Soyeong
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There certainly is a do .... but who is doing it?
It is the work of Christ in the believer.
“Keep my statutes and do them. I am the Lord, who sanctifies you.”
(Leviticus 20:8)
It is a good reminder that none of us is holy, pure in and of ourselves, that God is doing a purifying, sanctifying work in all of us.
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
1 Peter 1:16
Since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
Christ set a sinless example of how to walk in obedience to God's law, it is God who makes us like Christ, and what that means is for us to follow Christ's example of obedience to God's law. God commanding His people to have a holy conduct is straightforwardly commanding us to do something, which is expressing God's holiness. Following God's laws for how to have a holy conduct has never been about trying to become holy, but rather it is expressing the fact that God is making us holy.
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