Is There One?

Job 14:4 KJV

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

Some of the commentaries suggest that there is, in the words "Who can…" an implied question, "Is there one?"[1] No man is capable of producing a completely pure thing from that which is impure. We try.

We use systems to purify water so it is healthy to drink but the best we come up with is to make it safe to drink.

We cannot remove all impurities.

We have no means of making perfectly clean even our children who are conceived in our own sin.

Though we teach and train and discipline and pray, we can never remove from them the sin nature.

No one, born in this world can bring a clean thing out of the unclean. But there is One who can.

• Conceived of the Holy Ghost and do not of man
• Continuing from eternity past
• Come from His Heavenly Father

Jesus Christ can make perfectly clean the one who was born unclean.

And His method of doing so is marvelous.

• He who is God became man
• He obeyed all the righteousness of the Law
• He carried on His body then sins of mankind
• He suffered the judgment all of us should have suffered and then
• He rose from the grave to give to us all of His righteousness.

For those of us who have been born again, He still has not finished but is committed to our sanctification whereby we are separated from this world and to Christ likeness.

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[1] Gill, "… to this sense some render the words, "who can--is there one" (h)? there is, that is, God, he can do it, and he only…"