AND WHAT HOLINESS IS ALL ABOUT? Part 2

THE BIBLE HOLINESS
Do you know that Jesus Christ has made holiness so easy to understand in the Bible and so easy to practice by the help of His grace? Holiness is what everybody can easily understand, and every converted Christian can simply strive to practice by God's grace. in the book of Romans 1:4, Paul mentioned the spirit of holiness, meaning holiness has a Spirit, and the evidence that you have accepted and allowed the Spirit of holiness in your life is the fruit of that Spirit in your ways of life; meaning that holiness is all about the fruit of the Spirit. Practical holiness in a Christian life is bearing the fruit of the Spirit as written in the Book of Galatians 5:22, 23, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law”

The Bible holiness is bearing the fruit of the Spirit, the 9 of it being evident in your life. If you lack any of these 9 attributes of the Spirit of holiness, then you are not yet holy. It is not by claiming, it is not by preaching but by living. The fruit you bear, which reflect in your way of life and attitude, shows if you are holy or not. The nine fruit of the Spirit are:

LOVE -: Loving all, doing everything in love, the love of the Bible. Please read 1 Corinthians 13.

JOY -: Living in joy with people without bitterness.

PEACE -: Having peace with God and with man without making problem.

LONG-SUFFERING -: Enduring with troublesome people and situation without offending.

KINDNESS -: Being kind to people without obligation.

GOODNESS -: Sharing with undeserved, helping even with little; in behavior, in word and in action.

FAITHFULNESS -: Being faithful to God and faithful to men in the way of God; with little and much in kind and action, in public and in secret.

GENTLENESS -: It’s not being quiet but being gentle in spirit. Gentleness is not that you don’t talk, but you talk with the spirit of gentleness; it not being aggressive in word and in action, just gentle.

SELF-CONTROL –: It’s keeping your mind, your mood, your mouth under the control of the word of God and Spirit of God; it’s controlling your thought, temper and tongue by the Spirit of God in accordance to the word of God.

A church that claims or preaches holiness without the fruit of the Spirit being evident in the lives of the majority of members is a hypocrite church, and a Christian who preaches holiness without the fruit of the Spirit is a hypocrite Christian.

FUNNY, FIERCE BUT FRUITLESS
The funny thing about many Christians today is that they claim the righteousness of Jesus by faith, they say they are the righteousness of Jesus Christ but they lack the fruit of righteousness in their lives, and so they became fake. How can you claim the righteousness of Jesus without the fruit of righteousness in your ways of life? How can you claim to have the spirit of Jesus Christ without the fruit of Christ in your life? Jesus Christ Himself was declared the Son of God according to the Spirit of holiness. A Christian without holiness of life is a joke to the devil and demons.

On the other side, some denominations preaches holiness with fierceness, they say it, shout it loud “holiness, holiness, holiness” they believe in holiness, they preach holiness but no fruit of holiness, and so they become hypocrites. Holiness is not what you say of yourself but what people see in you. It’s not you saying it that you are holy, but people around you seeing it. You are not holy because you say you are holy, but because you bear the fruit of the Spirit which people can see. It’s not what you say but what people see. Jesus said, by their fruit you shall know them, Matthew 7:16, not by their saying. Such churches and Christians say they are holy irrespective of what people say; that is a serious deception.

It’s people around you, your husband, or your wife, your children, your parents, your housemaid, your friends, your co-workers, your neighbors, people around you that will say if you are a holy Christian or not. We are holy by our ways of life, reactions, relationship with people and attitude. Holiness is not a self-attained or self-acclaimed testimony, but testimony from people, both believers and unbelievers. If you want to know if you are holy or not, approach some of your neighbors, co-workers, friends, spouse or child, and ask what they can sincerely say about your Christian life and your attitude. Be humble to listen and learn when you are wrong, apologize, and ask God’s forgiveness and pray for God’s grace as you are watchful.

People who claim holiness without caring about their attitude towards their spouse, family members, friends and neighbors are simply hypocrites. People who claim holiness without caring how they dress, or how they address people are fake Christians, and so claiming holiness without bearing the fruit of the Spirit as written in Galatians 5:22, 23 is a fruitless claim.

Reflection of Holiness: holiness is not something to hide, it reflects deep in your heart, in your dressing not dressing worldly or using worldly adornment and immodest dressing, and in how you address people.

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SHALOM!

You have NO IDEA what HOLINESS is, nor how to attain it. As soon as you mentioned PAUL, I knew that you didn't know what you were talking about!