A Call to Holiness

Our God is a Holy and majestic God. Isaiah 6:3 speaks of how God is worshiped in heaven. It says,  "Holy, Holy, Holy, is the LORD of hosts, the whole earth is full of His glory." The Bible speaks countless times of Gods holiness and our responsibility as Christians to live holy lives. 1 Peter 1:5-6 says, - "but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behaviour; because it is written, "YOU SHALL BE HOLY FOR I AM HOLY."

Holiness as we know it is dying in our modern 'Christian' culture. Professing believers disregard sinful behaviour under the unbiblical excuse of 'Christian Liberty'. Instead of living in a way that pleases God most, they see how close they can get to the edge of sin before they fall. Holiness is thought of as old-fashioned and boring. This is not true of our God. God is not old-fashioned; instead God has given us the most relevant thing in this world; that thing is His living Word the Holy Bible. What we Christians need to do is step back from the world and see what God's Word has to say about things that are happening in our culture. What I hope to do is write some articles that will clear up issues about holiness that are permeating the Church and Christianity. Holiness is an issue that God wants us to understand. As we looked at earlier, if we don't live Holy lives there is no reason that God would sanctify us. As well as bringing glory to God's name, one of the main reasons we live a holy life stems from this quote.

"For a person to be convinced God can save form sin, one needs to

live a holy life. When Christians claim to believe God's Word but do

not obey it, the Word is dishonoured. Many have mocked God and His

truth because of the sinful behaviour of those who claim to be Christians."

  -John Macarthur

 

Christians need to see the importance of holiness. When we look like the world, act like the world, and do what the world does, it says to the world that God has no power over sin. Christians need to examine their lives and to rid themselves of what is unholy. Whether it be books, movies, music, recreational activities or anything that causes God's name to be dishonoured is sin. Let us make a commitment today to turn to God from idols and to serve Him with not only our lips but our lives.

 

Philippians 3:7-11, "But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have sufferer the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead."  

 

Blessings,

       Lucas C.