Put in me a clean heart

Song: Put in Me by Enter the Worship Circle

LESSON:

Genesis 6-8 & Luke 3

SCRIPTURE:

Genesis 7:4

"Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”

OBSERVATION:

Even though I've read the story of the Great Flood a number of times, I never made the connection to baptism but, in essence, that's exactly what this is. God cleansed the earth of sin. This is eluded to later by Peter:

"God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water. Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a clear conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to him." —1 Pet. 3:20–22

APPLICATION:

It's standard practice to be baptized when we become Christians, but what about re-baptism? All of us will struggle in our faith. Perhaps, as we cast off sin, we should be washed again, to cleanse our spirits. I haven't been baptized since I was 18. It's probably time to do it again.

PRAYER:

Lord, put in me a clean heart.