6. Worship the Lord in the beauty of
holiness.
The
six integral component of true spiritual worship is to worship the Lord in the
beauty of holiness which denotes worshiping God in the absence of sin, and the
way one becomes holy is stated as follows; “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).
Those
who do not regard themselves as priests of the New Covenant should not be
present during a holy convocation for it is stated quite clearly, “But you are
a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people,
that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into
His marvelous light; who once were not a people but are now the people of God,
who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy” (1Peter 2:9, 10).
Those
who stumble are those who are being disobedient to the word, to which they also
were appointed, because our main duty as priests is to offer to the Lord the
food for His offerings, for it is written; “They shall be holy to their God and
not profane the name of their God, for they offer the offerings of the LORD
made by fire, and the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy”
(Leviticus 21:6).
For
this reason the church is duly admonished saying; “Do not be unequally yoked
together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with
lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? And what accord has
Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever?'
“And
what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the
living God as God has said: "I will dwell in them and walk among them. I
will be their God, and they shall be My people." Therefore " Come out
from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean,
and I will receive you. I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and
daughters, says the LORD Almighty" (2 Corinthians 6:14-18).
It
is also for this reason why the apostle Paul in an epistle wrote; “not to keep
company with sexually immoral people. Yet I certainly did not mean with the
sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners,
or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. But now I have
written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually
immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an
extortioner --- not even to eat with such a person” (1Corinthians 5:10-11).
And
the crux of the matter is, God has absolutely no fellowship with darkness and
since a little leaven leavens the whole lump one has to be careful with whom we
have fellowship for according to the apostle John; “this is the message which
we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no
darkness at all: If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in
darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth” (1John 1:5-6).
So
I am truly flabbergasted when I hear people categorizing the church as a
sanctuary for sinners and inviting people to come in as you are when in effect,
the come in as you are is in the outer court where we conduct our bible
studies, crusades, where we go out and preach the gospel and those who gladly
receive the message should be baptized and be worthy of partaking of the food
for the Lord’s offerings.
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To be continued, stay tuned
With brotherly love
Lucius Joseph
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