Holiness has become a popular term today within the church movement, a resurgence among those who are either Pentecostal or Charismatic, even Evangelicals have raised the holiness flag as the measurement of being born again.
Yet too many times the term “holiness” conveys another meaning when one examines what they are really promoting, legalism by works.
Holiness is what we are when we place our trust in Christ, it’s an automatic response to a declaration of faith. But too many see holiness as an effort driven principle whereby the believer has to do something that merits our holiness before God. This is not correct.
It’s not your outward apparel that makes you holy, nor is it your hair length that makes you holy. Holiness is not brought about simply because you don’t watch movies, or listen to music, that has nothing to do with your holiness. That’s simply a life surrendered to Christ. And it’s a process.
Holiness is not brought about because you try to obey the commandments every day, and to be honest, it never works. Why? Because it relies on performance and not faith alone. It’s rooted in works.
Faith, simple faith in the cross and what Christ did there is how we become holy, how we are justified, sanctified, regenerated. We rest in the completed work of Christ and what he did for us, not what we are doing for him.
Once the believer grasps that message of simply walking by faith alone, then and only then will they understand true holiness.
It’s in the cross.
[Christopher Gregory]
Ephesians 4:24 ... And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
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