**Always weigh my words in light of the Word of God.
The last couple of years I have begun to understand in a deeper way how very holy Yahweh is. I understand that am only scratching the surface on this, but I believe there is much that is not understood about his holiness. When I think about how long I took that fact for granted and how much I treated Him like a genie in a bottle or a casual friend I am ashamed and rightly so.
He is our friend, but often times we forget that He is also a Holy Elohim. We can cheapen and misuse His loving grace and make it a reason to walk in a way that is irreverent. In that irreverence it can become very simple to justify actions and choices that do not please or honor Him. We can sin and somehow believe that He doesn’t mind. In doing that we sometimes attempt to speak for Him or assume we know how He would feel in a given situation because we see Him as we see ourselves, that is a “being” with a fallen nature. It is kind of an “arrogant philosophical leap” that I am personally no longer willing to make.
Yahshua, Jesus Christ, never sinned. There isn’t a man alive now or ever that can say that. He was Elohim, He is Elohim and He will always be Elohim. He is Elohim having come in the physical form of a man. He never changes and He is not a man that He should lie. The Elohim of the Torah, the Writings and the Prophets (i.e. The Old Testament or Tanakh/Tanach) is the same God of the Brit Chadashah (i.e. The Renewed Covenant or New Testament)
2Corinthians 5:21
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Malachi 3:6
For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed.
One hears the word “holy” and can think a lot of different things. Perhaps you think “special” or “important” and while that is true of Him there is more to it. The word Holy in Hebrew, is Kodesh or Qodesh. The word Qodesh means Set Apart. To be set apart means to not be part of that which is of the world or that which is common or imperfect.
Honestly, our fallen sinful state earns only one thing, death. We must not forget that! If you understand the sacrificial system, prior to the crucifixion of Yahshua, you probably will understand this concept. A sacrifice brought to the altar of Elohim had to be different. It had to be without blemish, spot or defect. It had to be absolutely perfect in order to be suitable to be offered before Adonai. Why, because He is Qodesh! Anything or anyone that came into His presence had to be Set Apart, Holy as He Holy. Qodesh!
Since we are fallen beings, how in the world can we come into His presence in our sinful, fallen state? In our current fleshly state we are not perfect, without spot or blemish. This is a very good question and there is only only one answer. His shed blood that covers our sin is the only way. It was a very costly Set Apart sacrifice. He was the perfect Lamb sacrificed for the sins of the world. He was the only sacrifice suitable to take away the sins of the whole world and make it possible for man to be in His presence. He willingly chose to allow Himself to be put on a tree and allowed the shedding of His own blood for our sins. When he looks upon us, having received Him and His work on the tree, how does He see us? He sees us in the perfection of the Set Apart blood shed for us! When you read the account of the blood being placed on the doorposts so that death would pass over the Israelites in the book of Exodus before leaving Egypt, you are seeing a for-telling of what He did on the tree, for all of us! The Set Apart blood prevents death from having its victory. Through the blood of Yahshua death is conquered! We who are covered with that blood become Set Apart.
When we ask Him to be Adonai (Lord) and Savior of our lives should we continue to sin or live anyway we choose? Do our actions and motivations have any importance or are we afforded a certain kind of grace that contains no boundaries? Looking around today many people seem to be living as if that was true. The book of James is one scripture of many that speaks to this, as well as 1 Peter and Leviticus 19.
James 1:
22But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
23For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
24For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
And
1 Peter 1:
15But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
16Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
Leviticus 19
2 Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.
His Word says to be Holy, Qodesh as He is Holy. Therefore we should not live in a way think is irreverent of His costly sacrifice but in a way that seeks to please Him.
As we get closer to His return there will be much in well meaning books and on the airways that teach conversely to his Word. If we are not diligent to know His word we can easily be deceived. We must hold fast to the Word and not to the teachings (commentaries) and traditions of man, lest we be deceived. We must not be led of our own emotions, opinions and leanings but seek nourishment and His truth from the only set apart food that satisfies.
Matthew 4:4
But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Deuteronomy 8:3
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
Colossians 2:8
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Lets seek to be Qodesh as He is Qodesh! Blessings to you my Mishpacha in Yahshua.
More than a Conqueror
