Author	Thread: GOD AND OUR MORAL POLLUTION
dljrn04 View Profile History	GOD AND OUR MORAL POLLUTION Posted : 23 Jul, 2012 12:36 PM Isaiah 6:1�5:1 In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one called to another and said: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!" 4 And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. 5 And I said: "Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!" 6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. Devotional: People who live with God must be clean and holy because God is holy. Using many laws, God taught the people of the Old Covenant how to distinguish between clean and unclean, between what the LORD accepts and what the LORD rejects. First the Israelites had to learn to be ritually clean. That is, they had to observe the proper procedures for approaching God, the proper washings, the acceptable offerings, and the right place and time for the sacrifice. On a deeper level, however, they had to learn to be morally clean and holy. "Who may ascend the hill of the LORD? Who may stand in his holy place?" asks the psalmist. The answer is, "He who has clean hands and a pure heart" (Ps. 24:3�4). "Clean hands" means more than fingers dipped in a bowl of water for ritual cleansing. Clean hands are those that do good and are steered by a person with a "pure heart." God is holy. Therein lies the great difference between God and us and our sin-soaked world. As soon as human beings awake to the reality of God, we are overcome by our own moral pollution. God's holiness is a flash of lightning that reveals and threatens our sinful existence. We cannot see God and live. "I am unclean," we cry. Yet the holy life is precisely the life for which God's love prepares us. God intends us to share fully in his holiness. by the Rev. Andrew Kuyvenhoven Post Reply
View Profile History	GOD AND OUR MORAL POLLUTION Posted : 24 Jul, 2012 09:50 PM More ad hominem dodging a direct question. I quoted your exact words and I also quoted the scripture as it is in the Word. What part of that was drivel, as you called it? Just answer the question. Post Reply
View Profile History	GOD AND OUR MORAL POLLUTION Posted : 24 Jul, 2012 10:22 PM You quote certain scriptures filtered through the lens of Calvinism-your whole approach is drivel Bob. Hows that? You bore me-unless you have anything new to say Bob, please dont bore me further. I really have better things to do. Post Reply
View Profile History	GOD AND OUR MORAL POLLUTION Posted : 24 Jul, 2012 10:35 PM How's that? It's more ad homenim. Post Reply
View Profile History	GOD AND OUR MORAL POLLUTION Posted : 24 Jul, 2012 10:40 PM So obviously nothing new then Bob? :ROFL: Post Reply
View Profile History	GOD AND OUR MORAL POLLUTION Posted : 24 Jul, 2012 10:46 PM I seriously have better things do to-I must remove the lint from my doggies sweater :ROFL: Post Reply

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