The research for this post comes from a message preached by Rev. John R. Church, D.D., in 1968, at the Central Holiness Camp Meeting in Wilmore, KY. Dr. Church was a General Evangelist for the United Methodist Church. The 9 Reasons are Biblically based. This blog merely puts forth the the Word of God. The reader's agreement or disagreement is with the Lord, not the writer.
1. God has sworn that we can be holy, and live it. Luke 1:73-75: The oath which he sware to our father Abraham, That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear, In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
2. God commands us to be holy. 1 Peter 1:15-16: But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
3. It is God's will that we be sanctified. 1 Thess 4:3:For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
4. God calls us to holiness. To despise this call, is to despise God. 1 Thess 4:7-8: For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
5. Jesus died that we might be sanctified. Heb 13:12: Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
6. Jesus is not ashamed of those of those who are sanctified. Heb 2:11:For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
7. No one can get to heaven without holiness. Heb 12:14:Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
8. God chastens us in order to make us partakers of His holiness. Heb 12:6-10:For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
9. It is God's choice for us. Eph 1:4:According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.
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