I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.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.And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
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… I'm going to give you my spirit. I'm going to give you a new heart in Ezekiel 36, verses 25 through 27. The Lord says this, and this is your word. If this is your message, this part of the message belongs to you personally, and you're thinking to yourself, I don't trust myself, I don't trust what's in me, but I want to believe that God can get it out of me. In verse 25 it says, he's talking about the children of Israel who have departed from the Lord And they're no longer walking in the statues of the Lord He says, if you bring, if you come into my commandments And you begin to follow my statues Then I will sprinkle clean water on you That's God's word to you Who are you? In this room, God says, I'm going to sprinkle clean water on you I'm not going to reuse somebody else's water and you shall be clean with a sprinkle come on somebody you think that it's going to take a whole lot to change your ways and to change your patterns and to change how you were showing up God says it ain't even going to take that much I'll just sprinkle some of my water on you I'll sprinkle some of my word I'll sprinkle some of my water on you and you shall be clean when I get finished. Just a sprinkle of my goodness. Just a sprinkle of my faithfulness. I will clean you from the inside out. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. …
… Ezekiel writes about it, doesn't he? Listen to Ezekiel 36, verse 25. I will sprinkle clean water on you and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you. I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes. and you will be careful to observe my ordinances. You will live in the land that I gave to your forefathers, so you will be my people and I will be your God. That is the layout of sovereign salvation, isn't it? I will, I will, I will. This is a true salvation. The elements of it match the new covenant promise of Jeremiah 31. And on that day, the Lord, by His Spirit, will bring salvation, saving grace, and repentance, and cleanse His people. Verse 2 says, "'It will come about in that day,' there's the phrase again, declares the Lord of hosts that I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered, and I will also remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land. Israel's salvation produces cleansing. God will eliminate the sin of idolatry. God will eliminate false religion. No marks of pagan religion will remain. When this happens, pagan worship will not exist. Pagan worship will not exist in the kingdom of Christ. …
… You can turn to it or you can just listen. Ezekiel 36 verses 25 to 27 is a statement about what happens to someone when God saves them because salvation was the same throughout all of human history and is described in terminology very much like Paul uses in Ephesians. Ezekiel 36, 25, talking about the time that God saves His people, I will sprinkle clean water on you and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols." This is not just a forensic declaration of justification. This is a transformation. This is such a change that it is described as using clean water to clean all your filthiness and additionally to free you from your idols so that you have singular devotion and worship to the Lord. Moreover, verse 26, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you, and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. …
… In Ezekiel 36, 26, well, 25, I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I'll cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. So this is amazing. Salvation is not just forensic. It is that, but it's not just that. It's an actual cleansing. Paul says we're washed by the water of the Word, right? I'll clean you up. I'll get rid of your filthiness and your idols. And then verse 26, the same thing, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you, and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances. That's salvation. Unless you're a dumb dispensation, listen, you want to stick that somewhere it doesn't belong. That's salvation. Salvation is transformation. Now, let's go back to Ephesians. So what do we expect salvation to look like? …