Let no Man Defile…

Call not common…

That which God has sanctified, let no one defile.

• Acts 10:15 — “What God has cleansed you must not call common.”

I do not judge myself, for God is my judge.

• 1 Corinthians 4:4 — “For I know nothing against myself, yet I am not justified by this; but He who judges me is the Lord.”

In me there is a will to do good, but no power to carry it out.

• Romans 7:18 — “For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find.”

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

• Romans 7:24-25 — “O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? I thank God — through Jesus Christ our Lord!”

Christ died for me while I was still a sinner.

• Romans 5:8 — “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

If God has forgiven me, who am I to condemn myself for my weaknesses?

• Romans 8:33-34 — “Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns?”

If He has promised to put a new heart in me, who am I to consider myself an evil person?

• Ezekiel 36:26 — “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you.”

If He has promised to purge me from all iniquity, who am I to say I am perfect already, or that I cannot reach the perfection He calls me to?

• 2 Corinthians 7:1 — “Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.”
• Philippians 3:12-14 — “Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on… I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”

But I will run as if I am the only one in the race who must win.

• 1 Corinthians 9:24 — “Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it.”

If God is for us, who can be against us?

• Romans 8:31 — “If God is for us, who can be against us?”

Stand still and know that He is God.

• Psalm 46:10 — “Be still, and know that I am God.”

Who can separate us from the love of God in Christ?

• Romans 8:35, 38-39 — “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?… For I am persuaded that neither death nor life… nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

And if I say to myself, “God doesn’t love me,” I blaspheme His holy name with which He has called me His son through the death of His Son.

• 1 John 3:1 — “Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God!”

And if I say, “I am not worthy of His love,” I devalue His sacrifice and diminish His love.

• 1 John 4:10 — “In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”

And if I say, “I am an evil person,” I distrust His righteousness, which He has imparted to me.

• 2 Corinthians 5:21 — “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”
• 1 Corinthians 3:16–17 — “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.”

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• Revelation 7:14 — “They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”
• Zechariah 3:3-5 — “Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel. And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment. And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the LORD stood by.”
• Isaiah 1:18 — “Come now, and let us reason together, saith 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.”
• 1 Peter 1:19 — “But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:”
• Revelation 1:5 “And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,”
• Zechariah 13:1 — ” In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.”
• Ephesians 5:26-27 “That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.” Isn’t the water of the word the blood of the Lord?
• 1 Corinthians 6:11 — “And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”
• Mark 7:20–23 — “And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.”

Therefore, say not with your mouth, nor think with your heart, God doesn’t love me, I am not worthy of His love, and that I am an evil person…

• John 3:16 —  “for God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
• Romans 4:5 — But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
  3 —  For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
  2 — For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.
• In the flesh evil dwells. Whatever work we do, it is by the motive of selfishness — never of self-sacrificing love resembling that of Christ. Only though Him we can be selfless, and “without Him, we can accomplish nothing”
• Romans 7:18 — “For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh), dwelleth (evil) no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.”
  • However much I try to accoplish good, the flesh is triumphing over me.
• The flesh knows not good. It is the enemy of God, and its heart is deceitful beyond measure, no one can reason with it, or uncover it for its underhanded nature which exclusively seeks personal pleasures at the cost of the suffering of others, and the decay of our own bodies, mind, and soul, while having us believe it is of a noble character which is exalted in the highest heavens.
• Romans 7:23 — “But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.”
  • The works of my own effort, that is, the effort of my flesh, are evil from youth, from the core essence of my deceitful heart. I do not have knowledge of goodness within me, except the love of God in Christ Jesus.
• Romans 8:7 — “Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.”
  • Whoever tries to impress God by his works, rather than by faith in the works of His forgiving love, is equalling himself with God, which is blasphemy. God accepts only those who trust Him to cleanse them from pride — the humble soldiers of the cross.
• There is none that doeth good, no not one. We are all given to sin, and deadened by it. And we may live through the death of the sinless One, for it is this Holy Death alone which can make us fully whole. We should die with Jesus to live with Jesus.
• Romans 3:12 — “They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.”
• Psalm 14:3 — “They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.”
• 2 Corinthians 5:14 — “For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead.”
  • No body will reach heaven by their own goodness (which is like filthy rags unto God — Isaiah 64:6), nor anyone is justified by their own righteousness:
    • Galatians 2:16 — “Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ…”
    • Romans 3:20 — “Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.”
  • but rather, all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. (Romans 3:23)
• The thoughts of men are evil from youth. There is no hope in men except the hope of the cross. And if you leave men alone, without the cross of Jesus, the result will be that of the pre-flooded world, without Noah, Abel, Seth, Enoch… and the other sons of God. And if God did not destroy them, they would have killed each other with much more suffering death that the merciful flood which God gave them.
• Genesis 8:21 — “…the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth.”
• Genesis 6:5 — “And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”
• 4 — Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
  1 — What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found (grace)?
• Was Abraham justified by his own works of his flesh? The ones like conceiving a child out of wedlock with his wife’s maid, by the wise-in-her-own-eyes counsel of his unbelieving wife? Was Ishmail the gift of God’s promise, the heir to God’s grace? Or was he the offspring of his own evil works, and Isac, the offspring of God’s righteousness, the heir of His promise, which was bestowed upon Abraham by faith in His Word?
• Ishmail was a sign that Abraham did not believe God, and Isac — a sign that he believed Him.