Saturday, June 16, 2018

Reflecting God - Embrace Holy Living - The Global of the Nazarene's Foundry Publishing House in Kansas City, Missouri, United States for Saturday, 16 June 2018 "Churchgoer: Purify Yourself" by Caleb Reynolds - 2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1

Reflecting God - Embrace Holy Living - The Global of the Nazarene's Foundry Publishing House in Kansas City, Missouri, United States for Saturday, 16 June 2018 "Churchgoer: Purify Yourself" by Caleb Reynolds - 2 Corinthians 6:14-7:12 Corinthians 6:14 Do not yoke yourselves together in a team with unbelievers. For how can righteousness and lawlessness be partners? What fellowship does light have with darkness? 15 What harmony can there be between the Messiah and B’liya‘al? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? 16 What agreement can there be between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God — as God said,
“I will house myself in them, . . .
and I will walk among you.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.”[
2 Corinthians 6:16 Leviticus 26:12; Exodus 6:7; Jeremiah 31:32(33), 32:38; Ezekiel 37:27]
17 Therefore Adonai says,
“‘Go out from their midst;
separate yourselves;
don’t even touch what is unclean.[
2 Corinthians 6:17 Isaiah 52:11]
Then I myself will receive you.[
2 Corinthians 6:17 Ezekiel 20:34, 41]
18 In fact, I will be your Father,
and you will be my sons and daughters.’
says Adonai-Tzva’ot.”[
2 Corinthians 6:18 2 Samuel 7:14, Isaiah 43:6]
7 Therefore, my dear friends, since we have these promises, let us purify ourselves from everything that can defile either body or spirit, and strive to be completely holy, out of reverence for God.
 (Complete Jewish Bible).
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How clean is your food? If we do a little research, we will discover that the food we buy from the store is pure . . . mostly. However, harvesting, processing, and transporting the food gives opportunity for various types of contamination. Too much contamination gets the government involved. Just a little bit of contamination, and no onr notuces.
But how much is too much? One author explained that 100 grams of fig paste (the filling in my favorite cookies!) is permitted to have up to 13 insect heads. Yuck! A typical jar of peanut butter, she explained, may contain aroun 4 rodent hairs. Are you kidding me?
My stomach churns to think about such small levels of contamination in my food. But I am strangely okay with “small” levels of contamination in my heart. How much bitterness is alright for a Christ-follower? How much greed, jealousy, or pornography? How much of an unforgiving spirit is okay in God’s sight?
God desires us to be pure and holy, and he provides the means for that purification. What is it in your life that needs the purifying presence of God today?
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Hymn for Today: "The Cleansing Wave" by Phoebe Palmer.
1. Oh, now I see the crimson wave!
The fountain deep and wide;
Jesus, my Lord, mighty to save,
Points to His wounded side.
Refrain: The cleansing stream I see, I see!
I plunge, and, oh, it cleanseth me!
Oh, praise the Lord, it cleanseth me!
It cleanseth me, yes, cleanseth me.
2. I see the new creation rise,
I hear the speaking blood;
It speaks, polluted nature dies,
Sinks ’neath the cleansing flood.
Refrain: The cleansing stream I see, I see!
I plunge, and, oh, it cleanseth me!
Oh, praise the Lord, it cleanseth me!
It cleanseth me, yes, cleanseth me.
3. I rise to walk in Heav’n’s own light,
Above the world and sin,
With heart made pure and garments white,
And Christ enthroned within.
Refrain: The cleansing stream I see, I see!
I plunge, and, oh, it cleanseth me!
Oh, praise the Lord, it cleanseth me!
It cleanseth me, yes, cleanseth me.
4. Amazing grace! ’tis Heav’n below
To feel the blood applied,
And Jesus, only Jesus know,
My Jesus crucified.

Refrain: The cleansing stream I see, I see!
I plunge, and, oh, it cleanseth me!
Oh, praise the Lord, it cleanseth me!
It cleanseth me, yes, cleanseth me.
Thought for Today: God made this sinless man be a sin offering on our behalf, so that in union with him we might fully share in God’s righteousness.” (2 Corinthians 5:21) (Complete Jewish Bible)).
Please pray: That many people in Cote d'Ivoire will come to know Yeshua as their Messiah and receive the fullness of the Ruach HaKodesh.
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