Title: Are Your Hands Clean?
Text: Ezekiel 3:17-21
Author: Darrow Perkins
INTRODUCTION: For those of us who are parents, we're always teaching our children to wash their hands before they eat because we don't want any dirt, disease, or infection on their food. When you go most restaurants (I can't speak for the women's restroom), but in the men's restroom, there's usually a sign that reminds employees that they must wash their hands before going back to work. Clean hands have a lot to do with the condition of the rest of the body in some cases and makes it a lot easier when you hands are clean to encourage somebody else to do the same.
The Bible teaches us in Psalm 24:3-5, "3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who shall stand in his holy place? 4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. 5 He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation."
As the people of God, our responsibility is to keep our hands clean so that we won't be hypocritical when identifying what God has deemed wrong in life. Now let's be clear, none of us are perfect, but we should strive to be as perfect as possible because our lives are a testimony to the saving power of Almighty God.
When I was growing up, my late mother used to always says, "Right is right, and right don't wrong nobody" and as the watchmen of God, we've got to say what God says because one day the question will be asked...Are Your Hands Clean?
BACKGROUND/TEXT: Our text today is found in the Book of Ezekiel. In the Hebrew, his name means "God Strengthens" or "strengthened by God." He was called to be a prophet around the age of 30 while still in exile in Babylon. It's believed that the days in which Ezekiel lived were some of the most chaotic times of political and moral upheaval in history.
Chapter 1 deals with the call of Ezekiel to be a prophet and God begins to show him ...
Text: Ezekiel 3:17-21
Author: Darrow Perkins
INTRODUCTION: For those of us who are parents, we're always teaching our children to wash their hands before they eat because we don't want any dirt, disease, or infection on their food. When you go most restaurants (I can't speak for the women's restroom), but in the men's restroom, there's usually a sign that reminds employees that they must wash their hands before going back to work. Clean hands have a lot to do with the condition of the rest of the body in some cases and makes it a lot easier when you hands are clean to encourage somebody else to do the same.
The Bible teaches us in Psalm 24:3-5, "3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who shall stand in his holy place? 4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. 5 He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation."
As the people of God, our responsibility is to keep our hands clean so that we won't be hypocritical when identifying what God has deemed wrong in life. Now let's be clear, none of us are perfect, but we should strive to be as perfect as possible because our lives are a testimony to the saving power of Almighty God.
When I was growing up, my late mother used to always says, "Right is right, and right don't wrong nobody" and as the watchmen of God, we've got to say what God says because one day the question will be asked...Are Your Hands Clean?
BACKGROUND/TEXT: Our text today is found in the Book of Ezekiel. In the Hebrew, his name means "God Strengthens" or "strengthened by God." He was called to be a prophet around the age of 30 while still in exile in Babylon. It's believed that the days in which Ezekiel lived were some of the most chaotic times of political and moral upheaval in history.
Chapter 1 deals with the call of Ezekiel to be a prophet and God begins to show him ...
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