Why holiness is important

Many today preach and teach holiness as a nice option or a dream that you could try to obtain in this life, but you never will so why bother? However, this morning I believe that there is more to holiness than that. I would like to present to you three reasons why I believe holiness is so important. Hebrews Jesus Christ suffered and shed his own blood on the cruel cross that we may be sanctified!

He did not just die that we could be saved from our committed sins, but he died so that we may be free from all of sin. He suffered without the gate, that he may sanctify the people. By rejecting holiness we are in fact rejecting his death upon the cross. The reason he died was that we might be sanctified. If we reject this second work, we are rejecting him. Holiness is important because Christ died of it. What we need is His heart, His nature.

Only divinity within us can recognize divinity without. Without the Holy Spirit,. Download Sermon with PRO. I never sought much to define holiness, and I am so glad I did this morning. Thanks to the author of this blessed teaching, what a confirmation!

Your pointing to Him is so rich and rewarding and refreshing! Thanks again! Blessed be the name of God for making this article use to me in particular. I pray that God Almighty will expand this ministry to the level were u do not expects.

Above all faithful shall He call u the end of ur ministry on earth. Holiness is the hallmark of faith and power. To be truly used of God holiness cannot be left out.

Wonderful article! No holiness.. Keep up the good work on this blog. Thank to our Lord jesus Christ and his Holy Spirit to give you wisdom to write this article. Be blessed again and again.. It gave me more hunger to live a holy life during the day and night.

I thought to be holy is a matter of living without a man if not married only, but this article clarified it. Wow the benefits of being holy encourage me. Thank you for stopping by and commenting.

May God give you wisdom, discernment, and clear direction as you seek to live a holy life that pleases Him! Thanks a million for this wonderful, insightful Message from the Throne of Grace for humanity.

I have just gotten a sermon message from your Message. Holiness is a goal so elusive that it is not possible for one seeking it to cry out ureka! It is desirable and necessary for a meaningful relation with God whose Holy Spirit is the catalyst in us to persist in our search for it.

Your analysis answered quite a number of questions i have asked usually in the church that is always turned how, with the view that am too young to ask such questions. What more can i say. I would love to subscribe to your website to get your updates. This my dailh prayer that I live a holy life as my Lord demands it to me! Many blessings to you Kathy. Thanks for this lesson. Very inspiring and informative.

May God bless you. With your blessings I will use it for a home bible study. Every Christian must have the agenda to be holy. It is by that alone that God can be proud of us. Thank you the author and may God bless you. Thank you very much for this article. Holiness is suppose to be a watch word for every believer but some Christians have been given a wrong impression that one cannot live a holy life.

This article has really erased that wrong notion about holiness. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Holiness fosters intimacy with God and builds spiritual strength and stability Psalm Our holy life causes people around us to glorify God 1 Peter Holiness builds peace with God 2 Peter Psalm , NLT The opposite is also true.

True holiness is a life pleasing to God on all levels possible. Frequently, when our own sense of righteousness is threatened or questioned, we can mistakenly defend that sense of righteous priority by unwittingly sinning in the angry or fearful destruction of others. Righteousness and holiness ultimately calls us to trust completely in the holiness of God. It may sometimes be messy and take us to areas where we are vulnerable, alone, and afraid, but that is part of what it is to take up the Cross and follow Jesus.

His holiness becomes our holiness. I can only guess—and I will venture a guess at this point—and that is that the feet, for angels as well as for men, is the symbol in the Bible of creatureliness.

We are told that we are of the earth, earthy, that our feet are of clay. When Moses met God in the Midianite desert and wilderness, what was the first thing God said to him? He asked him to bare his feet, the sign of his creatureliness, the sign of his submission before the Holy One. And so even in heaven the angels cover the sign of their creatureliness.

But as fascinated as I may be with the anatomy of the seraphim, these are really minor considerations with the text here. Listen to what the Bible tells us. I was standing over there before we began this series, and those who are watching it by video tape missed some of the things that we did by way of lead-in. I cannot hear that hymn without chills running up and down my spine. I think about the angels and everyone casting down their golden crowns beside the glassy sea—that everything we have that is worth anything is something we would gladly lay at the feet of the Holy One—and how this hymn so triumphantly celebrates the majesty of God.

We can underline words, italicize them, put them in boldface type, put little quotation marks or brackets around them, or fill the page with exclamation points. Even my editors do that. I find it in the final draft. They do that, and it drives me crazy. Well the Jews did the same thing. They did all of that—underline, boldface, italicize—but they had another technique to call attention to something of particular importance.

It was the simple technique of verbal repetition. Jesus was fond of using this device of repetition to make His points. Now remember, Jesus was a rabbi. That meant that He was a theologian. He had a school, and He had students called disciples, or learners, who enrolled in His school. And He was a peripatetic rabbi. That meant that He walked around, and as He walked the disciples literally followed Him. He would lecture as He walked down the road to Emmaus, or wherever, and the disciples would follow along behind Him and commit to memory the things that the rabbi taught them.

Now ladies and gentlemen, every teaching that ever came from the lips of Jesus Christ was important, but even our Lord took time to call attention to things that He regarded as being super important. Whenever He would come to a point like that, that He wanted to make sure His disciples never missed, He would preface His teaching by saying two words.

This is the captain speaking. Ladies and gentlemen, there is only one attribute of God that is ever raised to the third degree of repetition in Scripture. Do you hear that? Inanimate, lifeless, unintelligible parts of creation in the presence of the manifestation of the holiness of God had the good sense to be moved. How can we, made in His image, be indifferent or apathetic to His majesty? God alone is holy, and what I want to do in this series is try to describe what that means and what the reaction of Isaiah and other people historically is when the holy appears.

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