Elohim- The Creator Revelation 4:11
El Elyon- The God Most High Isaiah 46: 9-10
El Roi- The God Who Sees Prov 5:21
El Shaddai- The All-Sufficient One John 4:14
Adonai- The Lord Romans 6:16
Jehovah- The Self-Existent One Isaiah 43:10-11
Jehovah-jireh- The Lord Will Provide Philip 4:19
Jehovah-rapha- The Lord Who Heals 2Cor 4:7,16
Jehovah-nissi- The Lord My Banner Psalm 60:4-5
Jehovah-shalom- The Lord Is Peace John 16:33
Jehovah-saboath- The Lord of Hosts Isaiah 14:24
Jehovah-raah- The Lord My Shepherd Pslam 95:6-7
Jehovah-tsidkenu- The Lord Our Righteousness Micah 7: 8-9
Jehovah-shammah- The Lord Is There Psalm 73: 25-26
Jehovah-mekoddishkem- The Lord Who Sanctifies You- Ex19:2-6, Ex 31:12-13, 15-17, 1Peter 1:16, 1peter 2:9, Heb 10:10-14, John 17:15-19, 1Thess 4:3-8, 2Peter 1:4, Heb 9:22, Romans 6:4, 8:2-4.
"It is the Lord who redeemed us and it is the Lord who sanctifies us. Who is the one doing the sanctification? Who is the one making us holy? It's not you, it's not me, its nota set of rules and laws, it is the Lord! Now the word sanctify can also be translated holy. It means 'set apart, consecrated, or separated unto God.'
God says "Be holy, because I am holy" but you say, "But, God, I have tried and tried! I've worked so hard to be holy, and I can't be! I'm so discouraged and defeated!' And the Lord wants to say back to you 'Hear me, My child. I am Jehovah-Mekoddishkem. I am the Lord who sanctifies you. I am the Lord who makes you holy. Enter into my rest.' The sabbath rest of the old testament is a picture of the eternal rest you and I are given after we receive the Lord Jesus Christ. That rest is a sign. God wants to show us that salvation comes through resting in Him.
We can not obtain salvation through our own efforts, no matter how honest and zealous and sincere those efforts may be. Salvation is of the Lord. By the same token, we cannot obtain holiness through our own efforts- no matter how hard we agonize and weep and labor. You don't become holy by striving to be holy. You are make holy by God; therefore, you live a holy life in response to what He has already accomplished. The Christian life is not what you do or don't do to make yourself holy. You do not sanctify yourself! It is only in Him that you find holiness and sanctification. Resting in God reminds us that we are 'a holy race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peope for God's own possession.'
How does God sanctify us?
By the one perfect sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. 'And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God. Since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool, because by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.'
By giving us the truth of His word.
'My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. Sanctify (Greek hagiazo- set apart for sacred use or make holy also in verse 19) them by the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. (19)For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified. (Maybe this is not about change)
By calling us and enabling us to walk in purity.
'It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable, 5not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God; and that in this matter no one should wrong his brother or take advantage of him. The Lord will punish men for all such sins, as we have already told you and warned you. For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. Therefore, he who rejects this instruction does not reject man but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.'
By providing us with His own precious promises.
'Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.'
The death of Christ provides for our redemption, for 'without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness' of sins. The resurrection of Christ provides us with the ability to walk in newness of life through the gift of the Holy Spirit who sets us free from the law of sin and death (Romans 6:4, 8:2-4)." --Kay Arthur, The Peace and Power of Knowing God's Name
The sunflower, not because it looks like the sun but because it follows the sun. Wherever the sun goes it follows.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
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