Do you know what a sauna is? A traditional sauna is a small room with some kind of heater, and on top of the heater there is usually a tray filled with rocks. Once the heater gets hot the rocks will get hot as well. When you pour water on those rocks it evaporates into steam.
The temperature in the room will range from 140 degrees Fahrenheit, up to sometimes even 190 degrees. When a person sits in this room for 10 or 15 minutes, their body will obviously start to perspire, and it will deeply clean out your pores, releasing all of the dirt and oils and forcing them out of your skin. It is basically a steam cleaner for your body. Your body temperatures rises up, and what happens when your body gets hot? It starts to sweat, expelling all of that dirt trapped in your pores. After 10 or 15 minutes in the sauna, you rinse off in the shower and you will be squeaky clean.
And that is what happens to those who get filled up with the Holy Spirit. When someone is filled up with the “fire” of the Holy Spirit, it will expel all of those impurities in a person. All of the dirt and filth of the world, all the lying, and deceit, covetness and pride. Through the Spirit, a person can be purified and cleansed from their sins.
“Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.” 2 Corinthians 7:1
We need to enter the “spiritual sauna” and be “heated” up with the fires of the Spirit so we can be cleansed from our sins and imperfections.
Here’s another example. There are some foods that are incredibly hard to wash off of dishes if you don’t get to them right away. One of these is melted marshmallows. Unless you are using a really good non-stick pot, melted marshmallows can be a dishwasher’s nightmare. We sometimes will melt marshmallows and mix it withi rice cereal to make a bar, and sometimes we don’t always clean out the pot or pan immediately, and the leftover melted marshmallow hardens onto them, making it extremely hard to remove. What we need to do is soak it in very hot water and soap and it will eventually loosen up and come off, and then the pot is clean again.
We are that dirty pot. We are dirty and filthy with sin, and the only way we can be freed from that is through the blood of Christ and His Holy Spirit.
“But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7
Like when you eat something that your body “doesn’t agree with,” and you “throw it up” or vomit it out, we shouldn’t let sin “agree” with our body. We need to purge it out of our lives with the help of the Spirit. And when you purge something it means to “rid someone or something of an unwanted quality, condition or feeling.” We need to rid ourselves of the sin in our lives. In Psalm 51 it reads,
“Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.” (vs. 7)
He was asking God to forgive him, and to cleanse him from his sins.
Ask Jesus for forgiveness, and let Him wash your sins away. Purge yourself from your sins, and become clean through the Spirit.
In Christ,
Andrew
Teufer Lake King James Bible Church 