Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy

It has sometimes been said, that while the Holiness of God stands out more prominently in the Old Testament, in the New it has to give way to the revelation of His love. The rem...

Very wonderful is the revelation we have in Isaiah of God, the Holy One, as the Redeemer and the Saviour of His people. In the midst of the people whom He created and formed for...

'Of God are ye _in Christ_.' Ere our Blessed Lord left the world, He spake: Lo! I am with you alway, even to the end of the world. And it is written of Him: 'He that descended i...

We bless Thee most for Thy Blessed Son, the Holy One of God, the Living Word in whom the Truth dwelleth. We thank Thee that in His never-ceasing intercession, this cry ever reac...

2. 'God is Love;' Creation is the outflow of love. Redemption is the sacrifice and the triumph of love. Holiness is the fire of love. The beauty of the life of Jesus is love. Al...

2. And how does this Presence reveal itself? In the burning bush God makes Himself known as dwelling in the midst of the fire. Elsewhere in Holy Scripture the connection between...

1. 'Redemption through His blood.' The blood we meet at the threshold of the pathway of Holiness. For it is the blood of the sacrifice which the fire of God consumed, and yet co...

Closely connected with this is the idea of Exaltation: 'Thus saith the High and Holy One, whose name is Holy.' It was the Holy One who was seen sitting upon a throne high and li...

In the sixth chapter Paul speaks of freedom from sin, in chap. vii. (vers. 3, 4, 6) of freedom from the law, as both being ours in Christ and union with Him. In chap. viii. (ver...

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This is God's way of making holy. Not only with the holy place, as we have seen, but with the holy persons too, He begins with a centre, and from that in ever-widening circle ma...

That holiness is more than cleansing, and must be preceded by it, is taught us in more than one passage of the New Testament. 'Christ loved the Church, and gave Himself up for i...

1. It is difficult to make it clear in words how growth in holiness will simply reveal itself as an increasing simplicity and self-forgetfulness, accompanied by the restful and...

And when Old and New Testament have each given their message, the one in teaching us what _Holy_, the other what _in Christ_ means, we have in the word of God, that unites the t...

Note first the meaning of the question. In the original Greek, the words living and godliness are plural. Alford says, '_In holy behaviours and pieties_; the plurals mark the ho...

_Chastisement leads to the fellowship of God's Son._ The will of God out of Christ is a law we cannot fulfil. The will of God in Christ is a life that fills us. He came in the n...

'Sanctified by faith in me.' Yes, 'by faith _in Me_:' it is the personal living Jesus who offers Himself, Himself in all the riches of His Power and Love, as the object, the str...

'I brought you _unto myself_; if ye will obey _my voice_ in deed, ye shall be _unto me_ an holy nation.' Seekers after holiness! God has brought you to Himself. And now His voic...

3. Passing over to the views of those who regard holiness as being a moral attribute, the most common one is that of purity, freedom from sin. 'Holiness is a general term for th...

'_According to the Spirit of Holiness._ The word _hagios_, holy, when God is spoken of, not only denotes the blameless rectitude in action, but the very Godhead, or to speak mor...