Daily Bread 8/2/2024

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    Daily Bread – August 2, 2024 (The Sixth Day – Genesis 1:24-31) 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 uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, in the same way now yield your members as servants to righteousness unto holiness. Distinguishing Between The Holy & The Profane The failure of the priests in the Old Testament was that they had fallen so far from communion with God they no longer made a distinction between that which was holy and pure and that which was profane and unclean (Ezekiel 22:26, 44:23). The people of Israel having lost their concept of the holiness of God began to call things that were good evil, and evil things good. Their false doctrines so led them astray that they had lost a sense of right and wrong (Jeremiah 23:11-22; Isaiah 5:20). When we lose our direction failing to recognize the will of God, we end up persecuting those who believe in righteousness and holiness. Suddenly everyone who believes in such purity becomes the bad guy who is “misguided” and “religious”. The concept of common and unclean extends to all of those individuals that were not part of the community God had made holy. The Lord Jesus, intending to send Peter to the house of Cornelius, had to make it clear how the Gentiles would no longer be considered something that would defile those who belonged to God. The Lord revealed to Peter that those of the Gentiles who would be redeemed would also be made pure, and Peter was not to call anything God had made pure common or unclean (Acts 10:14-15,28). It is essential for those of us who have been redeemed to not make the mistake of taking on a false identity. If we consider ourselves to be common or unclean, then it is the same as saying we have not been redeemed. We must embrace the redemption in Christ Jesus that has made us the example of His righteousness and holiness (2 Corinthians 5:17,21; Ephesians 4:24). Father has granted to us the power of godliness and the beauty of holiness, and so let us walk in it (Luke 1:74-75; 2 Peter 1:3,6, 3:1; Titus 1:1; 1 Timothy 6:11; Romans 8:4; Galatians 5:16; 1 Chronicles 16:29; Psalms 29:2, 96:9). Blessings, Pastor Mark Spitsbergen