Love each other deeply with all your heart. And let us work toward complete holiness because we fear God.Ģ2 You were cleansed from your sins when you obeyed the truth, so now you must show sincere love to each other as brothers and sisters. Then you won’t be doing what your sinful nature craves.ġ Because we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that can defile our body or spirit. We cooperate with God.ġ6 So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. We give evidence of God’s grace and mercy through our actions. lyrics: we bow our hearts we bend our knees oh spirit come make us humble we turn our eyes from evil things oh lord we cast down our idols so give us clean hands and give us pure hearts let us not. I will be their God, and they will be my people.ġ4 He gave his life to free us from every kind of sin, to cleanse us, and to make us his very own people, totally committed to doing good deeds.Įthical purity flows out of a restored life. “I will put my instructions deep within them, and I will write them on their hearts. If I’m such a hot mess, how does that work?ģ3 “But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel after those days,” says the Lord. You’re telling me that God is pleased with me when my life demonstrates purity, an unadulterated love for You. It’s as if we were looking at that filthy river water and only focusing on the color or smell without realizing all the invisible dangerous material floating around in it.Ģ9 But I did find this: God created people to be virtuous, but they have each turned to follow their own downward path.”ĩ “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things,ĩ Who can say, “I have cleansed my heart That’s the easiest way to think of purity in our hyper-sexualized world.īut to think of purity in only those terms is limiting and masks the deeper problem. It’s easy to interpret this in sexual terms. We fill ourselves with so many substitutes for the good that God gives us. He wants to completely restore us to His image.īut the problem is that we deliberately continue to “drink the contaminated water.” Then we can experience the world as He does.īasically, God wants us to be whole and pure because His nature is pure. God approves of us and is pleased when our head-heart-hands are clean, unadulterated. “The locus of a person’s thoughts, volition, emotions & knowledge of right and wrong.” Restored, cleaned up, renewed, pure, unadulterated, restored to its original design and purpose. Jesus now tells us that purity of heart brings God’s blessing.Ĩ God blesses those whose hearts are pure, for they will see God.īlessed = Having the favor and approval of God. Poor in spirit, mourning, humility, righteousness, mercy. It’s potentially anything in our culture. It’s not our drinking water that’s polluting us. Now let’s move into some imagination: Imagine you moved to Flint and immediately started drinking the tap water. The national and local outrage is understandable. Along with a massive effort to replace all the lead water pipes in the city. Reduced IQ, anemia, hearing impairment, even heart disease result from lead poisoning.Įventually, access to safe bottled water was provided to all Flint residents while a new water pipeline from Lake Huron is being developed. Lead contamination in children impair their brain function and development. There is no safe lead level in the human body. It was discovered that the contaminated water supply had caused up to triple the incidence of elevated blood lead levels in children. Citizens complained of foul-smelling, discolored and off-tasting water.Ĭlinics and hospitals started treating skin rashes, hair loss and itchy skin. Immediately had major water quality issues. Raw sewage was dumped there along with toxic runoff from farms and landfills. The river had served as a dumping place for factories, meatpacking plants and paper mills. In 2014, switched it’s drinking water supply from Detroit to the Flint River. Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles (CSS).City in decline. 2 Album Lyrics1.All Because of Jesus2.Beautiful Things3.Desert Song4.Forever Reign5.Give Us Clean Hands6.How Can I Keep from Singing7.How Deep the Father's Love for Us8.How Great Is Our God9.I Will Love Never FailsWorship Together Lyrics provided by Get the embed code Worship Together - Worship Together - 25 Favorite Worship Songs, Vol. G Verse 1: we bow our hearts Dsus we bend our knees C G C - G oh spirit come make us hummble G we turn our eyes Dsus from evil things C oh lord we cast down our idols Pre-chorus: G So give us clean hands Dsus - D give us a pure heart Em7 Dsus C let us not lift our souls to another chorus: G oh God let us be Dsus - D a generation that seeks Em7.
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