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This Week
Holi-Mess - Living Holy Not Perfect

Many people are "JACKED UP" so were the people we read about in the bible.

Noah got drunk.
Abraham lied about his wife. Twice.
Sarah laughed at what God said.
Isaac tried to give God’s covenant blessing to the wrong son.
Jacob was deceitful.
Moses hated public speaking and had an anger problem.
Rahab was a prostitute.
and there is more....

We all have stuff we are embarrassed for others to find out about us. You know what? God knows it already anyway. Let's keep it real as we learn how to go from a HOLI-MESS to HOLINESS!

We promise to present the word of God in whole and in plain language so everyone of us can understand it. All of us need to experience what God says about these vital areas of our lives.

Some Ground Rules for listening to these messages:
#1 - Listen for your benefit, not for someone else.
* God knew you would be here today and he has prepared this fo you!

#2 - Do not filter these messages through your past hurts and mistakes.
* God makes ALL things new. It is always a good time to start again!

#3 - Receive the whole word of God with a humble heart.
* Some of what we will read is graphic and difficult but always edifying!

NOW LETS ALL GET READY TO TAKE ONE STEP CLOSER TO JESUS!

Below you will find the notes and scripture refferences from todays message.

Give Credit Where Credit Is Due:
I want to thank the many influences in todays message.
John Maxwell, Church of Highlands, Grow Leaders Network, Life Church Open Resources, Habitudes, Compassion Network, Lifeway and Lloyd Stilley.

But above all I give thanks for the leading of the Holy Spirit, the saving grace of Jesus and the mighty hand of God who owns it all. May God meet us all in these words and lead us in the way we should go - Pastor Win

I love music. It is a gift from God that captures and carries that which cannot be adequately expressed by words alone. "Music," said Plato, "gives wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything." Music sets forth what is important to us, what moves us, what changes us, what we long for. So do you know what the first recorded song in the Bible is about? I will give you a hint: the last song recorded in the Bible is about the same thing.

The first song in Scripture appears in Ex. 15; the last song can be found in Rev. 15. And both have as their shared focus the holiness of God. After God demolished any notion that Egypt's false gods were anything other than the projections of the men who worshipped them; after God delivered over 1 million Israeli slaves from the grip of Egypt through 10 awesome plagues and a parted Red Sea, Moses led the whole nation in a song celebrating God's holiness. One verse captures the gist of the entire song: "Lord, who is like You among the gods? Who is like You, glorious in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?"

When the 90-year old Apostle John was granted by God to look into the future, he saw a moment when the final outpouring of the wrath of God was about to take place. Gathered in heaven were those whose faith and allegiance to God in defiance of the rule of AntiChrist had cost them their lives. And John tells us that "they sang the song of God's servant Moses, and the song of the Lamb: Great and awe-inspiring are Your works, Lord God, the Almighty; righteous and true are Your ways, King of the Nations. Lord, who will not fear and glorify Your name? Because You alone are holy, because all the nations will come and worship before You, because Your righteous acts have been revealed." (Rev. 15:3-4)

I. What does it mean to say 'God is holy'?
There are basically two strands of meaning for the word holy:

A. To be holy is to be distinct, separate, unique
The basic meaning of holy in the Bible is to cut away or to separate. R. C. Sproul suggests that this word conveys the same idea we express when we find a garment or a golf club or some piece of merchandise that is outstanding, that has superior excellence, and we might say that it is "a cut above the rest."

B. To be holy is to be absolutely pure

Holiness is being set apart from anything impure in order to be completely given over to what God says is pure. When you apply this meaning to God, His holiness points to what 1 John 1:5 says: "there is absolutely no darkness at all." James tells us that "God is not tempted by evil, and He Himself doesn't tempt anyone." (James 1:13). Habakkuk 1:13 adds that God's eyes "are too pure to look on evil, and [He] cannot tolerate wrongdoing." In a word, God is perfect, without sin, flawless.

C. Only holy people can see God

"Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness - without it no one will see the Lord." (Heb. 12:14) Holy people see the holy God. Unholy people will never lay eyes on Him. "Your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have made Him hide [His] face from you so that He does not listen." (Isaiah 59:2).

What difference does God's holiness make in my life?
A. Saving holiness
Do you have the holiness of God working for you in Christ, or is His holiness set against you? Have you fled to Christ, deliberately, personally trusting that what He did on the cross is your only hope of being right with God? Or are you still carrying your sin and an appointment with the fierce wrath of God?

B. Serving holiness
What is the evidence in your daily life that the Holy Spirit of God indwells you? Does your behavior, your choices, your habits, your language show that you are, in the language of I Peter 2:9, "a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of the One who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light"?

Holiness is not people who are perfect, its people who have been forgiven.

Holiness is not for God its for Us!

You are Messy / I am Messy But God is Holy and He ALONE can clean up your mess!

Do you want him to do that?
ASK GOD – WILL YOU FORGIVE ME?

Take a step to Salvation:

Pray this prayer:
Jesus I am so sorry I have gone my own way> It is time for it to stop> I'm ready to surrender my life to you> I give you Everything> Lord you take my sin> I'll take your righteousness> I thank you God that you're making me holy today> It is as if I never did it> you're forgiving me> you are cleansing me> with the power of your blood on the cross> I invite the Holy Spirit to come live inside of me> to help me live a different life> and I'm gonna follow your word and your way> Because it's right and it's better> today I give you my life> in JESUS name I pray AMEN