Squeaky Clean!

My muddy Ben, age 2
(That's CANDY in his mouth, by the way!)

"Jesus Christ, the faithful witness...and the ruler of the kings of the earth...To Him who loves us and washed us from our sins in His own blood...be the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen!" (Rev. 1:5-6)

       I love this picture of Ben! Covered in mud with cowboy boots on his feet and a candy cane in his mouth, he looks like a mini-buckaroo just returning from a long, hard cattle drive. Needless to say, Ben and his clothes got a good washing that day!

     1 Cor. 6:9-11 says: "Don't you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality, or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people - none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God. Some of you were once like that. But you were cleansed; you were made holy; you were made right with God by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God!"
       And, praise Jesus,
"What God has cleansed, (is) no longer consider(ed) unholy!" (Acts 10:15)

      Have you received God's free gift of eternal life and the forgiveness and cleansing of sin by faith in Jesus Christ?

      YES? Then rejoice! Though your sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow (Isa. 1:18)! As far as the east is from the west, so far has (God) removed your sins from you (Psalm 103:12)! In Jesus, you have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of your sins, according to the riches of His grace (Eph. 1:7)! Hallelujah and Amen!!!

      No? Then Jesus offers you His cleansing right now, today, this very minute - His free gift of everlasting life in the Kingdom of God. Jesus loves you greatly and gave Himself up for you, so that He might make you holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God's Word (Eph. 5:25-26). If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raise Him from the dead, you will be saved from eternal death (Rom. 10:9) and squeaky clean! 

"Let us draw near (to God) with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith (in Jesus), having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water." (Heb. 10:22)