Ephesians 2:14 (AV) — 14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
The Holy Spirit has come to invade the world of men and combat them, not in the cathedrals and church-halls, but the marketplaces and highways. He has come to declare this world is not man’s, not Satan’s, but God’s Son.
Moody spoke of the “holy sanctimony” that believers often carry with them when they step into the church. They act a certain way while there and then differently when they leave.
Any place where God is is holy, and this putting on another air and a sanctimonious look when we come into the house of God, and laying it aside when we go out, thinking that this is going to be acceptable to God, is all wrong. Every place ought to be holy to a true child of God.1
Tozer spoke of this and called it “the sanctification of the secular.” That is, taking God with you wherever you go.
Some of the great saints, who were great because they took such admonitions seriously and sought to practice them, managed to achieve the sanctification of the secular, or perhaps I should say the abolition of the secular. Their attitude toward life’s common things raised those above the common and imparted to them an aura of divinity. These pure souls broke down the high walls that separated the various areas of their lives from each other and saw all as one; and that one they offered to God as a holy oblation acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.2
He went on to lament the church’s “secularization of the sacred.”
The Church today is suffering from the secularization of the sacred. By accepting the world’s values, thinking its thoughts and adopting its ways we have dimmed the glory that shines overhead. We have not been able to bring earth to the judgment of heaven so we have brought heaven to the judgment of the earth.
We ought to be a strange lot to the world. They should think it odd to hear our songs of praise when we pull up next to them in our vehicles or sing a hymn while working. Our adoration of God mustn’t stop just because we can’t take our Bibles while we swing a hammer or push a broom.
Praise Invades the Secular
08/12/2020
Day 224: Praise Invades the Secular
Ephesians 2:14 (AV) — 14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
The Holy Spirit has come to invade the world of men and combat them, not in the cathedrals and church-halls, but the marketplaces and highways. He has come to declare this world is not man’s, not Satan’s, but God’s Son.
Moody spoke of the “holy sanctimony” that believers often carry with them when they step into the church. They act a certain way while there and then differently when they leave.
Any place where God is is holy, and this putting on another air and a sanctimonious look when we come into the house of God, and laying it aside when we go out, thinking that this is going to be acceptable to God, is all wrong. Every place ought to be holy to a true child of God.1
Tozer spoke of this and called it “the sanctification of the secular.” That is, taking God with you wherever you go.
Some of the great saints, who were great because they took such admonitions seriously and sought to practice them, managed to achieve the sanctification of the secular, or perhaps I should say the abolition of the secular. Their attitude toward life’s common things raised those above the common and imparted to them an aura of divinity. These pure souls broke down the high walls that separated the various areas of their lives from each other and saw all as one; and that one they offered to God as a holy oblation acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.2
He went on to lament the church’s “secularization of the sacred.”
The Church today is suffering from the secularization of the sacred. By accepting the world’s values, thinking its thoughts and adopting its ways we have dimmed the glory that shines overhead. We have not been able to bring earth to the judgment of heaven so we have brought heaven to the judgment of the earth.
We ought to be a strange lot to the world. They should think it odd to hear our songs of praise when we pull up next to them in our vehicles or sing a hymn while working. Our adoration of God mustn’t stop just because we can’t take our Bibles while we swing a hammer or push a broom.
1 Moody, D. L. The D. L. Moody Year Book: A Living Daily Message from the Words of D. L. Moody. Ed. Emma Moody Fitt. East Northfield, MA: The Bookstore, 1900. Print.
2 Tozer, A. W., and Anita M. Bailey. Man: The Dwelling Place of God. Camp Hill, PA.: WingSpread, 1997. Print.