Coming

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Coming
Clean Start

• Clean

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Clean Start

• (2 Chronicles 341-7) Josiah was eight years old
  when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem
  thirty-one years

Clean Start
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Clean Start

• (2 Chronicles 341-7) He did what was right in
  the eyes of the LORD and walked in the ways of
  his father David, not turning aside to the right
  or to the left

(2 Chronicles 341-7)
eyes
ways
The restoration of a
Not my eyes, but Gods eyes
Moral Compass called
Not my ways, but Gods ways
Righteousness
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Clean Start
Clean

• (2 Chronicles 341-7) In the eighth year of his
  reign, while he was still young, he began to seek
  the God of his father David

(2 Chronicles 341-7)
young
seek
to
his
How Clean is Clean?
Clean
father
The restoration of a
The restoration of a
Never too young to seek Him
Moral Compass called
Spiritual Passion called
Never too outdated to call Him, Lord
Righteousness
Holiness
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How Clean is Clean?

• (2 Chronicles 341-7) In his twelfth year he
  began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of high
  places, Asherah poles, carved idols and cast
  images

(2 Chronicles 341-7)
to purge
How Clean is Clean?
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How Clean is Clean?

• (2 Chronicles 341-7) Under his direction the
  altars of the Baals were torn down

(2 Chronicles 341-7)
torn down
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How Clean is Clean?

• (2 Chronicles 341-7) he cut to pieces the
  incense altars that were above them, and smashed
  the Asherah poles, the idols and the images

(2 Chronicles 341-7)
cut to pieces
smashed
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How Clean is Clean?

• (2 Chronicles 341-7) These he broke to pieces
  and scattered over the graves of those who had
  sacrificed to them

broke
scattered
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How Clean is Clean?

• (2 Chronicles 341-7) He burned the bones of
  the priests on their altars, and so he purged
  Judah and Jerusalem

(2 Chronicles 341-7)
burned
purged
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How Clean is Clean?

• (2 Chronicles 341-7) In the towns of Manasseh,
  Ephraim and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in
  the ruins around them, he tore down the altars
  and the Asherah poles and crushed the idols to
  powder and cut to pieces all the incense altars
  throughout Israel

(2 Chronicles 341-7)
tore down
crushed
cut to pieces
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How Clean is Clean?

• (2 Chronicles 341-7) Then he went back to
  Jerusalem.

(2 Chronicles 341-7)
Principle 1
Clean Sweep
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How Clean is Clean?

• (Psalm 15) LORD, who may dwell in Your
  sanctuary? Who may live on Your holy hill?

Principle 1
Clean Sweep
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How Clean is Clean?

• (Psalm 15) He whose walk is blameless and who
  does what is righteous, who speaks the truth from
  his heart and has no slander on his tongue

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How Clean is Clean?

• (Psalm 15) who does his neighbor no wrong and
  casts no slur on his fellowman, who despises a
  vile man but honors those who fear the LORD

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How Clean is Clean?

• (Psalm 15) who keeps his oath even when it
  hurts, who lends his money without usury and
  does not accept a bribe against the innocent

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How Clean is Clean?

• (Psalm 15) He who does these things will never
  be shaken.

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How Clean is Clean?

• (Hebrews 413) Nothing in all creation is hidden
  from God's sight. Everything is uncovered and
  laid bare before the eyes of Him to whom we must
  give account.

Principle 2
New Occupancy
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How Clean is Clean?

• (Luke 1124-26) "When an evil spirit comes out
  of a man, it goes through arid places seeking
  rest and does not find it

Principle 2
New Occupancy
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How Clean is Clean?

• (Luke 1124-26) Then it says, 'I will return to
  the house I left.' When it arrives, it finds the
  house swept clean and put in order

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How Clean is Clean?

• (Luke 1124-26) Then it goes and takes seven
  other spirits more wicked than itself, and they
  go in and live there

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How Clean is Clean?

• (Luke 1124-26) And the final condition of that
  man is worse than the first."

Principle 3
No Compromise
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How Clean is Clean?
Would you come clean in 2008?

• There is no such thing as
• Somewhat Righteous

(1 Peter 115-16) But just as He who called you
is holy, so be holy in all you do
(Hebrews 1214) For without holiness no one
will see the Lord.
(1 Peter 115-16) for it is written "Be holy,
because I am holy."
Principle 3
Partial Holiness
No Compromise
A Moderate Christian
or a Spiritual Life on Hold