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(I'm sorry the Bible lesson , for today, is late. The findmall.com website was unavailable early this mornign, to post it.)
[size=x-large]To Be Set Apart[/size]
What is the first time the concept of "holiness" (from the same root often translated "sanctified") is mentioned in Scripture? Gen. 2:3. How significant is the fact that the first thing deemed holy in the Bible is time?
Genesis 2:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
This text gives us our first understanding of holiness. It shows that something, in this case time, is "set apart" from that which is around it. The seventh day itself is no different from any other 24-hour, sunset-to-sunset period; what makes it different, "holy," is that God declared it that way. He set it apart from the rest of the week.
The Hebrew word there for "sanctified" means to "make holy" or to "declare holy". Holiness then implies that something is special about whatever is "holy", something that sets it apart from what isn
[size=x-large]To Be Set Apart[/size]
What is the first time the concept of "holiness" (from the same root often translated "sanctified") is mentioned in Scripture? Gen. 2:3. How significant is the fact that the first thing deemed holy in the Bible is time?
Genesis 2:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
This text gives us our first understanding of holiness. It shows that something, in this case time, is "set apart" from that which is around it. The seventh day itself is no different from any other 24-hour, sunset-to-sunset period; what makes it different, "holy," is that God declared it that way. He set it apart from the rest of the week.
The Hebrew word there for "sanctified" means to "make holy" or to "declare holy". Holiness then implies that something is special about whatever is "holy", something that sets it apart from what isn