" Guess What? "

[mysheep]

May I ask you a question?

 

[mysheep]

" What makes you holy? "

 

[mysheep]

" Does attending service? "

" Does worshipping qualify you to be holy? "

" Does your own good deeds? "

 

[mysheep]

" If Christ makes you holy, then literally where in the Scriptures says He makes you holy? "

" If born again, or Holy Spirit makes you holy; how so? "

 

[icxn]

" Does attending service? "

" Does worshipping qualify you to be holy? "

" Does your own good deeds? "

Doing all of the above and many others, i.e. "the whole thing," makes you holy, after all that is what holy means: whole, complete in every virtue, and especially love.

 

[mysheep]

Doing all of the above and many others, i.e. "the whole thing," makes you holy, after all that is what holy means: whole, complete in every virtue, and especially love.

In conclusion, attending service and worshipping doesn’t qualify you to be holy by your good own deeds. You’re holy when Yahh says you’re holy for keeping His holy day.

 

[Lilly of the Valley]

True, but that's not an excuse to live a fleshly sinful lifestyle either. Also, keeping a holy day has nothing to do w/ it.

 

[Wisdom's Child]

Oh my head.....

 

[icxn]

In conclusion, attending service and worshipping doesn’t qualify you to be holy by your good own deeds. You’re holy when Yahh says you’re holy for keeping His holy day.

1 Cor. 13

 

[tulc]

You’re holy when Yahh says you’re holy for keeping His holy day.

Ahhh! Sooo Jesus died for no reason? If we had just kept the sabbath He could have saved Himself the pain and suffering?
tulc(that seems...unlikely)

 

[tulc]

I agree with icxn!

1 If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.
2 If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing.
3 If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love.

4 Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.
Love doesn't strut,
Doesn't have a swelled head,
5 Doesn't force itself on others,
Isn't always "me first,"
Doesn't fly off the handle,
Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,
6 Doesn't revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
7 Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.

8 Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. 9 We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. 10 But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.
11 When I was an infant at my mother's breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.
12 We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won't be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We'll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!
13 But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.
(from "the Message")

tulc(likes that chapter a lot!)

 

[JimfromOhio]

Holiness is our spiritual relationship with God. As a disciple, my Christian faith should be inward, not outward because the Bible teaches that faith is of the spirit and not of the flesh. Christ dwells in my heart, and "Christ in you, the hope of glory" (Colossians 1:27) is the burning core of the Christian faith.

"The trouble with you is that you make your decisions on the basis of appearance." 2 Corinthians 10:7 (NLT). Inner beauty is more important than physical beauty (1 Peter 3:1-6). Christians are warned to be careful about their welfare because they should care more about spiritual than physical welfare (1 Tim.2:9-10). In Proverbs 21:2, "People may think they are doing what is right, but the Lord examines the heart." (NLT). God is looking for Christians who will worship Him from their hearts, minds and bodies. The heart is where God meets us because that is where we make our decisions. Our hearts are where our desires and motives are located. It is important to understand that our hearts is the state of our "flesh". Our flesh search for pleasure, pride, passions and selfish motives. The heart is the source of our emotions, thoughts and motives.

By holiness does not mean I will be sinless but I can be blameless. My life as a Christian takes work and requires the commitment of my heart, mind and body. I need to have a “Christ-like attitude” (1 Peter 4:1-2). Paul said in 1 Corinthians 11:1 “Imitate me, as I also imitate Christ”. Christ is not outside of me but He is inside me. Since Christ is within me, I must listen to His Word and walk in His steps (2 Corinthians 4:10). With Christ inside me, God has granted me the ability to understand the truth and live accordingly (1 John 1:5-6). I am God's letter, written in my heart to be known and read by everybody. I am to show that I am a letter from Christ, the result of His ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of my heart (2 Corinthians 3:2-3). I am being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. (1 Peter 2:5). I am encouraged by God that I am to offer my body as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God. This is my Spiritual act of Worship. I will not conform to the pattern of this world but be transformed by renewing of my mind with the Word of God. By understanding the Word of God, I will be able to test and approve what God's will is; His good, pleasing and perfect Will (Romans 12:1-2).

Showing a Christ-like attitude toward all (Rom. 12:7-21), exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22-23), and maintaining a life of prayer (Eph. 6:18; Phil. 4:6). Jesus Christ calls us to discipleship, to take up our cross and follow him. Through the gift of God's saving grace, we are empowered to be disciples of Jesus, filled with his Spirit, following his teachings and his path through suffering to new life. A disciple of Jesus is to know life in the Spirit.

Christ's definition of Beatitudes (Matthew 5) contradicts the world's standard of happiness. True happiness can only come from one source which is Jesus Christ. True happiness begins in my heart, mourning over sin which leads to meekness. From the attitude of meekness, I hunger and thirst for righteousness. Through Jesus Christ, I can receive God's mercy and righteousness that my heart will be pure. When I accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior and Lord, the Holy Spirit came into my heart and cleansed my sins and purified my heart. Only God can provide happiness when I have Jesus Christ in my heart and only Jesus Christ can give me true happiness. Happy are those who joyfully endure problems and trials because knowing God is teaching and leading me to where He want me to go. Enduring trials are part of a Christian's life. (Read: Romans 3 and James 1).

 

[Ethan_Fetch]

Eph. 5:24-27

Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.

Heb. 13:12

So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood.

 

[mysheep]

" Can you be holy if you do unholy things, how so? "

 

[BigChrisfilm]

No, you can not, the things you do determin who you are, so then you cannot be holy if you are acting unholy.

 

[qh93536]

" What makes you holy? "

What makes a person holy is their spiritual walk with The Lord.
There are those who believe that their knowledge of scripture makes them holy. Well, I'm sorry, but your knowledge does not make you holy. If that were true, the devil would be holy. It is not your knowledge that makes you holy. It is not the fact that you attend church 2 or 3 times a week that makes you holy. It is not the fact that you tithe that makes you holy. It is not the fact that you give in offerings that makes you holy. It is not the fact that you are a good person that makes you holy. It is not the fact that you pray often that makes you holy. What makes a person holy is their spiritual walk with The Lord. It is your God-like qualities that make you holy. It is enveloping kindness that is deep in your soul that makes you holy. It is the goodness, love, mercy and joy in the Lord that makes you holy. It is your total obedience to God's will that makes you holy. It is your total faith in Him that makes you holy. It is your sharing God's needs, desires and priorities that makes you holy.

 

[mysheep]

" Does your own opinion make you holy or When you do the things Yahh told you to do to be holy? "

 

[mysheep]

" Why can't you respond emotionally when giving an answer concerning Scriptures but the answer must be proven from the Word? "

21Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

 

[Lilly of the Valley]

" Does your own opinion make you holy or When you do the things Yahh told you to do to be holy? "

Is "Yahh" God? If so, then yes to the latter.

 

[mysheep]

"Do you keep what the Lord Yahh says is holy or do you keep what you feel emotionally in your heart as holy? "