Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. - (NIV)

Hebrews 9:14 How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God! - (NIV84)

Psalms 51:10 Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. 11 Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. 12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.

Being cleansed and purified

1. The acts of the sinful nature are all around us

2. God put a deep desire for purity into all of us

3. We can’t rid ourselves of sin & unrighteousness

4. God sent Jesus to cleanse us and make us holy

5. God has created man for His divine assignments

Ephesians 5:8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) 10 and find out what pleases the Lord. 11 Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. 13 But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, 14 for it is light that makes everything visible. This is why it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.” - (NIV84)

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it. - (NIV84)

God’s Perfect Radiation Therapy

1. It all started with the Word, the life that is light 2. Understanding the riches of the light of God 3. Light is God’s treatment of the cancers of evil 4. Living in the light of God is our protection 5. God deals with our old nature with His light

1 Thessalonians 5:23 May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 The one who calls you is faithful and he will do it. - (NIV84)

1 Corinthians 6:19 Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, 20 for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body. - (NLT)

Matthew 21:12 Jesus entered the Temple and began to drive out all the people buying and selling animals for sacrifice. He knocked over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves. 13 He said to them, “The Scriptures declare, ‘My Temple will be called a house of prayer,’ but you have turned it into a den of thieves!” - (NLT)

1. Jesus came to build the true Temple of God

2. We are to be sanctified in spirit, soul & body

3. Jesus knows our innermost thoughts & desires

4. He deals with our habits & our hidden motives

5. Only in the innermost do we attain righteousness

Ephesians 5:25 For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her 26 to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word. 27 He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault. - (NLT)

Revelation 3:17 You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. 18 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see. 19 Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent. -

The making of the glorious Church

1. All that God determined to achieve will be done

2. He will deal with all of us with love & discipline

3. Dealing with the stubborn stains and wrinkles

4. Guided by His Word or by rebuke is our choice

5. Jesus will transform us into a glorious Church

Psalms 32:7 You are my hiding place; You shall preserve me from trouble; You shall surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah 8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye. - (NKJV)

Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body. -

The radiant Church holy & blameless

1. The Lord determines the path we are to walk on

2. The painful process to transform our old habits

3. Dealing with the stubborn stains and wrinkles

4. Guided by His eye or by the whip is our choice

5. Jesus will transform us into a radiant Church

Psalms 103:17 But from everlasting to everlasting the Lord’s love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children’s children— 18 with those who keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts. - (NIV84)

2 Corinthians 6:14 Don’t team up with those who are unbelievers. How can righteousness be a partner with wickedness? How can light live with darkness? 15 What harmony can there be between Christ and the devil? How can a believer be a partner with an unbeliever? 16 And what union can there be between God’s temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God said: “I will live in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people. - (NLT)

Amos 3:3 Can two people walk together without agreeing on the direction? - (NLT

1. Relationship must be build on common ground

2. True love operates in righteousness & justice

3. How can two walk together unless they agree?

4. God’s covenant is for eternity sealed by blood

5. Our reward when we respond to His invitation

BORN FROM ABOVE TO LIVE FROM ABOVE

The Generation that seek the Lord

God keeps His Word

1. Believers are on a journey of faith to perfection

2. God called & prepared many before we arrived

3. God planned something better for us with them

4. God’s plan requires believers of all generations

5. Keeping on track by keeping our eyes on Jesus

Hebrews 11:39 These were all commended for their faith, yet

none of them received what had been promised. 40 God had

planned something better for us so that only together with us

would they be made perfect. - (NIV84)

Hebrews 12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such

a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that

hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with

perseverance the race marked out for us. 2 Let us fix our eyes

on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy

set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat

down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 Consider him

who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will

not grow weary and lose heart. - (NIV84