1. Psalm 24:1-10

2. People want to get to heaven, but don’t want to put much effort into getting there!
1 Corinthians 10:1-12 “sat down to eat & drink, & rose up to play.”
Hebrews 3: God’s chosen people, but didn’t make it!
Didn’t remain obedient due to their lack of Faith

3. Psalm 24:3,4 “He who has clean hands & a pure heart.”
We Need Clean Hands
Isaiah 59:1-8
Solution - STOP SINNING!
Isaiah 1:15,16
God Recompenses according to Cleanness of our hands – Psalm 18:20-24

4. Psalm 24:3,4 “He who has clean hands & a pure heart.”
Job 17:9 – clean hands hold to truth
Psalm 26:6 – wash in innocence
1 Timothy 2:8 –lift up holy hands
Not like Pharisees – Mark 7:1-5
Matthew 23:25,26 – Outside clean, inside not changed

5. Takes More than Just Doing the Right Thing – Requires Change in Heart as well
Matthew 5:8 – Pure in Heart will see God
Matthew 7:20-23 – as we think, we act
Have to Wash Wickedness from our Hearts – Jeremiah 4:14
Purified by faith – Acts 15:8,9
Purified by obedience – 1 Peter 1:22,23
1 John 3:2,3; Psalm 73:1

6. To Succeed it Take Both: Clean Hands & a Pure Heart
Cleanse Hands & Heart – James 4:8-10
Cleanse from all Filth of Flesh & Spirit- 2 Corinthians 7:1
Change both in Action & Thought – Isaiah 55:7
So we can glorify God in both – 1 Corinthians 6:20

7. HOW? Faith Comes from Hearing God’s Word- Romans 10:17
We Learn to obey God – Romans 16:25-27
We Change Inside – Ephesians 5:8-10
Galatians 5:22,23
Create a Clean Heart & Renewed Spirit, then teach sinners – Psalm 51:10-13