Holiness, Purity, Perfection
(This web site's purpose is to show how to become free from sin by receiving grace through the cross).
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For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,
teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts,
we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world,
looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing
of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ;
who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity,
and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
One who still sins might mistakenly argue they are redeemed from all iniquity, but not that grace has purified them!
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Jesus said, The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master.
The Amplified Bible says: A pupil is not superior to his teacher, but every one completely trained
- readjusted, restored, set to rights and perfected - will be like his teacher.
Why would Christ tell us this, unless he wanted us to become like him? Remember this was the preface of his statement: " Don't try to take the spec out of your brother's eye until you remove the beam from your own." When "you get the beam out of your own eye" by being perfected, you can see clearly how to remove the spec from your brother's. So he wants us sinless and purified so we can help our brothers, but until then, we can't even see how to help - and if we think we can, we are more blind that he who we are trying to help - we have a beam in our eye, and he only has a spec - who is more blind? Only when Christ has perfected us, can we remove that spec; only then can we preach or teach, after we are readjusted, restored, perfected and set to rights, authorized; then we can help - until then we just harm those we try to correct. To be restored, is to be renewed into the image of God, as was man before the fall in the Garden - which is Christ's job with all of us - to reconcile the whole creation back to God, as it was, even better, than before it fell due to the disobedience of Adam. For we cannot be reconciled back to God in our fallen state, we must be purified, restored, perfected before union can take place - union that is only possible between two like beings.
If you are teaching, preaching, or trying to correct someone else, before being perfected by Christ, you are estimating yourself to be greater than Christ.
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Jesus said: The seed is the Word of God, [ not the Bible, the Living Word of God, spoken to you by Christ] . And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to PERFECTION. But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
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This web site's purpose is to show how to become
free from sin
by benefiting from the changing power of God through the cross,
which leads to union with God in his Kingdom.
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