Purge,pruning, rewards

Purge: To rid, clear, or free something of all that is impure, unwanted, or dangerous. It is a decisive, necessary, full-scale act of removal.

Prune: To cut away dead or overgrown parts of a plant to encourage stronger, more fruitful growth. The pain is intentional; the purpose is to increas

Reward: A return or recompense made for service, merit, or hardship. It is the guaranteed consequence of spiritual labor.

How do these three things relate to a spiritual way of living. Today we will be talking about purging and how purging is biblical in the life of a person.

God’s ultimate Purge is found in salvation. It is Christ’s blood that completely purges the penalty of our sin (Hebrews 1:3). You don’t have to carry the dangerous baggage of sin one more day.

Hebrews 1:1-3 KJV
[1] God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, [2] hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; [3] who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

God through Jesus Christ purged our sin upon the cross. That purge is going from an unrighteous state to a righteous state in Jesus Christ. As you look up the word purge and see how it connects to our new life in Jesus Christ. The purge is getting rid of something that is unwanted. Sin we don’t want it to reign in our life to obey the lust of it but as believers we stand on the promised of God in a new life in him. We are under a new ownership that is through Jesus Christ.

When a person goes through the purging process it’s a change. A change for letting go of the old and the new life begins in Jesus Christ. It’s not my will but God’s will be done.

The purge of being controlled by the old nature and being made new by the newness we receive in Jesus Christ. 

Let God come into your life and purge out the unrighteous( things that go against God’s nature) become holy to God before man. Be controlled by the new nature found in Romans chapter 6 and 8.

Have the hope that God has given us a hope to move on into a relationship with him.

Tomorrow it is about the pruning and how it applies to the life of the believers

GivinHope Ministry of Evangelism John Corum