Lesson 8 GOD Wants Your HOLINESS GOD Wants

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Lesson 8: GOD Wants Your HOLINESS

Lesson 8: GOD Wants Your HOLINESS

GOD Wants Your HOLINESS 1. Christians Have Been Set Apart By God a. Called

GOD Wants Your HOLINESS 1. Christians Have Been Set Apart By God a. Called by the gospel – 2 Thess. 2: 14 b. Called out of darkness into light – 1 Pet. 2: 9 c. Delivered from darkness into the kingdom – Col. 1: 13 d. The church is “the called out ones” (Gk, ekklesia) e. Christians are saints = holy ones (set apart) – Rom. 1: 7 f. The people of God’s own possession – 1 Pet. 2: 9 g. Conformed to the image of His Son – Rom. 8: 29

GOD Wants Your HOLINESS 2. Christians Must Be (Are Commanded to Be) Distinct a.

GOD Wants Your HOLINESS 2. Christians Must Be (Are Commanded to Be) Distinct a. “In” the world but not “of” the world – John 17: 11 -16 b. Do not be conformed to this world – Rom. 12: 2 c. Come out from world & be separate – 2 Cor. 6: 17 -18 d. Have no fellowship with works of darkness – Eph. 5: 11 e. Keep self unspotted from the world – James 1: 27 f. Avoid friendship with world = spiritual adultery/ enmity with God) – James 4: 4 g. Love for God & world are incompatible – 1 Jn. 2: 15 -17 h. Put off/to death all evil longings & actions – Col. 3: 5 -10 i. Put on new man in true holiness – Eph. 4: 24 j. Be holy in all your conduct – 1 Pet. 1: 15; 2 Pet. 3: 11

GOD Wants Your HOLINESS 3. Ways Worldliness Manifests Itself in the Church a. Seeking

GOD Wants Your HOLINESS 3. Ways Worldliness Manifests Itself in the Church a. Seeking associations in the world & not among Christians – 1 Cor. 15: 33; Amos 3: 3 b. Making worldly interests the greatest objects of living & making everything else subordinate thereto – Matt. 6: 19 -21, 33; 16: 24 -26 c. Disregarding the definition, sacredness & duration of the marriage relationship – Matt. 19: 3 -9; Mal. 2: 16 d. Promoting, participating & pursuing unrighteous, worldly amusements 1) dancing (Gal. 5: 19 -21); drinking (Prov. 23: 29 -35; 1 Pet. 2: 11); gambling (Eph. 4: 28); tobacco (1 Cor. 6: 19 -20); profanity (Eph. 4: 29); gossiping (1 Tim. 5: 13); pornography (Phil. 4: 8); sexual immorality (1 Cor. 6: 18)

GOD Wants Your HOLINESS 4. Actions of Christians That Will Promote Holiness a. Pattern

GOD Wants Your HOLINESS 4. Actions of Christians That Will Promote Holiness a. Pattern life after Christ & not the world – 1 Pet. 2: 21 b. Keep your heart with all diligence, controlling thoughts & attitudes – Pr. 4: 23; 1 Cor. 9: 27; 2 Cor. 10: 5 c. Do not follow the crowd – Ex. 23: 2; 1 Cor. 15: 33 d. Abstain from every form of evil – 1 Thess. 5: 22