Consecrated for a Purpose | What “Be Holy” Really Means | John Giftah

0:01 Speaker 1: Do you ever look around and think, Wow, the world

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0:41 Speaker 1: Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta.

0:44 Speaker 2: Everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for the

0:46 Speaker 2: Soul with John gift of podcast. And I just want

0:49 Speaker 2: to share something very bit important with you guys, because

0:52 Speaker 2: I believe there's a place for the kind of encouragement

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0:58 Speaker 2: they help us live the life that God has called

1:00 Speaker 2: us to live. But today, being the festival of color

1:04 Speaker 2: in India called Holy, I was reminded of the word

1:06 Speaker 2: holy that many times we forget when we talk about

1:09 Speaker 2: the aspect that we are called to live by in

1:12 Speaker 2: the Word of God. Because a lot of times we

1:14 Speaker 2: focus on Yes, God wants to bless you. God loves you,

1:16 Speaker 2: God cares for you, and we all of those things

1:18 Speaker 2: are true, and we need to understand that when we

1:21 Speaker 2: understand who God is, that he is a God of love,

1:24 Speaker 2: and we are called to walk in love, and we

1:25 Speaker 2: walk in the kind of way God was called us

1:28 Speaker 2: to live, accordingly, we will be able to live the victorious,

1:31 Speaker 2: the life that God has called us to live. But

1:34 Speaker 2: somewhere along the way, this particular word gets missed out,

1:38 Speaker 2: and I just wanted to share that today. First things First,

1:42 Speaker 2: I want to share the scriptures with you. It is

1:44 Speaker 2: found in Leviticus. It says, for the Lord your God

1:50 Speaker 2: is holy. Likewise you need to be holy. Leviticus nineteen,

1:56 Speaker 2: verse two talks about it. Leviticus eleven, verse forty four

1:59 Speaker 2: also says, for the Lord your God is holy, consecrate

2:02 Speaker 2: yourself and be holy, for I am holy. Even through

2:06 Speaker 2: the New Testament. You see in First Peter it says,

2:09 Speaker 2: for just as he called you a q who called

2:12 Speaker 2: you is holy, so you be holy in all you do,

2:16 Speaker 2: for it is written, be holy because I am holy.

2:19 Speaker 2: I want you to understand that there is this fundamental

2:22 Speaker 2: requirement for all of us as children of God to

2:25 Speaker 2: be holy. And the minute we think of holy, we

2:28 Speaker 2: have certain things in mind, like what does holiness means?

2:31 Speaker 2: We think holiness means I have to live by this

2:35 Speaker 2: model standard or I have to sin no more, or

2:39 Speaker 2: I have to like So what happens is this puts

2:42 Speaker 2: this unrealistic expectation on people that oh, you know what,

2:45 Speaker 2: I have this imp your thought, or I sinned, or

2:48 Speaker 2: I did this, or I did that, so you know

2:51 Speaker 2: I'm not worthy of God's goodness or mercy or anything

2:54 Speaker 2: like that. I want you to understand. See, I want

2:56 Speaker 2: you to not go into the wrong idea with regard

2:59 Speaker 2: to who holiness. What do I mean by that. I'm

3:02 Speaker 2: not saying go and sin. I'm not saying live in

3:04 Speaker 2: this lifestyle of sin. I'm not saying that. But what

3:07 Speaker 2: I'm saying is as humans, when we're living in this world,

3:11 Speaker 2: because we have the body, if we live in the body,

3:14 Speaker 2: which is the flesh, we have a tendency to sin. Yeah,

3:17 Speaker 2: because of the fallen nature of man, we other tendency

3:19 Speaker 2: to sin. Right, but stop beating yourself for it. Because

3:24 Speaker 2: I wanted to understand the word holy. If you see

3:28 Speaker 2: in Hebrew there are two words. One is kadosh and

3:31 Speaker 2: the other is kodaish. And here's the thing I wanted

3:34 Speaker 2: to understand. Right, one is an adjective and the other

3:37 Speaker 2: is a noun. Right, here's the thing. It fundamentally means

3:42 Speaker 2: to be set apart, consecrated, or separate for a specific

3:47 Speaker 2: divine purpose. See the word holiness means you have to

3:52 Speaker 2: be set apart, you have to stand out. See it's

3:56 Speaker 2: more to do with the posture. It's more to do

3:59 Speaker 2: with that posh of the heart or to live with

4:01 Speaker 2: that consciousness that you know what I'm set apart than

4:05 Speaker 2: to do with your performance of trying to achieve moral perfection.

4:10 Speaker 2: I want you to understand this because a lot of

4:12 Speaker 2: times we think, oh man I sin, so I beat myself,

4:15 Speaker 2: or oh God will never talk to me. God will

4:17 Speaker 2: never you know, entrust me with something in my life. No,

4:21 Speaker 2: you are called for a purpose. You are called to

4:24 Speaker 2: be set apart. And that is what holiness actually mean.

4:29 Speaker 2: See what I want you to understand. When you know

4:31 Speaker 2: that you have set apart for a purpose, for a

4:34 Speaker 2: divine calling, when you know that you're called to be

4:37 Speaker 2: different from the rest of the people, set apart, that

4:39 Speaker 2: you should not compromise, you should not give in to temptation.

4:42 Speaker 2: You're not supposed to dwell with the sinners and live

4:45 Speaker 2: in that sinful lifestyle. Then what happens. You start doing

4:49 Speaker 2: what God wants you to do. You start living the

4:51 Speaker 2: kind of life that God wants you to live today.

4:53 Speaker 2: That's the challenge I want to leave with each one

4:55 Speaker 2: of you under the sound of my voice, that instead

4:57 Speaker 2: of beating yourself you know, oh no, I'm not holy,

5:01 Speaker 2: I'm not holy. No, get to that place. You know what,

5:03 Speaker 2: I just depend on God because I have become holy

5:08 Speaker 2: by Him making me holy. Okay, I'm going to talk

5:11 Speaker 2: about that in another segment, but I wanted you to

5:13 Speaker 2: understand that you yourself are set apart by God and

5:19 Speaker 2: walk in that consciousness. When you know that you are

5:22 Speaker 2: set apart, that you have been divinely kept aside for

5:29 Speaker 2: a specific divine purpose and a calling, then what happens.

5:33 Speaker 2: You will not live like other people. You will not

5:36 Speaker 2: live for a lower standard. You will not live with

5:38 Speaker 2: that worldly mindset. You will not live with that giving

5:42 Speaker 2: you to temptation, giving into compromise, giving into shortcuts, giving

5:45 Speaker 2: into the sinful lifestyle. That the world lives by. So

5:49 Speaker 2: that is the thing that I want you to have

5:52 Speaker 2: in the core of your mind. You're called to be holy,

5:55 Speaker 2: but what does that mean. It means to walk in

5:57 Speaker 2: that consciousness that you are set apart and you are

6:04 Speaker 2: in that place where you're consecrated, and you are walking

6:08 Speaker 2: with that awareness that you're here for a specific divine purpose.

6:13 Speaker 2: So you will not give into things that will destroy

6:16 Speaker 2: that purpose over your life, like the way it happened

6:20 Speaker 2: with people like Samson. You get what I'm saying. So

6:23 Speaker 2: God bless you.

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