Survey of Holiness

#MHGA4 - SURVEY OF HOLINESS EX. 3

Friday, June 15, 2018

4:03 PM

REVIEW:

We are on our fourth session of -

MAKE HOLINESS GREAT AGAIN.

In Review - there is nothing wrong with the doctrine of holiness, it is our perception or faulty understanding of what holiness is I am trying to address.

This series is working from a Biblical foundation based upon a three legged stool - You need all three of these legs or it won't stand properly -

1.) The first leg in making holiness great again is to gain a proper perspective of the Holiness of God.

- We finished this section - We tried to show Biblically that the Holiness of God is shown in two ways

He is COMPLETELY OTHER - HIGH AND LIFTED UPHe is COMPLETELY PURE -

2,) The Second leg in making holiness great again is to gain a proper perspective what holiness is

- We began this section last week. I want to take a Biblical survey of how the words of holiness are used in the Bible.

3.) The Third leg in making holiness great again is to gain a proper perspective of how God makes unholy men holy. We seen last week that the first item that was sanctified in the Bible was not a person, place, but was a day, time, the Sabbath.

Today I want to look at some other things in the Old Testament that were made "HOLY"

There are ten major English words that convey the concept of holiness in the Bible that I am working from in this series;

Holiness – A general term that indicates sanctity or separation from all that is sinful, impure, or morally imperfect. {Holy, hallow, hallowed, holiness.} Sanctification – A double meaning of consecration and purification. The Old Testament sense of setting apart to a sacred service, and the New Testament sense of spiritual purification. {Sanctify, sanctified, sanctification}Pure – Unmixed {Purify, Purified, Purity}

While there are others we are using these as the major words in our survey.

Last week we saw the first time the word "sanctified" was used in the Bible. Today we will see the first time the word, "Holy" is used in the Bible.

READ: EXODUS 3:1-6

There is a similar incident found later on the Bible:

KJV Jos. 5:15 And the captain of the LORD'S host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.

As we look through the scriptures you will find :

Sanctified PlacesSanctified ThingsSanctified People

Sanctified Place - Exodus 3:5 A few things stand out to me - God speaks of His holiness before he introduces himself to Moses - He is told not to come any closer. He has come close enough. Curiosity would have killed him, had it not been for the mercy of God. Moses is drawn by this fire that doesn't consume the bush - why doesn't the fire burn up and go out? This is a picture of the never-ending power of God, the One who upholds the universe. God never runs out of fuel! It is also a very "vivid expression of the incomprehensible otherness (=holiness) of God. The place where Moses was standing was not holy of itself - it was holy because God was there, and God is holy. There was no holiness in the ground it was conferred upon it by the presence of God - so we have no holiness, we cannot be holy without God conferring it upon us. Never forget that. There was a holy ground - so holy Moses had to take his shoes off. By taking off his shoes -Moses was acknowledging the ground was holy. Taking off his shoes did not allow him to come any further, it just kept him alive where he was. Allowing him for a moment to experience the Holiness of God A symbol of what would come later - when the Apostle Paul would pen those powerful words: Colossians 3:9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; We will deal with this in more depth at another message. But for today - If you have never done this - let me plead with you - Let the Blood of Jesus, make you what you ought to be!!! Then there was even more holy ground were Moses could not even go. - God conferred upon Moses a sense of Holiness by him taking off his sandals. This will come later on in a few chapters when they return to this very mountain - and they put a perimeter around because it was HOLY! Moses was able to ascend into the presence of God Himself. And the fire burned, and the thunder rolled, and the mountain shook, and the people was afraid. And Moses face shone. This wasn't the only HOLY PLACE - in the Bible while I have a long list I want to just deal with a few - There were two Holy Places in the Temple / Tabernacle.

KJV Exod. 26:33 And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy. I don't think this is a coincidence - Do you remember Moses at the burning bush - There was a Holy Ground where he could be, and a Holier ground where he could not be. Jerusalem was a Holy Place - KJV 2 Chr. 8:11 And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come. KJV Neh. 11:1 And the rulers of the people dwelt at Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts to dwell in other cities. KJV Isa. 52:1 Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. KJV Dan. 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. KJV Matt. 27:53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. Heaven is a Holy Place - KJV Rev. 21:2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. KJV Rev. 21:10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, KJV Rev. 22:19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.As Charles Naylor put it several years ago:

Heaven is a holy place, Filled with glory and with grace— Sin can never enter there; All within its gates are pure, From defilement kept secure— Sin can never enter there. If you hope to dwell at last, When your life on earth is past, In that home so bright and fair, You must here be cleansed from sin, Have the life of Christ within— Sin can never enter there.

You may live in sin below, Heaven’s grace refuse to know, But you cannot enter there; It will stop you at the door, Bar you out forevermore— Sin can never enter there.

From <http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/Sin_Can_Never_Enter_There/>

NOT ONLY ARE THERE SANCTIFIED PLACES - THERE ARE SANCTIFIED THINGS

Sanctified Things Anointing Oil -

KJV Exod. 30:25 And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil.

KJV Exod. 30:29 And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.

KJV Exod. 30:31 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This shall be an holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations.

KJV Exod. 30:32 Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy, and it shall be holy unto you.

KJV Exod. 30:35 And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:

KJV Exod. 30:36 And thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy.

KJV Exod. 30:37 And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the LORD.

Holy Clothes -

KJV Exod. 35:19 The cloths of service, to do service in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office.

CLEAN / COMMON FOODS - We are given in the Law of Moses strict dietary restrictions. They may have been partially for hygenic reasons. But it wasn't necessarily soAs soon as Noah and the people get off the ark you find God tells them they can go and eat whatever they can catch.

Genesis 9:2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

Then when you get to the LAW God seems to change his mind about what they could eat. Was it because it was bad for them? Would God have let them eat things that were bad for them in Genesis?

I believe what God is doing here is showing a difference to the people of Israel - There are somethings that are holy and there are some things that are common.

Not only Holy places, and things - but even in the Old Testament you have HOLY PEOPLE!!!

Sanctified People KJV Exod. 22:31 And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs. KJV Isa. 62:12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken. I want us to know that none of these made themselves holy. No matter how hard you might try - you can't do it. I love Leviticus 20:8 God reveals himself in a powerful way when he gives us a new name for himself the KJV says, "I am the Lord, which sanctify you" Acts 15:8 And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us; 9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

The songwriter put it right when they said,

His pow’r can make you what you ought to be;

His blood can cleanse your heart and make you free;

His love can fill your soul, and you will see

’Twas best for Him to have His way with thee.

How bout you? Have you let Him has His way in your life? Are you Holy? Set apart unto HIM ALONE? Does he Control you or are you trying to control Him manipulate him to give you what you want?

I beg you, "LET HIM HAVE HIS WAY WITH THEE"