GOD’S WORD FOR FEBRUARY 3

We are reading from a daily devotional  called “Running To Win” written by Erwin Lutzer  and the late, great D.L. Moody.   Erwin Lutzer is a light in our day as D.L. Moody was in his.

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GOD’S EXCLUSIVE TREASURES

Isaiah 6:3

“And one called to another and said:  ‘Holy, holy, holy., is the Lord of hosts;  the whole earth is full of His glory.’”

D.L. MOODY

When we see the holiness of God, we shall adore and magnify Him.  Moses learned this lesson.  God told him to take his shoes from off his feet for the place where on he stood was holy ground (Exodus 3:5).  When we hear men trying to make out that they are holy, and speaking about their holiness, they make light of the holiness of God.  It is His holiness that we need to think and speak about:  when we do that, we shall be prostrate in the dust.

ERWIN LUTZER

God is holy and altogether separate.  Our holiness means we’re set apart to God, free of sin’s power to be God’s exclusive treasure.

Think of what it means to belong to God.  Although we are by nature children of wrath (Ephesians 2:3), we have been born again into an entirely different family, if we trust Jesus as our Savior, reflecting God’s nature in purity and love.

This requires deep repentance, not just about the sins we can see, but also of covetousness and dishonesty, and wrong thinking. 

We are also God’s treasure.  There’s no way we could ever accomplish our own redemption.  Yet God paid for it with the blood of His beloved Son.  How dare we magnify our sins, toying with them, when Jesus paid it all to redeem us from sin!

The call to salvation is a call to holiness.  We become saints, God’s exclusive treasure, by faith in Christ.  Now, it is our responsibility and privilege, by His grace, to pursue holiness in personal experience.

PRAYER

Father, I confess my casual attitude towards my own sin.  Would you give me the grace to do whatever you ask me to do?

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2 Corinthians 7:1

Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

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Romans 6:22

But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.

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Hebrews 12:14

Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.

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Isaiah 35:8

A highway shall be there, and a road,

And it shall be called the Highway of Holiness.

The unclean shall not pass over it,

But it shall be for others.

Whoever walks the road, although a fool,

Shall not go astray.

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Ezekiel 36:23

“And I will sanctify My great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst; and the nations shall know that I am the Lord,” says the Lord God, “when I am hallowed in you before their eyes.”

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Philippians 3:14

I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

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