Sermon Tone Analysis

how clean a person are you?

what do you look at a person to say that he / she is clean

is it the look or is it the smell?

is your house clean?

there’s one thing to be clean, but its another to be tidy yeah

you can have a clean house, but it can be messy.

Or may be you are messed up and feel really dirty or unclean

so the title of today's sermon is Messed up, but clean

next week the sermon is on Messed up but fixed.

Today, there are many different soaps made for a vast array of purposes.

Soap is available for personal, commercial and industrial use.

There is handmade, homemade and commercially produced soap, there is soap used to wash clothes, dishes and cars, there is soap used for your pet, soap for your carpet and soap for your child... but for many types of cleaning, soaps are a lesser used product these days, as alternatives to soap are the main choice.

some for face, some for hair etc

how much time and resource we spent to keep things clean

your body is kept clean

your home is kept clean

you clean your cloths and dishes.

animals keep themselves clean, either by liking of pecking or scrubbing themselves.

there are different types if cleaning that we all do

clean from dirt

clean from germs

clean from sins

there is also two kinds or relms for cleaning

1. Outside

2. Inside

keeping one clean or unclean was a big thing in the OT so much that the pharasies commented about this and mark narrates the same

talk about being a clean freak.

even the chair that you sit on should be clean

so the next time you pray for you food, pray for your chair too.....

so Jesus answered them in the following

what’s inside a person is what makes a person unclean

any amount of abolition or washing cant make you clean from coveting, or envy or evil thoughts.

even if you do the Arab way or the Jewish way or the Kerala way of abolition, they are all useless can cannot clean from the inside.

this clean concept is so rooted into the OT lifestyle that all what the society is thinking always is weather that you are clean or not

in fact if you look at our society, there is no concern if you are clean or not.

its more of what salary that you get.

or in other society its about what justice that you get or not?

or in some society it all about our rights.

Whereas elsewhere such values as “equality,” “honor,” and “justice” are dominant, in Israel the contrasting spheres of “pure” and “impure” stand at the top of the pyramid

CLEAN / PURE / RIGHT

Clean or free of adulterating matter

Ceremonially pure

Free from moral guilt

Jesus does something real strange for cleaning before the passover

this is peter who wanted all of him to be washed and Jesus says that he was clean.

but waht happens the next day or a day later

this same peter that is called as clean messes up.

Peter betrays Jesus and say that he has noting to do with him

Peter messed up but he was clean, because his inside was clean.

thats why he could come back to Christ and face reality.

Judas messed up too but he could not come back because he was not clean inside.

he had the devil inside of him.

in live we might mess up, but you are still clean and come back to God.

imagine you are the women with the issue of blood

there was not soap in those days to wash your selves

walking around was an issue

you could stain your dress anytime

and the cloth that you use to cover the blood area, that gets stained and smells too.

there aint any soap that you can wash and reuse.

you dont have so much of spare fabric in those days that you can use and throw.

and where do you throw?

for this women keeping her clean was a misery and a curse.

this went on for may years.

this is not something you can talk about it out in the open.

when she walked she used to smell probably.

actually everybody smelled in those days because there was no soap lke what we have now a days.

there was perfume that used to cover up the smell.

but the problem was always there.

imagine you had leprosy in those days of Jesus

u were not allowed inside the socity

you had to keep on saying unclean, unclean

Leprosy was one of the most serious symptoms of impurity

A leper was “as one who is dead” (Num 12:12) and had to roam about outside the city walls in torn clothes, veiled beard, and streaming hair and cry, “Unclean, Unclean” (Lev 13:45f.).

If purity was regained, it had to be affirmed by a priest and sealed by appropriate acts and sacrifices.

It is within this framework that healed persons in the NT are required to show themselves to the priests and to offer the required sacrifices (Mark 1:44 par.

Luke 5:14; Luke 17:14)

the 10 lepers got their healing in faith.

they were made clean inside

cleansing people from the unclan spirits was an authority that was given to the disciples.

So how are we made clean in the inside?