A Clean Heart

Mankind has a catastrophic global problem – heart pollution. Every mortal on planet earth suffers this pollution of sin and has need of cleansing.

David cried out about his inward pollution: Psalms 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. David was about fifty years old when he sinned with Bathsheba and his actions led to the death of her husband, Uriah.

He knew that his heart had need of cleansing. His heart was broken up over his sin. 2 Samuel 11:27 …the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.

We have to see this heart pollution for all the ugliness and shame that it is. We have to want to be cleansed!

We need divine intervention. We need the work of God. God has to do the work in our heart - to create a clean heart. We need to be reprogrammed to think like God. Sin is a contamination – it defiles - “their mind and conscience is defiled” Titus 1:15.

It is possible for our soul and conscience to be polluted. We need to take sin seriously.

The Bible talks about uncleanness - over 200 times. We cannot accommodate sin. We cannot overcome sin by our own efforts.

Thank God, heart purity is possible. Cleansing is possible.

God’s wants His church holy – without blemish. Our Lord wants His people to know a full cleansing.

God effects a washing - and it’s by His Word: Ephesians 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

As we get the Word we can know its cleansing effect. We can know… this purity…
• A Pure heart
• A Pure conscience
• A Pure mind

We can know a true cleansing… a sure forgiveness. The Word talks about God purifying hearts by faith - Acts 15:9.

The Cleansing we can know is a deep and complete work. The Bible tells of a fountain opened for sin and uncleanness. It’s speaking of God’s absolute provision for man’s pollution, by the blood of Jesus… Zechariah 13:1 In that day there shall be a fountain opened… for sin and for uncleanness. We need a cleansing; a continual cleansing.

Sadly, we read of the fountain forsaken… Jeremiah 17:13 …they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters. People still reject Christ.

Our Lord is that fountain that we so need. Our source. Our supply. A flowing, gushing well. A spring of life we can run to.

Yet many don’t care. They won’t come for God’s cleansing. And so they can’t be cleansed.

How is your spiritual life? Is your heart and mind washed?

There is a promise of cleansing power. A powerful cleansing agent is available. We are promised the power of God to effect cleansing in us.

1 John 1:7-9 …the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

We can know…
• Full cleansing.
• Full atonement - full payment - full pardon.
• Full salvation - paid in full.

There are some 1300 Assurances of Salvation through the Blood Atonement. The shed blood of Jesus can cleanse all sin. No sin is too wicked that the blood of Jesus cannot wash it away.

Is your heart’s cry like David's? Psalms 51:2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

Ask for it. God can save and wash the foulest clean. He can effect a practical holiness in our lives, in our day by day living…

We can know this cleansing in our lives… what we need is… A new affection… An old time gospel preacher talks about “The Expulsive Power of a New Affection”. The idea springs from: 1 John 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

When we are saved we get a new affection. Our bondage to sin is broken by a stronger attraction — a greater, more compelling joy. That old affection doesn’t draw us like it used to. We have a new affection now.

The power of His Presence within makes us more holy… The craving for God takes over. We can know God’s life within us. It’s a greater affection.

We can know a new affection for spiritual things. God sets a right spirit within us. We need the life of God in us.

There is a cleansing that comes as we apply the Word… Psalm 119:9 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

Let us go to the fountain. Draw night to Him. Know that power of a new, greater affection. The love of the father.

Come to the Fountain today. Lay hold on the power of God. The power of the blood. The expulsive power of a new affection.

We can have a clean heart in a dirty world. David knew that. Psalms 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

May God right our heart. We can know His forgiveness. And He can grant us His power for our daily walk - to walk with Him, in holiness.