You Know usually Church Going People have an erroneous idea what Holiness is.[/align][/align]They teach Holiness is , going to Church, dressing according to board rules, speaking in correct ways, giving the tithe ,Etc etc.[/align][/align]What does the word say ?[/align][/align][align=left]
For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you. [/align][/align]In other words toward each other ![/align][/align]When Have you reached Total Holiness in the Flesh ?[/align][/align]First when we died to self.[/align][/align]
"Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?...Our old self was crucified with him so that the sinful body might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin" (Romans 6:3, 6). Christ not only died, He also rose again; hence we who have believed rise with Him into a new life. "We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life" (Romans 6:4).[/align][align=left]
There can be no sanctification that does not begin with faith inJesusand His death on the cross as our own death; for to be baptized into that death (as Paul puts it) is death to sin, freedom from slavery to sin. There can be no other point of departure for Christian living, for growth in holiness, for sanctification. For in that death there is resurrection; in that liberation there is new life. For Christ not only died; He also rose again, and with Him as the living Lord there can now be real growth in sanctification.
"Do not yield your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but yield yourselves to God as men(women) who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness"¦.For just as you once yielded your members to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now yield your members to righteousness for sanctification" (Romans 6:13, 19).
This is the touchy part, most churches don't teach this because they don't believe it exists, or that it is possible.
Well it is the Apostles are our examples.
It is possible to live in this sinful world and be separated from the things that bring sin to ourselves.
When You have no desire to sin then you have reached what this words are teaching us, and it is possible i know so personally.
Sanctification, therefore, continues as we yield ourselves to God, even as a slave yields himself to his master, his life and actions being determined by his lord. Paul does not hesitate to speak of this new status as becoming "slaves of God""”"But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the return you get is sanctification and its end, eternal life" (Romans 6:22).
With Simplicity,
Alex
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"Blessed is He who Comes in The Name of The Lord"
THE SIMPLICITY OF HOLINESS
