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Psalm chapter 24, verses 3 and 4.

Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord, and who shall stand in his holy place?

He who has clean hands and a pure heart,

who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully i heard an illustration once that i'm reminded of in this verse ignatius symbol vice was born in

eighteen eighteen into a world of dying women so one in every six women were dying

in childbirth and he became a doctor we wanted to find out why all these women were dying he started

to study and found something today that we would think is appalling.

They didn't understand germs in that time.

So doctors would go from morgues where they would prepare dead bodies for burial directly

into the birthing rooms to deliver babies.

And they started to experiment with a chlorine solution.

They would just wash their hands and they would, when they would go from the

morgue to the birthing room, and they dropped the death rate in their area from one in six to one in

50. So he'd found a cure. All you have to do is wash your hands. But people around him didn't believe

him. And he was speaking to a convention of his colleagues one time, he said, and I quote,

this fever is caused by a decomposed material conveyed to a womb. I've shown how it can be prevented.

I've proven all I've said. But while we talk, talk, talk, gentlemen, women are dying. I'm not asking you to

do anything world shaking. I'm only asking you to wash. For God's sake, wash your hands.

And I think about this picture in Psalm chapter 24,

who may ascend the hill of the Lord, who may stand in this holy place, who has clean hands.

And I guess I would just ask you the question as we meditate on this verse, are your hands clean

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