- HIS
HOLINESS.
The second reason for fearing God is His holiness, which is the unique quality of divinity; a life totally void and separated from sin and when properly understood should generate a tremendous measure of fear in us, if indeed we have proven that the Lord is gracious. And so, we have been duly instructed saying; "as obedient children, not conforming ourselves to the former lusts, as in our ignorance, but as He who has called us is holy, we also be holy in all our conduct, because it is written, "Be holy, for I am holy" (1Peter 1:14-16).
Holiness
is purity, completely free from defilement and profanity, but the question is,
how does a person become holy? For one to become holy God has ordained a
specific method by which one become holy For this is what He spoke to Moses saying;
“Then Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is
in the basket, by the door of the tabernacle of meeting. They shall eat those
things with which the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them;
but an outsider shall not eat them, because they are holy” (Exodus 29:32-33).
So
then, the way one becomes holy, it is by eating of those things with which the atonement
was made, which in our new dispensation is synonymous to the body and blood of
Jesus Christ which is the new and living way by which we can draw near to God,
as attested to by Jesus Christ who said; “I am the way, the truth, and the
life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6).
Jesus
Christ is the way to the Father through His flesh; He is the truth, by being
the Word of God our High Priest, now seated at the right hand of the Father
interceding on our behalf, and He is the life through His blood, for the life
of the flesh is in the blood, and God has given it to us upon the altar to make
atonement for our souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul'
(Leviticus 17:11).
The
apostle Paul rendered his support to this principle by saying; “Therefore,
brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new
and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His
flesh, and having a High Priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a
true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil
conscience and our bodies washed with pure water” (Hebrews 10:19-22).
The
crux of the matter is, the body and the blood of Jesus Christ which is repented
by the bread and the wine have replaced all offerings and sacrifice for sins: For
we have been duly instructed saying; “For it is not possible that the blood of
bulls and goats could take away sins. Therefore, when He (Jesus Christ) came
into the world, He said: "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a
body You have prepared for Me.”
“In
burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure. Then I said,
'Behold, I have come --- In the volume of the book it is written of Me --- To
do Your will, O God.' "Previously saying, "Sacrifice and offering,
burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in
them" (which are offered according to the law), then He said,
"Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God." He takes away the first
that He may establish the second. By that will we have been sanctified through
the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all” (Hebrews 10:4-10).
So,
once and for all times and for all peoples there is an offering which can present
the worshiper perfect, holy, blameless and irreproachable before God, for which
they are Commanded to be careful to offer to Lord at their appointed time,
because there are specific appointed times to offer the Lord the food for His
offerings.
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With brotherly love
Lucius Joseph
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