Cleaning out the Family for the Kingdom

Brothers and Sisters in the Lord:
It is not uncommon to have to listen to a lecture from your mother about how filthy your room is before you clean it up. Isn't that right? It isn't a bad lecture to get, especially if it gets the desired results and your room doesn't look like pigs hang out there. Of course your room didn't start out looking like a pigsty, but life happened and you got busy and didn't do the laundry, and you didn't vacuum, and you forgot about the Kleenex and candy wrappers you left on the night table. Then the ants came.

Life happened to Judah also. Judah started off well after the temple was rebuilt and the walls of Jerusalem were restored and they made vows to God. But the Jews became lovers of money (again) more than lovers of God. So they got distracted and things got messy. The family became messy and God's house was ignored. So their personal spiritual houses had to be cleaned. This is today's subject.

Our headings are:

1. The Sermon
2. The Sin
3. The Separation

Our goals are:
That you will frequently look to clean out your personal and family sins so the kingdom of Christ can progress and bring glory to the Savior.