2 Chronicles 29:15-17
They gathered their brothers and consecrated themselves and went in as the king had commanded, by the words of the Lord, to cleanse the house of the Lord. The priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord to cleanse it, and they brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the Lord into the court of the house of the Lord. And the Levites took it and carried it out to the brook Kidron. They began to consecrate on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the vestibule of the Lord. Then for eight days they consecrated the house of the Lord, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.
Tag: Healing can’t start without Cleansing.
Hezekiah had inherited the kingdom from wicked Ahaz. To put it in blunt terms, the place was a mess. The first step was cleaning house. If you want to have healing, you have to start with cleansing. Personal cleaning products come in all sizes and all shapes. It is tough to estimate the amount of money spent on personal cleaning products in our country, alone!! When it comes to cleaning the outside of our bodies we seem to have an obsession. Yet, that same thought does not come across when it comes to cleansing our inward minds and hearts. This was the problem during King Hezekiah’s day. He was precede by a king (Ahaz) that did not mind polluting the worship and spiritual life of the nation. Hezekiah had the mindset to cleanse the nation and he began by cleansing the worship center. True cleansing of the life has to begin with cleaning the heart. The heart of the nation was the worship center. It had to begin there to extend to the nation. Healing only happens when we have cleansing.
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