The Washings of God

The Washings of God

[My Offline Bible] Hebrews 10
22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

[My Offline Bible] Hebrews 9
14 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?

[My Offline Bible] Ephesians 5
26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 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.

A darling pastor friend woke me up to these thoughts this morning about the washing of water by the word according to Apostle Paul's letter to the Ephesians.

It then occurred to me by the Spirit of God that we have more than one washing.

The washing of the Word and of the Blood. We have preached and taught more in speeches and in songs about the washing of the blood and less of the washing of the Word.

While both washings are continuous for every child of God, the perfection of the washing of the blood is done by the washing of the Word.

I remember Jesus Christ in John 17 at His valedictory prayer session with God how He prayed that the Father would sanctify the disciples by the truth, which is His Word... [My Offline Bible] John 17
17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

I remember also that He told the disciples earlier in John 15 parable of the True Vine, how they were clean by the Word He had spoken to them.....
It is clear that while the washing of the blood brought us near and removed the wall of partition between us and God, purchasing for us an eternal redemption, the vital aspect of our conformity to the image of Christ is in the washing of the Word.

We have received the washing of the blood washing away sins even till now, it'll take the washing of the Word to keep us clean and maintain our holiness if we won't return to our vomit.

Our minds, which is the factory of our judgment of right and wrong would need to be renewed by the Word of God for our transformation to be sure.
[My Offline Bible] Romans 12
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

And the renewing soap is the knowledge of the word of God....

[My Offline Bible] Colossians 3
10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

The knowledge of good and bad is beyond what is defined by our culture or society but by the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Word of God. Traditional morality and societal agreeable goodness or godliness may not stand the test of the Word of God. The world's morality can't be trusted to secure divine justice.

If we therefore need the washing of the Word, the question is how much attention are we giving to the Word? Maybe that's where the delay of the long sought revival is coming from.

Most believers today see the Word as cumbersome, they'll read all news, visit all the gossip blogs, follow every vanity magazine but won't be versed in the Word and we wonder why we are still where we are?

Many see knowing and having a good understanding of scriptures as the job of pastors and ministers, yet they live their lives by the philosophies of men.

Even lots of ministers erroneously believe that the Word isn't necessary so long the power and the gifts of the Spirit are flowing,  to them a good understanding of the Word is less important, besides people don't like it much and may not help church growth...such thoughts are ploys of satan to keep our eyes away from the core of what God has sent us....

It takes the Word to clean out the junks we got daily from vain and satanic philosophies we are exposed to in this perverse and dark world...and we can imagine the layers upon layers of sedimented junks taking the place of God's word in dictating how we live our lives and make the choices we make daily, both in personal and in public lives....

Today, even unbelievers can see how far the church has drifted and deviated away from the doctrines of Christ both in what we preach and in what we do...but we don't mind since we have power and prosperity and we have the ears of the rulers....and reasoning people who would have been useful to God in the body wod rather stay away....

The coming of our Lord is waiting for the cleansing and the washing of water by the Word, and those who submit themselves to the no-wrinkle and no-spot program will make it to the glorious church.

He is coming for a glorious church without spot or wrinkle and the job is designed to be done by the washing of water by the Word....

You've been to Jesus for the cleansing of the blood, it's now time to submit yourself to the washing of water by the Word....

Let's go back to the Word! The Pure Water!

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I pray the water of God's Word for a perfect washing towards a spotless presentation never runs dry in your life in Jesus name...I pray you don't miss the rapture of the glorious church in Jesus name!