The Holy One

Revelation 3:7-8 LITV, And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia, write: These things says the Holy One, the True One, the One having "the key of David," "the One opening, and no one shuts; and shuts, and no one opens:" I know your works. Behold, I have given a door being opened before you, and no one is able to shut it, for you have a little power and have kept My word, and have not denied My name.

Notice the words 'the Holy One' in v. 7. The Lord Jesus Christ calls Himself 'the Holy One'. This title is a title for God alone. Jesus is the Holy One. The Holy One refers primarliy to His uniqueness, and being set apart from His creation. The Lord Jesus is inherently Holy. The very reason why people do not want the Lord Jesus, but rather push Jesus away, not love Him but hate Him, is because He is the Holy One. People feel uncomfortable and exposed by the Lord Jesus, a feeling they do not like because He is Holy, and they are sinful. They have pleasure in unrighteousness and not in the truth, and they do not want the Holy One, who is righteous to be near them.

For us who believe, before we got saved by the Lord, we did the same and pushed Jesus away, for we had pleasure in unrighteousness and not in the truth, but that all changed for us when God interrupted our lives and saved us in Christ Jesus. God gave us a new heart, took out the heart of stone and gave us a heart of flesh, for us to be able to hear the voice of our Shepherd, and to stop pushing Him away, but to embrace Him and come to Him, our Lord Jesus Christ, and be saved. The Bible says in John 3:3 LITV, Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, if one does not receive birth from above, he is not able to see the kingdom of God. The Bible says in John 3:8 ESV, The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit. God changed us from a God hater to a God lover, a lover of the truth and no longer a lover of unrighteousness. 

Brothers and sisters in the Lord, how we are to be thankful to God for saving us, for interrupting our lives and saving us, for without God and His grace, we would still be willfully pushing Jesus away, like many do each day, having pleasure in unrighteousness and not in the truth. Amen.