Jehovah-m'kaddesh(2)
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The Lord who sanctifies
The Lord who sanctifies
Leviticus 20:7-8
The New King James Version (Chapter 20)
7 Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am the LORD your God. 8 And you shall keep My statutes, and perform them: I am the LORD who sanctifies you.
There is a longing that God places in each person to have someone as deity over their lives. There is a sense of having a desire for a god. But satan has disguised himself in many different forms to deceive the people of Israel (the believers) and in Leviticus we find all the does and don’t that the Israelites were to follow. (Redemption had not taken place yet)
Here in these two verses we find out that God is requiring us to consecrate ourselves before him and to be holy. That we are to keep his commands.
Sanctify - 1. be set apart, consecrated, hallowed, of shew-bread
Francis Brown, Samuel Rolles Driver, and Charles Augustus Briggs, Enhanced Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977), 872.
Leading up to these two verses God is addressing a conduct of the people and that is related with child sacrifice to a god called Molech (Moloc) - it was the deity of Ammonites - Ancient Ammonite fire god.
1. The worship of Molech clearly involved ritual child sacrifice, something God's people were not to practice. This act was punishable by death according to Leviticus 20:2 which states, "Any one of the people of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech shall surely be put to death."
Leviticus 20:6 (NIV)
6 “ ‘I will set my face against anyone who turns to mediums and spiritists to prostitute themselves by following them, and I will cut them off from their people.
2. Mediums - familiar spirits - who seeks another spirit that is not the Holy Spirit -
familiar spirit (proposes either as knowing, wise (acquainted with secrets of unseen world)
familiar spirit - a demon supposedly attending and obeying a witch, often said to assume the form of an animal:
3. Everyone who curses his father or his mother - will be put to death
4. Man who commits adultery with another man’s wife
5. The man who either sleeps with his father’s wife or uncovers his nakedness
6. The list is extensive - of what he warns the Israelites against.
We are living in a day an age where some of these if not all of these practices are happening. We are living in a day an age where we need to set ourselves apart from this wickedness and seek HIS face and allow HIS holiness to clothes us.
7 “ ‘Consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am the Lord your God.
Consecration - separation of persons, utensils, buildings or places from everyday secular uses for exclusive dedication to holy or sacred uses.
There are several things that I am seeing and understanding and that is how we are just like filthy rags and that the only one that is truly holy is God himself.
But he has made away for us through His son Jesus.
Hebrews 10:11–18 (NKJV)
11 And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
12 But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God,
13 from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool.
14 For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
15 But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before,
16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,”
17 then He adds, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”
18 Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.
Hebrews 10:22–25 (NLT)
22 let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ’s blood to make us clean, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.
23 Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise.
24 Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works.
25 And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.
Hebrews 10:26–39 (NLT)
26 Dear friends, if we deliberately continue sinning after we have received knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice that will cover these sins.
27 There is only the terrible expectation of God’s judgment and the raging fire that will consume his enemies.
28 For anyone who refused to obey the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
29 Just think how much worse the punishment will be for those who have trampled on the Son of God, and have treated the blood of the covenant, which made us holy, as if it were common and unholy, and have insulted and disdained the Holy Spirit who brings God’s mercy to us.
30 For we know the one who said, “I will take revenge. I will pay them back.” He also said, “The Lord will judge his own people.”
31 It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32 Think back on those early days when you first learned about Christ. Remember how you remained faithful even though it meant terrible suffering.
33 Sometimes you were exposed to public ridicule and were beaten, and sometimes you helped others who were suffering the same things.
34 You suffered along with those who were thrown into jail, and when all you owned was taken from you, you accepted it with joy. You knew there were better things waiting for you that will last forever.
35 So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you!
36 Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God’s will. Then you will receive all that he has promised.
37 “For in just a little while, the Coming One will come and not delay.
38 And my righteous ones will live by faith. But I will take no pleasure in anyone who turns away.”
39 But we are not like those who turn away from God to their own destruction. We are the faithful ones, whose souls will be saved.
*There have been those who have turned away from the Lord and from the church during these past years - because of those things and situations that have been around them. But God is wanting us to be focused on Him and what He has done for us.
*What are those things that He has done.
1. He has given us redemption
2. He has given of himself so that we can have eternal life
3. He has made us holy - and then he went to sit next to the Father so that he can be interceding for us so that we make the right decisions.
Hebrews 10:14 (NKJV)
14 For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
Sanctified - to be made holy
The creator of the universe - the Father - in the Bible states that He is seated in Heaven
The son - is seated next to him
But in reality - what has God the Father done for us
(it is as follows - I want 3 people that will be willing to help me - if no volunteers will call on several to help - to show the point
We have the father - Jesus (the mediator) and us.
During this Holy week - almost 2000 years ago - Jesus gave of himself. And because he gave of himself - we can have redemption ( made whole)
When we came to Him - with repentance - asking him to forgive us of our sins - then the spirit comes and makes us clean
So when the heavenly father looks down on the earth and he sees me - he doesn’t see me but His son - He doesn’t see what I was - He sees who I can be. HE sees the blood of Jesus applied to our hearts.
He sanctifies us - makes us holy -
In our Wednesday night class - we talked about it a couple of weeks ago. It is a sanctification that happens in two steps:
Instantly when we repent
Progressively throughout each day of our life. As we go to Him throughout the day
How does he sanctify us -
He sanctifies us through:
The activity of the Holy Spirit - 1 Peter 1:2
1 Peter 1:2 (NLT)
2 God the Father knew you and chose you long ago, and his Spirit has made you holy. As a result, you have obeyed him and have been cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ. May God give you more and more grace and peace.
ii. Through God’s Word - John 17:17
John 17:17 (NLT)
17 Make them holy by your truth; teach them your word, which is truth.
iii. Through testing and trials Deuteronomy 8:2
Deuteronomy 8:2 (NIV)
2 Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.
iv. Disciplining us - Hebrews 12:10
Hebrews 12:10 (NIV)
10 They disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share in his holiness.
We overcome evil with the blood of the lamb and the word of our testimony
We do not fight against flesh and blood but against principalities in high places.
4 You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.