is he clean he is still clean even if his hair falls out it's okay 41 and he that has his hair falling out from the part of his head toward his face he is forehead ball yet uh is he clean so you know you get that moat right there got that you Kind of bald spot right in the middle and there's kind of a little moat and sometimes people have a little comb over and all that. He's okay. He's clean. It's okay. It's okay guys. I just shaved the rest of it off. It was me. So you just go from there. Yet he's finished. 41. And he that has his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald, yet he is clean. And if there be in the bald head or bald forehead a white reddish sore, it is leprosy sprung up in his bald head or his bald forehead. Then the priest shall look upon it, and behold, If the rising of the sword be white reddish in his bald head or in the bald forehead, as the leprosy appears in his skin or the flesh, he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean. His plague is in his head. And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent. See, right there. Now, he is leprous now, and his clothes shall be rent. So he can pretty much get rid of it. His head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip. and shall cry unclean unclean that's why in the days gone by he had lepers when they pretty much covered up you know when they were just covered up because they were the lepers person or whatever and he shall cry unclean unclean that's why in the new testament you see lepers were like without the gate and stuff like that they're just outside separated from everyone else and you know they looking for some pity some people pitied him and some did not all the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled he is unclean he shall dwell alone Without the camp shall his habitation be. You can't be around everyone else if you are leprous because you are contagious with this particular type of leprosy. Okay, there's more than one type of leprosy because I know I'm going to have some of the comment boys in there. They're going to go ahead and show me how smart they are and going to say, hey, you know what? There's more than just one type of leprosy. We know. That's why I wanted to go ahead and mention that. Okay. So this particular leprosy was contagious and you could not dwell with everyone else. Now the garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woolen garment or a linen garment. Okay. So this is now it's talking about the type of fabrics here in 48, whether it be in the warp or wolf linen or woolen, let's look at warp real quick. Okay. It's your thought. Okay. okay warp woven material so it's a woven material or the wolf let's look at wolf arab wolf is wool as mixed interwoven knit material mixture kind of thing okay or the linen or the woolen whether in a skin or in anything made of skin okay and if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment Or in the skin, whether in the warp or the woolen, or anything of the skin, it is a plague of leprosy, and it shall be shown unto the priest, and the priest shall look upon the plague and shut it up, that has a plague seven days. Because we have to also understand, it's not only is it infectious, it's an infectious disease, it's a contagious disease, this particular leprosy or whatever, sometimes they would have issues coming out of their blood, coming out of their pores, this type of leprosy. where their skin break open and so obviously that will be on their clothes well does it make sense okay so sometimes that stuff will end up on their clothes because they will have open wounds sometime and also is a type of leprosy where it had a real strong pungent odor as well but let's look at it right here 51. And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day. And if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the wolf or in the skin or any work that is made of the skin, the plague is a fretting leprosy. It is unclean. Okay, that's pretty much what we're what we're saying here. What I just said. But to pain, to prick, to irritate, to be in pain. Okay, fretting, a painful leprosy. Okay. 52. He shall therefore burn that garment. Whether warp or wool or woolen or linen or anything of the skin wherein the plague is, for it is a fretting leprosy, it shall be burnt in the fire. You had to, you know how clothes are contaminated? Basically just saying this is contaminated, we have to burn it. That's basically what that is, okay? So it is contaminated. 53. And the priest shall look and behold the plague be not spread in the garment, whether it's in a warp or in the wolf or in the thing of the skin, then the priest shall command that they wash the thing therein what the plague is. And he shall shut it up for seven days more. And the priest shall look on the plague after that it is washed. And behold, if the plague have not changed its color and the plague be not spread, it is unclean. Thou shall burn it in the fire. It is a fret inward, whether it be bare within or without. And if the so it's going to be burned anyway. And if the priest look and behold, the plague be somewhat dark after the washing of it, then he. then he shall rend it out of the garment and out of the skin and out of the warp and out of the wolf and if it appears still in the garment either in a warp and a wolf or anything of the skin it is a spreading plague thou shall burn that wherein the plague is with fire you gonna burn it regardless regardless okay if you had an infectious disease and you had some some um clothes and the issues of that disease got on the clothes get rid of it Just get rid of it, okay? Does it make sense? Okay, so when he says spreading burn without the plague is with fire, 58. And the garment, either warp or wool, whatsoever thing of skin it be, which shall wash. If the plague be departed from them, then it shall be washed a second time and shall be clean. This is the law of the plague of leprosy. In a garment of wool and linen, either in the warp or the wool for. anything of skins to pronounce it clean or to pronounce it unclean this also is a law that we understand this is a law okay so this now this is a cleanliness or unclean but this is dealing with leprosy this infectious leprosy which doesn't typically happen today it can happen okay it can happen those people who have diseases that it's eating the flesh you know eating this type of leprosy you know that sort of thing But we don't deal with that too much today. However, this isn't a law. This is a law and we're dealing with cleanliness. OK, whether it be physical, whether it be spiritual, whether it be ceremonial, ritual, what have you. We want to unpack and we want to deal with it. OK, so what we're going to do now, let's go on over to Matthew 9. Let's go to Matthew chapter 9. and i want to pick it up at verse 18 now we you know we are a messianic israelite congregation we're a messianic israelite uh belief system okay here so that's why we want to deal with the whole bible as to what it says especially looking back at the torah and dealing with what that actually says for us okay because we need to go back follow the old ways and figure out where we went wrong and try to get back to that or as close as simply possible. That's why I try to get into you as much scripture as possible. Okay, so join me in this Torah lesson. Matthew 9 verse 18. And it reads, while he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler and worship him saying, my daughter is even now dead, but come and lay thy hand upon her and She shall live. And Jesus arose and followed him, and so did his disciples. And behold, a woman which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years came behind him and touched the hem of his garment. For she said within him, so she was unclean, right? She had an issue of blood for 12 years, so she was unclean. And behold, a woman which was diseased with an issue of blood for 12 years came behind him and touched the hem of his garment, for she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole. But Jesus turned him about. And when he saw her, he said, daughter, be of good comfort. Thy faith has made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour. So she again, she went to what the high priest. OK, we're under the messianic priesthood. OK, we're under Jesus Christ, Yeshua, the Christ, whichever name you prefer. whatever it is so you don't get your your feathers ruffled he she went on to that high priest okay and she was made whole but what happened what did we read in in all of chapter 13 of leviticus you had to go to the priest every week the priest checking you out examining you every week just to make sure you know that this it with this has this disease spread are you still unclean or are you clean now okay same thing Christ may be in our heart crease in heaven made her clean. Okay. Made her clean. So that's what we're under right now. I just wanted to point that out to everyone. Go to Jeremiah chapter four, Jeremiah chapter four, and I pretty much need but one verse. Okay, Jeremiah 14, I mean 4 and 14 says, O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness. Wash thine heart from wickedness. So now we're kind of getting to a spiritual uncleanness, okay? Wash thy heart. How do you wash your heart, okay? So we're talking about something spiritual. That thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee? So how long are you and I going to have these same vain thoughts? thoughts. How long are we going to keep the same perspective that we have, a perspective that does not serve us? You know, maybe some self-righteousness or something like that, something within us, thinking that we're okay with the Lord. At the same time, we don't have to try anything. We don't have to do anything. That's a vain thought right there. Many people, when you were in your old life, many people, even today, will tell you. you don't have to do anything don't worry about that it doesn't work this way they tell you all these other things to take you away from one messiah preaching to you a different jesus and taking you away from torah they want to take you away from those things now if you believe that now you've adopted you have adopted a vain thought well i don't have to do anything it's cool He knows my heart and that whole rigmarole. You know how it goes. These are vain thoughts. When we're supposed to work out our salvation with fear and trembling, keeping in our mind that, hey, I could be cut off. If I keep messing up, I could be cut off. If I'm spiritually unclean and I'm spiritually wicked, I can be cut off. It is possible. If you keep that in your mind, then you don't have a vain thought. But if you think you've arrived, you got it all figured out, you could have a vain thought. The difference is it's not that, oh, OK, well, I'm perfect or someone else is perfect. And we know in the biblical context, perfect just simply means mature. OK, but we're not saying that, oh, OK, I'm without fault or this person is without fault. It's not that. It's just that some of us are mature and some of us are not mature. Some people make a practice of sin and some people try to practice not sinning. It's not presumptuous. It's not just our way. It's just no big deal. No, it grieves you. Yeah, I messed up. I messed up. You guys remember, you know, what the Pharisee and the publican that Christ was telling them about? Oh, thank God. Well, I tithe every week and I give and I do this and I fast and I pray and all that. At least I'm not like this guy. OK, we remember the story. We remember it. That guy may have some vain thoughts, right? You can't you can't have that kind of attitude. So we're talking about a spiritual uncleanliness to we've been I've been talking about physical this whole time. Okay, and like I said, we'll go back and forth through the spiritual and the physical and all that but hey Hey, it's just like the um Like like Christ was saying to those other Pharisees and they talk about all these cups and vessels and stuff like that And he said, you know, you like whited tombs, but inside you're wicked I'm paraphrasing of course You know first deal with the inside Then you worry about the outside Because it is God who searches the heart, right? He's going straight for the inside first, so you might want to get the spiritual side done first. He's going straight for that. Let's see who you are on the inside. You're going through an x-ray right now. You're doing an EKG. He's doing an x-ray on you, an MRI, all that first. He's going on the inside first to see what's going on in your head and in your heart. So that may be really important. You may want to jump on that. So that was Jeremiah 14. Let's stay in Jeremiah, but go to verse 33 or chapter 33. Jeremiah chapter 33. And let me get a verse out of there. Okay, let's look at a verse. I just want one verse and I will cleanse them from all their iniquity Whereby they have sinned against me and I have pardoned all their iniquity Whereby they have sinned and whereby they have trespassed against who against me. So all these sins Ultimately is what we've done it to god All the sins you've done, we've done mainly to God because he's the one who set up the law. He set it up. He's the one who said this is right, this is wrong. So when you break it, you did it to him. Ultimately. Yeah, you could have done it to a loved one. Yeah, they may have been the recipient of that transgression. But ultimately, you did it unto him. What does it say in those passages? It said, you know, when I was hungry, you fed me. When I was in prison, you visited me. So on and so forth. As you've done unto the least of these, you've done it unto me. When he said something good, you did it unto him. When he said something bad, you did it unto him. When I was hungry, you didn't feed me. When I was thirsty, you didn't give me drink. When I was in prison, you didn't visit me. And the disciples were saying, well, when did we do that? Well, as you've done to the least of these, you've done unto me. Okay. So when we sin, when we mess up, okay, it's, it's ultimately against him. We can lie to one another. Yes, I lied to whomever, X, Y, Z, but I got to pay for it on the most high if I bear false witness. I'm just saying, this cleanse, we have to get spiritually cleansed. Okay, that's the point that I'm trying to make right here. You got to get spiritually cleansed. You got to take it serious. You got to be sober minded sometime. We got to get and say, you know what? This is for real. This is serious enough for the most high to actually write it down through the hands of the prophets, hand it down to us, and now what excuses we're going to have. I had a friend a long time ago and said, you know what, I just wish, I mean, if God would have just, you know, just to give us a rule book or something, it's called a Bible, what are you talking about? Yeah, well, you know, it was written by a man. I said, you better consider the prophets are like an ink pen. You write something, who gets to, you write something, who are you going to credit? You credit the author or are you going to credit the pen or the pencil? So that's all it is. It's here for our administration. It is here for our instruction. It's here for our edification. That's what it's here for. You can take it or leave it. Settle it up at the end. The Lord will settle it up at the end. It's up to you. Your choice. Your choice. So we did 33 in 8. Let's go forward. Let's go to the New Testament. Let's go to Titus chapter 3. Join me in Titus chapter 3. Titus chapter 3. In verse 4 in Titus says this, But after that, the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness, which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost, which he shed on us abundantly through. Jesus Christ our Savior okay so that's what he had done he's done for us getting us getting us ready trying to make us clean not because we merited it not because we merited it because a lot of times we get people be like oh this guy he's talking about work salvation no we talk about responsibility salvation because you can waste it you can have it and then you can just waste it and give it all back We don't believe in that one save, always save. We believe you can get cut off. He's not going to save you despite yourself. If you earnestly, God, I don't want to get in the kingdom. He's not going to put you in. Don't worry. He only want those who want to be there. And you prove it through your actions and through your faith. He's not going to force you there. Trust me. Not going to force you. Go to James chapter 4. James chapter 4. Okay, let's look at James chapter 4. You know what I want to do? I want to go ahead and start at 1 and I'll read up to verse 8. James chapter 4 and 1 says, even of your lusts, that war is in your members. Ye lust and ye have not, ye kill and ye desire to have and cannot obtain. You fight in war, yet ye have not because you ask not. You ask and receive not because you ask amiss, that you may consume it upon your lusts. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is an enemy of God. Do you think that the scripture said in vain, the spirit that dwelleth in us lusted to envy? But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he said, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God, resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double minded. You make up your mind and he doesn't mean, oh, you go into the bathroom, put a little Perel on and all of a sudden you're saved. So you know that it's just a metaphor, cleanse your hands. Okay? You know that, but he is talking about a spiritual cleanses. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double-minded. Everyone keeps swaying between two different opinions. Uh, I don't know. I'm going to think about it for a little while and then don't do anything. Make up your mind. Make up your mind. Get cleansed. Let's get spiritually clean here. Cleanse your hands, purify your heart. That's what you need to consider. Cleanse your hands, purify your heart. Okay, let's go to Psalm 51. Psalm 51. Psalm 51. Have mercy upon me, O Lord, according to thy lovingkindness, according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies. Blot out my transgressions. Verse 2. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. We're still talking spiritual, right? Okay. For I acknowledge my transgressions and my sin is ever before me against thee. The only have I sinned. Didn't I say all of our sin really ultimately we sin against God? Ultimately, that's what you sin against. And done evil. done this evil in thy sight that thou mightest be justified when thou speaketh and be clear when thou judgest so that means he's gonna lay it to bear you stand before the most high and he have you dead to rights it's gonna be nothing but facts it won't be an opinion if he put before if he laid before you your iniquities guess what you're gonna see it in 4k it's gonna be a crystal clear picture with witnesses instant replay you cannot deny it you You screwed up, just sit there, best thing you do, if you even think about it, just keep your mouth closed. Okay? If you're under judgment. Just keep your mouth closed. Because you won't be able to deny it. Okay? That's what he says right here. For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. So you know about it. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight, that thou mightest be justified when thou speaketh, and be clear when thou judgest. He will be clear. Behold, I was shaped in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. Behold, thou desire truth in the inward parts. Desire truth in the inward parts. We're still talking spiritual, right? Desire truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden parts, thou shall make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean. Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. We're still talking spiritual. Make me to hear joy and gladness that the bones... which thou has broken may rejoice hide thy face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities blot out all my iniquities and lastly creating me a clean heart oh god and renew a right spirit within me you see what i mean very clear what david was focusing on Well, the psalmist, but this is what we're talking about. This one, this particular one is accredited to David. So we know what King David was taught. Look at the heart, look at the heart that he had. Look at what he was trying to get right spiritually. A lot of people like to poo-poo against David and oh, he messed up and he messed up. Well, he was declared righteous or he will be declared righteous. Yeah, he was not flawless. But once upon a time, he was our king. So I would hold my tongue if I had something negative to say about him. Let's keep going. 2 Corinthians chapter 7. 2 Corinthians chapter 7. And I'm going to start at verse 1. 2 Corinthians 7 and 1 says this, Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit. Do I have to explain any of that? We know we're talking about physical and spiritual. That is what this lesson is about. This is the essence of this lesson, brothers and sisters, right there. So let's go ahead. Let's keep going. Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness in the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. So we got to practice holiness somehow, some way. We need to figure out how do we practice holiness, perfecting holiness. receive us we have wronged no man we have corrupted no man we have defrauded no man i speak not this to condemn you for i have said before that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you great is my boldness of speech towards you great is my glorifying of you i am filled with comfort i am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation. So this is a letter to the Corinthians. This is what he's saying. I'm going to drop down to verse 8, if you will. For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent. For I perceived that the same epistle had made you sorry, though it were but for a season. That's how I feel to you. Sometimes my lessons can be rough. Some of them can be lighthearted. But I feel like this when we read over to in verse 10. For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation, not to be repented of, but the sorrow of the world worketh death. So yeah, if one of the lessons, it comes out a little bit offensive, and what I'm doing is reading the scripture, then I'm not going to repent of that. Because if you are sorrowful and it worketh repentance unto salvation, I'm not sorry for that. Because I'm here to help my fellow brethren, at least the best I can. So I'm not sorry for that. Because if it worketh salvation, then mission accomplished, right? So that's what we're talking about here. But sorrow of the world worketh death, that fake repentance. The fake repentance because it means it means to turn away and and and if you just keep doing the same old thing and have the same vain thoughts and the same vain attitude have the same wicked behavior what changed? Did you purify yourself? Did you cleanse yourself? No if nothing changed. It's more than just some emotional feeling. Just like, well, okay, well, I just, I feel differently now. I feel like I'm touched by the Most High. If you're wicked, you don't want to be touched by Him. That's all, hey, that's all I'm saying. You want to cleanse yourself physically and spiritually. So we're going to keep going. We're going to keep going. Go with me to Ezekiel. Ezekiel 36. I like Ezekiel and Isaiah. Those guys are some, they are powerful. They just did not play. But let's look at this cleanliness, cleanliness, spiritual, physical, the whole nine yards. Let's look at Ezekiel 36. And if you join me, I will begin reading. At verse 25. 36 and 25, it says this, then will I sprinkle clean water upon you and ye shall be clean from what? From all your filthiness and from all your idols will I cleanse you. So we're not talking about a physical cleanliness now, are we? Okay, because we're talking about your filthy idols. A new heart also will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you a heart of flesh. I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statues and ye shall keep my judgments and do them. And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers and ye shall be my people and I will be your God. I will also save you from all your uncleanness, from your uncleannesses. And I will call for the corn and will increase it and lay no famine upon you. So he's going to still call from those, you know, those tithes, those offerings and things like that. So all that's coming back. And I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen. Oh, the other nation is going to leave you alone. So this isn't a future. Right. This coming. Right. OK. Among the heathen. Then shall you remember your own evil ways and your doings. that were not good and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations. Amen. Hallelujah. Okay. That's that, that can help you get rid of some of those vain thoughts. We did a lesson, you know, tuck your pride, check your pride. This right here can help you because it's going to make you remember that. And you're gonna say, you know what? I used to be vile. I used to be filthy. I used to be wicked. Whether in deed or in thought. Either one, because he tells you to change those wicked thoughts too. Thinking you are all that. Thinking you are Mr. Perfect. Looking down your nose at another guy. Holding yourself in high esteem. And even in the New Testament it says don't think too much of yourself. Okay? Again with that well at least I know you need to purify your thoughts cleanse yourself Okay, because like you said, you know, I'll save you from all your uncleanness and I will call for the corn and will increase it and lay no famine upon you and I will multiply the fruit of the tree and increase of the field that you receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen and in 31 then shall you remember your own evil ways and your doings that were not good and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations not for your not for your sakes do i this said the lord be it known unto you be ashamed and confounded for your own ways oh house of israel I'm not doing it for you ultimately. You messed up. You're going to wear that L. It's your size. Wear that L. Okay? Oh, house of Israel. Thus said the Lord God in the day that I shall cleanse you from all your iniquities. I will also cause you to dwell in the cities and the wastes shall be rebuilt. Oh, things are going to get turned around and changed. 34. And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight. of all that pass by. And they shall say, this land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden. And the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced and are inhabited. You know, I'm gonna get one more. Then the heathen that are left round about, ye shall know that I, the Lord, build the ruined places and plant that that was desolate. I, the Lord, have spoken it and I will do it. Things are going to change, brothers and sisters, but you better purify yourself. Purify yourself physically and spiritually. Wash your hands, purify your heart, get right with Christ. It's telling us this all day long. All day long. And we're still not done. Still not done. Go to Isaiah 1. Not done, but we're almost done. I love Ezekiel and I love Isaiah. Isaiah chapter 1, and I'll pick it up at verse 1. Isaiah chapter 1, verse 1. The vision of Isaiah, the son of Amos. which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, king of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth. For the Lord has spoken, and I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. against me. The ox knoweth his owner and the ass his master's crib, but Israel does not know my people doth not consider. Ah, sinful nation of people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupt, they have forsaken the Lord they have provoked the Holy One of Israel into anger they are gone away backwards they are gone away backwards why should he be stricken anymore ye will revolt more and more the whole head is sick and the whole heart faint from the soul of defeat even unto the head there is no soundness in it but wounds and bruises and pure purifying sores putrefying sores They have not seen, they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. Okay, y'all remember the picture of open wounds and things like that? That's what he's saying. All that uncleanness is just still there, laid to bear, right there where you can see it. Verse 7. Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire, your land strangers devour in your presence, and it is desolate as overthrown by strangers. And the daughters of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard and a lodge in a garden of cucumbers as a besieged city. Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, other words destroyed. And we should have been like unto Gomorrah. Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom. Give ear unto the Lord of God, you people of Gomorrah. So that's what he's calling Israel right now. To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? So why are you bringing all these sacrifices? In other words, if you're going to keep running out there and doing the same thing you've been doing. That's why I say you got to have a change in behaviors. Amen. Does it make sense? Said the Lord. I am full of your burnt. offerings of rams and of fat of the fed bees and i delight unto delight not in the blood of bullocks and of lambs and of he goats when you come to appear before me who had required this at your hand to tread my courts bring no more vain oblations incense is an abomination unto me the new moons and sabbaths the calling of assemblies i cannot away with it is iniquity even the solemn meetings your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hated they are trouble unto me. I am weary to bear them. And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yea, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood. But what does he say in 16? Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil. That's what he really wants. Cease to do evil. Learn to do well. What do you mean, Lord? Seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now and let us reason together, said the Lord. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If you be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land. But if Two of the biggest words in the Bible. Ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it. I hope that's clear. I really hope that doesn't really need a breakdown. That applies to us. I hope that is very, very clear. We're going to move on to the last few places that we have. Last couple of places. Matthew 23. Matthew 23. And let's start at verse 25, which reads, Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you may clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortions and excess. Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. But start on the inside first, folks. Brothers and sisters, start on the inside. The spiritual way of thinking, the spiritual way of discernment, the spiritual way of judgment. Change that. Purify yourself. Quit having a thought or pattern. or behavior that does not serve you, but all you do is justify how you feel and how you're acting. That's spiritually unclean. You got to figure out a way to let go of that. Figure out a way to mature past all that because you don't want spiritual uncleanness to keep you out of the kingdom. You have a right to have a grudge. Well, that grudge can keep you out of the kingdom because even in the New Testament, hey, if you have a problem with someone, you go to them. Then you go to the pastor and you get it settled. You get it settled, then maybe you win back a brother or sister. You have no right to keep vain thoughts. You have no right to stay wicked. You don't have a right to do. You can't. Look. The spiritual wickedness is luggage you cannot carry into the kingdom. You can't take it with you. So you need to figure out how to deal with it now, while you're here and while you're still breathing, while you have a chance. Because they say even before you even go to the Lord to ask for forgiveness, you need to figure out how to forgive somebody who you holding a grudge against. We're talking about cleanliness and I'm talking about spiritual uncleanness. So we got to get on the inside and we got to clean all that out. Someone you just hate and you just have a grudge against or someone who's wronged you or whatever the case may be. And you feeling like, oh, you're just holier than thou. You got to get it cleansed. You got to get it worked out. You don't want that baggage. It cannot come with you into the kingdom. Keep your baggage and you get to stay out of the kingdom. That's how that goes. You have to be a new creature. New creature. He said, Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward. But are within full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness? Huh. And 28, even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within you're full of hypocrisies and iniquity. What did you say? Let me, okay, let me, let me give it to you guys one more time. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within you are full of extortions and excess. Thou blind Pharisees, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones. all uncleanness. If I give you verse eight, even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. You guys can finish the rest of that if you like. You got it. You got it. Get the inside right, brothers and sisters. You got to get the inside right. Let's look at another place here real quick. 1 John 1, we're going to squeeze this one in. 1 John chapter 1, just want one verse. Verse 9. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to what? Cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Oh, and just in case, because I wasn't going to include verse 10, but if we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us. Just in case. Just in case. And the reason I come like that is because I need to look at me, myself, my thoughts, my behavior, everything soberly. And I want you to look at your thoughts and behavior soberly. And I want us to cleanse ourselves and get right. spiritually and physically with the Messiah, with Christ. You can't hold on to this baggage and think everything's going to be okay. Physical and spiritual. Deuteronomy 23. Deuteronomy 23 verse 12 this is how this again we're going back to physical how you had to be separate if you were if you did have an infectious disease okay 23 and 12 it says thou shall have a place also without the camp, whether thou shalt go forth abroad. And thou shalt have a paddle upon the weapon, and it shall be when thou wilt cease thyself abroad, that thou shalt dig therein, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee. OK, so you got to be, you know, clean, you know, clean for the Lord. I got to walk in the midst of my camp to deliver thee and to go up my enemies before thee. Therefore, shall I can't be holy that he see no unclean thing in in thee and turn away from thee. OK, so again, you know, your restroom facilities or whatever, you know, you have to put that without the camp. I mean, obviously we have indoor plumbing now, but you guys get the point. Again, that's. Physical, but to see how it has a holy that Lord, he don't even want to be in a presence like that. OK, he don't even he'll turn from the he don't want to even be in that presence. Let's go. Matthew one. Matthew, chapter five. Get one verse over there. Blessed, which is verse 8, chapter 5 and 8, it simply says, Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. That should be enough incentive for all of us. That should be enough for any of us to want to get cleansed. That should be enough right there so that you may see God. So everything you went through, everything you have gone through, everything you're going through right now, the troubles of the world, the tribulation, because I mean scripture says, you know, in this life there shall be tribulation. At the end it'll be worth it, but you got to clean up your act. You got to get right before God. You have to be spiritually and physically cleansed. In thought and in deed. So this lesson has been back to Torah. Back to Torah. The law of cleanliness. Physical, spiritual, ritual. The law of cleanliness. I hope it reached somebody. I hope someone has been edified with this lesson. So until next time, search the scripture and prove all things.

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All praises to the Most High God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And peace to everyone joining us on this program. This is Fountain of Israel Bible Studies program, and as always, it's an honor for me to stand before you on the Lord's Holy Sabbath day. We are jumping right into part two of our lesson, The Law of Cleanliness. The Law of Cleanliness.

This is a back to Torah lesson it's a pleasure for me to present this to you today so this is this is entirely a Torah based lesson but it doesn't mean we won't venture into the New Testament from time to time but this is indeed a Torah based lesson so let's take a look real quick and we're gonna jump right into Leviticus 13 Leviticus 13 and when we get there we're gonna start right from the top and we're gonna learn what it means to be clean unto the Lord. Now, the cleanliness that we're dealing with, we're dealing with physical, the outward physical cleanliness. We're going to look at the inward physical cleanliness in our actions and our behavior.

And we're also looking at the spiritual uncleanliness. Okay. We want to look at all the aspects or at least as much as we possibly can.

And afterwards you go and do further study on the topic. So let's start over in Leviticus 13. if you will, and we're going to start right from the top. And it reads, And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying, When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, a bright spot, and it be in the flesh, in the skin of his flesh, like the plague of leprosy, we spoke about that in part one, then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priest. And the priest shall look on the plague in the the skin of the flesh, and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague is in sight be deeper than the skin of the flesh, it is a plague of leprosy. And the priest shall look on him and pronounce him unclean.

And if the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh and in sight be not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned white, then the priest shall shut up him that has the plague seven. days. And the priest shall look on him the seventh day and behold, if the plague in his sight be at a stay and the plague spread not in the skin, then the priest shall shut him up seven days more. So he's looking at this week to week to week just to see what it looks like. This is a physical uncleanness.

This is leprosy. So this is how the priests were to treat it. Verse six. The priest shall look on him again the seventh day, and behold, if the plague be somewhat dark, and the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean.

It is but a scab, and he shall wash his clothes and be clean. But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin after that he had been seen of the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen of the priest again. And if the priest see that, behold, the scab spreadeth in the skin, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, it is a leprosy. When the plague of the leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought unto the priest, and the priest shall see him, and behold, it means he shall examine him, basically. And the priest shall see him, and behold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising, it is an old leprosy in the skin of the flesh and the priest shall pronounce him unclean and shall not shut him up for he is unclean.

Verse 12. And if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin and the leprosy cover all the skin of him that has the plague from his head even to his feet wheresoever the priest look it then the priest shall consider and behold if the leprosy have covered all his flesh he shall pronounce him clean that has the plague, it is all turned white. He is clean. So if it turned white, you look at him from head to toe, then he is pronounced clean. Now verse 14, but when raw flesh appeared in him, he shall be unclean.

and the priest shall see the raw flesh and pronounce him to be unclean for the raw flesh is unclean it is leprosy so when we look at raw it's kahi living alive green that's green vegetation flowing fresh with water lively act of a man that is so if it's lively active uh flesh okay reviving springs relative life sustenance maintenance so we kind of get an idea of what uh that is so we see the raw flesh and pronounce him to be unclean for the raw flesh is unclean it is leprosy in verse 16 or if the raw flesh turn again and be changed unto white he shall come unto the priest and the priest shall see him and behold if the plague be turned into white, then the priest shall pronounce him clean that has a plague. He is clean. The flesh also in which even in the skin thereof was a boil and is healed.

19. And in a place of the boy, there'll be a white rising or a bright spot, white and somewhat reddish. It is it be showed to the priest. And if when the priest see it, behold, it be in sight lower than the skin and the hair thereof. be turned white. The priest shall pronounce him unclean.

So if the hair is white in that area, it is a plague of leprosy broken out of the boil. But if the priest look on it or examine, look on it and behold, there be no white hairs therein. And if it be not lower than the skin, so it's not skin deep, you know, deeper than skin, but be somewhat dark, then the priest shall shut him up for seven days.

And if it spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a plague. So this is how it's supposed to examine this particular situation.

23 verse 23 but if the bright spot stay in his place and spread not is a burning boil and the priest shall pronounce him clean or if there be any flesh in the skin whereof there is a hot burning and the quick flesh that burneth have a white bright spot somewhat reddish or white then the priest shall look upon it and behold if the hair in the bright spot be turned white and it and it be in the sight deeper than the skin it is a leprosy broken out of the burning wherefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean it is the plague of leprosy 26 but if the priest look on it and behold there be no white hair in the bright spot and it be no lower than the other skin but be somewhat dark than the priest shall shut him up seven days and the priest shall look upon him the seventh day and if it be spread much abroad in the skin then the priest shall pronounce him unclean it is the plague of leprosy so it's just kind of a back and forth examination they're looking at it for a week to week to week he wants to see if it changed from dark to white see if the hair in that in the affected area if it's white or not and then he is proceed uh from there that it determines it will determine whether he is clean or unclean okay so we have 28. And if the bright spot stay in its place and spread not in the skin, but be somewhat dark in the rising of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is an inflammation of the burning. If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard, then the priest shall see the plague, and behold, if it be in the sight deeper than the skin, and there be in it a yellow thin hair, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. So if there is a yellow thin hair, the priest shall pronounce him unclean.

It is a dry skull, even a leprosy upon the head or beard. And if the priest look upon the plague of the skull and behold, it be not in be in sight deeper than the skin and that there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall shut him up that has the plague of the skull seven days. And in the seventh day, the priest shall look on the plague or examine it again.

Behold. if the skull spread not and there be in it no yellow hair and the skull be not in sight deeper than the skin he shall then shave and he shall be shaven but the skull shall not be shaved and the priest shall shut up him that has the skull seven days more. So another week.

And in the seventh day, the priest shall look upon the skull and behold that the skull be not spread in the skin, nor be in sight deeper than the skin. Then the priest shall pronounce him clean and he shall wash his clothes and be clean. Verse 35. But if the skull spread much in the skin after his cleansing, then the priest shall look on him and behold, if the skull be spread in the skin and the Priests shall not seek for yellow hair, he is unclean.

37. But if the skull be in his sight at a stay, and that there is black hair grown up therein, the skull is healed, he is clean, and the priest shall pronounce him clean. skin of the flesh be darkish white it is a freckled spot that growth in the skin he is clean and the man whose hair is falling off his head he is bald yet is he clean he is still clean even if his hair falls out it's okay 41 and he that has his hair falling out from the part of his head toward his face he is forehead ball yet uh is he clean so you know you get that moat right there got that you Kind of bald spot right in the middle and there's kind of a little moat and sometimes people have a little comb over and all that. He's okay.

He's clean. It's okay. It's okay guys. I just shaved the rest of it off. It was me.

So you just go from there. Yet he's finished. 41. And he that has his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald, yet he is clean.

And if there be in the bald head or bald forehead a white reddish sore, it is leprosy sprung up in his bald head or his bald forehead. Then the priest shall look upon it, and behold, If the rising of the sword be white reddish in his bald head or in the bald forehead, as the leprosy appears in his skin or the flesh, he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean. His plague is in his head.

And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent. See, right there. Now, he is leprous now, and his clothes shall be rent. So he can pretty much get rid of it. His head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip.

and shall cry unclean unclean that's why in the days gone by he had lepers when they pretty much covered up you know when they were just covered up because they were the lepers person or whatever and he shall cry unclean unclean that's why in the new testament you see lepers were like without the gate and stuff like that they're just outside separated from everyone else and you know they looking for some pity some people pitied him and some did not all the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled he is unclean he shall dwell alone Without the camp shall his habitation be. You can't be around everyone else if you are leprous because you are contagious with this particular type of leprosy. Okay, there's more than one type of leprosy because I know I'm going to have some of the comment boys in there. They're going to go ahead and show me how smart they are and going to say, hey, you know what?

There's more than just one type of leprosy. We know. That's why I wanted to go ahead and mention that.

Okay. So this particular leprosy was contagious and you could not dwell with everyone else. Now the garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woolen garment or a linen garment.

Okay. So this is now it's talking about the type of fabrics here in 48, whether it be in the warp or wolf linen or woolen, let's look at warp real quick. Okay.

It's your thought. Okay. okay warp woven material so it's a woven material or the wolf let's look at wolf arab wolf is wool as mixed interwoven knit material mixture kind of thing okay or the linen or the woolen whether in a skin or in anything made of skin okay and if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment Or in the skin, whether in the warp or the woolen, or anything of the skin, it is a plague of leprosy, and it shall be shown unto the priest, and the priest shall look upon the plague and shut it up, that has a plague seven days.

Because we have to also understand, it's not only is it infectious, it's an infectious disease, it's a contagious disease, this particular leprosy or whatever, sometimes they would have issues coming out of their blood, coming out of their pores, this type of leprosy. where their skin break open and so obviously that will be on their clothes well does it make sense okay so sometimes that stuff will end up on their clothes because they will have open wounds sometime and also is a type of leprosy where it had a real strong pungent odor as well but let's look at it right here 51. And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day. And if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the wolf or in the skin or any work that is made of the skin, the plague is a fretting leprosy.

It is unclean. Okay, that's pretty much what we're what we're saying here. What I just said.

But to pain, to prick, to irritate, to be in pain. Okay, fretting, a painful leprosy. Okay. 52. He shall therefore burn that garment. Whether warp or wool or woolen or linen or anything of the skin wherein the plague is, for it is a fretting leprosy, it shall be burnt in the fire.

You had to, you know how clothes are contaminated? Basically just saying this is contaminated, we have to burn it. That's basically what that is, okay?

So it is contaminated. 53. And the priest shall look and behold the plague be not spread in the garment, whether it's in a warp or in the wolf or in the thing of the skin, then the priest shall command that they wash the thing therein what the plague is. And he shall shut it up for seven days more.

And the priest shall look on the plague after that it is washed. And behold, if the plague have not changed its color and the plague be not spread, it is unclean. Thou shall burn it in the fire.

It is a fret inward, whether it be bare within or without. And if the so it's going to be burned anyway. And if the priest look and behold, the plague be somewhat dark after the washing of it, then he.

then he shall rend it out of the garment and out of the skin and out of the warp and out of the wolf and if it appears still in the garment either in a warp and a wolf or anything of the skin it is a spreading plague thou shall burn that wherein the plague is with fire you gonna burn it regardless regardless okay if you had an infectious disease and you had some some um clothes and the issues of that disease got on the clothes get rid of it Just get rid of it, okay? Does it make sense? Okay, so when he says spreading burn without the plague is with fire, 58. And the garment, either warp or wool, whatsoever thing of skin it be, which shall wash.

If the plague be departed from them, then it shall be washed a second time and shall be clean. This is the law of the plague of leprosy. In a garment of wool and linen, either in the warp or the wool for. anything of skins to pronounce it clean or to pronounce it unclean this also is a law that we understand this is a law okay so this now this is a cleanliness or unclean but this is dealing with leprosy this infectious leprosy which doesn't typically happen today it can happen okay it can happen those people who have diseases that it's eating the flesh you know eating this type of leprosy you know that sort of thing But we don't deal with that too much today.

However, this isn't a law. This is a law and we're dealing with cleanliness. OK, whether it be physical, whether it be spiritual, whether it be ceremonial, ritual, what have you. We want to unpack and we want to deal with it. OK, so what we're going to do now, let's go on over to Matthew 9. Let's go to Matthew chapter 9. and i want to pick it up at verse 18 now we you know we are a messianic israelite congregation we're a messianic israelite uh belief system okay here so that's why we want to deal with the whole bible as to what it says especially looking back at the torah and dealing with what that actually says for us okay because we need to go back follow the old ways and figure out where we went wrong and try to get back to that or as close as simply possible.

That's why I try to get into you as much scripture as possible. Okay, so join me in this Torah lesson. Matthew 9 verse 18. And it reads, while he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler and worship him saying, my daughter is even now dead, but come and lay thy hand upon her and She shall live.

And Jesus arose and followed him, and so did his disciples. And behold, a woman which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years came behind him and touched the hem of his garment. For she said within him, so she was unclean, right? She had an issue of blood for 12 years, so she was unclean. And behold, a woman which was diseased with an issue of blood for 12 years came behind him and touched the hem of his garment, for she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.

But Jesus turned him about. And when he saw her, he said, daughter, be of good comfort. Thy faith has made thee whole.

And the woman was made whole from that hour. So she again, she went to what the high priest. OK, we're under the messianic priesthood. OK, we're under Jesus Christ, Yeshua, the Christ, whichever name you prefer.

whatever it is so you don't get your your feathers ruffled he she went on to that high priest okay and she was made whole but what happened what did we read in in all of chapter 13 of leviticus you had to go to the priest every week the priest checking you out examining you every week just to make sure you know that this it with this has this disease spread are you still unclean or are you clean now okay same thing Christ may be in our heart crease in heaven made her clean. Okay. Made her clean.

So that's what we're under right now. I just wanted to point that out to everyone. Go to Jeremiah chapter four, Jeremiah chapter four, and I pretty much need but one verse. Okay, Jeremiah 14, I mean 4 and 14 says, O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness. Wash thine heart from wickedness.

So now we're kind of getting to a spiritual uncleanness, okay? Wash thy heart. How do you wash your heart, okay? So we're talking about something spiritual.

That thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee? So how long are you and I going to have these same vain thoughts?

thoughts. How long are we going to keep the same perspective that we have, a perspective that does not serve us? You know, maybe some self-righteousness or something like that, something within us, thinking that we're okay with the Lord.

At the same time, we don't have to try anything. We don't have to do anything. That's a vain thought right there.

Many people, when you were in your old life, many people, even today, will tell you. you don't have to do anything don't worry about that it doesn't work this way they tell you all these other things to take you away from one messiah preaching to you a different jesus and taking you away from torah they want to take you away from those things now if you believe that now you've adopted you have adopted a vain thought well i don't have to do anything it's cool He knows my heart and that whole rigmarole. You know how it goes. These are vain thoughts.

When we're supposed to work out our salvation with fear and trembling, keeping in our mind that, hey, I could be cut off. If I keep messing up, I could be cut off. If I'm spiritually unclean and I'm spiritually wicked, I can be cut off.

It is possible. If you keep that in your mind, then you don't have a vain thought. But if you think you've arrived, you got it all figured out, you could have a vain thought. The difference is it's not that, oh, OK, well, I'm perfect or someone else is perfect. And we know in the biblical context, perfect just simply means mature.

OK, but we're not saying that, oh, OK, I'm without fault or this person is without fault. It's not that. It's just that some of us are mature and some of us are not mature. Some people make a practice of sin and some people try to practice not sinning.

It's not presumptuous. It's not just our way. It's just no big deal. No, it grieves you.

Yeah, I messed up. I messed up. You guys remember, you know, what the Pharisee and the publican that Christ was telling them about?

Oh, thank God. Well, I tithe every week and I give and I do this and I fast and I pray and all that. At least I'm not like this guy. OK, we remember the story.

We remember it. That guy may have some vain thoughts, right? You can't you can't have that kind of attitude. So we're talking about a spiritual uncleanliness to we've been I've been talking about physical this whole time. Okay, and like I said, we'll go back and forth through the spiritual and the physical and all that but hey Hey, it's just like the um Like like Christ was saying to those other Pharisees and they talk about all these cups and vessels and stuff like that And he said, you know, you like whited tombs, but inside you're wicked I'm paraphrasing of course You know first deal with the inside Then you worry about the outside Because it is God who searches the heart, right?

He's going straight for the inside first, so you might want to get the spiritual side done first. He's going straight for that. Let's see who you are on the inside. You're going through an x-ray right now. You're doing an EKG.

He's doing an x-ray on you, an MRI, all that first. He's going on the inside first to see what's going on in your head and in your heart. So that may be really important. You may want to jump on that. So that was Jeremiah 14. Let's stay in Jeremiah, but go to verse 33 or chapter 33. Jeremiah chapter 33. And let me get a verse out of there.

Okay, let's look at a verse. I just want one verse and I will cleanse them from all their iniquity Whereby they have sinned against me and I have pardoned all their iniquity Whereby they have sinned and whereby they have trespassed against who against me. So all these sins Ultimately is what we've done it to god All the sins you've done, we've done mainly to God because he's the one who set up the law.

He set it up. He's the one who said this is right, this is wrong. So when you break it, you did it to him.

Ultimately. Yeah, you could have done it to a loved one. Yeah, they may have been the recipient of that transgression. But ultimately, you did it unto him. What does it say in those passages?

It said, you know, when I was hungry, you fed me. When I was in prison, you visited me. So on and so forth.

As you've done unto the least of these, you've done it unto me. When he said something good, you did it unto him. When he said something bad, you did it unto him.

When I was hungry, you didn't feed me. When I was thirsty, you didn't give me drink. When I was in prison, you didn't visit me. And the disciples were saying, well, when did we do that?

Well, as you've done to the least of these, you've done unto me. Okay. So when we sin, when we mess up, okay, it's, it's ultimately against him. We can lie to one another. Yes, I lied to whomever, X, Y, Z, but I got to pay for it on the most high if I bear false witness.

I'm just saying, this cleanse, we have to get spiritually cleansed. Okay, that's the point that I'm trying to make right here. You got to get spiritually cleansed.

You got to take it serious. You got to be sober minded sometime. We got to get and say, you know what? This is for real. This is serious enough for the most high to actually write it down through the hands of the prophets, hand it down to us, and now what excuses we're going to have.

I had a friend a long time ago and said, you know what, I just wish, I mean, if God would have just, you know, just to give us a rule book or something, it's called a Bible, what are you talking about? Yeah, well, you know, it was written by a man. I said, you better consider the prophets are like an ink pen.

You write something, who gets to, you write something, who are you going to credit? You credit the author or are you going to credit the pen or the pencil? So that's all it is.

It's here for our administration. It is here for our instruction. It's here for our edification.

That's what it's here for. You can take it or leave it. Settle it up at the end.

The Lord will settle it up at the end. It's up to you. Your choice. Your choice. So we did 33 in 8. Let's go forward.

Let's go to the New Testament. Let's go to Titus chapter 3. Join me in Titus chapter 3. Titus chapter 3. In verse 4 in Titus says this, But after that, the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness, which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost, which he shed on us abundantly through. Jesus Christ our Savior okay so that's what he had done he's done for us getting us getting us ready trying to make us clean not because we merited it not because we merited it because a lot of times we get people be like oh this guy he's talking about work salvation no we talk about responsibility salvation because you can waste it you can have it and then you can just waste it and give it all back We don't believe in that one save, always save.

We believe you can get cut off. He's not going to save you despite yourself. If you earnestly, God, I don't want to get in the kingdom.

He's not going to put you in. Don't worry. He only want those who want to be there.

And you prove it through your actions and through your faith. He's not going to force you there. Trust me.

Not going to force you. Go to James chapter 4. James chapter 4. Okay, let's look at James chapter 4. You know what I want to do? I want to go ahead and start at 1 and I'll read up to verse 8. James chapter 4 and 1 says, even of your lusts, that war is in your members. Ye lust and ye have not, ye kill and ye desire to have and cannot obtain.

You fight in war, yet ye have not because you ask not. You ask and receive not because you ask amiss, that you may consume it upon your lusts. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that friendship of the world is enmity with God?

Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is an enemy of God. Do you think that the scripture said in vain, the spirit that dwelleth in us lusted to envy? But he giveth more grace.

Wherefore he said, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God, resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you.

Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double minded. You make up your mind and he doesn't mean, oh, you go into the bathroom, put a little Perel on and all of a sudden you're saved. So you know that it's just a metaphor, cleanse your hands. Okay?

You know that, but he is talking about a spiritual cleanses. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double-minded. Everyone keeps swaying between two different opinions. Uh, I don't know.

I'm going to think about it for a little while and then don't do anything. Make up your mind. Make up your mind. Get cleansed. Let's get spiritually clean here.

Cleanse your hands, purify your heart. That's what you need to consider. Cleanse your hands, purify your heart.

Okay, let's go to Psalm 51. Psalm 51. Psalm 51. Have mercy upon me, O Lord, according to thy lovingkindness, according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies. Blot out my transgressions. Verse 2. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

We're still talking spiritual, right? Okay. For I acknowledge my transgressions and my sin is ever before me against thee.

The only have I sinned. Didn't I say all of our sin really ultimately we sin against God? Ultimately, that's what you sin against. And done evil.

done this evil in thy sight that thou mightest be justified when thou speaketh and be clear when thou judgest so that means he's gonna lay it to bear you stand before the most high and he have you dead to rights it's gonna be nothing but facts it won't be an opinion if he put before if he laid before you your iniquities guess what you're gonna see it in 4k it's gonna be a crystal clear picture with witnesses instant replay you cannot deny it you You screwed up, just sit there, best thing you do, if you even think about it, just keep your mouth closed. Okay? If you're under judgment.

Just keep your mouth closed. Because you won't be able to deny it. Okay?

That's what he says right here. For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. So you know about it.

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight, that thou mightest be justified when thou speaketh, and be clear when thou judgest. He will be clear. Behold, I was shaped in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. Behold, thou desire truth in the inward parts. Desire truth in the inward parts.

We're still talking spiritual, right? Desire truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden parts, thou shall make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean.

Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. We're still talking spiritual. Make me to hear joy and gladness that the bones...

which thou has broken may rejoice hide thy face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities blot out all my iniquities and lastly creating me a clean heart oh god and renew a right spirit within me you see what i mean very clear what david was focusing on Well, the psalmist, but this is what we're talking about. This one, this particular one is accredited to David. So we know what King David was taught. Look at the heart, look at the heart that he had. Look at what he was trying to get right spiritually.

A lot of people like to poo-poo against David and oh, he messed up and he messed up. Well, he was declared righteous or he will be declared righteous. Yeah, he was not flawless. But once upon a time, he was our king. So I would hold my tongue if I had something negative to say about him.

Let's keep going. 2 Corinthians chapter 7. 2 Corinthians chapter 7. And I'm going to start at verse 1. 2 Corinthians 7 and 1 says this, Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit. Do I have to explain any of that? We know we're talking about physical and spiritual. That is what this lesson is about.

This is the essence of this lesson, brothers and sisters, right there. So let's go ahead. Let's keep going.

Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness in the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. So we got to practice holiness somehow, some way. We need to figure out how do we practice holiness, perfecting holiness.

receive us we have wronged no man we have corrupted no man we have defrauded no man i speak not this to condemn you for i have said before that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you great is my boldness of speech towards you great is my glorifying of you i am filled with comfort i am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation. So this is a letter to the Corinthians. This is what he's saying.

I'm going to drop down to verse 8, if you will. For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent. For I perceived that the same epistle had made you sorry, though it were but for a season.

That's how I feel to you. Sometimes my lessons can be rough. Some of them can be lighthearted. But I feel like this when we read over to in verse 10. For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation, not to be repented of, but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

So yeah, if one of the lessons, it comes out a little bit offensive, and what I'm doing is reading the scripture, then I'm not going to repent of that. Because if you are sorrowful and it worketh repentance unto salvation, I'm not sorry for that. Because I'm here to help my fellow brethren, at least the best I can. So I'm not sorry for that.

Because if it worketh salvation, then mission accomplished, right? So that's what we're talking about here. But sorrow of the world worketh death, that fake repentance. The fake repentance because it means it means to turn away and and and if you just keep doing the same old thing and have the same vain thoughts and the same vain attitude have the same wicked behavior what changed? Did you purify yourself?

Did you cleanse yourself? No if nothing changed. It's more than just some emotional feeling. Just like, well, okay, well, I just, I feel differently now.

I feel like I'm touched by the Most High. If you're wicked, you don't want to be touched by Him. That's all, hey, that's all I'm saying. You want to cleanse yourself physically and spiritually.

So we're going to keep going. We're going to keep going. Go with me to Ezekiel.

Ezekiel 36. I like Ezekiel and Isaiah. Those guys are some, they are powerful. They just did not play.

But let's look at this cleanliness, cleanliness, spiritual, physical, the whole nine yards. Let's look at Ezekiel 36. And if you join me, I will begin reading. At verse 25. 36 and 25, it says this, then will I sprinkle clean water upon you and ye shall be clean from what?

From all your filthiness and from all your idols will I cleanse you. So we're not talking about a physical cleanliness now, are we? Okay, because we're talking about your filthy idols.

A new heart also will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you a heart of flesh. I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statues and ye shall keep my judgments and do them. And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers and ye shall be my people and I will be your God.

I will also save you from all your uncleanness, from your uncleannesses. And I will call for the corn and will increase it and lay no famine upon you. So he's going to still call from those, you know, those tithes, those offerings and things like that. So all that's coming back.

And I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen. Oh, the other nation is going to leave you alone. So this isn't a future. Right. This coming.

Right. OK. Among the heathen. Then shall you remember your own evil ways and your doings. that were not good and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.

Amen. Hallelujah. Okay. That's that, that can help you get rid of some of those vain thoughts. We did a lesson, you know, tuck your pride, check your pride.

This right here can help you because it's going to make you remember that. And you're gonna say, you know what? I used to be vile.

I used to be filthy. I used to be wicked. Whether in deed or in thought. Either one, because he tells you to change those wicked thoughts too.

Thinking you are all that. Thinking you are Mr. Perfect. Looking down your nose at another guy.

Holding yourself in high esteem. And even in the New Testament it says don't think too much of yourself. Okay? Again with that well at least I know you need to purify your thoughts cleanse yourself Okay, because like you said, you know, I'll save you from all your uncleanness and I will call for the corn and will increase it and lay no famine upon you and I will multiply the fruit of the tree and increase of the field that you receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen and in 31 then shall you remember your own evil ways and your doings that were not good and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations not for your not for your sakes do i this said the lord be it known unto you be ashamed and confounded for your own ways oh house of israel I'm not doing it for you ultimately. You messed up.

You're going to wear that L. It's your size. Wear that L.

Okay? Oh, house of Israel. Thus said the Lord God in the day that I shall cleanse you from all your iniquities.

I will also cause you to dwell in the cities and the wastes shall be rebuilt. Oh, things are going to get turned around and changed. 34. And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight.

of all that pass by. And they shall say, this land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden. And the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced and are inhabited. You know, I'm gonna get one more. Then the heathen that are left round about, ye shall know that I, the Lord, build the ruined places and plant that that was desolate.

I, the Lord, have spoken it and I will do it. Things are going to change, brothers and sisters, but you better purify yourself. Purify yourself physically and spiritually. Wash your hands, purify your heart, get right with Christ.

It's telling us this all day long. All day long. And we're still not done.

Still not done. Go to Isaiah 1. Not done, but we're almost done. I love Ezekiel and I love Isaiah. Isaiah chapter 1, and I'll pick it up at verse 1. Isaiah chapter 1, verse 1. The vision of Isaiah, the son of Amos.

which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, king of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth. For the Lord has spoken, and I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. against me.

The ox knoweth his owner and the ass his master's crib, but Israel does not know my people doth not consider. Ah, sinful nation of people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupt, they have forsaken the Lord they have provoked the Holy One of Israel into anger they are gone away backwards they are gone away backwards why should he be stricken anymore ye will revolt more and more the whole head is sick and the whole heart faint from the soul of defeat even unto the head there is no soundness in it but wounds and bruises and pure purifying sores putrefying sores They have not seen, they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. Okay, y'all remember the picture of open wounds and things like that? That's what he's saying. All that uncleanness is just still there, laid to bear, right there where you can see it.

Verse 7. Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire, your land strangers devour in your presence, and it is desolate as overthrown by strangers. And the daughters of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard and a lodge in a garden of cucumbers as a besieged city. Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, other words destroyed. And we should have been like unto Gomorrah. Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom.

Give ear unto the Lord of God, you people of Gomorrah. So that's what he's calling Israel right now. To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me?

So why are you bringing all these sacrifices? In other words, if you're going to keep running out there and doing the same thing you've been doing. That's why I say you got to have a change in behaviors.

Amen. Does it make sense? Said the Lord. I am full of your burnt.

offerings of rams and of fat of the fed bees and i delight unto delight not in the blood of bullocks and of lambs and of he goats when you come to appear before me who had required this at your hand to tread my courts bring no more vain oblations incense is an abomination unto me the new moons and sabbaths the calling of assemblies i cannot away with it is iniquity even the solemn meetings your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hated they are trouble unto me. I am weary to bear them. And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you.

Yea, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood. But what does he say in 16? Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.

That's what he really wants. Cease to do evil. Learn to do well. What do you mean, Lord? Seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Come now and let us reason together, said the Lord. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

If you be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land. But if Two of the biggest words in the Bible. Ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it. I hope that's clear.

I really hope that doesn't really need a breakdown. That applies to us. I hope that is very, very clear. We're going to move on to the last few places that we have. Last couple of places.

Matthew 23. Matthew 23. And let's start at verse 25, which reads, Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you may clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortions and excess. Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. But start on the inside first, folks. Brothers and sisters, start on the inside.

The spiritual way of thinking, the spiritual way of discernment, the spiritual way of judgment. Change that. Purify yourself. Quit having a thought or pattern.

or behavior that does not serve you, but all you do is justify how you feel and how you're acting. That's spiritually unclean. You got to figure out a way to let go of that. Figure out a way to mature past all that because you don't want spiritual uncleanness to keep you out of the kingdom. You have a right to have a grudge.

Well, that grudge can keep you out of the kingdom because even in the New Testament, hey, if you have a problem with someone, you go to them. Then you go to the pastor and you get it settled. You get it settled, then maybe you win back a brother or sister.

You have no right to keep vain thoughts. You have no right to stay wicked. You don't have a right to do.

You can't. Look. The spiritual wickedness is luggage you cannot carry into the kingdom. You can't take it with you.

So you need to figure out how to deal with it now, while you're here and while you're still breathing, while you have a chance. Because they say even before you even go to the Lord to ask for forgiveness, you need to figure out how to forgive somebody who you holding a grudge against. We're talking about cleanliness and I'm talking about spiritual uncleanness.

So we got to get on the inside and we got to clean all that out. Someone you just hate and you just have a grudge against or someone who's wronged you or whatever the case may be. And you feeling like, oh, you're just holier than thou. You got to get it cleansed. You got to get it worked out.

You don't want that baggage. It cannot come with you into the kingdom. Keep your baggage and you get to stay out of the kingdom.

That's how that goes. You have to be a new creature. New creature. He said, Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward.

But are within full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness? Huh. And 28, even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within you're full of hypocrisies and iniquity.

What did you say? Let me, okay, let me, let me give it to you guys one more time. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within you are full of extortions and excess. Thou blind Pharisees, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones. all uncleanness. If I give you verse eight, even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

You guys can finish the rest of that if you like. You got it. You got it. Get the inside right, brothers and sisters. You got to get the inside right.

Let's look at another place here real quick. 1 John 1, we're going to squeeze this one in. 1 John chapter 1, just want one verse. Verse 9. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to what? Cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Oh, and just in case, because I wasn't going to include verse 10, but if we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us. Just in case. Just in case. And the reason I come like that is because I need to look at me, myself, my thoughts, my behavior, everything soberly.

And I want you to look at your thoughts and behavior soberly. And I want us to cleanse ourselves and get right. spiritually and physically with the Messiah, with Christ.

You can't hold on to this baggage and think everything's going to be okay. Physical and spiritual. Deuteronomy 23. Deuteronomy 23 verse 12 this is how this again we're going back to physical how you had to be separate if you were if you did have an infectious disease okay 23 and 12 it says thou shall have a place also without the camp, whether thou shalt go forth abroad.

And thou shalt have a paddle upon the weapon, and it shall be when thou wilt cease thyself abroad, that thou shalt dig therein, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee. OK, so you got to be, you know, clean, you know, clean for the Lord. I got to walk in the midst of my camp to deliver thee and to go up my enemies before thee.

Therefore, shall I can't be holy that he see no unclean thing in in thee and turn away from thee. OK, so again, you know, your restroom facilities or whatever, you know, you have to put that without the camp. I mean, obviously we have indoor plumbing now, but you guys get the point. Again, that's.

Physical, but to see how it has a holy that Lord, he don't even want to be in a presence like that. OK, he don't even he'll turn from the he don't want to even be in that presence. Let's go. Matthew one. Matthew, chapter five.

Get one verse over there. Blessed, which is verse 8, chapter 5 and 8, it simply says, Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. That should be enough incentive for all of us.

That should be enough for any of us to want to get cleansed. That should be enough right there so that you may see God. So everything you went through, everything you have gone through, everything you're going through right now, the troubles of the world, the tribulation, because I mean scripture says, you know, in this life there shall be tribulation.

At the end it'll be worth it, but you got to clean up your act. You got to get right before God. You have to be spiritually and physically cleansed.

In thought and in deed. So this lesson has been back to Torah. Back to Torah. The law of cleanliness.

Physical, spiritual, ritual. The law of cleanliness. I hope it reached somebody. I hope someone has been edified with this lesson. So until next time, search the scripture and prove all things.

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Understanding Cleanliness: Physical and Spiritual