How often do you and I feel like we are jumbled or messy inside and maybe outside?

Vss. 5-7
We are a mess as people before God and His perfection.

Vs. 5-When God helps those who are His and then others treat them horribly God is not pleased
Vs. 6-We are dirty and messy inside, in fact we are so weak against our own sin we let it move us easily
Vs. 7-We don’t even call on God when we need to and as a result we waste away

Vs. 5 We mess up our relationships with other Christians whether family or friends:
Say our children are important and do not treat them as such
Do everything for our children not realizing that builds contempt
Treat our spouse like they should take it
Divorce
Show lack of respect for our parents
Talk about a friend behind their backs

Vs. 6 When we look inside ourselves we are not clean people:
Not just the thoughts and desires that not clean in the eyes of God
The mess of our anxieties
The mess of our fears
The mess of emotions
The mess of our actions

Vs. 7We do not trust God or turn to him-
God says I will be there and we don’t quite believe it
We try to do things on our own
We try to find worldly answers to spiritual questions or problems
We try to control God and other people


When we do not trust God or turn to Him, we end up on the short end of things:
Our lives become overly anxious
We may turn to other options that are harmful
We may begin to have that feeling in our stomachs of emptiness or fear
We may actually turn away from God

So how is messiness a gift? Without knowing that we are messy, flawed and sinful people then we can not and would not understand or receive the Grace of God which is the real gift. Vs. 8

God takes messy and dirty people and cleans them through the blood of Jesus Christ.
God took the dirt and sin of our lives and put them upon the body of Jesus upon the Christ.
God punished our sin, not upon us, but upon Jesus Christ.
God raised Jesus from the dead, so that the Devil can not use our sin and dirt against us any more.
We also have the hope of eternal life with God where our dirt will never effect us again.

As vs. 8 says we are God’s clay that is molded into different people.
We are forgiven people who do sin, but we do repent.
We are forgiven people who do sin, but we forgive.
We are forgiven people who will have days of dirtiness, but we can turn to God know He is with us.
We are forgiven people who have broken relationships that can be healed and are healing.

Baptism and Cleaning

To baptize means to wash.
God through the Water and the Word cleans us by forgiveness of our sins.
This baptism we can remember everyday and know that we are clean.

As God’s clean and forgiven people we can then:
Serve
Trust
Love
Struggle
Share