WHAT IS TRUE HOLINESS? TRUE HOLINESS IS NOT THE RELIGIOUS DEFINED HOLINESS. THE TRUE HOLINESS IS THE ACT TO BE SET ASIDE FOR THE LORD. WHEN OUR WAY OF THINKING IS ALIGNED WITH HOW AND WHAT GOD SAYS, AND NOT CONFORMING TO HOW AND WHAT THE WORLD IS SAYING, THAT IS TRUE HOLINESS. THE TRUE HOLINESS IS WHEN GOD IS DWELLING IN A PERSON, BY THE INDWELLING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, THAT IS TRUE HOLINESS. John:14:23 Jesus answered, If a person [really] loves Me, he will keep My word [obey My teaching]; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home (abode, special dwelling place) with him. OUR HOLINESS IN THE EYES OF GOD IS IN CHRIST. 1Cor:1:30 But it is from Him that you have your life in Christ Jesus, Whom God made our Wisdom from God, [revealed to us a knowledge of the divine plan of salvation previously hidden, manifesting itself as] our Righteousness [thus making us upright and putting us in right standing with God], and our Consecration [making us pure and holy], and our Redemption [providing our ransom from eternal penalty for sin]. AS A TRUE BORN AGAIN CHRISTIAN, OUR REAL IDENTITY IS IN CHRIST, AND WE DONT TRY TO BECOME, WE ARE MADE BY THE OPERATION ACCOMPLISHED BY OUR HEAVENLY FATHER IN OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST THROUGH THE EXPERIENCE OF OUR NEW BIRTH OF REGENERATED SPIRIT. 2Cor:5:16-17: Consequently, from now on we estimate {and} regard no one from a [purely] human point of view [in terms of natural standards of value]. [No] even though we once did estimate Christ from a human viewpoint {and} as a man, yet now [we have such knowledge of Him that] we know Him no longer [in terms of the flesh]. Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh {and} new has come! WHEN A MOUNTAIN IS DECLARED AS A HOLY MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD, WHAT MAKE THE MOUNTAIN TO BE CALLED HOLY MOUNTAIN? WAS IT BY WHAT THE MOUNTAIN DID, OR BY THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD UPON THE MOUNTAIN?. Exo:3:5 God said, Do not come near; put your shoes off your feet, for the place on which you stand is holy ground. WHAT MADE THE GROUND TO BE CALLED A HOLY GROUND? ITS THE LORDS PRESENCE THAT QUALIFIED THE GROUND TO BE HOLY, SO LIKEWISE, WE MUST SEE OURSELVES AS HOLY CHILDREN IF GID, NOT BECAUSE IN OF OURSELF, BUT BECAUSE THE ALMIGHTY GOD HIMSELF DWELLS IN US BY HIS SPIRIT. 1Pet:2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a dedicated nation, [Gods] own purchased, special people, that you may set forth the wonderful deeds {and} display the virtues and perfections of Him Who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. IF WE ASK THOSE THAT ARE FILLED WITH THE RELIGIOUS spirit, WHAT IS THE OPPOSITE OF HOLINESS, THEIR ANSWERS WILL BE SIN; BUT THAT IS NOTHING, BUT FAR FROM THE TRUTH. THE OPPOSITE OF TRUE HOLINESS IS COMMONEST. WHEN SOMEONE IS FOLLOWING THE OPINION OF THE MULTITUDE, WHAT THE MAJORITY ARE SAYING, AND NOT SEEING WITH GOD PERSPECTIVE, SEEING IN NATURAL INSTEAD OF STEPPING INTO SUPERNATURAL. TRUE HOLINESS, IS WHEN WE GET OUR EYES FROM OUR NATURAL BEING, AND GAZING OUR EYES UPON THE AUTHOR AND THE FINISHER OF OUR FAITH, THAT IS TRUE HOLINESS. HOLINESS MEANS TO BE SET APART. SEEING OURSELVES IN THE PERSON OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, IS THE TRUE HOLINESS. 2Cor:3:4-5:Such is the reliance {and} confidence that we have through Christ toward {and} with reference to God. Not that we are fit (qualified and sufficient in ability) of ourselves to form personal judgments {or} to claim {or} count anything as coming from us, but our power {and} ability {and} sufficiency are from God. A CASSE STUDY WAS ABOUT THE TWELVE PEOPLE THAT WERE SENT TO SPY THE LAND OF CANAAN,, TEN OF THEM SAW THEMSELVES AS A GRASS SHOPPERS, BECAUSE THEY COULD ONLY SEE WITH THEIR NATURAL EYES, BUT THERE WERE TWO MEN IN THEIR MIDST THAT COULD SEE WITH SUPERNATURAL EYES OF GOD, THESE TWO MEN WERE COUNTED TO HAVE THE TRUE SPIRIT OF GOD. Num:14:22-24.Because all those men who have seen My glory and My [miraculous] signs which I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tested {and} proved Me these ten times and have not heeded My voice,Surely they shall not see the land which I swore to give to their fathers; nor shall any who provoked (spurned, despised) Me see it. But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it. WE ARE HOLY IN GOD EYES BY BEHOLDING OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THE SPIRIT OF GOD INSIDE OF US IS THE ONE HAT WILL TRANSFORM US TO THE WAY WE SEE OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. TRANSFORMATION IS NOT BY OUR SELF EFFORT OR RELYING ON OURSELVES TRYING TO MAKE OURSELVES HOLY, BUT THE TRUE HOLINESS IS BY BEHOLDING WHAT AND WHOM WE ARE IN OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THEN THE WORKING POWER OF GOD IN US , THE PERSON OF HOLY SPIRIT WILL TRANSFORM US TO CONFORM TO THE TRUE HOLINESS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. THE GREATEST OBSTACLE TO ACHIEVE TRUE HOLINESS ARE CAUSED BY SELF TRYING TO BE HOLY AND RELIGIOUS spirit. 2Cor:3:18 And all of us, as with unveiled face, [because we] continued to behold [in the Word of God] as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are constantly being transfigured into His {very own} image in ever increasing splendor {and} from one degree of glory to another; [for this comes] from the Lord [Who is] the Spirit. HOLINESS IS A PERSON OF JESUS, WHEN WE GET THE PERSON OF JESUS CHRIST INTO OUR SPIRIT, THAT IS WHEN A TRUE HOLINESS AND SANCTIFICATION CAN BE PRODUCE FROM INSIDE, AND NOT FROM OUR OUTWARD APPEARANCE. COL:1:21-23: And although you at one time were estranged {and} alienated from Him and were of hostile attitude of mind in your wicked activities, Yet now has [Christ, the Messiah] reconciled [you to God] in the body of His flesh through death, in order to present you holy and faultless and irreproachable in His [the Fathers] presence.[And this He will do] provided that you continue to stay with {and} in the faith [in Christ], well-grounded and settled {and} steadfast, not shifting {or} moving away from the hope [which rests on and is inspired by] the glad tidings (the Gospel), which you heard and which has been preached [as being designed for and offered without restrictions] to every person under heaven, and of which [Gospel] I, Paul, became a minister. LETS STOP CONCENTRATING UPON OURSELVES, BUT RATHER REFOCUS OUR CONCENTRATION UPON THE FINISHED WORK OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THEN THE POWER OF GOD IN US WILL PERFECT ALL WHAT IS NEEDED TO BE PERFECTED. HEB:10:14 For by a single offering He has forever completely cleansed {and} perfected those who are consecrated {and} made holy. John:3:14-15:And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert [on a pole], so must [so it is necessary that] the Son of Man be lifted up [on the cross], In order that everyone who believes in Him [who cleaves to Him, trusts Him, and relies on Him] may {not perish, but} have eternal life {and} [actually] live forever! WE WILL ONLY BE WHOM WE ARE IN CHRIST BY BEHOLDING, SEEING OURSELVES IN WHOM WE ARE IN CHRIST, AND NOT IN STRIVING TO BECOME WHOM WE ARE ALREADY IN CHRIST. IF GOD SAID WE ARE PECULIAR PEOPLE, AND HOLY NATION TO HIM, SO BE IT. LET GOD BE TRUE AND ALL THE RELIGIOUS PEOPLE BE A LIAR. WHICH REPORT ARE WE GOING TO BELIEVE; IS IT THE REPORT OF A MAN OR OF GOD? 1Cor:6:11 And such some of you were [once]. But you were washed clean (purified by a complete atonement for sin and made free from the guilt of sin), and you were consecrated (set apart, hallowed), and you were justified [pronounced righteous, by trusting] in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the [Holy] Spirit of our God. A DOG WILL GIVE BIRTH TO A DOG, AND IF GOD IS OUR FATHER, AND HE IS HOLY, THEN WE CAN CONCLUDE THAT WHOSOEVER THAT IS BORN OF HOLY GOD IS ALSO A HOLY CHILD OF GOD. John:1:12-13: But to as many as did receive {and} welcome Him, He gave the authority (power, privilege, right) to become the children of God, that is, to those who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) His name--Who owe their birth neither to bloods nor to the will of the flesh [that of physical impulse] nor to the will of man [that of a natural father], but to God. [They are born of God!] GOD DOES NOT SEE THE WAY A NATURAL MAN SEES. 1Sam:16:7 But the Lord said to Samuel, Look not on his appearance or at the height of his stature, for I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart. 1Cor:2:14 But the natural, nonspiritual man does not accept {or} welcome {or} admit into his heart the gifts {and} teachings {and} revelations of the Spirit of God, for they are folly (meaningless nonsense) to him; and he is incapable of knowing them [of progressively recognizing, understanding, and becoming better acquainted with them] because they are spiritually discerned {and} estimated {and} appreciated. THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH, AND NOT BY SIGHT. AS A TRUE BORN AGAIN CHRISTIAN, WE ARE NOT GOVERN OR MOVED BY WHAT THE PHYSICAL REPORT SAYS, BUT WE ARE LED BY THE SPIRITUAL REPORT OF WHAT GOD SAYS WE ARE IN CHRIST. 2Cor:4:18 Since we consider {and} look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are visible are temporal (brief and fleeting), but the things that are invisible are deathless {and} everlasting. THE WORD OF GOD SAID AS CHRIST IS IN HEAVEN, SO TOO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD. SO THE QUESTION WE MUST ASK OURSELVES NOW IS THIS, WILL CHRIST EVER BE UNHOLY IN HEAVEN, THE ANSWER IS ABSOLUTELY NO, SO WE TOO MUST RECKON OURSELVES TO THE SAME WAY CHRIST IS IN HEAVEN.1John:4:17 In this [union and communion with Him] love is brought to completion {and} attains perfection with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment [with assurance and boldness to face Him], because as He is, so are we in this world. THE WORD OF GOD SAID WHOSOEVER THAT IS JOINED TO THE LORD IS OF THE SAME SPIRIT WITH THE LORD. SO BEING A BORN AGAIN CHRISTIAN, WE ARE JOINED TO THE LORD, AND THE LORD IS HOLY, WE TOO ARE HOLY. 1Cor:6:17 But the person who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with Him.12:13 For by [means of the personal agency of] one [Holy] Spirit we were all, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free, baptized [and by baptism united together] into one body, and all made to drink of one [Holy] Spirit.
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