Bible Questions Answered:
“...I prayed with the … worker but
I don't feel clean. I still see the past...”
Henry/ Dunfermline, Scotland United
Kingdom
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
When you received
your drivers license, was it because you felt peculiarly confident
that day?
No, it was because
you proved to the Chief Constable that you indeed were physically
fit, and had a working knowledge of the roads and their rules. And so
he passed you a license to drive.
When God declares
us to be clean, it has noting to do with our emotions, but The Truth
of His Word.
Cleansed:
Psalm 65:3 KJV
Iniquities
prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them
away.
Isaiah 1:18 KJV
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.
Isaiah 43:25 KJV
I, even I, am
He that blotteth out thy transgressions for Mine own sake, and will
not remember thy sins.
Isaiah 44:22 KJV
I have blotted
out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins:
return unto Me; for I have redeemed thee.
Isaiah 55:7 KJV
Let the wicked
forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him
return unto The Lord, and He will have mercy upon him; and to our
God, for He will abundantly pardon.
Ezekiel 36:25-27 KJV
25 Then will I
sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your
filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
26 A new heart
also will I give you, and a new Spirit will I put within you: and I
will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you
an heart of flesh.
27 And I will
put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and
ye shall keep My judgments, and do them.
Micah 7:18 KJV
Who is a God
like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the
transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He retaineth not His
anger for ever, because He delighteth in mercy.
John 15:3 KJV
Now ye are
clean through The Word which I have spoken unto you.
John 17:17 KJV
Sanctify them
through thy Truth: thy Word is Truth.
Romans 5:9 NLT
And since we
have been made right in God’s sight by The Blood Of Christ, He will
certainly save us from God’s condemnation.
II Corinthians 5:17 KJV
Therefore if
any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed
away; behold, all things are become new.
Ephesians 5:25-27 KJV
25
"...Christ...loved the church, and gave Himself for it;
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.
Titus 3:4-7 NLT
4 But When God
our Savior revealed His kindness and love,
5 He saved us,
not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of His
mercy. He washed away our sins, giving us a new birth and new life
through The Holy Spirit.
6 He generously
poured out The Spirit upon us through Jesus Christ our Savior.
7 Because of
His grace He declared us righteous and gave us confidence that we
will inherit eternal life.
Hebrews 9:14 KJV
How much more
shall The Blood Of Christ, who through The Eternal Spirit offered
Himself without spot to God, purge (purify)
your conscience from dead works to serve The Living God?
I Peter 1:21,22
NLT
21 Through
Christ you have come to trust in God. And you have placed your faith
and hope in God because He raised Christ from the dead and gave Him
great glory.
22 You were
cleansed from your sins when you obeyed The Truth..."
I John 1:7,9 KJV
7 But if we
walk in The Light, as He is in The Light, we have fellowship one with
another, and
The Blood Of
Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.
9 If we confess
our sins, He is Faithful and Just to forgive us our sins, and to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Revelation 1:5 KJV
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,
Revelation 7:14 KJV
And I said unto
him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came
out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them
white in The Blood Of The Lamb.
Repentance for sin, and faith in the risen Lord Jesus, brings
cleansing, justification, regeneration, and new life.
