07/08/11 A Holy Heart is ESSENTIAL to a Holy Life
A Holy Life is CONSEQUENTIAL to a Holy Heart. True Holiness, Biblical holiness is holiness of heart and life. Holiness of heart comes in a moment, the result of a saving work of grace, subsequent to justification. Holiness of life comes moment by moment as the proof and fruit of a holy heart. The Heart is the Root: the Life is the Fruit.
God designed the human race with some awesome characteristics:
God designed the human race with some awesome characteristics:
Immortality (life without end),
Holiness (moral perfection),
Free Will (Self Determination),
Divine Nature (intimacy with God).
Adam's sin corrupted all of these qualities, but God's redemption, through Christ, restores and enhances them. Because of Adam's sin, we were all born with a sinful nature, then we all sinned against God. We misused and abused our God given qualities, resulting in separation from God. When we do not surrender ourselves and our gifts that God gave to us, we use those powers for terrible evil. Salvation is not just the saving of the soul, but the saving and changing of a life.
Without violating our God given free will, God offers us Reconciliation including...
Adam's sin corrupted all of these qualities, but God's redemption, through Christ, restores and enhances them. Because of Adam's sin, we were all born with a sinful nature, then we all sinned against God. We misused and abused our God given qualities, resulting in separation from God. When we do not surrender ourselves and our gifts that God gave to us, we use those powers for terrible evil. Salvation is not just the saving of the soul, but the saving and changing of a life.
Without violating our God given free will, God offers us Reconciliation including...
Regeneration,
Forgiveness,
Justification,
Adoption,
Cleansing).
By faith we accept the offer of His free gift and He imparts to us His Holy Spirit.
After our conversion, He offers us Entire Sanctification through the work of...
His Blood,
His Spirit and
His Word.
We can either accept it by faith or reject it, just as we could have responded to His offer of Reconciliation.
Not only will His Spirit live with us, He will dwell in us.
Not only will His Spirit live with us, He will dwell in us.
Not only do we have life, we have abundant life.
Not only do we have peace with God, we have the very peace of God, ruling in our hearts.
Not only do we have joy, we have joy unspeakable and full of glory.
Not only do we have love, we have perfect love, that casts out fear.
With the heart Purifying, sin destroying fulness of the Holy Spirit...
With the heart Purifying, sin destroying fulness of the Holy Spirit...
we can be holy, even as God is holy;
we can be pure, even as He is pure;
we can be righteous, even as He is righteous;
we can be perfect in love, even as He is perfect in love.
Just as the corrupt heart of the unregenerate poisons every area of the human experience, so the sanctified heart empowers and enables every area of the human experience to be conformed to the likeness of Christ.
Just as the corrupt heart of the unregenerate poisons every area of the human experience, so the sanctified heart empowers and enables every area of the human experience to be conformed to the likeness of Christ.
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