An Authentic Calling: Representing Christ and His Kingdom through the Church

Ses s i on 3: A Ca l l to Ho l i nes s

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on your hand or frontlets between your eyes, for by a strong hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt.

3. The giving of the Law on Sinai: God’s covenant with his people , Exod. 19.3-6 (ESV) – While Moses went up to God. The Lord called to him out of the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel: [4] You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. [5] Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; [6] and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.”

a. Their own identity and community

b. Their own discipline, order, and governance

c. A new destiny: the people of Messiah giving witness to the surrounding nations of the covenant faithfulness of God

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, hagios

A term derived from the same root as hagnos (found in hazo, “to venerate”), fundamentally signifies “separated” (among the Greeks, dedicated to the gods), and hence, in Scripture in its moral and spiritual significance, separated from sin and therefore consecrated to God, sacred. (a) It is predicted of God (as the absolutely “Holy” One, in his purity, majesty and glory): of the Father , e.g., Luke 1.49; John 17.11; 1 Pet. 1.15, 16; Rev. 4.8; Rev. 6.10; of the Son , e.g., Luke 1.35; Acts 3.14; Acts 4.27, 30; 1 John 2.20; of the Spirit , e.g., Matt. 1.18 and frequently in all the Gospels, Acts, Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Ephesians, 1 Thessalonians; also in 2 Tim. 1.14; Titus 3.5; 1 Pet. 1.12; 2 Pet. 1.21; Jude 1.20. (b) It is used of men and things (see below) in so far as they are devoted to God . Indeed the quality, as attributed