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To be Holy
1 Peter 1:16 Scripture says, "Be Holy, because I am Holy." What does this mean to you?
What is Holy, and how best can we show that we are?
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Permalink Reply by a servant (Chris) on
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As I agree in my blog post on this, and also in" Working Out Our Faith." We can only have Holiness through Jesus. see it is that word "Be" this word shows a action. 1Thess 4:7-8 7For God has not called you to impurity but to Holiness. 8Therefore, whoever defrauds, does not defraud a man, but God, He who gives His Spirit of Holiness among you. In this verse we are called to Holiness. It is only in ans through the Spirit, and Jesus inside of us. Yet, again "whoever defrauds" which shows there must be action to defraud. I think we are saying the same thing. My point again is the word "Be Holy" which I see as action on our part, if I am mistaken, please show me. Thanks for your response
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Permalink Reply by Leonard T on
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The "Be Holy" is the experiential side and is what we aspire to every day. It is our goal.
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Permalink Reply by forgiven on
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Yes, Amen. I love how you used the expression 'aspire to'.....it sounds 'wispy/etheric'...what my 'dreams are made of'. However...in our 'aspiring'/ answering Him.....I believe that very act...is in itself the most Holy thing we will ever do. 'We' often see it as 'where we are trying to get'.......but I believe 'He' sees us 'already there'. The man said, "It is done".
(please pardone my mental gymnastics) :-)
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Permalink Reply by Amanda on
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LT, having two righteousnesses confuses me because of what Philippians 3 says:
7 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.
8 What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ
9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in[a] Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.
10 I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,
11 and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.
It very easily can become legalism.
Isn't it best just to say we are righteous based on our position in Christ and we will automatically become more and more like Him as we get to know Him more and more? He will live out His righteousness through us. We always know when we are failing to be righteous and we hate it. When we are succeeding in being righteous we do it without even trying or making an effort because it is who we are. It is a state of being, isn't it? Anytime we fall out of that state, we are miserable. When the body is glorified and the soul is sanctified upon seeing Jesus face to face, we won't have these problems anymore. It's just a matter of growing up, isn't it, into Christ and His righteousness, but not of having two righteousnesses?
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One is a state of being. That is positional. The other flows from that state of being. That is experiential. The state of being is all God. The experiential is dependant upon us surrendering so that the life of Christ is being lived out through us. The experiential cannot be legalism, because it is still the life of Christ, but this only surfaces and shines through as we surrender to Him daily.
They are not two, but two sides of one coin.
You cannot fall out of that state of being ... you can cease to surrender.
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I just wonder how much of the surrendering is even up to us. I mean we are actually slaves. Not in a bad way of course. But due to divine discipline and cause and effect (determinism), and very limited liberties, and also the change in our own desires, which are no longer worldly but which long for purity and holiness and hate sin, probably the only way to cease to surrender is to cease to breathe.
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We are given quite a bit of liberties. In these liberties we can choose to sin ... for God does not cause us to sin, thus that part has to be us. We cease to sin as we surrender instead of choosing self.
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Yes, we sin but that does not mean we have ceased to surrender. If I make it to heaven, it won't be because I was sinless; it will be because Jesus was sinless.
We waved the white flag when we asked God to save our souls, didn't we?
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If you sinned during the commission of that sin you were not surrendered but acting selfishly. That is self-will being applied over His will which is for us to not sin.
The external has nothing to do with your salvation, nor does it change your positional holiness.
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Rita
Yes, I agree completely Sister. Thank you so much for your response.
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Permalink Reply by Mary O on
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Holiness and sanctification (sanctify) go together. It has to do with being set aside for God's pleasure and purposes. God can mold and transform us. The Word can change us.
Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. (John 17:17)
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