How Can It Be?
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Psalm 103
1 Bless Yahweh, O my soul,
and all within me, bless his holy name.
2 Bless Yahweh, O my soul,
and do not forget all his benefits:
3 who forgives all your iniquity,
who heals all your diseases,
4 who redeems your life from the pit,
who crowns you with loyal love and mercies,
5 who satisfies your life with good
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
6 Yahweh does deeds of justice
and judgments for all who are oppressed,
7 who made known his ways to Moses,
his deeds to the ⌊people⌋ of Israel.
8 Yahweh is compassionate and gracious,
⌊slow to anger⌋ and abundant in loyal love.
9 He does not dispute continually,
nor keep his anger forever.
10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins,
nor repaid us according to our iniquities.
11 For as the heavens are high above the earth,
so his loyal love prevails over those who fear him.
12 As far as east is from west,
so he has removed far from us the guilt of our transgressions.
13 As a father pities his children,
so Yahweh pities those who fear him.
14 For he knows our frame.
He remembers that we are dust.
Verse 1-2 “1 Bless Yahweh, O my soul,
and all within me, bless his holy name.
2 Bless Yahweh, O my soul,
and do not forget all his benefits:”
Relationship Between Creature and Creator
Relationship Between Creature and Creator
Bless Yahweh: How the heck do we bless God?
Lit. Hebrew “to praise, kneel down before Yahweh”
Worship - praise Yahweh
The HOLINESS of Yahweh -
Lexham Survey of Theology God’s Holiness
The Bible demonstrates God’s holiness in two unique but coherent ways. The first is his distinctness from his creation
And the one called to the other and said,
“Holy, holy, holy is Yahweh of hosts!
The whole earth is full of his glory.”
Exalt Yahweh our God,
and worship at his holy mountain,
for Yahweh our God is holy.
Lexham Survey of Theology God’s Holiness
God is wholly other; this is an essential aspect of the worship he deserves (Hos 11:9). Throughout the Bible, God’s holiness is the basis for our understanding of his existence outside of time and space. And yet, somewhat surprisingly, the Bible continually pictures his holy presence as manifesting within and even dwelling among his people.
Lexham Survey of Theology God’s Holiness
The second way the Bible demonstrates God’s holiness is by describing his pure and incorruptible presence, a presence he chooses to manifest in proximity to his chosen people. In the Old Testament, God manifests his holy presence in several unique places, marking them as sacred spaces, which humans could enter only by observing certain worship-centered ritual cleansings. Nonetheless, God’s holiness is incorruptible and cannot be rendered impure by contact with sinful humanity. In fact, such contact immediately results in the impurity being utterly obliterated or consumed by God’s holy presence, a presence pictured as a consuming fire
Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence for the entrance into the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way which he inaugurated for us through the curtain, that is, his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us approach with a true heart in the full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for the one who promised is faithful. And let us think about how to stir one another up to love and good works, not abandoning our meeting together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging each other, and by so much more as you see the day drawing near.
for Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
saying, “Leave us alone, Jesus the Nazarene! Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!”
Psalm 95:6“Come in, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before Yahweh, our maker.”
Psalm 100:2–4 (LEB)
Serve (praise) Yahweh with joy;
come into his presence with exultation.
Know that Yahweh, he is God;
he made us and we are his.
We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.
Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
his courts with praise.
Give thanks to him; bless his name.
Praise Yah. Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good,
for his loyal love is forever.
Who can utter the mighty deeds of Yahweh,
or proclaim all his praise?
Blessed are those who observe justice,
he who does righteousness at all times.
What does our worship look like?
-The beginning of worship to God begins with lowering our self, and exalting Him.
-Worship is knowing who He is in light of who we are.
-Worship is a state of thanks.
What is our worship?
“You honor me with your lips, yet your heart is far from me”
“away from me I never knew you”
“This is the covenant that I will decree for them
after those days, says the Lord:
I am putting my laws on their hearts,
and I will write them on their minds.”
Therefore I exhort you, brothers, through the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may approve what is the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.
Galatians 2:19–21 (LEB)
For through the law I died to the law, in order that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me, and that life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not declare invalid the grace of God, for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died to no purpose.
Therefore, since we also have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, putting aside every weight and the sin that so easily ensnares us, let us run with patient endurance the race that has been set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the originator and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
but as the one who called you is holy, you yourselves be holy in all your conduct, for it is written, “You will be holy, because I am holy.”
See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called children of God, and we are! Because of this the world does not know us: because it did not know him. Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever he is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is. And everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as that one is pure.
I am not saying that there will never be sin in the believers life, but we have a new relationship with sin.
When we do stumble..
who forgives all your iniquity,
who heals all your diseases,
God Forgives (v.3, 11-14)
God Heals (v.3)
Isaiah 53:4 ESV4 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
God Redeems (v.4)
God Loves (v.4)
God Refreshes (v.4b-5)
God Avenges Wrongs (v.6)
God is Merciful (vv.7-10)
God is Everlasting (vv. 15-19)