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Morning Star Baptist Church is committed to showing our community how Jesus
Christ came into this world to save sinners. It is our desire to help those who
have never established a personal relationship with Christ to know the
satisfaction that only Christ can give!
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ARE YOU HOLY?
01/29/2012
“Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord”
(Heb. 12:14)
Modern times have become insidious with sound doctrine being replaced with “ear-tickling novelties” and with the damnable doctrines of devils.
No greater victory for Satan than to make evil look good and depict the grace of God as a license to sin. Such antinomian [against law] teachers will receive a greater condemnation.
“For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ” (Jude 4).
Hallelujah, the Blood of Christ can cleanse deeper than any sin can stain, and where sin abounds, grace doth much more abound. God’s Grace finds us as sin-loving rebels – but does not leave us as such. After one is converted, if there is not abhorrence for sin and a disposition towards the holiness of God, then Christ is “become of no effect unto you…ye are fallen from grace” (Gal. 5:4).
What does the grace of God teach the believing sinner? “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men., Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world” (Tit. 2:11-12).
Today, professed Christianity is a painted harlot that courts the favor of the world and laughs at the modest “plain Janes” of biblical Christianity.
Ishmaels will always mock the Isaacs, but it is disconcerting when the children of promise allow such mockery to intimidate them into silence. To worldly Christianity, holiness is not “cool.”
There are two aspects of holiness: imputed righteousness through the merits and atoning sacrifice of Christ, and horizontal righteousness which is the practical sanctification of the believer. Both are crucial. Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord.
Evangelist Roth Barnard said: “God will either make you holy or put you in hell.”
Profane Esau cared nothing about his birthright, until he lost the blessing. Then the careful tears fell.
How is your heart, dear friend? Do you view your sins as deadly vipers or as trifling toys? Is it nothing to you that Jesus was smitten and scorned because of your sins? Oh, to be more like Christ – this is true holiness!
“Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity”
(2 Tim. 2:19).
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