The Holy Nation
Today’s Focus: A Call to Holiness
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 6:17,18; 1 John 2:15; Exodus 19:5,6; 1 Peter 2:9
Greetings Kingdom Citizens
For the Holy Nation to be the Holy Nation the nation must be holy! However do we see this today from people who are holy or proclaim to be holy? How can you be something that you do not understand nor practice? Harsh but true. It is hard to be who God has called you to be when there is a lack of proper leadership who is to disciple in that very thing. But, there are people who are living holy and are demonstrating the very character and nature of God in the earth. To see it, you must deny yourself and repent and allow God to show you. Funny, it is the very people who live it who get criticized by the people who claim to live it and do not. But let’s look at the scripture:
2 Corinthians 6:17,18: Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
The entire scripture passage of 2 Corinthians 6:14-18 is speaking of not being unequally yoked with unbelievers, unrighteousness and false god worship. After making the analogy, God makes the call to holiness when He says, come out from among them and be ye separate. To be holy is to be separate or sanctify from which we get the word saint. So the first step in beginning to live holy is you must deny yourself and the ways of the world for the ways of Christ. 1 John 2:15 states that if any man loves the world (ways of the world or systems of the world) then the love of the Father is not in Him. God said in Exodus 19:5 that the holy nation would be a peculiar treasure or as stated in 1 Peter 2:9 a peculiar people above all in the Earth. So the holy nation is the most unique nation in the Earth and the one that God will exalt in and through the age of man and especially at the end of the age. Now let us be perfectly clear on this, according to the scripture, if you do not come from among the worldly people and be separate then the LORD WILL NOT RECEIVE YOU. This is a conditional scripture much like a lot of scripture where we will see words like “if”, “when”, “wherefore”, “then”.
Now if the holy nation is made up of the sons of God then this makes the holy nation the most diverse nation in the Earth but the enemy was warped our minds in this very thing to attempt to divide the Body of Christ. In the next message we will look at racism and how the enemy is using the spirit of racism to divide the holy nation and darken our knowledge that the Lord is speaking in this age about how the Holy Spirit is arranging us in the Body and how the holy nation defies ethnicity.
At Our Father’s Service,
Elder Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
