August 26, 2010 Soap or Blood? 4

"What comes out of a man is what makes him unclean. For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly."

Good Thursday Morning, my dear brothers and sisters, please remember that it is Thursday and it means families day and schools day on the line. Remember to pray hard for this as schools are starting to open and Jesus is needed in our families and in our schools. Also please keep praying for Janet Wotring, I will ask her husband for a short update on her condition that I can send to you tomorrow. Prayers also for Eleanor Saylor, Dolores Lehman, and for Vicki, Pearl and her family, Pastor Tony and Ruby, Kathleen cancer, For Tom Sansoni and the retirement home ministry they are starting.

Soap or Blood 4: Mark 7:20 - He went on: "What comes out of a man is what makes him unclean. 21 For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, 22 greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. 23 All these evils come from inside and make a man unclean" (NIV)

Well now we are getting to the meat of the clean and unclean. Notice please that the things that the Bible talks about that come out of man have nothing to do with body waste. These things are much worse. In fact our Lord God when He made man built in a way to get the body waste out of our systems, for God made us good when He made us. Of course we messed up right from the start, right there in the beautiful garden He gave to us and then it got worse and He started us all over again with Noah and His family and look at us again.

I ask that as I go over the list, that you look at them real good, as I am going to also, and see over your life how many of them you were or are guilty of. Tomorrow we are going into the Blood part of the message for it is with the blood and only the blood and I am of course talking the blood of Jesus that can clean us from this unclean mess the Bible talks to us about. Tide will not take out these stains, neither will bleach, or that famous lie (lye) soap my mamma used to wash out my mouth when I said bad things as a child. Nothing but the blood of Jesus will clean the stains off, and are you ready to look them over? Nothing but the blood will clean you from sin, sins like these ----- evil thoughts, __ sexual immorality, __ theft, __ murder, __ adultery,__ greed, __ malice, __ deceit, __ lewdness, __ envy, __ slander, __ arrogance, __ folly __. Also did you Honor your father and mother __ love your neighbors __ not give to God's work __ cursing, __ talking on your cell phone while driving (ok I stuck that one in) Should I go on and on and on? No I think this is enough, please just look them over, maybe even print it and check the little line that I put in. This, folks, is between you and God and God and you, I do not want to know about these and more than likely some or maybe all of you have confessed them over to God already, but maybe you have slipped and fell into sin's traps again. Tomorrow we are going to clean them out with the blood.

Dear Father in Heaven, bless those on this line and bless those on our prayer lists please, help Tom with that new ministry, and Lord, help we in Carry The Light find and feed the needy. Lord, bless our families and schools, and Lord, I pray right now for Your family, the family of God. I pray today it grows in leaps and bounds. Thanks for trusting me to work for You and may I honor You this day by living to please You. In the mighty name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.

Now go forth sharing your blessings, oops, I should have had that one on the list. Anyway, share those blessings and know this, Jesus and I love ya. Pastor Dan.

Sing this with me.

Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so, I am weak but He is strong, Jesus loves me all day long. Yes, Jesus loves me, yes, Jesus loves me, yes, Jesus loves me, the Bible tells me so.
(yes I know I change the words, I forgot them but these worked)