Depart and Be Clean

Depart! Depart! Go out from there, touch no unclean thing; go out from the midst of her, be clean, you who bear the vessels of the Lord. Isaiah 52:11

Most people who get themselves in a place that is filthy dirty and filled with a heavy stench desire to get out of there as quickly as possible. People like to be clean and be in a place that is clean to be kept from getting the filth on themselves. Although most people keep clean from physical filth, very few flee from spiritual filth.

Isaiah tells the people to flee from where they are and not touch anything unclean. Everyone who carries a vessel of God is to be clean.

Although the world does not like physical garbage, they will purposefully live in sinful filth. It is completely acceptable to live in drunkenness, drugs, immoral sex, violence, hatred, jealousy, pride, greed, and anything else that goes against God’s commands. Living in this way looks like it is living in freedom, but it is living in bondage with a death sentence.

There are many in the church who have been deceived into believing that they can live as the world does and still be saved. People live in willful sin, while still claiming to believe in and follow Jesus.

God calls the believer to depart the life of sin and be set apart as different. One is to leave the life of sin and sin no more. Believers are to stop touching anything unclean. The Israelites carried the vessels of God, while the believer is now the temple or house of God.

No believer can depart on one’s own ability but is given the power and strength to do so by the Holy Spirit. By the Holy Spirit, one is led to leave the life of sin and be clean by the blood of Jesus.

The moment you chose to follow Jesus, He called you to depart from the life of sin and filth. Jesus removed all the filthy sin from your life and cleaned you up. Do not go back into the filth of sin, but depart from it. Do not touch anything unclean and take on what God has taken from you, but live a holy and righteous life that Jesus has purchased for you. You are now the temple of God, not just a bearer of the vessels of God, be holy and separate from the world.

Today I pray that you will know Jesus as your Lord and Savior; that God will give you strength to depart from all sin; that God will guide you in living a clean and holy life for Him; and that you will be the holy temple of the Lord for all the world to see.

This is an updated edition of a post originally published on Insights from Tom

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About the Author

Tom Arn is happily married for 30 years to his wonderful wife Cammie. They are blessed by God with eight wonderful children and one grandchild. Tom has worked as a children’s pastor, senior pastor, and many times (and currently) as a Sunday School Teacher. He has a General Ministries degree with a Bible College. He started doing a short devotional type Bible study on Facebook in 2014, going through the books of the Bible chapter by chapter, section by section. Tom writes what he feels God is placing on his heart.

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