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Mqaddishcem is also the participle form of the word for holy.
“I am the God changing your diaper.” “I am the God sanctifying you. I am the God consecrating you.”
At the very instant he brings us to life, he begins moving us from vulgar and common to holiness.
“I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, which brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
But when we start rationalizing the law of God, we start getting into trouble. God knew this.
God wants us to understand with our heart so we won’t have to worry about getting it right with our head.
He didn’t want them ever to forget how powerfully God broke the yoke of their Egyptian masters and delivered them.
Scripture makes it clear that God has a purpose for everyone. So if we kill a child before it’s born, we rob God of his heritage.
“I’m commanding you to obey me because I am sanctifying you. I’m taking you from where you were, and I’m making you holy. I’m setting you apart.”
The law made him aware of his sin but was powerless to help him overcome it; because the law itself relied on our flesh.
God had a purpose in the law. It was to bring his people to a place of holiness, but he knew from the beginning that it would be Jesus that carried them there. The law was weak because it depended on the flesh. Jesus doesn’t depend on the flesh. Jesus within us gives us a strength
In the 5th chapter of 2nd Corinthians, Paul talks about reconciliation with God. He concludes by saying that God took Jesus, who was sinless, and made him become sin so we could become God’s righteousness in Jesus.
When Jesus comes into our hearts, the enemy no longer controls us; the Spirit of God dispossesses him.
Of all the people in the nation, God sent the angel to Gideon. We can infer from that choice that Gideon was a righteous man with a heart for the Lord.
Sometimes the righteous suffer because of the judgment brought on by the unrighteous.
Then Gideon built an altar to God and named the altar “Jehovah Shalom, The Lord is Peace.”
In all this, we must remember that God watches out for his people. He doesn’t let us wander too far astray before he comes to us to restore us to his direction.
Peace influences and is vital to three relationships. First, we need to have peace in our relationship with God. Second, we should have peace in our relationships with other people inside and outside the church. Last, we need to have peace with ourselves. God can bring peace in all of our relationships.
In these three passages, we see that God removes the wedges and brings us peace if we are righteous. The verse in Romans addresses the peace we have with God. The Proverbs passage addresses the peace we have with others, and the passage in Isaiah speaks of the peace we have within. Through Jehovah Shalom, the God of peace, we have perfect peace.
The light, the freedom from the oppressor, and the joy were all predicated on the birth of Jesus. Accordingly, he is the Prince of Peace. From the day Jesus was born, he was the Prince of Peace. So the prophecy of the child born to us is prophesying the coming of the Prince of Peace. God is peace, Jehovah Shalom.
This prophecy reflects the story of Gideon. Isaiah says, “All of us like sheep have wandered off,” just like the children of Israel at the time of Gideon. But, he goes on, "Everyone has turned to go their own way, but God caused all of our sin to fall to Jesus to carry.” So as Gideon built that altar and called it, “The Lord is peace,” he was referring to what God was about to do in the land to vanquish the enemy and restore his relationship with his people.
In the second chapter of Ephesians, verse 14 says that Jesus is our peace. God is peace, Jehovah Shalom. Jesus is peace. In this passage, Paul says that Jesus put an end to the hostility that formerly existed between the gentiles and the Jews. He accomplished that on the cross.
Gideon recognized that God is peace since he was about to restore his relationship with the children of Israel. Paul came to essentially the same realization since Jesus had broken down the wall of animosity between the Jews and gentiles and restored the relationship. Jesus is also peace.
Peace is one element of the fruit of the Spirit. The 9th verse of the sixteenth chapter of Proverbs says that a man plans his life, but God directs his steps. It’s okay if we make plans, but God puts one foot in front of the other. His word is a light to those plans and a lamp to each step. As we live out or day to day Christian lives, the fruit of the Spirit radiates through us, including peace.
When God gave Aaron the words to bless the people with, he said, “May the Lord bless and keep you. May he cause his face to shine upon you and be gracious toward you. May he lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.” God is peace. Jesus is peace. The life that God called us to in Jesus is a life of peace. Jehovah Shalom, the Lord is peace.
Therein Paul says that God uses the world's foolish things to show the wise true wisdom.
Remember that David had time as a shepherd to lie down and gaze at the stars while the sheep grazed. The 19th psalm begins with acknowledging the glory of God revealed in the sky. In the 7th and 8th verses, he gives the consequences of following God’s word; restoration of the soul, wisdom, joy, and enlightenment. The 9th verse says that the fear of God is pure and steadfast since God doesn’t make mistakes when he uses discipline.
Hebrews 12 takes it a step further. It asserts that if we are without God's discipline, we are illegitimate and not true children at all.
Jesus. Furthermore, he says that Judah and Jerusalem would live in peace, and in those days, Jerusalem would be called “Jehovah Tsidqenu,” The Lord our Righteousness.
God also warned them, “When this is all over, don't think that I am establishing you here because of your righteousness. On the contrary, I am driving these nations out because of their wickedness.”
The Mercy Seat is part of the Ark of the Covenant. Once a year, the high priest of Israel would take the blood offering for the sins of the people into the Holy of Holies behind the veil and pour it onto the Ark of the Covenant. Since the priest poured the blood on the top between the two cherubim, that place was called the Mercy Seat. It was the tangible seat of mercy for God’s people. The priest poured the blood offering there, and the people received mercy from the hand of God.
Paul is saying in Romans 3 that Jesus is our Mercy Seat. He is behind the veil; he is the holy place in the presence of the angels where God poured the blood that forgave our sins. That is the legal justification for God imputing righteousness to us. That is why Jeremiah could prophesy, “And he will be called: The Lord Our Righteousness, ‘Jehovah Tsidqenu.’”
The scripture informs us that God has been dealing with stiff-necked rebellious people ever since there were people.
It was ascribed to Abraham centuries before Jeremiah prophesied, “Behold the days are coming when I will raise a righteous branch to David, and he will be called ‘The Lord our Righteousness.’”
He opened it to what we know as the 61st chapter and read the opening verses. “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. He has sent me to preach good news to the poor, bind up the brokenhearted, proclaim freedom to the captives, to announce the Lord’s kindness and vengeance, and to comfort all who mourn. Then God’s people will be known as oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord. And God will be glorified.”
On more than one occasion, Jesus said that he and the Father are one, John 10:30, for example. In John 14:9, he said, "If you've seen me, you've seen the Father." In John 10:38, he said, "I am in the Father, and the Father in me."
Richard Sones Richard Sones grew up as the eldest son of an Army Signal Corps officer and, as such, lived all over the world. Moving frequently, he attended army chapels and gained a well-rounded Christian perspective by learning under the guidance of chaplains from many different denominations. Then after graduating seminary with a Master’s degree in Divinity, a small, 150-year-old Baptist church in rural Amelia County, Virginia, ordained him as their pastor. Having army blood in his veins, it wasn’t long before he answered the call to duty and joined the army as a chaplain. Now retired
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