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    Be Holy For I Am Holy
    Be Holy For I Am Holy
    Be Holy For I Am Holy
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    Be Holy For I Am Holy

    By Grace Dola Balogun

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    He would continue his love for they would still be a special people reserved for mercy. The expressions of God’s goodwill to his people here speak abundance of comfort to all of the spiritual children of upright Jacob who are praying for Israel. Through God’s cares and concern for his people, God created the people of Israel especially for himself. He made them into a people; God incorporated them by his covenant—purchased and redeemed them. It is the same way with those who are redeemed by the blood of his Son Jesus Christ. God showered his loving kindness upon them. God always cares and saves his people from any difficulties and dangers. God’s presence for his people from the Old Testament never fails. God’s people are created for his glory. God is with his church; with his care and loving kindness, all of the believing Christians must not fear or be discouraged.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGrace Dola Balogun
    Release dateDec 5, 2013
    ISBN9781939415554
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      Be Holy For I Am Holy - Grace Dola Balogun

      DEDICATION

      I dedicated this book to God the Father Almighty; Father of all mercies the sustainer of all things. Who called us to be Holy from the Old Testament to the New Testament by giving us His only begotten Son Christ and said, whoever believes in my Son, believes in me. "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. I dedicated this book to Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ the True Son of God, who came to this world and took away our past, present, and future sins on the cross and blessed all those who believe in him with Eternal life so that we can live a holy life from this earth to heaven. I dedicated this book also to all those who are going to read it, and begin to practice how to live a holy life, how to be holy, because He said be Holy for I am holy. Believers who bought this book will learn how to live a life of Love, a clean life from all evils that are going on in the world. They will be able to consecrate themselves from all unrighteousness, evil desire, and worldly lust that are ruling the life of people in the world. Believer who will be reading this book will separate themselves from all forms of evil in the world and live a holy life that God Almighty required from everyone who comes to the earth.

      PREFACE

      God commands Holiness from the Old Testament to the New Testament. The holiness of God is infinite; his love is infinite, his mercy is infinite, and his great compassion upon those who loved him is infinite. But now, this is what the Lord says—he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel; fear not, for I have redeemed you, I have summoned you by names; you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze. For I am the Lord, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior (Isaiah 43:1-3a). God expresses his love to the people of Israel and the benefits of his love for them. The same is true with Christians today. All of the blessings mentioned here in the book of Isaiah apply even more to those who are God’s children through faith in Jesus Christ.

      God has created and redeemed all of the Christian believers; we belong to him, and we have passed through troubles and afflictions. We will not be destroyed, for he is with us. We are precious and honored in his sight, believers are the object of his great love. God loved us before he put us in the womb and brought us into this world. God will never forsake his people. He would continue his love for they would still be a special people reserved for mercy. The expressions of God’s goodwill to his people here speak abundance of comfort to all of the spiritual children of upright Jacob who are praying for Israel. Through God’s cares and concern for his people, God created the people of Israel especially for himself. He made them into a people; God incorporated them by his covenant—purchased and redeemed them. It is the same way with those who are redeemed by the blood of his Son Jesus Christ. God showered his loving kindness upon them. God always cares and saves his people from any difficulties and dangers. God’s presence for his people from the Old Testament never fails. God’s people are created for his glory. God is with his church; with his care and loving kindness, all of the believing Christians must not fear or be discouraged.

      Scripture revealed, I am the Lord your God; consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy. Do not make yourselves unclean by any creature. That moves about on the ground. I am the Lord who brought you up out of Egypt to be your God, therefore, be holy because I am holy. (Leviticus 11:44-45). God Almighty made it clear from the Old Testament in the book of Leviticus that the children of Israel must be holy because he is a holy God. He gave instruction concerning clean and unclean food; he knows many and all kinds of foods that are not good for believers or that cannot make us healthy. Therefore, and most importantly for health reasons, but also as a standard help and support, as our heavenly Father knows what type of food is not good for us, and what type of things we cannot engage ourselves with, and things that could put us in danger; but our heavenly Father has already seen it and warned us to be careful and be aware, we must take a closer look at whatever we are doing before it is too late.

      The Lord God Almighty said to the children of Israel, I am the Lord your God Believers are bound to do what is right and what is pure. They must practice obedience and be obedient. This means if God is holy, Christians, who are called the children of God, must be holy; otherwise, they cannot be accepted by him. Christians must not continue in the former lust of their way of life. The Lord who took the Israelites from Egypt wants them to put all of the immoral lives of Egyptians down and follow a clean way of God in what they eat and do. It’s the same way with us today. We must put all of the past lives behind us, and eat what is right and what is good for our health, and what can make us clean. Beginning from Adam to Christ, God made it clear that without holiness no man can see the Lord. This is a great design of all of the ordinances in which we are sanctified in order to learn and practice to be holy.

      To be a Christian means to believe in Christ’s redemptive work of salvation on the cross. It means to be united with Jesus Christ in his death, burial and resurrection through the power of indwelling of the Holy Spirit; believers are in Christ, Christ in them, their lives are hidden with Christ. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life appears, then you also will appear with in in glory (Colossians 3:3-4). We Christians are dead to the things of this world and they have renounced all of the worldly lust. Christians should set their affections upon what Christ has designed for them. A Christian’s life is in Christ their Savior; this is the believer’s comfort, to know that their life is in Christ, not in them. This guarantees their security in the Lord and they are safe with him.

      Christ is our hope, at His second coming to the world; Jesus Christ is the believer’s life. He is the first and the last, the beginning and the end of the lives of believers. When Jesus Christ appears in his glory, all the Christians will appear with him. All of the redeemed of Christ will appear with him and be with him. Therefore, Christians must not set their affection upon the things of this world; they must set their mind on things that are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. The hope, heart, mind, treasures and homes of Christians are with Christ in heaven.

      Believers are seated at the right hand of God where Christ is seated, in the heavenly realms; in Christ Jesus, believers’ union with Christ made them participate in the life of God the Father through the power of the Holy Spirit. In Jesus Christ our Lord, God’s holiness is the holiness of believers. The redemptive work of Jesus Christ cleans believers from all of their unrighteousness and makes them holy in him, and holy in God the Father.

      Jesus Christ is the believers’ life; they’re being clothed with Christ’s life and character. Spiritual graces, power, experiences, and blessings are all with Christ in heaven. He bestows these blessings on all who sincerely and diligently pursue him with all of their heart. Holy life is an essential part of the work of redemption in Christ. It is fellowship with, and love for, Christ as a person that must always be kept central, and it is where Christians exercise their personal communion with Christ.

      God wanted the Israelites to remain a people separated from sin and from the ungodly society around them. The instruction of abstinence and dietary instructions are no longer valid or binding on the New Testament believers, because Jesus Christ has fulfilled all the significance and the purpose of anything that can contaminate the body and the spirit. However, the principles embodied in those instructions are still valid to some people today.

      Believers must be able to distinguish themselves from their surrounding society by what they eat and what they drink, and the way they dress, which is to honor God, not to honor each other. Christians must reject all unholy social ways and manners of unbelievers. They must be holy in all that they do, at anytime and anywhere. Their thought and deed must be holy everywhere they are in the world. Our Lord said, Let your light shine so that they will give glory to your Father in heaven. You are the children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead; for you are a people holy to the Lord your God (Deuteronomy 14:1-2). (1) to be a peculiar people to him above other nations, but he chose them that they might be so by his grace; (2) we have adoption You are the children of the Lord your God. Formed by God into a people, owned by him as his people, his family, a people near unto him, nearer than any other; (3) sanctification is the art of a holy people, separated and set apart for God, and devoted to his service, set apart and designed for his praise, directed, controlled by his holy law, and graced by a holy tabernacle, and the holy ordinances. The children of Israel must be able to distinguish themselves from all other nations of earth.

      This is the same with all the believing Christians today. They must be separated from the world in order to be useful and live a holy life that God required or demanded. The lord God tells the people of Israel, you shall be holy, for I am holy, because the God of Israel is a holy God and holy it is Law of Jesus Christ. Israelites was sanctified with the truth of God and with the substance of all of those shadows; where all of the believing Christians must reverence and esteem with their outward and inward expressions in obedience to his commandment by loving their neighbors as they love themselves.

      God made all Christians a peculiar people; He chose them and dignified them to be his people, his own possessions, dedicated and subjected, committed as a peculiar people to him above all people in other nations, God chose them so that they could receive his grace.

      These are people who God owns by him as his adopted children in the New Testament, people who are close and nearer to him than any other people who do not know him. God’s holiness and sanctification cannot be separated. God chose his people and set them apart for what he wants them to do for him in this world. Again, The Lord said to Moses, speak to the entire assembly of Israel and say to them: Be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy (Leviticus 19:2).

      God called Israelites to be holy, to be a holy people because Israel’s God is a holy God, just as with the law of Jesus Christ. People of Israel were sanctified by the types and the shadows of Christ, but believing Christians are sanctified by the truth or substance of all of those shadows. God gave orders that children, when they grow up to be a man, must still know that it is their responsibility, regardless of how great, or wise they are, to give reverence and respect to their parents because their parents are their parents. They must put their mother first and take good care of their mother and father, especially if their mother is a widow.

      The Scripture in the Book of John

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