Is Cleanliness Next To Godliness?
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- Cleanliness is next to godliness. It's true. Psalm 51 10 says, created me a clean heart,
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- O God, and renew a right spirit within me. James 4 8 says, draw near to God and He will draw near to you.
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- Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double -minded. Now the phrase itself, cleanliness is next to godliness, is not in the
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- Bible. One of the earliest appearances of the phrase is from John Wesley, who said, slovenliness is no part of religion.
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- Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness. When the Bible talks about cleanliness, it talks about spiritual cleanliness.
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- Even the parts where we read about external cleanliness, or being clean in the body, are meant to be outside examples of being clean in the soul.
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- We must be washed from the stain of sin. We must be holy in the eyes of God, and we must be after that holiness.
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- But a person who is dirty and sweaty from working outside has not become unholy, nor is a person who has a messy desk or unwashed dishes.
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- In Mark 7, the Pharisees criticized Jesus' disciples because they didn't wash their hands before they ate.
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- Why do your disciples eat with defiled hands? Jesus rebuked the Pharisees and told the people, there is nothing outside a person that by going into Him can defile
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- Him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile Him. Our hearts are unclean.
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- 1 John 1 9 says, if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.