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JULY 5
CREATE IN ME A CLEAN HEART
 
Scripture:  Psalm 51:10-13 “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.  Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.  Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.  Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.”

    “David’s depraved heart had caused him to do irreversible damage to himself and others. Never again did he want to give in to his sinful desires. Never again did he want to violently assault others the way he had Uriah, Bathsheba, and his family. Never again did he want to experience God’s crushing discipline. Therefore, he asked God to radically transform him by creating a clean heart within him, a completely new heart pure of fleshly desires.”  (Preacher's Outline and Sermon Bible – Commentary).
    A clean heart is seen here as being necessary for telling others about the Lord’s saving grace and being able to win them.  A clean heart comes first by confession.  “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”  1 John 1:9.  God wants to use a clean vessel in His service.  
    He also tells us that a clean heart comes from “walking in the light, as he is in the light”.  We must walk as he walks, in the light and not in darkness.  He promises if we will “the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.”  
    A clean heart also comes from the cleansing blood of Jesus.  There is no other way we can find cleansing for our sinful heart, but through His precious blood.  We can’t clean up the mess sin has made in our lives, but He can through His blood.  Is your heart clean before God today?    
    The songwriter said, “Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power?  Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?  Do you rest each moment in the Crucified? Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
    Dear friend, are you today?  Why not let Jesus give you a clean heart right now?