Verse for February 12, 2014

2/12/14

Luk 5:8  But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord."

This is right after Jesus told Simon Peter to cast the nets on the other side and they had caught so many fish that the nets began to break and Simon Peter knew that he had encountered the Holy, the otherness of God and he knew he was undone!

Verse for February 11, 2014

2/11/14

Heb 9:13  For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh,

Heb 9:14  how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

The blood of Christ is our holiness!

Verse for February 10, 2014

2/10/14

2Pe 3:9  The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

God will fulfill all that He has promised! Because He is “otherness” He is Holy! And we are not. When you start thinking that you are holy, it is because you don’t know what holiness is.

Verse for February 9, 2014

2/9/14

Rev 1:1  The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Rev 1:2  who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw.

Rev 1:3  Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near.

Rev 1:4  John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne,

Rev 1:5  and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood

Rev 1:6  and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

When we look at the word “Holy,” as we are this month, we need to know what it means.

1.     Exalted or worthy of complete devotion as one perfect in goodness and righteousness.

2.      Set apart, different, sanctified, otherness.

“to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.”

The year of our LORD 2014, Feb. 8

2/8/14

Rom 3:20  For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

Rom 3:21  But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it--

Rom 3:22  the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:

Rom 3:23  for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Rom 3:24  and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

Rom 3:25  whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.

I think that this is the point.

“But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law.”

Then you have to decide what “the law” is.

The law is works; Any works!

The year of our LORD 2014, Feb. 7

2/7/14

Php 2:12  Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,

Php 2:13  for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

Take good notice of the word “FOR” there in verse 13. You are admonished to work out your salvation, FOR, or because, God is working it out in you for His good pleasure.