December 30, 2021: SOAP #4410:  Revelation 15-18

SCRIPTURE:  Revelation (NIV) 15:2 And I saw what looked like a sea of glass mixed with fire and, standing beside the sea, those who had been victorious over the beast and his image and over the number of his name. They held harps given them by God 3 and sang the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb: “Great and marvelous are your deeds, Lord God Almighty. Just and true are your ways, King of the ages. 4 Who will not fear you, O Lord, and bring glory to your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before you, for your righteous acts have been revealed.”

OBSERVATION: During the judgments of God, we find the phrase, “you alone are holy.”  God is both perfect in love and perfect in holiness. 

Generally, when something clean and unclean touch, the clean becomes unclean. Contact with the dirty causes the clean to become dirty. We are all sinners, and sin is not accepted in God’s presence.  But when the blood of Jesus is applied to the life of a sinner, the sinner is justified—made just as if he had never sinned!!!  God is so holy, that He makes what He touches holy. 

APPLICATION:  It should not surprise me when the Holy Spirit draws my attention to things in my life that do not measure up to God’s holiness.  He is in the process of “holifying” me.  (My word for God working on my thoughts, attitudes, desires, habits, actions, reactions, pleasures, etc.)  Leon is body, soul, and spirit.  God is working to align body and soul with spirit!   

PRAYER:  Holy Spirit, I recognize your presence in me.  Keep working on me. Keep working on the parts that can be seen, so that what cannot be seen shines through. May Jesus be seen in me. Amen.

Pastor Leon
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