Contamination

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Since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God (2 Corinthians 7:1).

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Recently there have been a lot of newspaper reports about dog food that somehow became contaminated with rat poison, and as a result people across the United States unwittingly poisoned their pets when feeding them.  The word contamination means that a poisonous element has crept into something that would otherwise be wholesome or healthy.  It’s a word we hear a lot in today’s world.

We read about contaminated water, contaminated soil, contaminated lettuce, and contaminated beef.  We worry about nuclear contamination, and about chemical and biological contamination.  It’s a word that means to become impure, corrupted, or infected by a dangerous or hazardous element, to become unfit for use by the introduction of unhealthy or undesirable elements.

This verse says that can happen to the human soul.

This is one of the strongest verses in the Bible on the subject of purity, holiness, and temptation.  And the question in today sermon is – Has any impure or unhealthy element seeped into your body or spirit?  Is there any contamination in your own life?  Let’s read the verse again:  Since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.

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