Thematic Bible: Preparation steps required in


Thematic Bible




The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself: ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

Jesus said to them, If you were blind, you would have no sin; but since you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.

‘I am pure, without transgression;
I am innocent and there is no guilt in me.

Now some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.


Then Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you return to the Lord with all your heart, remove the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you and direct your hearts to the Lord and serve Him alone; and He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”

But there is some good in you, for you have removed the Asheroth from the land and you have set your heart to seek God.”


They assembled their brothers, consecrated themselves, and went in to cleanse the house of the Lord, according to the commandment of the king by the words of the Lord.


Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from these things, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.


It is he who will go as a forerunner before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers back to the children, and the disobedient to the attitude of the righteous, so as to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”


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