Holiness

God’s desire in this day is that the Church would walk in Holiness. God is getting ready

to pour out His spirit in these last days. He is calling His people to rebel against this

world, it’s values, it’s standards, it’s ways and anything that looks like it. Come out and

be clean.

God wants his Church to be a blameless spotless Church. You say, “ Won’t God do

that isn’t that God’s job to make us clean.” If it were entirely up to God then why is the

parable of the ten virgins in the Bible. Five were ready and five weren’t

D.A. Carson said this- “People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven

effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith,

and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift

toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith.

We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward

prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide

toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.”

Mother Theresa said, ““Holiness is not the luxury of a few. It is everyone’s

duty: yours and mine.”

God has not changed His standard. Oh but that’s the old testament isn’t it. Aren’t we free

from obeying the law. Obedience is the mark of a Christian

Yeah sure God just says I don’t need my people to be like me anymore. I don’t want

them to live as sinless as possible.

Too many times we pussyfoot around this topic. We water it down to suit ourselves when

the very reason that Christians are weak and powerless in the 21st

Sin and Compromise.

IT’S TIME CHURCH. TIME TO CATCH US THOSE LITTLE FOXES THAT SPOIL

THE VINE.

God is blowing his trumpet. It is a new day. Things that before were permissible are no

longer beneficial. Things that before God would have turned a blind eye to, now He is

saying no more.

This is the hour where, in the spirit we are standing at God’s Threshing floor.

2 Samuel 1-8 Nakon’s threshing floor

Jeremiah 15:5-7 God’s threshing floor

Matt 3:12 Jesus’ Threshing floor

century is because of

Four really good reasons that we should pursue Holiness

1. It is what God wants for His people. that they would look different from the

world.

Our salvation might very well depend upon it.

Psalm 111:10

John 14:21

John 15:10

1 Corinthians 7:19

1 John 2:3-4

1 John 3:3

Remember the virgins or remember it says “Who shall ascend to his holy hill, he that

hath clean hands and a pure heart.”

James 4:7-10, “7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee

from you. 8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands,

you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Grieve, mourn and wail.

Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves

before the Lord, and he will lift you up.”

The scary thing is that God let’s us work it out for ourselves with fear and trembling

Matt 13:24

2 Peter 2:4-10

2. Obedience leads to blessing

My testimony of blessing

Isaiah 48: 18-19

James 1:25But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and

continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed

in what they do.

Psalm 112:1[ Psalm 112 ] Praise the LORD. Blessed are those who fear the LORD, who

find great delight in his commands.

Psalm 119:2 “Blessed are those who keep his statutes and seek him with all their heart”

Psalm 84:11For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor;

no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless.

To the generations that follow: Genesis 26:2 “The LORD appeared to Isaac and said,

“Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live. 3 Stay in this land for

a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will

give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham. 4 I will

make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these

lands, and through your offspring[a

Abraham obeyed me and did everything I required of him, keeping my commands, my

decrees and my instructions.”

all nations on earth will be blessed,[b

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] 5 because

3. We are better witnesses

We stand out as clean and pure witnesses when they see us not doing what they are

doing. The single biggest cause for Atheism in the world today is Christians who

confess Jesus with their lips and deny Him with their lifestyle.

Titus 2:6-8- Let them be ashamed who oppose you.

4. We don’t want to miss out on God’s outpouring:

1 Then the LORD said to Moses: 2 “Set up the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, on the

first day of the first month. 3 Place the ark of the covenant law in it and shield the ark

with the curtain. 4 Bring in the table and set out what belongs on it. Then bring in the

lampstand and set up its lamps. 5 Place the gold altar of incense in front of the ark of the

covenant law and put the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.

6 “Place the altar of burnt offering in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of

meeting; 7 place the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it. 8

Set up the courtyard around it and put the curtain at the entrance to the courtyard.

9 “Take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and everything in it; consecrate it

and all its furnishings, and it will be holy. 10 Then anoint the altar of burnt offering and

all its utensils; consecrate the altar, and it will be most holy. 11 Anoint the basin and its

stand and consecrate them.

12 “Bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the tent of meeting and wash them with

water. 13 Then dress Aaron in the sacred garments, anoint him and consecrate him so he

may serve me as priest. 14 Bring his sons and dress them in tunics. 15 Anoint them just

as you anointed their father, so they may serve me as priests. Their anointing will be to a

priesthood that will continue throughout their generations.” 16 Moses did everything just

as the LORD commanded him.

17 So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month in the second year. 18

When Moses set up the tabernacle, he put the bases in place, erected the frames, inserted

the crossbars and set up the posts. 19 Then he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put

the covering over the tent, as the LORD commanded him.

20 He took the tablets of the covenant law and placed them in the ark, attached the

poles to the ark and put the atonement cover over it. 21 Then he brought the ark into the

tabernacle and hung the shielding curtain and shielded the ark of the covenant law, as

the LORD commanded him.

22 Moses placed the table in the tent of meeting on the north side of the tabernacle

outside the curtain 23 and set out the bread on it before the LORD, as the LORD

commanded him.

24 He placed the lampstand in the tent of meeting opposite the table on the south side of

the tabernacle 25 and set up the lamps before the LORD, as the LORD commanded him.

26 Moses placed the gold altar in the tent of meeting in front of the curtain 27 and

burned fragrant incense on it, as the LORD commanded him.

28 Then he put up the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle. 29 He set the altar of

burnt offering near the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, and offered on it

burnt offerings and grain offerings, as the LORD commanded him.

30 He placed the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it for

washing, 31 and Moses and Aaron and his sons used it to wash their hands and feet. 32

They washed whenever they entered the tent of meeting or approached the altar, as the

LORD commanded Moses.

33 Then Moses set up the courtyard around the tabernacle and altar and put up the

curtain at the entrance to the courtyard. And so Moses finished the work.

The Glory of the LORD

34 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled

the tabernacle. 35 Moses could not enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had

settled on it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

In Conclusion: Let’s repent today and cut off some of that sin that disqualifies us. You

may think that God doesn’t mind. You may think that it’s ok to be like the world.. But

today God is asking us to come out, be a separate people, to cut out the cancer that is

slowly killing our life that wants to shine out of us.

1 Cor: 5:6-8

1 Peter 4: 17-18-

17 For it is time for judgment to begin with God’s household; and if it begins with us,

what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God? 18 And,

“If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the

sinner?”