Fiery eyes and Stream that cleanses

We stay out of sin or try not to commit sin, parlty because it affects us. Sin does have a two fold effect. It effects man and God. It is the effect that it has on God which is more serious.

Sin is a contempt of God's glory. Sin takes the place of God and it dethrones God of his honor. This ignites God's wrath. Redemption is to get us back from sin, but the sin needs to be dealt with.

God is an ever loving God and his love for us is always the same, yet the guilt for this sin has to be dealt with. Jesus's shed blood was the way how God's holy love and holy wrath can be quenched. Jesus was sent as a representative of mankind on earth, paid the price for their sins.

Reconciliation deals with the guilt of sin. Cleansing deals with the impurity caused by the sin. Guilt is being dealt by Jesus, and cleansing follows reconciliation. Cleansing is that which happens with our soul and our mind. The impurtiy of sin is completely removed by the cleansing power of the blood.

A good example of precieving cleansing (given by our member during the discussion) is; this happend to him when he was small. Being a small kid, he was playing in a wet pool of mud which got him dirty all over. His mother seeing him, pulled him out of that pool, took him under the shower and cleaned him. Pulling him out of the mud pool is synonmous to the reconciling and getting him under the shower is to the cleansing.

We often precieve that the blood of Christ is available, and when we commit sin the blood is there to get us right. But, the blood is an ever flowing stream, cleansing us from the impurity. It is by faith we walk being always under the stream knowing that it cleanses us. Temptations will come and go by, but our being and walking under that stream cleanses us constanlty.