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HOLINESS

According to the Strong’s exhaustive concordance Holy is mentioned in the bible 611times. The first place Holy is mentioned is in Exodus 3:5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. God called the place Holy because God was there, does this mean that any place God is should be regarded as holy? I believe so. Leviticus 10:1 Then Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it, put incense on it, and offered profane fire before the Lord, which He had not commanded them. 2 So fire went out from the Lord and devoured them, and they died before the Lord. 3 And Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord spoke, saying: ‘By those who come near Me, I must be regarded as holy;And before all the people I must be glorified.’”

Nadab and Abihu offered profane fire in the presence of God, and God killed them. It is a very dangerous thing to behave anyhow in the presence of God, there is an acceptable way to behave in church, people have lost their lives because they have offered strange fire in God’s presence, the lack of fear of God have led many to their untimely death, people have made malicious utterances about genuine men of God and children of God they are not God but God is with them and so it is a dangerous place to be.

Holiness is to be set apart or separated from what is unclean and a consecration to what is pure. Holiness is not about how much good we do or that we try to do, it is not about how many times we pray or read the bible, these are all needful but holiness is recognising the presence of God in our lives and living purposefully with that knowledge that he dwells in our lives, which in turn makes us want to pray, read our bibles and do good deeds, it is being of one mind with God loving what he loves and hating what he hates. Holiness is immediately asking for forgiveness if we fall into temptation because we don’t want to grieve the Holy Spirit. Holiness is not just about dressing holy and looking like a saint all the time, it’s important to dress like a child of God and not a child of the devil but holiness is more than that, it starts from the heart. Holiness should be a way of life and must be reflected in your daily conduct 1 Peter 1:15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. Just as Aaron,Nadab and Abihu were priests required to be holy to offer God an acceptable burnt offering, so are we too because we are a holy priesthood. If God dwells on the inside of us we are called to obey him daily and grow in holy living each day.

1Chronicles 22:19 ‘Now set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God. ’Colossians 3: 1-2 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

Holiness is having a heart that seeks God continually, setting our affection on things above and recognising that the things here below are fleeting. Holiness is seeking to please God and not men, holiness is seeking to be like God and having the mind of God, it is having self-control and mortifying the deeds of the flesh daily, holiness is showing genuine love towards brethren and doing unto others as you would love them to do to you. As children of the most high God holiness should be our watchword we must be Holy for He is Holy.

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