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Edwin Elisha James is an Evangelist whose commitment to preach wherever the Lord leads him has fructified in bringing hundreds of souls to the Lord - a dream and a desire that he has harboured for the longest time!

Friday, February 9, 2018

Facts: Christians and Holiness

~ Christians are created in righteousness and true holiness -

Ephesians 4:24

and to put on  the new self,  created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

~ They are commanded to live in holiness before God all their days –

Luke 1:75

in holiness and righteousness  before him all our days.

Romans 6:19

I am using an example from everyday life  because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness  leading to holiness.

Hebrews 12:14

Make every effort to live in peace with everyone  and to be holy;  without holiness no one will see the Lord

~ They must bring forth into holiness –

Romans 6:22

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.

~ Must have hearts unblameable in holiness before God –

1 Thessalonians 3:13

May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones.

~ They are called to holiness –

1 Thessalonians 4:7

For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.

~ They must continue in holiness to be blessed –

1 Timothy 2:15

But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love  and holiness with propriety.

~ They must govern lives  according to holiness –

Titus 2:3

Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers  or addicted to much wine,  but to teach what is good.

~ They must be partakers of holiness –

Hebrews 12:10

They disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share in his holiness.

~ They must know holiness, without which no man shall see God –

Hebrews 12:14

Make every effort to live in peace with everyone  and to be holy;  without holiness no one will see the Lord.

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