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Daily Bread - June 12, 2026 (The Sixth Day - Genesis 1:24-31)
2 Corinthians 7:1 - Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Iniquity Can Never Be Mixed With God’s Holiness
Sin is a spiritual disease that only the Redeemer can cure. What it truly means to be human was found in the garden of Eden, not in a world of men ruled by the demonic. Man was made in a place of communion with God, after the image and likeness of God, both outwardly and inwardly (Genesis 1:26). Sin had no place at all in what a human being was created to be. When Jesus came, He showed us exactly what God intended when He created man: He was holy, blameless, and pure (Ephesians 1:4; Hebrews 7:26). Sin was an intruder, a foreign invader, whose influence ultimately stole the inward likeness of God in mankind and imprisoned them into a realm of spiritual death and darkness (Genesis 3; Romans 5:12-21).
All sin and iniquity is an act of violence against that which is sacred and holy, infecting everything it touches with the plague of death. Sin is an abuse to everything belonging to life, marring all it touches with a curse. With God’s awesome presence in our lives, we will learn to abhor and hate sin just as He does. The beauty and purity of holiness will become to us what it is to God – more important than anything else! God’s people must learn that iniquity, and all things that defile, can never be mixed with the holy things of God, and will hinder our communion with Him (Leviticus 7:19-21, 12:4, 21:1-4,10-12; Numbers 6:9-12, 9:6-13; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18).
Blessings,
Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
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