Holiness:
ABIDING IN CHRIST THROUGH INTIMATE
PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP IS AN ESSENTIAL KEY IN LOOSING HEAVENS POWERFUL MANIFEST
PRESENCE IN YOUR LIFE, MINISTRY, CHURCH TO THE WORLD FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF GODS
KINGDOM!!!
Isaiah 6:1-9
"In the
year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted,
and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphs, each with
six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their
feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling to one another:
"Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his
glory. At the sound of their voices the door posts and thresholds shook and the
temple was filled with smoke. "Woe to me!" I cried. "I am ruined!
For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and
my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty." Then one of the seraphs
flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the
altar. With it he touched my mouth and said, "See, this has touched your
lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for." Then I heard the
voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?"
And I said, "Here am I. Send me!" He said, "Go and tell this
people."
1 Samuel 10:5-13
"After
that you will go to Gibeah of God, where there is a Philistine outpost. As you
approach the town, you will meet a procession of prophets coming down from the
high place with lyres, tambourines, flutes and harps being played before them,
and they will be prophesying. The Spirit of the LORD will come upon you in
power, and you will prophesy with them; and you will be changed into a different
person. Once these signs are fulfilled, do whatever your hand finds to do, for
God is with you. "Go down ahead of me to Gilgal. I will surely come down to
you to sacrifice burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, [1]
but you must wait seven days until I come to you and tell you what you are to
do." As Saul turned to leave Samuel, God changed Saul's heart, and all
these signs were fulfilled that day.
1 Samuel 19:20-24
"So he sent men to capture him. But when they saw a group of prophets prophesying, with Samuel standing there as their leader, the Spirit of God came upon Saul's men and they also prophesied.
Saul was told about it, and he sent more men, and they prophesied too. Saul sent men a third time, and they also prophesied.
Finally, he himself left for Ramah and went to the great cistern at Secu. And he asked, "Where are Samuel and David?" "Over in Naioth at Ramah," they said.
So Saul went to Naioth at Ramah. But the Spirit of God came even upon him, and he walked along prophesying until he came to
Naioth. He stripped off his robes and also prophesied in Samuel's presence. He lay that way all that day and night. This is why people say, "Is Saul also among the prophets?"
1 Kings 8:6-15
"The priests then brought the ark of the LORD's covenant to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, and put it beneath the wings of the cherubim.
The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed the ark and its carrying poles.
These poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the Holy Place in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are still there today.
There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.
When the priests withdrew from the Holy Place, the cloud filled the temple of the LORD.
And the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled his temple.
Then Solomon said, "The LORD has said that he would dwell in a dark cloud; I have indeed built a magnificent temple for you, a place for you to dwell forever."
While the whole assembly of Israel was standing there, the king turned around and blessed them.
Then he said: "Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, who with his own hand has fulfilled what he promised with his own mouth to my father David."
2 Chronicles 7:1-3
"When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.
The priests could not enter the temple of the LORD because the glory of the LORD filled it.
When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the LORD above the temple, they knelt on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshipped and gave thanks to the LORD, saying, "He is good; his love endures forever."
Ephesians 3:19
And to know this love that surpasses knowledge--that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Exodus 33:18
Then Moses said, "Now show me your glory."
Exodus 24:17
To the Israelites the glory of the LORD looked like a consuming fire on top of the mountain.
Romans 3:10,19-27,31
"As it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even
one... Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin.
But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify.
This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference,
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, And are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, [1] through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished--
He did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.
Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of observing the law? No, but on that of faith...
Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold the law.
Galatians 3:3-14,22-29; 4:4-6,9,10
Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now trying to attain your goal by human effort?
Have you suffered so much for nothing--if it really was for nothing? Does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you because you observe the law, or because you believe what you heard?
Consider Abraham: "He believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."
Understand, then, that those who believe are children of Abraham. The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: "All nations will be blessed through you."
So those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith. All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law."
Clearly no one is justified before God by the law, because, "The righteous will live by faith."
The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, "The man who does these things will live by them."
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree."
He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit...
But the Scripture declares that the whole world is a prisoner of sin, so that what was promised, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe.
Before this faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, locked up until faith should be revealed.
So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith.
Now that faith has come, we are no longer under the supervision of the law. You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus,
For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise...
But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law,
To redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons. Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, ("Abba),
Father." But now that you know God--or rather are known by God--how is it that you are turning back to those weak and miserable principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?
You are observing special days and months and seasons and years!"
Galatians 2:16-18
"Know that a man is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law, because by observing the law no one will be justified.
"If, while we seek to be justified in Christ, it becomes evident that we ourselves are sinners, does that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not!
If I rebuild what I destroyed, I prove that I am a lawbreaker"
Matthew 5:48; Hebrews 12:14.
Is Christian
Perfection possible?
(1 John 3:3-9; Matthew 5:48; Ephesians 1:22-23; Hebrews
2:5-9; 12:14; 2 Corinthians 1:20; 7:1; Romans 8:1,6,14; Galatians 5:16-18).
Why
was Jonathan Edwards so effective? He believed it was because of the second
definite work of grace which he believed was 100% sanctification. George
Whitfield talked of a women who new that when she died she had lived for 15
years in Christian Perfection. The key to Christian perfection is that YOU AND I
CAN NOT DO IT THROUGH LEGALISTIC WORKS but by grace through faith in the blood
of Jesus, the power of the anointing and the finished work of the cross to
completely destroy the power of sin, sickness and satan in the believers life.
We must learn to take this authority up through intimate personal relationship
with Jesus Christ through reading Gods loves letter to us, the bible, and
communication to God like you would your best friend be real with God. He is
real with you, He lived and died for you so He could sympathize with your life.
Use Gods free gift of salvation for what it was meant for and stomp the devil
under your feet. God is calling us to pursue 100% holiness. We are in the Adamic
nature and can not change that but the scriptural/spiritual promise is 100%
holiness this equals the pursuit of holiness all of our lives. The Pentecostals
and evangelicals have compromised and said we all sin a little everyday or we
all sin once in a while and the prior revivalist forgot the adamic nature when
the took into account the total victory of the cross over sin. We are still
fallen and our flesh has fleshly desires which we are command to possess our
bodies with sanctification and honor. That means when we feel like we are being
taken over by our choice to sin and allow that power control us we are to
possess our bodies take charge of ourselves and flee to take the way of escape
and to always pursue holiness. Sin is not inevitable it is our nature but even
science tells us that we can train ourselves to do something different if we
want to. It is our choice to pick up our cross daily and follow HIM. We are to
daily die to self and renew our minds through reading the word, prayer, and
fellowship in pursuit of holiness and to share the goodness of God with the
lost. We are to learn to walk in Holiness, to strive for the goal the high call,
the prize, to be with Him and walk as He walked without sin in the anointing of
the spirit preaching the gospel and setting the captives free. We are called to
be with Him and minister with Him, To watch over ourselves and the flock that
God gives us to minister to. Number one we are told to get right with God and
keep ourselves right with God. This is the key. Just as Paul told Timothy stir
up that gift. that gift is what we do war it is what we fight the devil with. We
must except His love and forgiveness when we mess up for we have "an
advocate with the father." We must repent and allow God to restore us, 1
John 1:7-9; Acts 2:38. And choose to live for Him no matter how we feel. We are
saved for the day of salvation by the grace of God and that we do have the seal
of the holy spirit and that the spirit of God tells our spirit the we are
justified/redeemed "oh wretch that i am." We must endure to the end
and can loose our salvation. the most neglected aspect in our preaching is the
keeping power of Holy Spirit. Jesus in john 17 prayed the Lord keep us from sin
though we are in the world. In Matthew 6:9-13 we are to pray for god to keep us
in alignment with his dominion, power and victory that He has already won over
sin, sickness, satan and death and we do not have to sin it is a choice to give
into the temptations that we all are faced with. Jesus has made away of escape
from all sin by the power of the presence of the person of Holy Spirit. We have
all sinned, there is none righteous no not one and we must come to Christ as
sinners saved by his grace but then we are to allow Holy Spirit to sanctify us
by fleeing from sin and running to the cross to be "ye perfect as he is
perfect," READ MATTHEW 5:48; HEBREWS 12:14, etcetera... 1 John 1:7-2:1 is
written that we not sin and that if we choose to sin or unwillingly commit sins
of omission we have and advocate. In 1 John 3:3-9 says if we abide in Christ we
can not continue in sin. According to John 14:21,23 if we love God which is the
first and most important of five commands we have been given by Jesus to love
God with all our heart if we love God we will obey him and if we obey His Spirit
and His word They will come abide with, tabernacle with, come mishkan with us
and we will be changed. For "in his presence is fullness of joy and at his
right hand are pleasure forevermore," (psalms 16:11). If we experience Gods
goodness we will not want to go back to the word and we will seek to crucify our
flesh daily, to die to self daily, to be renewed in the mind daily through
reading Gods word and to be transformed into the image of Jesus through prayer,
for His affections are new everyday and his mercy and word are forever. As we
draw nearer to him we find we have more sin to get ride of and then we cast it
asside and He washes us and we can live a holy and pure life for He forgets and
washes all our sins away as far as the east is from the west.
16 essentials to understanding biblical salvation
#1 If you are saved you are called to A ministry not necessarily
a 5 fold equipping ministry but an actual ministry non the less not necessarily
visible but always as an intercessor, giving and in witnessing Eph 4:11-13; 1
Peter 2:9.
#2 Matthew 22:14 In context is talking about salvation
not a call to ministry per se....note vs. 2, 9, 13 etcetera....
#3 Romans 5:8-9 refers to the fact that when we repent
and accept Jesus we are freely justified by the blood of Jesus and that we shall
be saved not that we are in context it says "shall be saved." Bear
with me. You have not heard my full point yet and could take that last sentence wrong
unless you read on and read all the scriptures in context that I am using.
#4 Matthew 10:22 "He that endures to the end shall
be saved." Salvation is not what you do at the altar it is how you live you
life and how your living when Jesus returns at an hour we do not expect. We can
expect the unexpected. Again the text says "shall be saved."
#5 lifestyle not altars should be the focus of our
preaching and readiness for HIS return not readiness for our pleasures or
satisfaction.
#6 Hebrews 9:28 Salvation is finalized when Jesus
returns to take us to heaven with Him or we die, 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18;
Hebrews 9:27 not when we go to the altar, Matthew 3:8; Acts 26:20. The altar is
the beginning not the end.
#7 Justification is what Jesus does for us upon sincere
repentance. We are justified freely by His blood. Sanctification is what we do for Jesus sake by the power of the Holy
Spirit. We are to set ourselves apart living a holy life, by the grace of God
walking in His forgiveness and mercy.
#8 Salvation is not exactly what we preach in our
churches even us Pentecostals still preach once saved always saved some what
however on the other side of the coin we do not preach Jesus keeping and
sustaining power from and over sin because we do not want to give up the
pleasures of sin ourselves. 2 Corinthians 2:15; Romans 5:9-10; Hebrews 10:39;
Ephesians 2:8-10; 2 Thessalonians 2:10; Acts 15:11; Hebrews 10:10; Romans
10:9-13; 1 Peter 3:21 (1 peter 3:21 is not talking of a physical washing but the
washing of the conscious by the spirit of Jesus Acts 2:38-39; 1 John 1:9). 1
Peter 4:18; James 1:21; 2:14; 4:12; 5:15; 1 Timothy 1:15; 4:16; Hebrews 7:25; Colossians
1:23; 2 Thessalonians 1:11; Hebrews 11:38
#9 If you are saved you will bear fruit if you do not
bear fruit you have not been fully converted to God yet, not works but love
toward others , praying for the sick, helping the needy and witnessing to the
lost. Matthew 3:8; 7:15-20; Acts 2:38-39; Galatians 5:16-23; Galatians 2:21; 1
Corinthians 15:1-2; Colossians 2:6-8; Hebrews 5:2; 4:15; 12:8; 13:5; 1 Peter
1:7-9
#10 We show we are saved by loving God and loving
people Mark 12:28-32; James 1-2; Isaiah 58; 61. We establish the law of God
which no man can fulfill because of our sinful nature by faith and by walking in
the spirit of God, (Romans 3:27,31; Galatians 5:16-23).
#11 1 John 3:20; 1:9 If we confess our sins God
cleanses us and redeems us we are freely justified and need to take our flesh in
subjection and must possess our bodies in sanctification and honor.
#12 Ephesians 2:8-10, Galatians 2:17-28; Acts 2:38-39;
1 John 1:9; Romans 3:19-27; Galatians 2:16; Galatians 4:9; Salvation is a free
gift, sin aborts the free gift, repentance restores the gift It is not of works
and God will forgive our every sin every time we come to Him. Gods mercy endures
forever.
#13 Temptation is not sin. every man is tempted by his
own desire and by the devil
#14 We do not have to give in to temptation for Jesus
has made a way of escape by totally defeating the devil. We have total victory
according to the word of God which all the promises of God are yeah and amen
through the blood of Jesus in Jesus name by the anointing of Holy Spirits'
presence according to our obedience to His word.. Our God is bigger than the
devil and sin does not have to overwhelm the children of God. He who overcomes
will be given the crown of life. I want to be an over-comer how about you?
#15 No one can pluck us from Gods hands not even
ourselves however If we do not bear fruit God will cut us out. If you abide in
Him he will prune you so that you bear much fruit, (John 15:1-8). I would much
rather be pruned to bear much fruit than to be one of the five virgins locked
out because I wasn't right and ready. #16 Broad
is the road that leads to death, narrow is the path that leads to eternal life
many are called few are chosen. Those he pre-knew he predestined to do good
works. God is willing that none should perish but that all would come to
repentance however the choice of which path you take is up to you. God knows
what you will do, however in His love He waits and let you make your own
choices.
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