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For me, the pure view of holiness for humanity is Jesus in His humanity. He was perfect in every way. We are not as He is, forever sinless. We are sinless. But in Romans 6, Paul speaks to us being freed from the unholiness and unrighteousness of sin and having become slaves to God and His righteousness that we now possess through the imputation of Jesus righteousness into us and the taking away of our sins by His death and resurrection.
Now being slaves to the ultimate best Master of all, we will no longer desire to serve sin in and with our person, mind, soul, and body. This service whereby we daily put to death the sinful nature with gladness by trusting in Jesus' work on the cross and the Holy Spirit's work in us to make us increasingly like Jesus, we increase in holy living by refusing to sin by easily giving into it before we were saved. We are not to go on sinning, thinking that it doesn't matter because we are saved by grace. No, Paul says, this thought should not even be in us but instead we submit ourselves to the Holy Spirit (God) in us and turn from sin's temptations by the power of grace within us. Grace enables us to say "Yes" to what is godly and holy and "No" to what is sinful and rebellious.
Believers should have a mind that admits that we still sin, but instead of delighting in it and bragging about it, we hate the sin and are repentant about doing it. We confess our sins, knowing that God does forgive us readily, and we us what ever strength we have of our own to resist sinning. We know that the Holy Spirit strengthens us to do so, but if we truly love God, we will us whatever we have to be obedient and godly. We may have to stop going to certain places or having certain people for companions in order to avoid all types of sinful situations. We may have to employ godly ways to divert our thoughts and actions away from temptations. We are called to live godly lives and to be set apart (holy) for God and His will. Jesus was this way.
For me, the pure view of holiness for humanity is Jesus in His humanity. He was perfect in every way. We are not as He is, forever sinless. We are sinless. But in Romans 6, Paul speaks to us being freed from the unholiness and unrighteousness of sin and having become slaves to God and His righteousness that we now possess through the imputation of Jesus righteousness into us and the taking away of our sins by His death and resurrection.
Now being slaves to the ultimate best Master of all, we will no longer desire to serve sin in and with our person, mind, soul, and body. This service whereby we daily put to death the sinful nature with gladness by trusting in Jesus' work on the cross and the Holy Spirit's work in us to make us increasingly like Jesus, we increase in holy living by refusing to sin by easily giving into it before we were saved. We are not to go on sinning, thinking that it doesn't matter because we are saved by grace. No, Paul says, this thought should not even be in us but instead we submit ourselves to the Holy Spirit (God) in us and turn from sin's temptations by the power of grace within us. Grace enables us to say "Yes" to what is godly and holy and "No" to what is sinful and rebellious.
Believers should have a mind that admits that we still sin, but instead of delighting in it and bragging about it, we hate the sin and are repentant about doing it. We confess our sins, knowing that God does forgive us readily, and we us what ever strength we have of our own to resist sinning. We know that the Holy Spirit strengthens us to do so, but if we truly love God, we will us whatever we have to be obedient and godly. We may have to stop going to certain places or having certain people for companions in order to avoid all types of sinful situations. We may have to employ godly ways to divert our thoughts and actions away from temptations. We are called to live godly lives and to be set apart (holy) for God and His will. Jesus was this way.
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