Purificação
A purificação é um tema central na Bíblia. Deus nos chama a sermos limpos — não apenas externamente, mas no coração, na mente e em toda a conduta de vida.
Purificados pelo sangue de Cristo
O sangue de Jesus nos purifica de todo pecado. Sua morte na cruz é o sacrifício perfeito que nos torna limpos diante de Deus.
But living in a pure manner, as God is living in a pure manner [MET] in every way, is like living in God’s light. If we do that, we have a close relationship with each other. Not only that, but God ◄acquits us/removes the guilt► of all our sins because he accepts what his Son Jesus did for us when his blood flowed from his body when he died. So we should conduct our lives ◄in a manner according to what God says is pure►.
But God will do what he says that he will do, and what he does is always right. So, if we confess to him that we have behaved sinfully, he will forgive us for our sins and ◄will free us from/remove► the guilt of all our sins. Because of that, we should confess to him that we have behaved sinfully.
So, because we know what Christ accomplished when his blood flowed when he died for us [PRS, MTY], we will be very certain that we are not guilty of having done those things that those who are spiritually dead do. As a result, we can serve God, who is all-powerful. The priests always offer to God animals with no defects. Similarly, when Christ offered himself as a sacrifice to God, he was sinless [MET]. He did that as a result of God’s eternal Spirit helping him.
He manifests God’s glory. He exactly represents what God is like. He ◄sustains everything by means of his powerful words. When he had enabled people to be freed from the guilt of their sins [MET], he sat down in heaven [EUP] to rule at the place of greatest honor [MTY] with God [MTY].
He is the one who willingly gave himself ◄to die/as a sacrifice► on our behalf to set us free from all sinful behavior! He wants ◄us to get rid of all our evil behavior/to make our lives pure► [MET]. He wants us, who are his very own people, to be people who are eager to do what is good.
Purificação interior
Deus cria em nós um coração puro. A purificação começa no interior — nos pensamentos, intenções e motivações do coração.
O God, cause my inner being to be pure.
Put new thoughts within me and make me faithful again.
A psalm written by David for the choir director, concerning the time when the prophet Nathan rebuked David after he had committed adultery with Bathsheba
O God, be merciful to me,
because you love me faithfully;
because you are very merciful,
erase the record of the ways that I disobeyed you!
Make me pure from the wrong things that I have done;
make me clean from the guilt of my sin.
Come near spiritually to God, and as a result he will come near to you. You who are sinners, stop doing what is wrong, and do only what is good [SYN, MET]. You who cannot decide whether you will ◄commit yourselves to God/obey God completely►, stop thinking wrong thoughts, and think only pure thoughts [MTY].
My friends, whom I love, because God has promised to accept us(inc) as his children, we (inc) must stop doing anything that is sinful. We must not do sinful things with our bodies, and we must not think sinful thoughts. Because we greatly revere God, we must strive to live a completely pure life. By doing that we will become the kind of people that he wants us to be.
Dear friends, even though ◄at present/now► we are God’s children, he has not yet ◄made clear/revealed► to us what we will be like in the future. However, we know that when Christ comes back again, we will be like him, because we will see what he is really like. So, all those who confidently expect to see Christ as he actually is/what Christ is like when he returns must keep themselves pure in every way, just like Christ, who is pure in every way.
Lavados pela Palavra
A Palavra de Deus e o batismo nos purificam. Jesus disse: 'Vós já estais limpos pela palavra que vos tenho falado.'
You are already like the branches that a gardener trims because you have believed the message that I have told you.
Each of you husbands, love your wife as Christ loved all of us who would become believers, with the result that he willingly died for our sake, in order that he might ◄set us apart for himself/cause us to belong to him►. That is, by revealing his message to us, he wanted to remove the guilt of our sin, just like people remove dirt from something by washing it [MET].
So now ◄do not delay!/why delay?► [RHQ] Stand up, let me baptize you, and by praying to the Lord Jesus ask God to forgive you (sg) for your sins!’"
That water, by means of which eight people were saved when God punished the other people [MET], represents the water in which we are baptized to show that God has saved us from being punished. The water in which we are baptized does not remove dirt from our bodies. Instead, it shows that we are requesting God to assure us that he has removed our guilt for having sinned. And because Jesus Christ became alive again after he died, we know that God accepted his sacrifice for us and because of that he was able to remove our guilt.
Cleanse your inner beings, and become spiritually clean!
Stop your evil behavior!
Stop doing things that are wrong!
He also said, "It is the thoughts and actions that come from within people that cause God to consider them unacceptable to him. Specifically, it is people’s innermost being that causes them to think things that are evil; they act immorally, they steal things, they commit murder. They commit adultery, they are greedy, they act maliciously, they deceive people. They act indecently, they envy people, they speak evil about others, they are proud, and they act foolishly. People think these thoughts and then they do these evil actions, and that is what causes God to consider them unacceptable to him."