CLEANSING PROTOCOL
“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” (Ps. 24:3-4).
Who shall scale the mountain of the self-existent Jehovah?
• Only those with clean hands and pure hearts.
“Clean”—innocent, spotless, guiltless.
“Clean hands” refers to actions—deeds.
• Notice that the text does not say “cleaner”—but clean.
• Not better—but “clean.”
• Not improved—but “clean.”
• God wants His children separated from all sin.
James 4:8—Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
“Pure heart”—motives and inner attitudes.
Samuel Logan Brengle—“Righteousness is conformity to the divine law, but holiness is conformity to the divine nature.”
God wants truth in our inward being…
• “Behold, God desires truth in the inward parts” (Ps. 51:6).
Requirements to ascend the hill of the Lord—“Clean hands” and a “pure heart.”
• Cleansing protocol.
“But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin” (1 John 1:7).
Whatever the light reveals—the blood can heal.
What can wash away my sins? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Christ’s sacrifice was sufficient to forgive any sinner of any sin.