Call Of Holiness 3/3/2023
Daily Devotions: by Christina FarrisMatthew 19:1-12 KJV
1 And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judaea beyond Jordan;
2 And great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there.
3 The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
7 They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
8 He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
10 His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.
11 But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.
12 For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.
Can you handle the laws of God. Same sex couples, couples that practice sexual immortality with other couples, and even people that sexual life style different from the beginning of time in regards to first man and first woman is living in opposition to God's law. Whether divorcement and remarriage, or castration in regards of being a eunuch by man, not by the power of God. Prehaps we need to learn something about God that we never thought about. In our nation in the world there men and woman that are both female and male by birth and not by the works and acts of a doctor. We have to consider there some men and women with anatomy of disformation of the standards of life style of some lifestyles. Will these men and women live without marriage or find a partner that these things do not matter too.
What am I talking about deformity not consider by the Jewish laws of marriage, or am I talking about deformity that God allowed in a human being for the purpose to teach something to humankind about love and compassion for people in opposition to themselves. Science did not create them to be not like other men and woman. Yet God did in allowing this thing to happen. A deformity of a body like arm or leg is no different God has his reasons. If nothing else to teach society to love and to except people not like everyone else. We all have areas that is not our ability, our makeup or our intelligents. Some get writers block the minute they start writing and others sit at a typewriter and can not seem to stop once started.
What is society going to do with things God allows in creation and in mankind. The laws do not often support these people. Some use these life styles as a tool to explain the things we do are in opposition to God, while others use these lifestyle as things God has allowed man to do despite his original plans. When God took man and place him in paradise it was a land of perfection as God seen fit. Everything outside of heaven was a place of God's not planned or design. In God's world it is a land of perfection and love, all things godly, not exactly either for by placing man in the garden, he put a man without perfection inside the garden. After gaining a wife he got kicked out of the garden because of disobedience to God. Yet God created the world he sent man to with his wife. God has a place where it not perfectly how he designed by his laws. We wonder why God will destroy the heaven and the earth, because simply this, man can not strive in perfection, nor can God live in unholy setting. Yet his desire is to strive and live with man, and so the place Jesus is creating for you and me, will be a place we all that believe can live in.
Most of us can not receive the fact God designed something not meant for heaven by his design called Earth. With this in mind if we are all going to heaven by faith in Christ Jesus, how can someone not holy, not perfected by faith live and breath in holiness. For the Bible says none are holy but God. How can we be holy? We become holy by the shed blood of Jesus Christ, who covers our sin through the cross. Even the devil is kicked out of heaven, his place in heaven is no more. God is creating a new heaven and new earth for man.
Now back to the begining of the passage in Matthew 19:6 what Jesus said to those wondering about marriage and so forth between man and woman. "Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." Famous line in many wedding services that are Biblical based. If God is putting you and your spouse to be together then this is a union unto God that he has formed. Divorce is in opposition to God's plans for man and his wife. However what about in cases where divorcement seems necessarily like abuse or cheating on a spouse. Laws of Moses for divorcement was man for man's comfort because it was to hard for man to bear. The laws of divorce was created. The laws for homosexuality are design to bring peace for a group of people that are not Bibical based in their life. Someone does not have to agree on a life style to understand that God has even cause deformation in human body for the protection of these people. Would you cast out someone not able to change their body features based on your society. Do you kill your infant born with two sexual reproductive parts? No you love them, because to kill would be to abort a child that God created and formed in the woman's womb.
Now with that said you got the left and right saying what the left supports abortion, but the right does not, except in deformities. Perhaps it is so in stranger then fiction situation. One wanting perfection of a society and the other in opposition of what they deem unappropiate in society even down to changes in offspring that God created. Nazified to their own thinking and not the ways of God, which no man does it God's way completely.
We choose to serve God in holiness as he is holy? I think what we desire is God to be in control of the things that are all good insociety and destruction of all things that are truly evil that corrupt society and the way people live. There are things harmful to the human body and to society that should never exist. Yet it does exist until God's holy habitation is full designed and purified by his word. We as believers are a work in progress, we are purified and sanctified by the cross of Jesus. We are forgiven upon belief. We choose to receive his word as truth and choose to serve him and do so in life style and in love. Something, of no race, no law, and no sexuality can stop from being purified through faith. To be holy we obey the ways of God and take a look at the laws created by man and see if they line up with the laws of God. Some do not, yet we strive to obey God and serve him in the holiness God intend for us too. Our holiness is not by our ability by the ability of God to change and transform us into the likeness of his Son. To be people of love.
Dear Heavenly Father, you see mankind in all its imperfection and desire a people to be called by your name, to humble themselves in their imperfections, that desire to live for you in love and hope. Help us to live in the love you established even when it is in opposition to you and your design for man. Help us to live in service to you not by our standards as humanity, but the holiness of your perfection. In Jesus precious name, Amen.
Continual Scripture Study: Joshua 24:17-24 KJV
17 For the LORD our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed:
18 And the LORD drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve the LORD; for he is our God.
19 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.
20 If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.
21 And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the LORD.
22 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.
23 Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel.
24 And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.
1 Peter 1:15-16 KJV
15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
Revelation 12:7-9 KJV
7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
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