Lesson 8 GOD Wants Your HOLINESS GOD Wants
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Lesson 8: GOD Wants Your HOLINESS
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. “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 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 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