God wants His people to be set apart for His use. Before entering the promised land Joshua told his people “sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you to” Joshua 3:5. Sanctification was a process of purification before approaching the presence of God.
In this fourth part of knowing God by his name, we continue studying God's attributes as revealed in His word. He is the great "I AM" and His names are revealed through His encounter with us. It takes faith for us to accept God as He is and believe that He is the all sufficient and all knowing God who was, is and will always be. This faith “comes by hearing, and hearing of the word of God” Romans 10:17.
10) Jehovah-Mekoddishkem (The Lord who sanctifies)
Throughout scripture we see God rescuing His people and separating them (sanctifying) from the rest for His use. We cannot sanctify ourselves to be right with God because our standards are way be low His. God says that “My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways. --- For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts” Isaiah 55: 8-9.
When Moses went to meet with the Lord in Mt Sinai, God told him, “ You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles wings and brought you to myself. Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to me above all people; for all the earth is mine. And you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation” Exodus 19: 4-6. From this scripture God explains His reason for rescuing Israel; that they may be “a special treasure, a kingdom of priests and a holy nation”.
This is the same calling made to those who have believed in the Lord Jesus Christ. Peter calls on the believer to “gird up the loins of your mind---, as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, ‘Be holy, for I am holy’” 1 Peter 1: 13-16. It is God who sets up the standards of morality and He expects us to abide by them. We do this by imitating Him through the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
Our salvation is not something we have worked for or earned, “it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works” Ephesians 2: 8-9. It is God’s work of sanctification working in us and only He can start it and complete it. God’s purpose for setting us part, just like it was with the children of Israel, is that we may serve Him and make Him known to others through our acts of service.
In his first epistle, Peter reminds us that we are a “chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; who were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy, but have now obtained mercy” 1 Peter 2: 9- 10. Our worth as believers is wholly based on what God has done and does through us. He has called us "out of darkness" and when we are united with Christ as members of His body, we join in His priestly work of reconciling Others to God.
In His epistle to the Philippians, Paul calls on the believer to “work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure” Philippians 2: 12-13. God works in us inwardly and we work outwardly what He does in our inner being. This He does through the Holy Spirit who is our teacher, counselor, intercessor and the one who gives us revelation into the hidden things of God.
Read more: http://www.bukisa.com/articles/406314_the-power-of-knowing-god-by-name-part-4#ixzz1IDJj8KQx
In this fourth part of knowing God by his name, we continue studying God's attributes as revealed in His word. He is the great "I AM" and His names are revealed through His encounter with us. It takes faith for us to accept God as He is and believe that He is the all sufficient and all knowing God who was, is and will always be. This faith “comes by hearing, and hearing of the word of God” Romans 10:17.
10) Jehovah-Mekoddishkem (The Lord who sanctifies)
Throughout scripture we see God rescuing His people and separating them (sanctifying) from the rest for His use. We cannot sanctify ourselves to be right with God because our standards are way be low His. God says that “My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways. --- For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts” Isaiah 55: 8-9.
When Moses went to meet with the Lord in Mt Sinai, God told him, “ You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles wings and brought you to myself. Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to me above all people; for all the earth is mine. And you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation” Exodus 19: 4-6. From this scripture God explains His reason for rescuing Israel; that they may be “a special treasure, a kingdom of priests and a holy nation”.
This is the same calling made to those who have believed in the Lord Jesus Christ. Peter calls on the believer to “gird up the loins of your mind---, as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, ‘Be holy, for I am holy’” 1 Peter 1: 13-16. It is God who sets up the standards of morality and He expects us to abide by them. We do this by imitating Him through the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
Our salvation is not something we have worked for or earned, “it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works” Ephesians 2: 8-9. It is God’s work of sanctification working in us and only He can start it and complete it. God’s purpose for setting us part, just like it was with the children of Israel, is that we may serve Him and make Him known to others through our acts of service.
In his first epistle, Peter reminds us that we are a “chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; who were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy, but have now obtained mercy” 1 Peter 2: 9- 10. Our worth as believers is wholly based on what God has done and does through us. He has called us "out of darkness" and when we are united with Christ as members of His body, we join in His priestly work of reconciling Others to God.
In His epistle to the Philippians, Paul calls on the believer to “work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure” Philippians 2: 12-13. God works in us inwardly and we work outwardly what He does in our inner being. This He does through the Holy Spirit who is our teacher, counselor, intercessor and the one who gives us revelation into the hidden things of God.
Read more: http://www.bukisa.com/articles/406314_the-power-of-knowing-god-by-name-part-4#ixzz1IDJj8KQx
