{"id":3989,"date":"2026-03-16T11:36:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecrossoverproject.org\/staging\/4336\/?p=3989"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:54:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:54:59","slug":"clean-house-and-fill-it-with-the-holy-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecrossoverproject.org\/staging\/4336\/clean-house-and-fill-it-with-the-holy-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean House and Fill It with the Holy Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by BRON BARKLEY<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE THEME OF THIS DEVOTION IS:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only by filling our cleansed hearts with the abiding presence of our LORD\u2019S Spirit and Word can we avoid the re-contamination that seeks to ruin the redemptive work of God in our lives. The relationship between Torah and Gospel is clearly seen in this week\u2019s study:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deuteronomy 12:1-3 reads (JPS translation),<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese are the laws and rules which you must carefully observe in the land that the LORD, God of your fathers, is giving you to possess, as long as you live on earth. You must destroy all the sites at which the nations you are to dispossess worshiped their gods, whether on lofty mountains and on hills or under any luxuriant tree. Their down their altars, smash their pillars, put their sacred posts to the fire, and cut down the images of their gods, obliterating their name from that site.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The related Gospel text in Luke 11:24-26 seq. (KJV translation, updated) goes deeper into the spirit of things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walks through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he says, I will return unto my house whence I came out. And when he comes, he finds it swept and garnished. Then he goes and takes 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ephesians 5:18 tells us,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be [continually] filled with the Spirit.\u201d The text continues to tell us in detail how we are to \u201cbe being continually filled\u201d by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022Speaking to ourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022Singing unto the Lord, making melody in our hearts;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[NOTE: WE ARE COMMANDED TO DO ALL THINGS IN THE NAME OF<\/em><\/strong> JESUS OUR LORD AND MESSIAH!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THIS IS OUR PROPER SUBMISSION, AND IT IS OUR COVERING IN THE ETERNAL REALM.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022Submitting ourselves one to another in the reverential fear of God;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022Wives and husbands living in relational harmony as a reflection of the perfect union between Messiah and his Bride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is focused and total consecration put into practice on all levels every day as personal habit. This week\u2019s parashah begins with a profound statement in Deuteronomy 11:26:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RE\u2019EH ANOCHI NOTEYN LIF\u2019NEI\u2019CHEM HAYOM\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

See, I set before you this day<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BE\u2019RACHAH UK\u2019LA\u2019LAH\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blessing and Curse<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The blessing is in obedience. The curse is in disobedience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Messiah has become the curse for us so that we might not live from our own strength of determination but from the powerful outworking of\u00a0his life<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0that inhabits our hearts by faith, as it is written in Galatians 3:13-14, \u201cMessiah has redeemed us from the curse of the Torah, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree: \u201cThat the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Yeshua Ha\u2019Mashiach; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THERE IT IS! DO YOU SEE IT?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE BLESSING IS THE GIVING OF \u201cTHE PROMISE OF THE FATHER\u201d\u2014THE PRECIOUS HOLY SPIRIT\u2014 WHOM WE RECEIVE THROUGH FAITH IN OUR LORD YESHUA THE MESSIAH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep your house clean. Keep it filled with the Priceless Holy Spirit and with the Word of Christ. Obey Messiah Yeshua in all things. Live in Community with the people of God. Be at peace among yourselves, beginning with your own spouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bless; and do not Curse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Only by filling our cleansed hearts with the abiding presence of our LORD\u2019S Spirit and Word can we avoid the re-contamination that seeks to ruin the redemptive work of God in our lives. The relationship between Torah and Gospel is clearly seen in this week\u2019s study:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biblical-truths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecrossoverproject.org\/staging\/4336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecrossoverproject.org\/staging\/4336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecrossoverproject.org\/staging\/4336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecrossoverproject.org\/staging\/4336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecrossoverproject.org\/staging\/4336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecrossoverproject.org\/staging\/4336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3991,"href":"https:\/\/thecrossoverproject.org\/staging\/4336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989\/revisions\/3991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecrossoverproject.org\/staging\/4336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecrossoverproject.org\/staging\/4336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecrossoverproject.org\/staging\/4336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}