let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and having our body washed with pure water,Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience: and having our body washed with pure water,
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… Just one chapter over Hebrews 10, 22 makes this point again, talking about new covenant believers experiencing this same cleansing, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. The washing and the pouring of water points to the cleansing that you and I receive to our deepest level so that we can draw near with confidence to a heavenly Father in his heavenly house. more excellent New Testament imagery, look with me in the book of Titus chapter 3. Titus chapter 3 verse 4. when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy by the washing of regeneration and the renewal of the Holy Spirit whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by his grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. …
… becomes a metaphor for spiritual purity. So, later in the New Testament, Hebrews 10, let us draw near with a true heart and full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. So, there, the Old Testament imagery of purity and cleanliness is now explained with a moral valence. So even though, to be clear, this leprosy is not sinful per se, we are right in understanding this to be a story about this whole business of how you get clean. And for this man, it was leprosy, and for the human condition, it's even worse than that. It's sin. It's the spiritual uncleanness, which brings us back to the point. You and I will never get clean if we don't admit that we are unclean. And we have developed lots of ways of hiding this. Pastors know, parishioners know, men, women. It is no respecter of race or ethnicity or age. We know how to find ways to make ourselves feel less unclean. Comparison, that's a really good way. Sure, I do some bad things. I'm not perfect, but have you seen them? There are always worse people. No, we don't usually think, well, there are always better people too. There are certain husbands I know who do all the grocery shopping and all the cooking. That's sort of a mythical category, but there are a few of those out there, and that's just a rule in our household. There's no comparison to those husbands when we talk about it. So we don't usually think about those …
… so that he could reconcile us to God in his unapproachable light. In the new covenant, our cleansing is not merely external. Hebrews chapter 10, verses 19 to 22. Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Yeah, there's a washing, but it's not the same. This is a washing from the inside out. This is not just clean up your garments on the outside and observe a few rules before you come into the presence of Almighty God, this is be changed from the inside out. Not so that you can come before the presence of God, but so that you can be indwelled by the very presence of God who dwells in unapproachable light. Oh, this is superior, friends. This is greater. …