QUALITIES OF CHARACTER THAT GOD LOOKS FOR IN A MAN – Part 1

 

WEDNESDAY, 3RD JANUARY, 2024.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE – General Overseer

 

TOPIC: QUALITIES OF CHARACTER THAT GOD LOOKS FOR IN A MAN – Part 1

 

MEMORIZE: “Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?

 

SCRIPTURE READING: “Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? 4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.” Psalms 24:3-4

 

EXPOSITION:

God gives answer to this enquiry, in which we have the properties of God's peculiar people, who shall have communion with him in grace and glory. Let us examine some qualities of character that God looks for in a man who will stand in his holy place.

 

(1.) They are such as keep themselves from all the gross acts of sin. They have clean hands; not spotted with the pollutions of the world and the flesh.  None that were ceremonially unclean might enter into the mountain of the temple, which signified that cleanness of conversation which is required in all those that have fellowship with God. The hands lifted up in prayer must be pure hands, no blot of unjust gain cleaving to them, nor anything else that defiles the man and is offensive to the holy God.

 

(2.) They are such as make conscience of being really (that is, of being inwardly) as good as they seem to be outwardly. They have pure hearts.  We make nothing of our religion if we do not make heart-work of it. It is not enough that our hands be clean before men, but we must also wash our hearts from wickedness, and not allow ourselves in any secret heart impurities, which are open before the eye of God. Yet in vain do those pretend to have pure and good hearts whose hands are defiled with the acts of sin.  That is a pure heart which is sincere and without guile in covenanting with God, which is carefully guarded, that the wicked one, the unclean spirit, touch it not, which is purified by faith, and conformed to the image and will of God; see Mt 5:8.

We shall continue the other points tomorrow by God’s grace. May God keep us safe and accepted to Himself now and always in Jesus name.

 

PRAYER POINT: Lord, make me worthy to stand in your presence and to have an unbroken communion with you in Jesus name.

 

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