The Sterile Environment

IllustrationAnalogy★★★★

IF YOU go to the hospital for an operation, you want your
doctor to use sterilized equipment and to be in a sterilized
environment because you do not want viruses and bacteria
getting in the way of your health. Sin is a spiritual virus that
has no place in the sterile environment of God’s holiness.

— Tony Evans

The point

Sin is a spiritual virus incompatible with God's holiness; just as sterilized environments protect health, God's holiness cannot harbor sin.

Scripture

Leviticus 11:44Isaiah 6:31 Peter 1:15-16Hebrews 10:10

Audience

Adults

Tone

Convicting · Solemn

To tell aloud

under a minute · 55 words

Subjects

Sin Holiness Separation From God God's Holiness

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