Clean From the Unclean
Job 14:4 Job asks who on earth can bring purity from the unpure. Jesus is the only one that can.
8/28/20261 min read
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one! Job 14:4 (NKJV)
As Job continues his rebuttal of his friends' accusations, he asks the rhetorical question, "Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?" Knowing that there is no man on earth that can do such a thing, he says, "No one!" Job knows that humans have inability to achieve moral or spiritual purity on their own, acknowledging that all people are inherently flawed and incapable of producing true righteousness without divine help.
That divine help came for us when God arrived on earth in the form of a man. Jesus is the only man on earth that can take the unclean person and make them clean. In a vison that Peter has about eating the unclean, God’s own voice from heaven told him in Acts 10:15, “...'Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.'" Jesus came to earth to die for the Jew, the gentile, the thief, the adulterer, the gossiper, the murderer, the liar, and every living person. There is no one without sin on earth, and we were all unclean, but made clean when we accepted Christ as our Lord and Savior. Jesus see's us a pure and that is how we are to see each other.
Choose to have the eyes of Jesus and see your brother or sister in Christ as pure, not for their past inequities, no matter their sin. Treat others as Christ treats you... with grace, humility, and respect, focusing on shared faith and spiritual gifts, not differences. Encourage purity in speech, conduct, and motives, supporting your Christian family in righteousness and holiness. When you see your brothers and sisters in Christ as clean, you become a living testimony of His love and holiness to the world.