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Here at Hank’s Place I enjoy sharing with you the benefits of living in the NEW COVENANT, free from the Law.
Under the old we had to take steps to get holy. Becoming holy was up to us; it was all on our shoulders to be holy, which God commanded. For God said in Leviticus 19:2, “Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.” Peter in 1 Peter 1:15–16 stresses the importance of cultivating personal holiness by referring to this passage, telling us to no longer be conformed to the former lusts which were ours in ignorance.
But is it still all up to us? Please understand: in the new covenant there’s only one step, and it’s JESUS. JESUS is our holiness from God. That’s 1 Corinthians 1:30 which tells us Jesus became to us our sanctification. We ARE the holy temple of the Holy Spirit. It is all God’s doing, and it is DONE. 1 Corinthians 6:19.
Holiness is no longer something we should strive to attain; no, it is something we ‘work out.’ Philippians 2:12. We already are holy through Jesus; Scripture exhorts us to “be holy,” meaning we BE the holy saints we already are.
Today dear friend, live out of your TRUE IDENTITY in Christ instead of living in a false, half-holy and struggling to get holy notion perpetrated by theologians stuck in the old covenant, filled with unbelief that God could be so GOOD to those who believe in Christ Jesus! The Gospel is GOOD NEWS, remember?
An example? Say you are a shovel, shoveling manure in the pigpen. And struggling to be that perfect, spotless silver spoon in the manor house that God said one day you’ll be, and already are, positionally. Or, say you already are that silver spoon, but spooning manure in the pigpen. And now letting go of the former manner of behavior, and entering into the manor house to function as the spoon you already are, period.
Think about it. “…prepare your minds for action and exercise self-control…live as God’s obedient children.” 1 Peter 1:13-14, for that is who you already are.
You’ll COME ALIVE!
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