{"id":1416,"date":"2015-07-24T16:23:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T21:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2017-02-09T13:18:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T19:18:15","slug":"how-do-you-clean-house-large-print-tract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/?p=1416","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Clean House?–Large Print Tract"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/i> HomePrint LargePrint Gospel Tract<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

How Do I Imprint My Tract?<\/a><\/p>\n

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The giant print and message shown below make this an excellent tract for your next visit to a nursing home. It looks great in color or black and white.<\/p>\n

How Do You Clean House?<\/div><\/div>\nSome of the ancient cliff-dwellers of Arizona had an interesting way of cleaning house. The smoke of their fires filled their old stone dwellings and covered their walls with a black layer of soot. When this became intolerable they did not wash or scrape it off, but calmly went to work and plastered over it a fresh white coat of a kind of mortar, one above the other\u2014eleven layers of mortar\u2014eleven housecleaning days, no one knows how many years apart.
\nWe smile, but those who live in precisely such houses should not throw stones.
\nI don\u2019t mean to say that we clean house in just this way, (though it is possible to find houses where there may be four or five layers of wallpaper, one over the other). What I do mean is the way many of us clean house in our own souls.
\nHow we shrink from facing the dirt\u2014the sin\u2014within us! It seems so much easier to whitewash ourselves just as we are. So the whitewash is made up, a smooth blend of morality and respectability and self-righteousness, and it leaves the soul outwardly a fine bright white. But scratch it anywhere and\u2014ugh! the black underneath!
\nSomeday, in the white light of the holiness of God, all this whitewash will peel off and such soul-rooms will be seen to be pitch black\u2014nothing but black\u2014and black forever.
\nWhen God says, \u201cWash ye, make you clean\u201d (Isaiah 1:16), He does not mean a little cosmetic polishing up of outward appearances nor a little more socially acceptable behavior. God desires \u201ctruth in the inward parts,\u201d but, \u201cwho can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?\u201d (Proverbs 20:9).
\nDavid, the writer of the Psalms, knew the only way to be cleansed from his sins. He prayed: \u201cHave mercy upon me, O God, according to Thy loving-kindness: according to the multitude of Thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin…. Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow…. Create in me a clean heart, O God\u201d (Psalm 51:1-2,7,10).
\nCleansed from sin\u2014whiter than snow\u2014a clean heart\u2014no whitewash there! Cleansed from sin\u2014how?
\nThere is only one way: \u201cThe blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin\u201d (1 John 1:7).
\nIt is only through faith in His blood that was shed on Calvary\u2019s cross that we can be washed and clean and fit for the presence of God. No effort of our own can make us so, but believing and receiving His cleansing makes us \u201cclean every whit.\u201d
\n\u201cCome now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool\u201d (Isaiah 1:18).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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