July 23, 2020 CAC Living Water Devotional :- CLEAN UP THAT MESS
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Thursday, July 23, 2020
CLEAN UP THAT MESS
Read: Romans 5:12-21
“Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, so death spread to all people [no one being able to stop it or escape its power], because they all sinned. Sin was [committed] in the world before the Law [was given], but sin is not charged [against anyone] when there is no law [against it]. Yet death ruled [over mankind] from Adam to Moses [the Lawgiver], even over those who had not sinned as Adam did. Adam is a type of Him (Christ) who was to come [but in reverse—Adam brought destruction, Christ brought salvation]. But the free gift [of God] is not like the trespass [because the gift of grace overwhelms the fall of man]. For if many died by one man’s trespass [Adam’s sin], much more [abundantly] did God’s grace and the gift [that comes] by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, overflow to [benefit] the many. Nor is the gift [of grace] like that which came through the one who sinned.
For on the one hand the judgment [following the sin] resulted from one trespass and brought condemnation, but on the other hand the free gift resulted from many trespasses and brought justification [the release from sin’s penalty for those who believe]. For if by the trespass of the one (Adam), death reigned through the one (Adam), much more surely will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in [eternal] life through the One, Jesus Christ. So then as through one trespass [Adam’s sin] there resulted condemnation for all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men. For just as through one man’s disobedience [his failure to hear, his carelessness] the many were made sinners, so through the obedience of the one Man the many will be made righteous and acceptable to God and brought into right standing with Him. But the Law came to increase and expand [the awareness of] the trespass [by defining and unmasking sin]. But where sin increased, [God’s remarkable, gracious gift of] grace [His unmerited favor] has surpassed it and increased all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, so also grace would reign through righteousness which brings eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Romans 5:12-21 AMP
MEMORISE: For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23)
EXPOSITION
The estimated cost of cleaning up an oil producing section of a country affected by oil exploration was well over twenty billion and the job would be completed in five years. Clean up, especially spiritual clean up, is an exercise that is very needful, tasking and God-required. Man has been so messed up that nothing apart from the blood of Jesus could do the outright purging. A mess is anything, or situation that defiles, contaminates, or pollutes the original state of a thing or situation. God made man in His own glory and for His pleasure, but the Devil introduced sin to mess up man’s life and man fell short of God’s glory. He became unfit to stand in God’s presence or associate with God (Genesis 3:1-15).
Cleaning up the mess of sin was originally done by God, through His begotten Son, Jesus Christ. Man has no will/power to do that for himself. He was so helpless and needed a Rescuer. All that is expected from you is to make use of the blood of Jesus for your purging. That a man lives close to a soap making factory does not mean he would be automatically clean, unless he goes ahead to buy some of the soaps and endeavour to bath with them. Sin is a contamination of human race. As a polluted water is not good for consumption, so a sin-polluted life is not worthy of God.
Sin makes you totally unfit for God’s kingdom. Hence, the need to make use of the blood of Jesus, like the Israelites did in the land of Egypt, and clean up the mess of sin in your life. (Romans 5:9; Hebrews 12:24). Besides, the disciples of Jesus became pure through the words of Jesus that He told them. Continuous hearing and heeding the words of God brings wholeness and cleanness.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Lord, deliver me from sin and all its effects.
2. Lord, I receive power and grace to stay clean to Your glory.
3. Oh Lord, assist all Your people to make proper use of Your purifying Word to achieve the God-required wholeness.
EXTRA READING FOR TODAY: Job 4 – 6; James 1