ATTITUDE OF HOLINESS 2

- Samson Adelani


Be Holy - 1 Pet 1:13-25

13 Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming. 14 As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. 15 But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; 16 for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.

17 Since you call on a Father who judges each person’s work impartially, live out your time as foreigners here in reverent fear. 18 For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. 20 He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake. 21 Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God.

22 Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart.[b] 23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. 24 For,

“All people are like grass,
and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall,
25     but the word of the Lord endures forever.”[c]

And this is the word that was preached to you.

 

Practical Attitudes of Holiness

Having examined the main text closely.I deduced these following approach to holiness.Kindly refer to part one of this teaching.  Attitude of Holiness 1


BEING SOBER

Inability to think so deep and come up with truths without being emotional is a big flaw.To lead a life of holiness,you have to be solemn and thoughtful about issues of life (not pretentious thought).

If you have never realized that without God and holiness you are doomed, you are still lost in the valley of indecision. If you are genuinely caught in the web of sober reflection, you will realize the truths about the following scriptures and see how poor and powerless you are without God.So you have to be sober to be able to follow holiness.

Acts 4:12 - For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?




Being Born Again

This is the first step to a life of holiness and relationship with God.All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.- Rm 3:23.

By birth, we inherited sin-.This is the very reason you have to take the practical step to lay down your life at the feet of Christ. Being a moralist or having some kind of uprightness can’t be equated to being born again.

Your involvement in church activities, paying tithe and so on are not signs that you are born again sometimes. Some ministers of the gospel are not even born again. Yet, they are preachers. They show gifts of the Spirit, but fruits of the Spirit is far away from them.-Mt 7:15-20

Mt 5;20

For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.

You have to come to terms with new birth just like Nicodemus did- Jh 3:1-7




Purification

Steady, continuous purification is necessary to maintain holiness. Apostle Paul says, “I die daily”- 1 cor 5:31. Avoiding things that will defile your body is your responsibility.

However, you might found yourself in sin. But you realize immediately and you approach the throne of grace for forgiveness.

1 Jh 2:1

My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2 And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world. (Rm 8:34,1 Tim 2:5,Heb 7:25,Heb 9:24)




Protect Your Mind

It is your responsibility to take charge of what comes out and goes in to your mind. What sort of materials do u feed on?

Pr 4:12

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

Attitudes of holiness are consciously cultivated. While sinful attitudes percolates and permeates into our lives unaware. And the dominant thought in your mind gives direction to your life.

Pr 25:28

Whoever has no rule over his own spirit
Is like a city broken down, without walls.

Remember before you can sin devil has to bring the thought to you first. JmS 1 :13-15




Love

Love is vital a bid to lead and live a holy life. Human-God relationship can only be perfected by love if well understood and applied.Love is God in action.And you can’t miss your steps if God is in action.

Paying attention to the Bible,what laws can’t do was made perfect by love.The only way to cut corner with laws without being accused or marked foul, is to adopt and deploy the power of love.It covers multitudes of sins-

1 Pet 4:8

And above all things have fervent love for one another, for “love will cover a multitude of sins.

And Christ came to perfect and fulfill the law by the application of love.

Mt 22:38-40

But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying,  Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’  This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’  On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.

Love is capable to stop the spate of immoralities and drive to sin against God. It will move you to cherish humanity and stop  the with  self-gratification for evil acts.


Please do check the concluding part of the message below.


https://mydailypage.com.ng/2021/07/24/attitude-of-holiness-2-2/

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No man is Holy except God. Any other kind is fake