Pure Language

For then I will change the language of the peoples into a pure language that they may all call upon the name of Jehovah, to serve Him with one accord. Zephaniah 3:9

In His salvation to the Gentiles, Jehovah, in the time of restoration, will "change the language of the peoples into a pure language" (v. 9). To change a people's language is to change their culture because culture is wrapped up with language. The original language of any people is dirty and impure. But in His salvation God will change the language of the peoples into a pure language. When a person's language has become pure, this indicates that a person has been thoroughly saved.(Life-study of Zephaniah) 

This is a promise the Lord is fulfilling in the lives of many believers today, including mine. We were born into a human culture and were growing up in it. But through the salvation of the Lord Jesus, transformation has been going on, gradually changing our constitution inside-out. And this process has to go until we will be fully transformed to have a pure language.

This speaking of the Lord is very much in line with the burden the Lord has been burdening me for my own villagers, Keikhu. The culture of my village indeed is so strong that it becomes a part of their lives that they treasure so much to the extend of denying Christ with the fear that their most treasured culture would be changed because of Christ. Of course, that is the definite result of the Lord's salvation. In Christ, all these cultures have been crucified at the cross. What remains after crucifixion is the one new man, where Christ is all and in all.

Ephesians 2:15: Abolishing in His flesh the law of the commandments in ordinances, that He might create the two in Himself into one new man, so making peace,

Notes on "one new man" from the Recovery Version: The church is not only the church of God, the Body of Christ (the fullness, the expression, of the all-filling One — 1:23), and the household or family, the house, the temple, and the dwelling place of God (2:19, 21-22); it is also the one new man, which is corporate and universal, created of two peoples, the Jews and the Gentiles, and composed of all the believers, who, though they are many, are one new man in the universe.

God created man as a collective entity (Gen. 1:26). The corporate man created by God was damaged through man's fall; hence, there was the need for God to produce a new man. This was accomplished through Christ's abolishing in His flesh the ordinances and through His creating of the new man in Himself.

Colossians 3:10-11: And have put on the new man, which is being renewed unto full knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, Where there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free man, but Christ is all and in all.

Notes on "one new man" from the Recovery Version: In the new man there is room only for Christ. He is all the members of the new man and in all the members. He is everything in the new man. Actually, He is the new man, His Body (1 Cor. 12:12). In the new man He is the centrality and universality. He is the constituent of the new man, and He is all in all in the new man.

This is the pure language the Lord wants to accomplish among all created, redeemed, and regenerated mankind. And this is also my burden especially for my fellow tribesmen in the flesh that they became my fellow citizen in Christ.

Ephesians 2:19: So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 

By the Lord's salvation, one day, with all those whom I have been praying for, our language will be changed into a pure language that we may all call upon the name of Jehovah, to serve Him with one accord in the church-life, building up the Body of Christ, and becoming the testimony of Jesus!

Hasten that day, Lord!