Dear Family,
Today is Saturday, April 24, 2021. This is Day 7 of Week 4 in our Counting toward Pentecost. It is a Sabbath, and it is our 28th day of Counting.
On this wonderful Sabbath, let us consider the important truth of how God freed Israel from bondage, setting them apart as a people for Himself. Consider how He claimed them! He intended that they be HOLY as He is HOLY.
Leviticus 11:45 For I am the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
To this end, He gave them many blessings, including the blessing of the 6-day work week and the rest of the Holy Sabbath. It was an important physical type, foreshadowing how God deals with His Church today.
It is far more incumbent upon us today that we become HOLY because our Savior and our Father are HOLY. We, too, have been delivered from bondage for PURPOSE, HOLY PURPOSE. Our Messiah has made us FREE and intends that we never again by entangled with a yoke of bondage.
Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
God has claimed us, adopted us while we are human, begotten us by His Spirit, and will finally deliver us from our flesh (also a type of bondage), bringing us to full term birth as Spirit-born, eternal, Sons of God with His Divine DNA.
Romans 8:15, 21 (15) For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. (21) Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
God’s Word tells us how to cooperate as God creates and perfects His holiness in us. We yield to His righteousness and cleanse ourselves.
Romans 6:19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
2 Corinthians 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
We are of the HOLY HOUSEHOLD of the HOLY GOD. Let us honor our God on this Sabbath and every day of our lives by allowing God to perfect His HOLINESS in us.
Psalm 93:5 Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, forever
Ben Faulkner, Pastor
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