Haggai 2:13

Then Haggai said, “If a person defiled by contact with a dead body touches one of these things, does it become defiled?” “Yes,” the priests replied, “it becomes defiled.”

From Background Notes [BN] for October 6^th & 7^th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

Our initial reaction to the two questions and their answers might be: It doesn’t take much for unclean things to make other things unclean, whereas becoming holy doesn’t happen by second-hand contact with another holy thing.

Another way to state this is that holiness doesn’t come as a by-product of another process. As every Jew knew, God’s instructions about holiness were concise: “Be holy as I am holy” (Leviticus 19:2; 20:7). Holiness comes as God’s gift of Himself to those who truly seek Him; holiness is not the secondary outcome of being religious. [BN, 4]

Join us this week in Study, Worship, Praise and Celebration at Chicago First Church of the Nazarene:

* Saturday 6:00pm
* Sunday 8:30am & 11:00am, 5:30pm