HOLINESS PART TWO

Church is the beauty of holiness

I Chronicles 16:29 - give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name bring him an offering and come before him; Worship the Lord in the beauty of Holiness.

Psalms 29:2 - Christians are commanded to be perfect in Holiness in body and spirit. such as possible in Christ. God is spoken of as being glorious in holiness. His throne is called one of holiness.

Ministers Should Be Holy 

Avoid everything inconsistent with Leviticus 21:6 and Isaiah 52:11

Leviticus. 21:6 - profane means to show irreverence, blaspheme, and to disrespect the name of God by sinning 

Isaiah 52:11- Be ye clean, you who bear the vessels of the Lord.

Be Examples of Holiness

I Timothy 4:11-12 - Once again a example of charity in spirit, in faith, and purity.

Exhort to Holiness

Heb. 12:14 meaning to follow /to pursue /chase seek after/follow closely

Luke 21:19 - In your patience possess ye your souls. Possess your Possessions 

Obadiah is about both Deliverance and Holiness

Verse 17 - Upon Mount Zion shall be deliverance.

But Mount Zion is the gospel church from which the New Testament law went forth.

Isaiah 2:3. There at Mt. Zion salvation was preached and proved for to the gospel Church. for those who are added (who come in faith and hope to this Mount Zion) deliverance shall be wrought from wrath, curses, sin, death and hell. They will be saved. Those who continue afar off shall be left to perish. 

Where there is salvation, there shall be sanctification and there shall be holiness to prepare and qualify the children of Zion for this deliverance; for wherever God designs glory he gives grace.

Temporal deliverances are indeed wrought for us in mercy when with them there is holiness, when there is wrought In us a disposition to receive them with love and gratitude to God; when we are sanctified, they are sanctified to us. Holiness itself a great deliverance, and an earnest of that eternal salvation which we look for. They are, upon Mount Zion, in the gospel-church, shall be holiness; for that is it which becomes God’s house forever and the great design of the gospel and it’s grace is to plant and promote holiness.

Where there is holiness there shall be deliverance

That this salvation and sanctification shall spread, prevail, and get ground in the world: the house Jacob, even this holiness their wrought, shall possess their position; that is the gospel - church shall be set up among the heathen, and shall replenish the earth; the apostles of Christ by their preaching shall gain possession of the hearts of men for him who’s messages and ministers they are, and when they possess their hearts they shall possess their possessions, for those who have given up with themselves to the Lord give up all they have to him. When Lydia's heart was open (Acts 16:14) to Christ her house was open to his ministers. 

The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph shall be a flame. For their God is, and will be, a consuming fire; and the house of Esau shall be for stubble, easily devoured and consumed by this fire.

This is fulfilled!!!

The house of Jacob possessed their possessions. We must reckon ourselves truly enriched by the conversion of our neighbors to the fear of God and the faith of Christ, and they’re coming to join with us in the worship of God. Such in accession to our Christian communion we must reckon to be more our wealth and strength then and ascension to our estates. 

In short make yourselves Holy as God would require. Read the scriptures included in this Holiness blog. Begin to look more and more like God. His desire is for you to do so.

Be sure to read part 3 on Holiness!

Thank you for your support,

Dr. James P. Norman Jr.