01Student - What is Holiness?

Personal Holiness in Times of Temptation
Holiness:  How to Get There From Here

·    If you were asked, pick three words that best describe you, what would they be? 

·    We mistaken holiness with status like a minister, preacher, _______________ monk, angel or a martyr

Being holy is becoming just like ___________.

God has a program of character development for each one of us. He wants others to look at our lives and say, “He walks with God, for he lives like Christ.”  Erwin W. Lutzer

I.          Biblical definition of holiness

1 Pet.  1:15-16

“But as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your __________________ , because it is written, ‘Be holy, for I am holy.’”  

1. Holiness (Heb and Greek) – the word “holy” literally means to ___________________

2. Holiness requires ______________ the secular _______ the sacred

3. All Christians are commanded to be holy in all your _________________________

How little people know who think that holiness is dull.  When one meets the real thing,…it is irresistible.    

C.S. Lewis Letters to an American Lady

Three different ways to think of holiness: 

·    God’s view of holiness

·    Personal view of holiness

·    My behavior in expression of holiness 

II.      Three stages of holiness

1 Cor. 1:2,  “To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who aresanctifiedin Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours.”   Are those people really saints?  Because in the book they are immoral and do not live like saints.   

All Christians have been separated in

God’s Mind and are holy.

A.The first stage:  _______________________  

The first stage of personal holiness is your salvation through trust in Christ’s ________________  

You are not a saint for what people tell you, you are a saint because of what God tells you.   

B.The second stage:  _______________________

Romans 12:1, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.   

Luke 2: 

·    The “presentation of Jesus” was in his parent’s _____________________

All Christians can become fully committed to _________________.

Presentation of your life to God through gratitude for His love and ________________ 

C.  The third stage:  _________________________

2 Timothy 2:19b, 21-22, Let everyone who names the name of Christ depart form iniquity….if anyone cleanses himself…he will be a vessel for honor, ___________________ and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.   Flee also youthful lusts, but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.   

1.   Practical holiness is a lifelong process of cleansing yourself from sin and pursuing ______________________.  

2.   Seek personal holiness “with those who call on the name of the Lord out of a pure _____________.  You do this with others, not only by yourself. 

3.   Your transformation into the image of Christ through complete ______________________

The most important thought I ever had was that of my individual responsibility to God.    Daniel Webster

III.  Process of Holiness

2 Cor. 7:1,  Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and sprit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.  

When you believe, it happens one time

When you present, it happens there one time

From that point on, you got to keep working on holiness.   

Stage 1	Stage 2	Stage 3
	Presentation
	Consecration	Conduct (character)
Trust in Christ		Obedience

Application:  

1-10, Have you made a leap to trust God

1-10, Are you broken for God

1-10,  Do you walk in holiness

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself. Peter the Great

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