Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.ĭo ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? But he giveth more grace. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. James 4:1-8 says From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. You can’t get any more serious than that. Now that’s serious! Jesus says that you are better off going to Heaven with one hand than to have two hands to be cast into hell, where the fire is never quenched. So how serious is this? Very serious! Jesus said in Mark 9:43 And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched. None of us have had clean hands our whole lives.

Have you committed fornication? Have you ever had sexual relations outside of biblical marriage between a man and a woman? Have you ever looked at pornography? Have you ever lusted? Have you ever neglected to help someone in need? Have you ever stolen anything? Have you ever coveted something that belonged to someone else? Have you ever worshiped a false idol? An idol can be anything that you put above God. You may have sinned with dirty hands in other ways too.

If you hate someone it’s the same thing as murder. The Bible says that if you are angry without cause, you have committed murder in your heart. Maybe you are out here tonight and you say that you have never killed anyone, not even a baby in the womb does that mean that you have clean hands? No. Clean Handsĭo you have dirty hands tonight? Are your hands quick to shed blood? Have you had an abortion? Have you forced a woman to have an abortion? The shedding of innocent blood is an abomination to God. Is your standard high enough? Is being as good as everyone else, all that it takes to please Almighty God? Does being as good as everyone else mean that you have clean hands and a pure heart? If you think so, I hate to burst your bubble, but your hands are not clean and your heart is not pure. Does that make you good enough to go to Heaven? Does that make you good enough for God to let you in to Heaven? Let’s say that you are absolutely as good as anybody else out here tonight. Does this describe you tonight? Do you have clean hands and a pure heart? If you say yes, what are you basing this on? What standard are you comparing yourself too? Are you as good as the next person? Let’s say you are. Who shall stand in the holy place of the Lord? The person with clean hands a pure heart. My question for you tonight is do you have clean hands and a pure heart? Psalm 24:3-4 says: Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

Clean hands and pure heart