Purging Yourself To Become A Vessel of Honour

Purging Yourself To Become A Vessel of Honour

It is great to be a servant of God
Psalms 89:20 - I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:Job 1:8 - And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?

Every body is a vessel.
2 Timothy 2:20 – 2120-  But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.
You take personal responsibility to convert yourself and sustain yourself as a vessel of Honour.

Life is about responsibilities

21 - If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.Our value depends on our purging.

Things to Purge yourself from.

1. Your wordsProverbs 18:21 - Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
   
   Matthew 12:36 - But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give accountthereof in the day of judgment.
   
   Matthew 5:37- But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
   
   Ephesians 4:29 - Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister graceunto the hearers
   
2. Your Associations1Corithians 15:33 - Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
   Proverbs 13:20 - He that walketh with wise menshall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
   
3. Lust1Corithians 6:18 - Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.1Corithians 6:19 - What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
   
   2 Timothy 2: 22 - Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
   
   

Where do you start?

Step 1 - Examining Yourself2 Corinthian 13:5 - Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
1 Corinthian 11:28 - But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.(talking about communion. Also worship, prayer etc)
God can help you examine yourselfPsalms 26:2 - Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

Step 2 - Start The Purging and the pruning Process.John 15:1-21 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away:and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
Matthew 18:9 - And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.