Tag: holy and true

43.t. “Wilderness” – 8. “You shall be consecrated to me”

 

Exodus 22:31. “You shall be consecrated to me. 

 Revelation 4:8   And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”

 Revelation 6:10   They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”

 Leviticus 11:45   For I am the LORD who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.”

 Leviticus 19:2   “Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy.

 Deuteronomy 14:21    For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. 

 1 Peter 1:15-16  but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,  since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

You shall be holy men unto me. The holiness really desired was holiness of heart and spirit. Outward ordinances could not effect this; but, to keep the thought perpetually before- men’s minds. (Ellicott)

And ye shall be holy men unto me,…. They were so by God’s act of election, not special and particular, but general and national; choosing and separating them to be an holy people to him, above all the people on the face of the earth. (Gill)

 And ye shall be holy men unto me. Ye shall not be as other men, but “an holy nation, a peculiar people;” (Unknown)

The moral excellence of God that unifies his attributes and is expressed through his actions, setting him apart from all others. Believers are called to be holy as God is holy. God’s nature is holy, He is perfect, He is uniquely holy, God’s name is holy, God’s dwelling-place is holy, God’s holiness is revealed in his righteous activity, God’s people are to be holy because he is holy, The holiness of believers originates from God., God’s holiness is to be seen in his people, God’s holiness makes sin objectionable to him, God’s holiness necessitates dependence upon him for forgiveness.

We do well to seek to ever-grow in our understanding of God’s Holiness and the sinfulness of sin.

11.z. “He has not hidden his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him.”

Habakkuk 1:2  O Lord, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear? Or cry to you “Violence!” and you will not save? Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise. So the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; so justice goes forth perverted.

Psalms 13:1-2    How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?  How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

Revelation 6:10     They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”

Psalms 94:3    O LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult?

Psalms 74:10     How long, O God, is the foe to scoff? Is the enemy to revile your name forever?

Psa 22:24  For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, and he has not hidden his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him.

Habakkuk prophesied and cried out “how long shall I cry for Help?”  He saw iniquity and asked, “why do you make me see this and then sit idly by?”  David cried out “how long?”, “Will you forget me forever? Those who were martyred for faith in Jesus Christ during the Tribulation period cried out “how long before you judge and avenge our blood?”  David cried out “how long will the wicked be exalted?”  If you are a believer and God has opened your eyes and ears to the wicked things of our society that are called and believed to be alright to do, Pornography – (which the thesaurus uses words like improper, indelicate, crude, vulgar, dirty, filthy, corrupting and immoral) for which our society calls “Adult Entertainment”, Abortion – (which is child murder, assassination, homicide, depraved execution, fetal homicide) for which society calls “Women Rights”, Petaphilia – which is called alternative sexual preference, LGBTQ – which is called progressive lifestyle.  These are just a tip of the iceberg of what lost souls are being temped with and are buying into it.  How long oh Lord?  We can see it and be appalled by it but we seem powerless in of ourselves to do anything about it.  Remember this “Jesus Christ died for sinners!!!!”  He died for each of these with the same amount of grace, mercy, and love He has given to us.  Were it not for the Holy Spirit softening our hardened hearts with the Good News of Jesus Christ, we too would be as guilty as any of these.  Are they so far lost that they cannot be saved – No they are not.   I think we would do much better praying for them and proclaiming the Good News of Jesus Christ rather than calling on God to judge and avenge.  That time will certainly come but for now let us remember “while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” and keep our focus on advancing the body of Christ by living and proclaiming the Good News of Jesus Christ.  Who knows what the Holy Spirit will do.  A heart and soul may be softened and the person repents, seeks forgiveness, and trusts in the blood of Jesus Christ to cleanse them from all unrighteousness.