All of us want to present ourselves the best we can to God- ironically, it is those very self-cleaning actions of ours that most threaten to prevent us from embracing the good news that we are cleansed by God. God even cleanses us from our self-cleaning actions, which actually had soiled us further.-1. Cleansed from the dirty game of comparing self to others. -v.1-5--2. Cleansed from the perverted habit of faking religion. -v.6-8--3. Cleansed from the blackened life of obeying man over obeying God. -v.9-13--Applying- What is the only cleanser that gets out the stain of sin--What happens to the faithful- -to the proud- Psalm 31-23-Who does God protect- who does God destroy- Prov. 15-25-When will God end the pomp of the prideful- Is. 13-11 Luke 14-11