How to Keep Clean

Psalms 119:9

Introduction:

Man is made up of three things. He has his will, intellect and emotion. Your will
may refers to your choice, disposition, inclination or desire. Your intellect refers to your
ability in putting knowledge on your mind. Your emotions may refer to your feelings like
anger, fear, love, infatuations. In all of these or in any area, needs to be clean, it is
because we are not yet in our glorified state. How to keep clean?

Body:

1. Heeding the Word of God wholeheartedly. Psalms 119:9-10. Heed means to

pay attention, to attend or you object of pursuit. The word of God must be our
object of pursuit by means of reading. The Bible said we are to read His word
in order to clean our selves. The Bible is said to be a cleansing agent. In John
15:3, our Lord has spoken “Now ye are clean through the word which I have
spoken unto you”.
Isaiah 34:16 “Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no
one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it
hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.”
1 Timothy 4:13. Till I come, give attendance to reading, to
exhortation, to doctrine

2. Hiding the Word of God intelligently. Psalms 119:11-12. This is the

victorious or the surest way to fight sin and keep clean is to remember the
word of God. The value of memorizing the word of God is to keep us doing
what is good and by not doing what we know is bad. We may learn the word
of God. Let it be our teacher as King David was thus he said “teach me thy
statutes”.

Joshua 1:8 “This book of the law shall not depart out of thy
mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou
mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for
then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt
have good success.”

3. Heralding the Word of God rejoicingly. Psalms 119:13-14. This

is to recommend or preach or proclaim the word of God. The bible
says “Preach the word” 2 Timothy 4:2. This is what Jesus did, he
preach the word. “From that time Jesus began to preach…”
Matthew 4:17; 10:7.

4. Honoring the Word of God delightfully. Psalms 119:15-16. God

wants to be respected and likewise his words.
Psalms 138:2 “I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name
for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word
above all thy name.