![]() By scripture we have understood that going to the Promised Land requires salvation and sanctification. When God brought forth the children of Israel from Egypt, they crossed two great waters the Red sea and the Jordan River. Make this a prayer point and ask the Lord to do this in your life. We are in the time that God wants to make people holy and filled with the love for righteousness, having put iniquity to death in their lives. If that happens, the righteousness and holiness he is looking for from you will be possible. God is giving attention to your heart to make that heart clean indeed. Whether you should love God or not love Him is from the heart. What you should take and what you should not take. It is the heart that controls all actions. You will not do that anymore because, if any man is in Christ, he is a new creation, old things are passed away. You will not find yourself committing fornication, adultery, drunkenness, lying and other sins again. Surrender your life to Me and give me your heart, and I will break the power of sin in your heart. You will not find yourself doing them anymore. Come to Me for pardon and transformation, then I will break the power of those things in your life and set you free indeed. There are ungodly things you do, willingly or unwillingly evil places you go to and evil activities you engage in that will damn your soul eternally. ![]() He wants to save man from bondage and captivity of sin and Satan. He calls all sinners everywhere to repentance and righteousness. With those boundries laid it then becomes an appropriate response for the people of God.​God demands clean hands and a pure heart from all men. It is only by the shed blood of Christ and his righeousness that covers us that allows us into the presence of God. Not only that, before we began singing I read from the Psalm in which the song quotes (can't remember right off hand) and then proceeded to explain that those who worship the true God worship him with clean hands and a pure heart, but the problem is, is that none of us have either. A couple of Sunday's ago I used this song sandwiched in between two Christ exalting songs. I am a worship leader and consider very seriously the lyrics of many songs we sing as the people of God. However, there is still biblical truth in the song. I totally agree with you about the song lacking Christ and Him crucified and if this was the only song sang (or sang with other songs of similar shallowness) then I'd say, argument over. Hello! Just found the site! It seems you and I have a bit of the same mind when it comes to (what I like to call) sound doxology. Give us clean hands and give us pure hearts Give us clean hands, oh God and give us pure hearts ![]() Oh God let this be a generation that seeks Oh give us clean hands and give us pure hearts So give us clean hands and give us pure hearts Give Us Clean Hands by Matt Redman and Charlie Hall We bow our hearts, we bend our knees If the message that the church proclaims makes sense without conversion if it does not offend even lifelong believers from time to time, so that they too need to die more to themselves and live more to Christ, then it is not the gospel. The church exists in order to change the subject from us and our deeds to God and his deeds of salvation, from our various "missions" to save the world to Christ's mission that has already accomplished redemption. Michael Horton in Modern Reformation Magazine says It seems that here "the law" isn't so bad and "the gospel" isn't so sweet. Yes, we need the Spirit to make us humble, but first we need Him to regenerate us and give us faith in Christ. And we can have none of this without Christ's death on the cross, his burial and resurrection and our repentance and faith in Him. ![]() We are powerless to do all of the good things proposed in the song. This song lacks Christ and Him crucified. ![]() Give Us Clean Hands by Matt Redman and Charlie Hall Ht: Anonymous comment from a couple of days ago. : I'M RECONSIDERING WHAT I HAVE SAID IN THE POST BELOW ![]()
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