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HEART HOLINESS 

By Sheryl Collins

          If God commands us to be holy, He will give us grace to obey.  As we look at this Scripture in I Peter 1:15-16, “But as He which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.”   We notice that God commands holiness because He is holy.  He wants us to be like Himself, and we must seek it from that motive.  Not only does God command that we be holy in heart, and life, and in the church, but in our business and in our everyday lives.  We must be holy to walk with God.  “Holiness” implies our likeness to, and harmony with the nature of God.  “Righteousness” implies our harmony with the law of God.  Holiness refers to the life and experience of the soul.  It starts on the inside.   What is on the inside will come out!  We cannot live holiness until we first get it in the soul.  To please God is to be holy.  If Enoch had the testimony that he pleased God, then he had the witness to heart purity.   

          “And every man that hath this hope in Him purified himself, even as He is pure” (I John 3:3).  The Scripture idea of purity is not merely freedom from the actual commission of sin, but also freedom from the inherent body and seed of sin as well.  This Scriptural purity means to be freed from all pride, envy, jealousy, resentment of feelings, malice, deception, and secret wrath; to have clean lips; a tongue free from unclean words, backbiting, evil speeches, and foolish or trifling talk; it is to be cleansed from all impure desires; from all secret, unholy desires; to have no division in the desires and tempers of the soul; to be purified from unholy affections such as the love of money, love of praise, earthly ornaments, display, and worldly greatness; the love of place, rank, station, and human honor; it is to be freed from high-mindedness, self-will and self-seeking; it to be delivered from all moroseness or bitterness of feeling, from harshness of spirit and temper; it to be liberated from all the stony hardness or coldness and lukewarmness of spirit; it is a heart washed from all rebellion toward the will of God, and from all evil and unholy affections toward our fellow creatures; it is deep contrition and circumcision of spirit through the blood of Christ and by the Holy Ghost whereby there is ceasing in the soul from the body of sin; from both sinful acts and sinful purposes.  Such a soul is cleansed from all sin, outward and inward, and according to the Scriptures, it is perfect in moral purity, and is entirely sanctified. 

          It is important for us to get straight on the principles of holiness.  We can be holy on the outside and have all the features of being holy, but unless we are holy on the inside, in the heart where it counts, it does no good at all and IS NOT TRUE HOLINESS! 

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