Gods Sign Post - EP 537 - Slavery or Freedom - 1/3/2025

A daily bible study to draw us closer in our relationship with GOD through our Savior Jesus Christ in prayer and reading the word of GOD.
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365 Devotions on the Power of Prayer
ROMANS 15:4 NKJV
4) For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.
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ROMANS 15:4 NIV
4) For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.
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Life Lessons from GALATIANS
Lesson #9 - Slavery or Freedom
GALATIANS 4:21-31
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Further Reading:
To Complete GALATIANS during this twelve-part study, read GALATIANS 4:21-31.
More Bible passages on freedom in Christ, read Isaiah 61:1-3; Matthew 11:28-30;
John 8:31-36; Romans 6:15-18; Ephesians 2:6-10; and 1 Peter13-16.
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PRAYING THE NAMES OF GOD:
Week #11: QEDOSH YISRAEL
Key Scripture’s : Leviticus 19:1-2

Understanding the Name:
Qedosh is Hebrew for “Holy One,” a title for God that appears most frequently in the book of Isaiah, though it also appears in some of the other prophets (notably Hosea, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Habakkuk) and in Psalms and Job. It emphasizes God’s otherness, separateness, and mystery. The term most frequently used for “holy” in the New Testament is hagios.

To understand the title “Holy One of Israel,” Qedosh Yisrael (ke-DOSH yis-ra-AIL), we need first to understand that holiness is grounded in God’s nature. It refers not to one of his attributes but to the totality of his perfection. In his holiness, God exists above and apart from the world he has made.

Things, times, places, people, and other created beings became holy by virtue of their connection to God. Thus, the people of Israel became holy because God had chosen them. Their holiness was to be expressed and maintained through ritual practices and adherence to moral laws, which set them apart for the service of GOD.

It is important to realize that God’s holiness involves not just separation from sin, but his absolute hostility toward it. Christ ultimately bridged the chasm between God and sinful human beings by making himself the perfect offering for our sins. Believers are called to be holy as he is holy and are enabled to imitate Christ by the grace of the holy Spirit.