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better stores throughout the United States. It is called "Le bon Chretien." Translated, that simply means, "The Good Christian." And the way it originally got its name is from the fact that farmers who grow it claim that it's never rotten at the core. Say, what about your inward parts-your intellect, your feelings, your emotions, the seat of your mind's judgment? Are you truthful with God, yourself and with others? Do you know the wisdom of the Lord as far as your own !ife and leading are concerned? If not, then perhaps there's a need to confess some sin and be willing to find God's truth for your own need. Truth is whatever God says about anything. That's why we must keep it very carefully in mind. And wisdom, as someone has said-it may have been Mark Twain-"is what we learn after we think we know it all." Never can we come to a final settled conclusion concerning the truth of God's Word. Purging Ourselves Of Impurities After the confession there is always the need for cleans– ing. Verse seven declares, "Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow." In the Old Testament the women were told on occasion, in fact they were commanded in the making of passover bread, to purge out every bit of the old leaven, leaven being a symbol of sin. Webster's definition of this wrod "purge" means to cleanse by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous or superfluous. And that simply suggests that we are to rid our lives of everything that commends itself to the flesh. In German, Martin Luther literally translated this verse, "Unsin me with hyssop ." In other words, take away my bent to evil. What is hyssop? Well, there are some very interesting passages of Scripture concerning it. The first, of course, deals with the Passover in Israel when the children of Israel were to slay the sacrificial animal. Then, in accordance with God's
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