Be Ye Holy

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, am welcome to simple man sermons, the preachings of
a simple man called by God to share the good
news of Jesus Christ.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Be ye holy, for I am holy. It says that
so many times in the Bible. Couldn't just quote you
a verse, I could quote you many verses that say
we are called to be holy. One quick search that
I just did listed one hundred of them. Leviticus nineteen.

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You shall be holy for I the Lord your God,
am holy. That's very early in the Bible, and then
very late in the Bible one Peter. But as he
who called you as holy, you also be holy in
all your conduct, since it is written you shall be
holy for I am holy. And there's many more that

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contain that concept that don't verbade him say be holy
for I am holy. But that should be enough to
establish that we should be holy? Why because God tells
us to. And if God says to do something, you
do it. If he says it multiple times, that's driving
home the point that you should be holy. Well, what
does holy mean? I think we may have a false

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idea of what holy is. Maybe not. Maybe I'm just projecting,
But you know, if you grew up in the last
one hundred years in America. You might think that it's,
you know, some cartoon figure with wings in a halo.
Find me, you know the word halo in the Bible.
That is some new age garbage. That's, you know, some

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weird thing of some baby cherub with wings or something
that's not anywhere in the Bible cherubim or in the Bible.
But they don't look like that. Holy Kadosh set apart special.
That's what holy means, set apart for a special purpose. Different.

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That's what we're called to be and why. Because our
God is holy, we are called to be like God
in so many ways. In one of those ways is holiness.
We serve a holy God, a set apart God, a
God like no other. There's a bunch of stupid pagan
religions with many deities and bomination creatures of mix of

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man and beast, and a bunch of arms and legs,
and a bunch of ridiculous stuff. We don't serve a
God like that. We serve the one and only God, Holy,
set apart from anything else, the creator of the universe.
I'm often struck. One of the reasons I love being
out of nature. I'm often struck with the beauty and
the majesty and the magnitude of God just in his creation,

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just reflected in this creation, just looking at a mountainside
filled with wildflowers or a raging river in the macro
and in the micro you know, how a bee somehow
finds the right flower and carries it the pollen all
the way back, and how that whole system works. No

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picking a fish out of the water when I have
been blessed to have a successful day fishing, and I
just look at the patterns on the scales, how beautiful
they are, and how well camouflaged they are, and small
things like that up to the very big things. How
the entire you know, rain cycle works. That's just a
small reflection of the power and might and awesomeness and

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holiness of our God. The beginning of the Book of Hebrews,
God who at various times and in various ways spoke
in times past the fathers by the prophets, has in
these last day He's spoken to us by his son,
whom he has appointed heir of all things, through whom
also he made the worlds, who being the brightness of

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His glory, in the express image of his reason, and
upholding all things by the word of his power. He
had himself purged our sins, sat down at the right
hand of the Majesty on High, God, who created all that.
We look at Genesis, the very beginning of the Bible,
the very first sentence. In the beginning, God created the

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heavens and the earth. Think of all that contains, all
the mountains, all the rivers, every drop of water, every
flake of snow, every rock. In one sentence, God did that,
Paul says in Acts seventeen. Therefore, the one whom you
worship without knowing him, I proclaim to you God, who

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made the world and everything in it, Since he is
Lord of heaven and earth, does not well in temples
made with hands, nor is he worshiped with men's hands,
as though he needed anything, as though he needed anything,
Since he gives to all life, breath, and all things.
And he has made from one blood every nation of

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men to dwell on all the face of the earth,
and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of
their dwellings, so that they should seek the Lord, and
in the hope that they might grope for him and
find him. Though he is not far from each one
of us, for in Him we live and move and

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have our being. That God who did all that, What
are we compared to that? Imagine the awesomeness of God.
It is good sometimes to just ponder the awesomeness of God.
Is good to see God as our father, Jesus Christ
is our savior. But I think it is also good

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sometimes to just meditate on the immensity and the immense
power of God. Sometimes we often get troubled and worried
in our lives about things, and we kind of forget
about how powerful God is. Let's see what God says
to Job when he answers. Then the Lord answered Job

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out of the whirl win and said, who is this
who darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Now prepare yourself
like a man, and I will question you, and you
will answer me. Where were you when I laid the
foundations of the earth. Tell me, if you have understanding
who determined its measurements? Surely you know. And of course

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the character of God cannot be summed up anywhere, but
especially not in a short episode like this, in any
short segment. But from James, every good gift and every
perfect gift is from above. And comes down from the
Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or
shadow of turning of his own will. He brought us

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forth by the word of truth, that we might be
a kind of first fruits of His creatures. God is
altogether beautiful, altogether lovely, altogether powerful. God is love. The
Bible says, the purest form of anything that's ever existed
God is that he is holy. I think that goes

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without question. We are called to be holy set apart.
Unlike the rest Revelation eighteen. Come out of her my people,
least you share in her sins, unleast you receive of
her plagues. We are called to be holy set apart.

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Let us not forget what Jesus said about the straight
and narrow path. Enter by the narrow gate. For wide
is the gate, and broad is the way which leads
to destruction, and there are many who go in by it,
because narrow is the gate, and difficult is the way
which leads to life, and there are few who find it.

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Few kind of the opposite of holy is common, like
something for common use or ordinary use. You were not
called to that. You were called to be holy. Of
all of God's creation only man. If you go back

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and read Genesis and everything that God created, and he
made many beautiful things, many beautiful things. Think about all
the beautiful things we've talked about heretofore, the mountains, the rivers,
the beasts of the field, all those kind of things.
There's beauty in those, but not compared to you and

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I in the image of God. He created them male
and female. He created them. You were made in the
image of God. Nothing else in creation is said it
was made in the image of God except for you
and I. You not some random happenstance, sting pieced together

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from bacteria that just got smarter somehow and learn to
breathe there somehow and communicate somehow, and God eyeball somehow. No,
you were made from jump in the image of God.
Nothing else in all creation is like that. You were
made different. You were made in the image of God.

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Every human life is made in the image of God.
But He chooses some out of his own divine nature
and mercy, not because we deserve it, not because of
anything in you, but because of Him, because of He
is righteous, and he chooses to save some. Does God
not say I will have mercy on whom I will
have mercy from the Book of Romans. For he says

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to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will
have mercy, and I will have compassion on whoever I
will have compassion. So then it is not of him
who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God
who shows mercy. We also see this in Romans, as
it is written Jacob, I have loved, but Esau I
have hated. What shall we say then, is their unrighteousness

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with God? Certainly not. For he says to Moses, I
will have mercy on whomever. I will have mercy, and
I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.
For whatever reason that I'll never understand. God chose to
save me. Hopefully, if you're listening, he chose to save you.
That's not for me. For me is to share the

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good news. It's up to you to accept it reject
But some he calls. Some will the parable of the sower,
some will receive the word, some will take the narrow path.
Not only were you created at all when you didn't
deserve it, Not only were you made in the image
of God can be his own special people, a holy nation.

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From first Peter but you were a chosen people, a
royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession. That you
may declare the praise of Him who called you out
of darkness into his wonderful light. Holy set apart, special
to God. Can you imagine undeserved a mercy that is

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that we should be called children of God. He was
in the world, and the world was made through him,
and the world did not know him. He came to
his own, and his own did not receive him. But
as many as receive him to them. He gave the
right to become children of God to those who believe
in His name, and Galatians, for you are all sons

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of God through faith in Jesus Christ. Talk about holy now,
obviously we just read from First John in the beginning
was the Word, and the world was with God, and
the Word was God. Jesus is God made man. Therefore,
if God is holy, obviously Jesus is holy, the most

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holy man that ever lived, the only man talk about
set apart, the only man that ever walked this earth
without sinning. Can you imagine The Bible says he was
tempted in always as we are, yet without sin. Think
about how many times you. You know, I don't like
to think about it, but the countless amount of times
you and I have sinned against God, spit in the

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face of our creator, all sin kind of boils down
to this. You know what God wants you to do,
what he's telling you to do, and you say, no,
I'm gonna do what I want to do anyway. Pride, arrogance,
You think you know better than God. You think you
will get away with it. You know what God's asking
you to do, but you want to do what you
want to do instead of what God tells you to do.
Imagine a man so holy that he always did what

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God wanted him to do. When he was gonna be
nailed to a piece of wood and hang and die
when he didn't deserve it, he said, not my will,
but your will be done. That that is holy. That
is what I'm talking about. Set apart from the rest
of the world. That is a holy man, that is

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a holy God. We are called to be holy like that. Now,
of course we won't be now, of course we will
not be perfect in this life. But we can be
holy because we can be in Christ. And Christ is
holy as he is, so are we in this world,

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and there's a lot in that, but part of that
is holiness. Be set apart, don't be doing what the
rest of the world is doing. Come out of for
my people. Be separate. Be holy, for it is written,
be ye holy, for I am holy. It's a command
from your creator. Remember that in our day to day

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walk that we are called to be holy, that you
are holy. If you are in Christ, be ye holy,
for I am holy. Thanks and have a blessed day.