Holiness

Be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy” (Leviticus , ). The first thing I do is go to a concordance and find where the word (holiness) and related words (e.g., sanctification, sanctify) are used in the Bible. Baker’s Encyclopedia of the Bible says, “The primary Old.
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• Holiness Will Make You Unbelievably Happy
• What is holiness?
• The Power of Holiness
• The Power of Holiness - Resources

Do you see it? Holiness is not a state of denial, characterized by abstaining from defiling thoughts, motivations, and behaviors. True holiness is a state of delight.

And the more true holiness we experience, the fuller our joy and greater our pleasures! This is only emphasized by the fact that all the Law and the Prophets — all the prohibitions and warnings pertaining to our behaviors, the height of holiness — are summed up in the greatest commandments to love God with all we are and our neighbors as ourselves Matthew Holiness looks most like the delight of true love. And if we love Jesus, we will keep his commandments — meaning that when our affections are really engaged, our behaviors naturally follow John God is supremely holy.

And God is supremely happy 1 Timothy 1: God is love 1 John 4: And he is all light with no darkness 1 John 1: All that is good, all that brings true, lasting joy, and all that is truly, satisfyingly, eternally pleasurable comes from him. And we are to be holy as he is holy 1 Peter 1: So, to pursue holiness, we must pursue our greatest happiness.

Who has delivered us from our bodies of indwelling, sin-induced death?

Jesus Christ Romans 7: Our unholy sin disease has been given a cure in the cross. We no longer need to fixate on the diagnostic tool of the law. Now, in pursuit of holiness, we aim primarily at our affections, not primarily at our behaviors. For behaviors are symptomatic of the state of our affections. What is a delight to us ceases to be a duty for us. Christian, when have you been most free from sin?

What is holiness?

In other words, when has your life been most characterized by holiness? What Holiness Is Really Like If we want to know the essence of the health of holiness, we need to look elsewhere, like Psalm Get Desiring God in Your Inbox A nightly brief of new resources, and peeks behind the scenes from our editorial team Subscribe. And so I will show my greatness and my holiness, and I will make myself known in the sight of many nations.

Then they will know that I am the Lord. You are to be holy to me because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own. Praise the Lord, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. Seek good, not evil, that you may live. Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you, just as you say he is.

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But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. I will show the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Sovereign Lord, when I am proved holy through you before their eyes.

Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect. No one lights a lamp and hides it in a clay jar or puts it under a bed.

Instead, they put it on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. Sing to God, sing in praise of his name, extol him who rides on the clouds; rejoice before him — his name is the Lord. A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.

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