The Old Testament Prophet Zechariah tells us these words, “Holiness to the Lord,” were also to be inscribed on the bells of the people’s horses. It\u2019s interesting that this seemingly sacred inscription was to be placed on both the sacred and the secular. Everything was to be done as unto the Lord, both on the farm and in the city. And everything was to be recognized as dedicated to God, from the High Priest down to the working animal.<\/p>\n
In the New Testament, Peter reminds us that as believers we are all now God\u2019s priests, going everywhere (1 Pet. 2:5). We were called out of a life of bondage to sin; and while we are to remain in this world, we are not to be of it. We are called to be in the culture and society but separated from its sin. Like the children of God of old, we are also called to turn every act of our life into a sacred service to God.<\/p>\n
The high priest displayed this message of holiness where all could read it and so should we. However, as Francis of Assisi wrote, \u201cPreach the gospel at all times. If necessary, use words.” Being labeled shouldn’t be the only way someone sees that we follow God; the witness of our lives should be self-evident and obvious to anyone who would observe us. If the only way someone can tell we are believers is because we have a sign on our foreheads (or on the bumpers of our cars?!), then there is something wrong with our witness. We need to live our lives in such a way that even a casual glance at our words and actions clearly displays that Jesus is the Lord of our lives.<\/p>\n
“LORD, please help us to walk the walk today before You and the watching world.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n =============================================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n Exodus 39 KJV<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1<\/sup>\u00a0And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made cloths of service, to do service in the holy\u00a0place\u00a0<\/em>, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as the\u00a0LORD\u00a0commanded Moses.\u00a02<\/sup>\u00a0And he made the ephod\u00a0of<\/em> gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.\u00a03<\/sup>\u00a0And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut\u00a0it into\u00a0<\/em>wires, to work\u00a0it\u00a0<\/em>in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen,\u00a0with<\/em> cunning work.\u00a04<\/sup>\u00a0They made shoulderpieces for it, to couple\u00a0it\u00a0<\/em>together: by the two edges was it coupled together.\u00a05<\/sup>\u00a0And the curious girdle of his ephod, that\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>upon it,\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>of the same, according to the work thereof;\u00a0of\u00a0<\/em>gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the\u00a0LORD\u00a0commanded Moses. 6<\/sup>\u00a0And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel.\u00a07<\/sup>\u00a0And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod,\u00a0that they should be<\/em> stones for a memorial to the children of Israel; as the\u00a0LORD\u00a0commanded Moses. 8<\/sup>\u00a0And he made the breastplate\u00a0of<\/em> cunning work, like the work of the ephod;\u00a0of\u00a0<\/em>gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.\u00a09<\/sup>\u00a0It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof,\u00a0being\u00a0<\/em>doubled.\u00a010<\/sup>\u00a0And they set in it four rows of stones:\u00a0the first\u00a0<\/em>row\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this\u00a0was<\/em>the first row.\u00a0\u00a011<\/sup>\u00a0And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.\u00a012<\/sup>\u00a0And the third row, a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.\u00a013<\/sup>\u00a0And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper:\u00a0they were\u00a0<\/em>inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.\u00a014<\/sup>\u00a0And the stones\u00a0were<\/em> according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names,\u00a0like\u00a0<\/em>the engravings of a signet, every one with his name, according to the twelve tribes.\u00a015<\/sup>\u00a0And they made upon the breastplate chains at the ends,\u00a0of\u00a0<\/em>wreathen work\u00a0of\u00a0<\/em>pure gold.\u00a016<\/sup>\u00a0And they made two ouches\u00a0of<\/em>gold, and two gold rings; and put the two rings in the two ends of the breastplate.\u00a017<\/sup>\u00a0And they put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breastplate.\u00a018<\/sup>\u00a0And the two ends of the two wreathen chains they fastened in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod, before it.\u00a019<\/sup>\u00a0And they made two rings of gold, and put\u00a0them\u00a0<\/em>on the two ends of the breastplate, upon the border of it, which was\u00a0<\/em>on the side of the ephod inward.\u00a020<\/sup>\u00a0And they made two\u00a0other\u00a0<\/em>golden rings, and put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart of it, over against the\u00a0other\u00a0<\/em>coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.\u00a021<\/sup>\u00a0And they did bind the breastplate by his rings unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod; as the\u00a0LORD\u00a0commanded Moses. 22<\/sup>\u00a0And he made the robe of the ephod\u00a0of\u00a0<\/em>woven work, all\u00a0of\u00a0<\/em>blue.\u00a023<\/sup>\u00a0And\u00a0there was\u00a0<\/em>an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon,\u00a0with\u00a0<\/em>a band round about the hole, that it should not rend.\u00a024<\/sup>\u00a0And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates\u00a0of\u00a0<\/em>blue, and purple, and scarlet,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>twined\u00a0linen\u00a0<\/em>.\u00a025<\/sup>\u00a0And they made bells\u00a0of<\/em> pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round about between the pomegranates;\u00a026<\/sup>\u00a0A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round about the hem of the robe to minister\u00a0in;\u00a0<\/em>as the\u00a0LORD\u00a0commanded Moses. 27<\/sup>\u00a0And they made coats\u00a0of\u00a0<\/em>fine linen\u00a0of\u00a0<\/em>woven work for Aaron, and for his sons,\u00a028<\/sup>\u00a0And a mitre\u00a0of\u00a0<\/em>fine linen, and goodly bonnets\u00a0of\u00a0<\/em>fine linen, and linen breeches\u00a0of\u00a0<\/em>fine twined linen,\u00a029<\/sup>And a girdle\u00a0of\u00a0<\/em>fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet,\u00a0of<\/em> needlework; as the\u00a0LORDcommanded Moses. 30<\/sup>\u00a0And they made the plate of the holy crown\u00a0of\u00a0<\/em>pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing,\u00a0like to\u00a0<\/em>the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE\u00a0LORD.\u00a031<\/sup>\u00a0And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten\u00a0it\u00a0<\/em>on high upon the mitre; as the\u00a0LORD\u00a0commanded Moses. 32<\/sup>\u00a0Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished: and the children of Israel did according to all that the\u00a0LORD\u00a0commanded Moses, so did they. 33<\/sup>\u00a0And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the tent, and all his furniture, his taches, his boards, his bars, and his pillars, and his sockets,\u00a034<\/sup>\u00a0And the covering of rams\u2019 skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers\u2019 skins, and the vail of the covering,\u00a035<\/sup>\u00a0The ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the mercy seat,\u00a036<\/sup>\u00a0The table,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread,\u00a037<\/sup>\u00a0The pure candlestick,\u00a0with\u00a0<\/em>the lamps thereof,\u00a0even with\u00a0<\/em>the lamps to be set in order, and all the vessels thereof, and the oil for light,\u00a038<\/sup>\u00a0And the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle door,\u00a0\u00a039<\/sup>\u00a0The brasen altar, and his grate of brass, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,\u00a040<\/sup>\u00a0The hangings of the court, his pillars, and his sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, his cords, and his pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of the congregation,\u00a041<\/sup>\u00a0The cloths of service to do service in the holy\u00a0place\u00a0<\/em>, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his sons\u2019 garments, to minister in the priest\u2019s office.\u00a042<\/sup>\u00a0According to all that the\u00a0LORD\u00a0commanded Moses, so the children of Israel made all the work.\u00a043<\/sup>\u00a0And Moses did look upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it as the\u00a0LORD\u00a0had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Old Testament Prophet Zechariah tells us these words, “Holiness to the Lord,” were also to be inscribed on the bells of the people’s horses. 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