Personal Life: Personal Holiness But as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, Be holy, for I am holy. —1 Peter 1:15-16 You cannot study the Bible diligently and earnestly without being struck by an obvious fact—the whole matter of personal holiness is highly important to God! Neither do you have to give long study to the attitudes of modern Christian believers to discern that by and large we consider the expression of true Christian holiness to be just a matter of personal option: I have looked it over and considered it, but I dont buy it!... Personally, I am of the opinion that we who claim to be apostolic Christians do not have the privilege of ignoring such apostolic injunctions. I do not mean that a pastor can forbid or that a church can compel. I only mean that morally we dare not ignore this commandment, Be holy.... But, brethren, we are still under the holy authority of the apostolic command. Men of God have reminded us in the Word that God does ask us and expect us to be holy men and women of God, because we are the children of God, who is holy. The doctrine of holiness may have been badly and often wounded—but the provision of God by His pure and gentle and loving Spirit is still the positive answer for those who hunger and thirst for the life and spirit well-pleasing to God... Tozer Whenever one preaches on RIGHTEOUS living, some walk away from the true apostolic church and land in watered down seeker friendly social club. Others become infected with a RELIGIOUS and LEGALISTIC spirit in which GRACE is nonexistent and one can only preach from the HOLY king James... because everyone knows that Jesus Himself spoke in king James English. These hellfire types believe that scaring people out of hell is preferable than LOVING them into heaven. True apostolic, mature Christians know that God is LOVE , not hellfire, and that we CHOOSE to live a holy life BECAUSE WE LOVE CHRIST and LOVE PEOPLE! Love on someone today that you normally dont associate with and be a doer of the WORD of Christ Jesus.
Posted on: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 13:38:56 +0000
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