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Moses, Isaiah, and the Holiness of God · First15 Devotional

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Today, we will look at the stories of Moses and Isaiah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They encountered the holiness of God and were changed forever.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As we look upon him, may we be changed just the same.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Know that as you come before him, you are loved by him and made right with him through the blood of Jesus.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He simply wants you to come.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Our Scripture for today comes from Exodus 3, verse 2, Scripture says, and the angel of the Lord appeared to Him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He looked and behold the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Two of the most powerful recorded encounters of God's presence are found with Isaiah in Isaiah 6-1-7 and with Moses in Exodus 3-2-6.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's open our hearts to both learn from these encounters and allow them to guide us into a powerful encounter with the living God ourselves.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In the year that King Zia died, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of his robe filled the temple.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Above him stood the seraphim.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Each had six wings, with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and one called to another and said, holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The whole earth is full of His glory, and the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of Him who called.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and the house was filled with smoke.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I said, woe is me, for I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: For my eyes have seen the king, the Lord of hosts.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: than one of the seraphim flutes me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And he touched my mouth and said, behold, this has touched your lips.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Your guilt is taken away and your sin, a tone for.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Isaiah demonstrated that experiencing the holiness of God and seeing our own sin, a light of his holiness, our consistent and important parts of encountering God's presence.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Time after time and scripture, God's people see their own sin, repent and are healed after having an encounter with the presence of God.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, Moses has a similar response to being in the presence of God for the first time in Exodus 3 verses 2 through 6.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Scripture says, And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And Moses said, I will turn aside to see this great site where the bush is not burned.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see God called to him out of the bush.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Moses Moses, and he said, here I am.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Then he said, do not come near, take your sandals off your feet for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And he said, I am the God of your Father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And Moses hid his face for he was afraid to look at God.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: in light of God's astounding holiness.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Moses was filled with fear to look at the face of God.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: These two descriptions of God's presence illustrate an important truth for all.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The light of God's holiness has the ability to pierce into the depth of our soul.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Bringing to light the darkness that destroys us from within.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: My prayer today is that we would follow the examples of Moses and Isaiah and allow God's holiness to shine light on our sin and draw us to repentance.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And may we experience healing today the way Isaiah did as the angel of the Lord cleansed him with the cold.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: God's presence cast light on our sin and brokenness, because in order for us to live the fullness of life God desires, we must walk in righteousness.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's because of God's love that He reveals our sin.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's because God longs for us to experience a life of holiness and freedom as his children that he shines light on our darkness and draws us out into the glorious light of righteousness.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: God promises, and Isaiah 42, 16, and I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know, in paths that they have not known, I will guide them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I will turn the darkness before them into light.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The rough places into level ground.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: These are the things I do, and I do not forsake them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and first Peter 29 says, but you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: God's desire has always been to lead his children into his righteousness.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: God's longing for us to partake in his divine nature has been a chief desire of his from the first sin of Adam and Eve.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And through the life, death, and resurrection of Christ, our nature has been transformed.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Ephesians 2 verses 1 through success, and you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body in the mind, and whereby nature, children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But God, being rich in mercy,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: because of the great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: By grace, you have been saved, and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You have been set free from once separated you from your Heavenly Father.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But the key to experiencing this freedom is allowing God to shine light on what does not belong to you anymore.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You're sin.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You must walk as a child of the light, not as a child of wrath.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And it's spending time encountering the holiness of God that will transform you from the inside out.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Spending time on Holy Ground as Moses did will heal you from the sins that entangle you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Spending time allowing God to reveal your sin and purge it from you as He did with Isaiah will empower you to choose the light over the darkness.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A vital part of Encountering God is repenting of our sin in the light of His wonderful Holy Love for us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Experience the holiness of God today as you enter in the guided prayer.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Repent of whatever is in you that's not in line with your new nature in Christ.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And walk as the child of God that you are in light of his wonderful and powerful grace.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As we begin, meditate on Moses and Isaiah's encounters with the holiness of God.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Put yourself inside the story, imagine yourself as their character, feel what they would have felt, see what they would have seen, allow the stories of Scripture to come to life around you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Exodus 3 verses 2 through 6 says, and the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame a fire out of the midst of a bush.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He looked and behold the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And Moses said, I will turn aside to see this great sight why the bush is not burned.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When the Lord saw that He turned aside to see, God called Him out of the bush, Moses, Moses.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And He said, here I am.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Then He said, do not come near.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Take your sandals off your feet for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And He said, I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And Moses hid his face, where he was afraid to look at God.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and next, allow the holiness of God to shine light on the darkest parts of your soul.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Where do you have unconfessed sin?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What's holding you back from walking fully in the light?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What sin does God want to heal you from today?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And last, confess your sins to God, repent from any area of darkness, and turn fully toward the light of holiness.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: rest in his forgiveness, and allow it to be the foundation on which you can live in the freedom bought for you by the blood of Christ.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Psalm 30 11 says, you have turned for me my morning into dancing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You have loosed my sack cloth and clothed me with gladness.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: when we give our sin over to God.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He turns what the enemy meant to harm us into our greatest source of gladness.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Forgiveness is something to dance over, to sing about, and to enjoy wholeheartedly.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Our God takes what was dark and makes it light.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He took what tied us to this world, placed it on the shoulders of Jesus, and put it to death with the last breath of his perfect son.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: May you discover today a freeing joy in the presence of the God of holiness and forgiveness and may you live your life in the light of the glorious grace you've been shown through the love of God.
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