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Eastern Canada Youth Conference

ECYC 2011 Seminar: Undefiled

Daniel McGrath

Untouched Body

Untainted Mind

Undivided Soul

Undiluted Purity

Lord Jesus, again we want to thank you for this time we have together.

Again, we ask that the Holy Spirit would be here to speak to us.

We cannot understand truth or scripture or spiritual things without the Holy Spirit teaching us.

So we ask for the Divine Teacher to come and be a part of our meeting.

Some here have struggles that we're dealing with.

All of us deal with sin on a regular basis.

We need the power of the Holy Spirit to free us from that.

So we ask all of this and thank you in Jesus' name.

Just by way of review, last first session we talked about what it means to be pure.

And we were basing our biblical definition of purity on 1 John 3, verses 2 and 3.

1 John 3, verses 2 and 3, The Bible says, Beloved, now we are children of God.

And it has not yet been revealed what we shall be.

But we know that when he is revealed, we shall be like him.

And everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself just as he is pure.

In other words, when Jesus comes again in the near future, you and I will be exemplifying purity in our lives.

It includes things like purity from all things that defile and contaminate.

And then we turned over to Psalm chapter 24.

And David asked the same question, who's going to be able to stand before God?

And he says that it is those who have, in verse 3, verse 4, who have clean hands and a pure heart, who have not lifted up his soul to vanity nor sworn deceitfully, he shall receive a blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

This is the generation of those who seek him that seek her face.

So, the first element to those who have the purity in their lives who are gonna see Jesus when he comes are those who have clean hands.

For those of you who were here at the last session.

Okay, it means the things that you do are right with God.

What did you say Chris you've washed yourselves of the world what does that mean what of Pilate washing his hands of Jesus' blood just before his crucifixion, saying that he had nothing to do with whatever happened to Jesus.

He said to wash yourself of the world would be to have nothing to do with things of the world.

Okay, so just like Pilate figuratively washed his hands to be free from the consequences of putting Jesus to death, we wash our hands, have our clean hands in our actions and our life.

The things that we do are in harmony with the Bible.

And then the second element to standing before Jesus comes is having a pure heart.

Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord, or who shall stand in His holy place, He who has clean hands and who has a pure heart.

So this session, this seminar is focused on what does it mean to have a pure heart, a pure mind.

And he and I, we would do everything together.

He was pretty handy with building things.

We just pretty much all the time that we had, we were doing stuff.

And after I finished school, I moved to Michigan.

And we kind of lost touch, not completely, but we just, you know, start, you don't call as much.

I'm not very good at keeping in touch with people.

So anyway, he started to slip away, started to have some struggles that, you know, even in his family, it wasn't just other people, but he would go in with these relationships and breakups and not only that, but even in his spiritual life, he would be 100% believing in God and then he would kind of just fall away and not believe and he would start drinking and pretty much go completely out of the church and then he'd come around and try to get his life back together and come back into the church.

And he always asked me, he has this 1 question that he would ask me and I give him my good answer right?

I gave him like a good answer as good an answer as I could think of and he would you know take it and think about it and then you know months a year later he'd be out of the church again and he'd come back, and he'd ask me the same question when he came back.

You want to know what the question is now, because...

Because really, when the rubber meets the road, if you're not overcoming sin because of the unique beliefs of Adventism, you feel like, oftentimes, if you're not overcoming, that you must not be a real Christian.

If I'm not overcoming, obviously something isn't working inside.

And so how is it that human beings, weak and sinful and unable to change as we are, how do we experience victory over sin and how can we experience the purifying of God in our lives?

And we can't answer that in detail in full biblical clarity in 1 hour but we're going to try.

But notice what the Adventist home page 425 and 26 says, of all the things that are sought and cherished and cultivated, there is nothing so valuable in the sight of God as a pure heart, A disposition imbued with thankfulness and peace.

If the divine harmony of truth and love exists in the heart, it will shine forth in words and actions.

They're trying to live like a Christian but they find themselves powerless to change.

Alright, turn to 2 Chronicles chapter 34.

Verse 1 says, Josiah was 8 years old when he became king and he reigned 31 years in Jerusalem.

I wouldn't even call him a man, but he's 8 years old.

He's the king of Israel, you know, telling everyone what to do.

And in verse 8, in the 18th year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the temple, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah and these other people to repair the house of the Lord his God.

And when they were repairing the temple, they found a book of the scrolls that had been lost.

And they brought it back to the king and they started to read it before him and Basically the whole thing is pretty much, you know, if you follow me with all of your heart, if you keep my commandments, if you do these things, then the Lord will pour out his blessings.

But if you don't, you know, then all of these bad things are going to happen.

Just read the book of Deuteronomy, you know, what Moses wrote.

And basically this is what he's experiencing and the Bible records in verse verse 18 Shaphin the scribe told the king saying Hilkiah the priest has given me a book Shaphin read it before the king Thus it happened when the king heard the words of the law, that he tore his clothes." I mean, he's like super, super convicted at this point.

Because from king to king to king to king until him, everybody has gone like further and further and further into evil and wickedness and sinning.

And not only themselves, but they're leading all of Israel to sin.

And so 1 by 1, all of these kings like they sin and the next 1 sins just a little bit more And the next 1 just a little bit more.

Until you get to the point where God's word isn't even around.

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