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People wonder
How “professed” Christians
Do the things they do
Say the things they say
Write the things they write
It’s not RIGHT!
True! We have to “walk the talk”
But perfection is not attainable
Holiness is misunderstood
There is no state of sinlessness

Holiness connotes wholeness
Being wholly for someone
Belonging to Someone
Having the heart and mind of Christ...

We are disappointed when Christians SIN
We call them hypocrites
What is sin?
Sin is the breaking of a heart
Rather than the breaking of a law
Jesus said: “If you love me, keep my commandments”
The Ten Commandments are nothing more than…..
A revelation of the character of God
A peek into what is important to Him
When we “break” one of these
It shows that there is something wrong
In the relationship

Is any marriage PERFECT?
No…married couples fight
Disappoint one another
Hurt one another
But the commitment is there
Bible writers compare our relationship with God
To a marriage….
That is where the holiness comes in
We make a vow to be WHOLLY committed to God
Having taken the vow….
Will you stumble?
YES!
Will you fall?
YES!
Will you break the heart of God?
YES!
Will he forgive you?
YES! YES! YES!

Ephesians 5: 25 – 27 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

If we were sinless, why would Jesus need to WASH US?

Apostle Paul, my favorite author said
The good he wants to do
He doesn't do
and what he DOESN'T want to do, 
THAT he does!
Is that schizophrenia or what? 
The schizophrenia of sin
Double personality
The beauty and the beast
But God knows
He understands how hard it is
He remembers that “we are dust”
In other words: He cuts us some slack
He works on us

Jesus washes us when He forgives us
He covers us with His goodness
His “Robe of Righteousness”
His “right doing” becomes our “right doing”
That doesn't give us license to “sin”
That gives us incentive to thank Him
For that robe
Which cost Him His life

Jesus longs for us to be holy
Wholly His
That's why we bear His name: Christian

“Holiness is wholeness for God; it is the entire surrender of heart and life to the indwelling of the principles of heaven.  All Jesus asks is that we 'be absolutely and completely for Him in this world as He is for us in the presence of God.’” DA

Eileen Manassian Ghali
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