Clean Houses.

A few weeks ago, someone mentioned a Pastor whose last name is/was Pitts. I immediately remembered him from a college chapel service or class many years ago.

He spoke on Luke 11:24-26 
24 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.
25 And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished.
26 Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.


Pitts related the scriptures to new babies.  He said new babies are presented by God as 'clean houses' and that it is the responsibility of the parents, and everyone else in the child's life, to keep the new house (baby) clean, or else the demons that plagued the previous generation would see the clean house and would try to enter it with seven times the strength/stronghold/spirits.


Pitts used examples like alcohol, drugs, lasciviousness, anger, violence, pride, envy, lust, etc.  He said whereas the previous generation's issues (Mom or Dad) could drink on the weekends or evenings and be fine, the new clean house - the new baby - could or would be sought out by the same spirit that would have seven others with it, leading to the new baby not being able to handle alcohol 'as well' as the previous generation.  Previous generation - weekend drinkers. A new baby grows up to be an every evening alcoholic or a 24/7 alcoholic unable to properly function in society.  The same with drugs only experimented with by the previous generation but the new house falling victim to drug addiction. The same with lustful activities, for example, the Mom may 'do what she needs to do' to get funds to feed the family, whereas the new house (daughter or son) will be susceptible to the one plus seven spirits that draw them into deeper lasciviousness. Cigarette smokers...... Abusive..... Envious..... Prideful....


You get the meaning, right?  He said o-u-r responsibility with any new one (I would include new anybody - coworker, team member, government employee, etc.) is to make sure they remain the 'clean house' they are when God sends them here on Earth (or to the business, organization, political office, community group, etc.) - make sure they don't become corrupt or MORE corrupt than the 'family' they have become a part of.


​Amen? Amen.      



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