Walking Clean in an Unclean World

Today’s Message: “WALKING CLEAN IN AN UNCLEAN WORLD” by Pastor Ariel

Today's Reading is Leviticus 11:39-45

Leviticus 11:39-45 “39 "'If an animal that you are allowed to eat dies, anyone who touches the carcass will be unclean till evening. Anyone who eats some of the carcass must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean till evening. Anyone who picks up the carcass must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean till evening. Every creature that moves about on the ground is detestable; it is not to be eaten. You are not to eat any creature that moves about on the ground, whether it moves on its belly or walks on all fours or on many feet; it is detestable. Do not defile yourselves by any of these creatures. Do not make yourselves unclean by means of them or be made unclean by them. I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy. Do not make yourselves unclean by any creature that moves about on the ground. I am the LORD who brought you up out of Egypt to be your God; therefore be holy, because I am holy”

1. When we come to faith in the Lord Jesus and begin walking in His ways [The Torah--The Word of God], our God begins the process of separating you from the world around you--as Holy unto the Lord. Holiness is a separated STATE OF BEING--where you may be physically in this world--but you are no longer SPIRITUALLY OF--this world any longer.

2 Corinthians 5:16-21 says “16So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”

And 2 Corinthians 6:16-17 Paul is teaching us when He says “16What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: "I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people." Therefore come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you”


A. When you are born again--you are reborn and go through a “status--change” that removes you from the "common" and "unclean" and transports you to the Kingdom of Light as you begin walking in a DIFFERENT STATUS here on earth--called “The Olam Haba in Hebrew”--or the "World to come." NOTHING THAT HINDERED YOU in your FORMER STATUS--HAS ANY HOLD OVER YOU ANY MORE! Adams status was failure--JESUS STATUS IS SUCCESS!

In Matthew 19:26 “Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."

Isaiah 54:17 speaks of how this STATUS CHANGE affects our walk when it says “17 No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is from Me,” Says the LORD.”

B. You are now free from the elementary things of this world--worrying about your food and your clothing--living with damage from past victimizations-- former relationships--and worrying about your children’s fate--and you have been transported into the RESSURECTED WORLD OF JESUS the Messiah--WHERE THERE IS "NO" DEATH ON "ANY" LEVEL.

Matthew 6:31-33 says “31 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles [Gentile means "Confused Pagan Unbelievers"--of THIS polluted Realm] seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the Kingdom of God [The "Kingdom of God" is a Supreme Messianic Term meaning the "UNPOLLUTED WORLD--that WAS TO COME"--and that CAME IN JESUS and now LIVES IN YOU] and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

Revelation 20:6 says “Blessed and holy are those who have part in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years."

What does it mean to be BLESSED? Psalm 1:1-6 says “1 Blessed [Walking in the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth--empowerment to live the life of Jesus--right now] is the man who does not walk [Live] in the counsel of the wicked [Torah--The Word of God violating "Spiritual Criminals"] or stand in the way of sinners [Torah--or "Bible" Violators] or sit in the seat of mockers. [The Arrogant] But his delight is in the law of the LORD, [Torah: God's teaching and instructions for a successful life] and on his law [Torah: God's teaching and instructions for a successful life] he meditates day and night. He is like a tree [the "Etz Chayim"in Hebrew--or the "Tree of Life"--which is Jesus] planted by streams of water, [Jesus Spirit--the Living Water] which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf [Jesus Brothers] does not wither [Go down to the realm of Death.] Whatever he does prospers [or "Rushes to Success"]. Not so the wicked! [Biblical Criminals--or Lawless] They are like chaff that the wind blows away. Therefore the wicked [Biblical Criminals--or the Lawless] will not stand in the judgment, [Adoption of the Saints] nor sinners [Torah--or "Bible" Violators] in the assembly of the righteous.[Those who adhere to the Torah of God--or the "Word of God"] For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, [Those who adhere to the Torah of God--God's teachings written down for our instruction] but the way of the wicked [Torah--or Biblical Criminal] will perish. [Live constantly in the realm of Death]

C. We are to leave the elementary things of this world behind--and we have now been separated out as “Holy unto the Lord.” So why do we still have real world failures? Why do we buy into the Greek mindset of a “LAST DAYS APOCCALYPSE?” The reason is that we have allowed our "NEPHESH" or "SOUL REALM" [Which gateway is the MIND] to become POLLUTED. A Little pollution of this “Common and Unclean” world--results in a magnification of IMPURITY in the Spiritual World--which results in POWERLESSNESS IN THIS REALM! Everything done in this world is MAGNIFIED in the “Olam Haba--the World to Come--which is in our Children.”

Hebrews 5:12-6:6 says “12In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God's word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness.[Torah] But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil. Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from acts that lead to death, and of faith in God, instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. And God permitting, we will do so. It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the word of God [Torah] and the powers of the coming age, [Kingdom of God--the Olam Haba--Right Here and Right Now] if they fall away, [Back to the Realm of SIN AND DEATH] to be brought back to repentance, because to their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace"

D. Scripture prophecies in Jeremiah 44 that in the last days--God’s Prophets and Priest will teach [live a lifestyle] of Clean and Unclean--Holy and Unholy--keeping the Festivals and Feasts of the Lord our God. Jesus ALREADY restored both Earth and Man back to a place of cleanliness of the "Nephesh" in Hebrew or we would say the "Soul"--BUT--we have believed the LIE of the ENEMY that has convinced us--that what GOD has for us is IN THE FUTURE--OFF IN HEAVEN and not for the HERE AND NOW--the LIE that we still occupy the realm of SIN AND DEATH which JESUS DIED TO FREE US FROM!

1 Peter 2:9-11 the Apostle Peter states “9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, [Realm of Sin and Death] to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul. Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us."

The Priesthood of Ezekiel’s “Third Temple” is described in Ezekiel 44:23-24 when it says “23 They are to teach my people the difference between the holy and the common and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean. 'In any dispute, the priests are to serve as judges and decide it according to my ordinances. They are to keep my laws and my decrees for all my appointed feasts, and they are to keep my Sabbaths holy.”

E. Our job is to live a SEPARATED LIFE FROM THE REALM OF SIN AND DEATH as a TESTIMONY against the ways of LAWLESSNESS. The more we walk free of the POLLUTION of this CARNAL WORLD-[Slander, judgment, sexual perversion, greed, television shows we ought not to watch etc.]--the more God will manifest miracles in our life that belong to the WORLD THAT HAS COME IN MESSIAH. As we live a CLEAN [Torah--or Biblically Obedient] LIFESTYLES--which are not polluted by the things that this world offers--then our lives become LIVING SACRIFICES--DEAD to this FORMER CARNAL WORLD THROUGH SCRIPTURAL OBEDIENCE--and ALIVE to a MIRACLE DRIVEN EXISTENCE. ONLY THEN will the HOLY FIRE OF GOD--consume the offering of your life!

Romans 12:2 Paul says “1Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.[Torah: God's teaching and instructions for a successful life]

2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1 Paul sums it up for us when He writes “14Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. [AS YOU WILL BE IN TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS] For what partnership has righteousness [Scripture Keeping] with lawlessness [Scripture Violating]? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ [The Second and Perfect Adam] with Belial? [The First Adam tricked into slavery by Satan] Or what portion does a believer [One who's born again and grafted into Israel] share with an unbeliever? [A "Gentile" or "Confused Pagan Unbeliever"] What agreement has the Temple of God [US] with idols? [The realm of Sin and Death] For we are the Temple of the living God; as God said, I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, [Leaving the Realm of Sin and Death behind] says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; [Touch nothing from the realm of Sin and Death] -- then I will welcome you, [into the REALM OF LIFE--JESUS] and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty."