Although we are saved and cleansed by God and although we have the Spirit of God and the life of the Lord leading us to live a holy life and walk in a pure pathway, we often fall, fail, sin, and become defiled. For this reason God continues to wash us instantly with the Lord’s blood.
1. “The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from every sin” (1 John 1:7).
From the moment of our salvation until the redemption of our bodies, the Lord’s blood cleanses us from our sins continually to restore the cleanness that we obtained when we were saved. In the original language, cleanses means a constant and continual cleansing.
2. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).
If we are defiled by sin—unrighteousness—after our salvation, we must confess our sins to God, who will forgive us and restore our cleanness.
3. “Washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb” (Rev. 7:14; see also 22:14).
Robes refers to the works of the saints after their salvation (19:8). Although our works may be contaminated by sin after we are saved, we can wash them and make them white by the Lord’s blood. We must confess our sins to God instantly at all times to seek His cleansing (cf. Psa. 51:2, 7).
1. “They will be as white as snow... / They will be like wool” (Isa. 1:18).
The result of God’s cleansing us is that we become as white as snow and like wool. The whiteness of both snow and wool is natural. This shows that the result of God’s cleansing is to make us not only white but even naturally white, as if we had never been defiled.
2. “Whiter than snow” (Psa. 51:7).
The result of God’s cleansing makes us not only as white as snow but even whiter than snow. How pure and white this is! Hallelujah!