Daily Bread – December 6, 2021 (The Second Day – Genesis 1:6-8) Romans 6:19 – I speak as a man because of the frailty of your flesh; for as you have yielded your members as slaves to impurity and to iniquity unto iniquity; in the same way, now yield your members as servants to righteousness unto holiness. Part 2 ~ We Are Holiness Unto The Lord The word group associated with ‘holiness’ occurs 230 times in the New Testament. Like the subject of ‘righteousness’, it is one of the most important issues related to our relationship with God. The word used here for ‘holiness’ may also be translated as “sanctification”. Holiness is a dedication to the same moral purity God has and to which He has commanded us to be “holy for I am holy” (1 Peter 1:15-16; 1 Thessalonians 4:7; 2 Timothy 1:9). We are sanctified, or dedicated, to this moral purity through Christ Jesus and through the Holy Spirit. Both Paul and Peter cause us to understand how, through the sanctification of the Holy Spirit, we were born into the Kingdom of God. “But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth” (2 Thessalonians 2:13); “Elect, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied (1 Peter 1:2). Our identity in God is so encapsulated in holiness that we are called, “holiness unto the Lord” (Zechariah 14:20-21; 2 Corinthians 5:21). Blessings, Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
Daily Bread 12/6/2021
