Who Can Approach God

Who Can Approach God?

Psalm 24:3,4
3 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 (KJV)
    As we start this new year let us note that our life is to be a constant worship to God and as we are constantly approaching God’s throne we must always do so with a pure heart that does not drive our hands and feet to do evil as well as having a proud attitude or are full of lies.
6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? 7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? 8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just. 9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; 10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: 11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. 12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. 13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: 15 Their feet are swift to shed blood: 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways: 17 And the way of peace have they not known: 18 There is no fear of God before their eyes. 19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. 21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: 23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; 24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Romans 3:6-26 (KJV)
    We all fall into this category of having been vile, full of anger, full of bitterness, devoid of truth, and without God.  This being said, we all know that God has offered Himself as a way to get back to Him.  When we trust God for His saving power to keep us from falling (Jude 24,25) our old human nature will have no effect on us because we have been implanted with the Spirit of God.  This does not mean that we won’t be tempted to bring the old human nature back from the dead, but that truly trusting God’s saving power will give us the strength we need to remain a child of God. (John 10:28,29)
    Jesus Christ; who came to earth as a baby, then died, rose again, then ascended to His Father in Heaven,  will return to earth one day to claim His Church that is purely washed from their sins.  I want this to be an encouragement to you to not let down your guard because the devil’s attacks are real and if we allow the fiery darts to penetrate our souls we will become numb to the things of God.  Be alert, watch for the enemy of your souls the devil.

29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. 30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: 31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. 

Isaiah 40:29-31 (KJV)