The Dung Gate
The fifth gate that speaks about the christian life is the dung gate. At the dung gate christians live clean, holy, and sanctified lives while they deny the old sinful dung habits of their former sinful life. 2 Corinthians 5:17 says Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. Be like Paul and say Philippians 3:8. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ. And be found in Him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.
Daily deny your flesh and the old sinful dung habits of your former sinful life by studying the 1611 KJV bible, fellowshipping at your local church, and by praying. In other words Word, Church, and Prayer every day will overcome the devil and give you victory over your prior sinful dung habits. If you are not studying God's Word, attending church, or praying, you will start sinning and experience trouble. Luke 9:23 says And He (Jesus) said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
Decide to get saved with the Lord Jesus today and leave your prior sinful dung habits while you get washed clean by the blood of Jesus and become a new creature. After salvation with Jesus, it's a new day where your prior sins are forgotten forever by the Lord Jesus. People remember your prior sins but the Lord Jesus imputes and keeps no record of your prior dung sins after salvation. Romans 4:8 says Blessed (happy) is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
1 John 1:7 says But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin. The Lord Jesus is so much better than anything in this fading troubled world. Jesus said at John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. Choose the peace of Jesus instead of the temporary pleasures of this troubled world. Get saved, repent, decide to stop sinning, confess that Jesus is God, and believe the gospel that Jesus died on the cross for you, was buried, and rose again.
The Dung Gate Was Built By Malchiah The Son Of Rechab
The dung gate was built by Malchiah the son of Rechab. Nehemiah 3:14 says But the dung gate repaired Malchiah the son of Rechab, the ruler of part of Bethhaccerem, he built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof. Only one named worker (Malchiah) was willing to build the dung gate and deny his prior sinful habits. The fewest number of workers built the dung gate. Even fewer than Hanun and the citizens of Zanoah who built the valley gate.
Not many christians are willing to be like Malchiah and deny the dung sins from this temporary troubled world and build the dung gate. Most people are lukewarm and enjoy the pleasures of this fading world while they claim to be christians. The church has become worldly and the world has become churchy. Either you live for Jesus or you live for the world. There is no lukewarm middle ground with Jesus. Jesus said at Matthew 12:30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad. Jesus said at Revelation 3:15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Don't be lukewarm loving this troubled world. Instead choose to live daily for our Lord Jesus while you deny your prior sinful habits and receive Jesus' peace that passeth all understanding.
Note the Hebrew meanings about Malchiah the son of Rechab who ruled Bethhaccerem, who was the only named worker at the dung gate. Malchiah means My King is God. Rechab means a horseman rider soldier who is fighting the good fight of faith. Bethhaccarem means the house of the vineyard where they make wine. Like Malchiah, if the Lord Jesus is king of your life, you'll want to get the dung, junk, and filth from your prior sinful life out of your life and live for Jesus. You'll obey James 1:21 that says Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity (wickedness and sin from your prior sinful life before salvation with Jesus) of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted Word, which is able to save your souls.
Malchiah was willing to deny his flesh and build the dung gate because he was the son of Rechab and honored the laws of holiness created by the Rechabites from his nation. The Rechabites taught their children to deny the sin of getting drunk with wine while they lived in tents instead of vineyards where wine was made. Malchiah was a ruler over Bethhaccarem (the house of the vineyard where they made wine) because he got the victory over the sin of drunkenness from wine while he lived in tents instead of Bethhaccarem and any house of the vineyard.
We learn about the Rechabites when they refused to drink wine offered to them by Jeremiah pictured above. Jeremiah 35:5 says And I (Jeremiah) set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine. But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab (whose name means willing to obey God) the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons forever: Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers.
Jeremiah 35:8 goes on to say Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters; Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed: But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
Be Like Malchiah And Don't Get Drunk With Wine Or Strong Drink
Avoid The Sin Of Drunkenness From Wine, Beer, And Any Liqour
The following scriptures warn us to avoid getting drunk from wine, beer, or any liquor. Proverbs 20:1 says Wine is a mocker; strong drink is raging; and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. In other words avoid getting drunk with wine or strong drink because it causes Jesus who is wisdom (noted at 1 Corinthians 1:30) to leave you. Proverbs 23:29 says Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red (fermented), when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
When you walk through the grocery store don't look at the wine and beer bottles. Don't attend a sporting event where they pass beer down the aisle to spectators. Habakkuk 2:15 says Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness. 2 Corinthians 6:17 says Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you. And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
Note that 1 Timothy 5:23 says Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities. According to this scripture, it's alright to drink just a little wine to heal sickness. But don't sin and drink excess (much) wine to get drunk when you are not sick. Ephesians 5:18 says And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess (called profligacy with reckless behavior); but be filled with the Spirit. Proverbs 23:21 warns us For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Get Rid Of The Rubbish (Prior Sins From Your Past Sinful Life)
To Be Strong And Have Peace With Jesus
The builders of Nehemiah's walls and gates had to get rid of the rubbish sin at the dung gate in order to be a strong and effective witness for Jesus. Nehemiah 4:10 says And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall. Nehemiah's workers did not have strength to build the walls or gates until they got rid of their prior sinful habits before salvation. The temporary pleasures of sin in this troubled world are rubbish that decay and remove strength. Get rid of the rubbish sins you enjoyed before salvation with Jesus so you can have strength to be an effective witness for Jesus and win souls everywhere. Deny your flesh daily by studying God's Word, praying, and attending your local church. We must deny the sins of our flesh to be strong, survive, and overcome this troubled world.
Luke 21:34 says And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting (hangover after getting drunk), and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. 1 Thessalonians 4:7 says For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
Study The Following Scriptures To Help You Deny Your Sinful Flesh
And Receive Strength To Overcome This Troubled World
And Be An Effective Witness For Jesus
In order to be an effective witness for Jesus, we must daily deny our prior sinful habits before salvation with Jesus and live holy, clean, and sanctified lives. Decide today to surround yourself with God's Word, prayer, and fellowship with other christians. We can't even see the Lord Jesus until we deny sin and daily live clean, holy, and consecrated lives. Hebrews 12:14 says Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.
The temporary pleasures of sin will cause God to ignore your prayers. Psalm 66:18 says If I regard iniquity (sin) in my heart, the Lord will not hear me. Confess your sin to Jesus and the blood of Jesus will remove your sin and Jesus will give you confidence and grant your prayer requests.
Scriptures To Help You Deny Sin
And Receive Strength To Overcome This Troubled World
Ephesians 4:29 says Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth (stop swearing and cursing around people), but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind on to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Colossians 3:5 says Mortify (put to death) therefore your members (past sins of your flesh) which are upon the earth; fornication (sex outside of marriage between a man and a woman), uncleanness, inordinate affection (sinful lusts), evil concupiscence (desire for what is forbidden by God), and covetousness (greed to obtain money at casinos and with lottery tickets), which is idolatry (stay away from casinos where people gamble and worship money instead of the Lord Jesus). For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: In the which ye also walked sometime, when ye lived in them.
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice (desire to injure), blasphemy (slander that speaks against God or a person's reputation), filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him: Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness (gentleness), longsuffering; Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. And above all these things put on charity (brotherly love), which is the bond of perfectness.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by Him.
More Scriptures To Help You Deny Sin
And Receive Strength To Overcome This Troubled World
1 Peter 2:1 says Wherefore laying aside all malice (desire to injure), and all guile (deceit), and hypocrisies (fake acting with false words to obtain money like a lawyer), and envies, and all evil speakings, As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the Word, that ye may grow thereby: If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
Daily study God's Word to stop all malice, guile, hypocrisies, envies, and evil speaking. The Word of God will wash you clean and give you strength to overcome your flesh and past sinful desires. Ephesians 5:26 says That He (Jesus) might sanctify and cleanse it (the church) with the washing of water by the Word. Jesus said at John 15:3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
Scriptures Telling Us To Live Holy And Sanctified Lives
To Receive Strength And Overcome This Troubled World
2 Corinthians 7:1 says Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. 1 Peter 1:15 says But as He which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. Romans 8:13 says For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
Titus 2:12 says Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldy lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Note that it is not enough to just confess your sins. You must also forsake your sins and stop sinning to receive mercy from our Lord Jesus and overcome your troubles. Proverbs 28:13 says He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy. How comforting to know that 1 John 1:9 says If we confess our sins, He (Jesus) is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
I pray in Jesus name that this bible study blesses multitudes everywhere with great joy, peace, and strength. Feel free to email Brother Bob anytime at rz9tlm@gmail.com or write to Brother Bob Malkin, 2233 Pinetree Lane, Apt. N., Reynoldsburg, Ohio 43068. (614) 746-7071. Till we all meet again soon to lift up our Lord Jesus, everyone have a blessed day in Jesus name.
