20171126 excellence of holiness final
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- 2. SUNDAY 26 November 2017 EXCELLENCE IN HOLINESS
- 3. HOLINESS DOES NOT INVOLVE WITHDRAWING FROM THE WORLD BUT PARTICIPATING IN THAT WORLD IN A NEW AND DIFFERENT WAY.
- 4. HOLINESS Joh 17:13-17 NLT "Now I am coming to You. I told them many things while I was with them in this world so they would be filled with My joy. 14 I have given them Your word. And the world hates them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. 15 I'm not asking You to take them out of the world, but to keep them safe from the evil one. 16 They do not belong to this world any more than I do. 17 Make them holy by Your truth; teach them Your word, which is truth.
- 5. HOLINESS Joh 17:18-21 NLT 18 Just as You sent Me into the world, I am sending them into the world. 19 And I give Myself as a holy sacrifice for them so they can be made holy by Your truth. 20 "I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in Me through their message. 21 I pray that they will all be one, just as You and I are one—as You are in Me, Father, and I am in You. And may they be in Us so that the world will believe You sent Me.
- 6. Finally then, brethren, we request and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us instruction as to how you ought to walk and please God (just as you actually do walk), that you excel still more. “Not of but sent into” 1Th 4:1 NASB
- 7. EXCELLENCE IN HOLINESS 1Th 4:1 Finally then, brethren, we request and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us instruction as to how you ought to walk and please God (just as you actually do walk), that you excel still more. 1Th 4:10 For indeed you do practice it toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, to excel still more,
- 8. EXCELLENCE OF HOLINESS HIGHLY SPIRITUAL EXCELLENCE OF HOLINESS SINFULNESS OF SELFISHNESS SOCIAL MORALIST Selfishly Sinful Love for man Love for God
- 9. EXCELLENCE OF HOLINESS IN SEXUALITY 1TH 4:3-5 NASB FOR THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD, YOUR SANCTIFICATION; THAT IS, THAT YOU ABSTAIN FROM SEXUAL IMMORALITY; 4 THAT EACH OF YOU KNOW HOW TO POSSESS HIS OWN VESSEL IN SANCTIFICATION AND HONOUR, 5 NOT IN LUSTFUL PASSION, LIKE THE GENTILES WHO DO NOT KNOW GOD;
- 10. FREEDOM IN HOLINESS 1Th 4:11-12 NLT Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we instructed you before. 12 Then people who are not Christians will respect the way you live, and you will not need to depend on others.
- 11. JOHARI WINDOW FACADE Known only to myself ARENA Known to all BLIND SPOT Known to others UNKNOWN Known to no one KNOWNTOMYSELF KNOWN TO OTHERS
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Editor's Notes
- “In, but not of” — if you’ve spent much time Christian circles, you’re probably familiar with this slogan. In the world, but not of the world. It captures a truth about Jesus’s followers. There’s a real sense in which we are “in” this world, but not “of” it. In, but not of. Yes, yes, of course. But might this punchy phrase be giving the wrong impression about our (co)mission in this world as Christians? The motto could seem to give the drift, We are in this world, alas, but what we really need to do is make sure that we’re not of it. In this way of configuring things, the starting place is our unfortunate condition of being “in” this world. Sigh. And our mission, it appears, is to not be “of” it. So the force is moving away from the world. “Rats, we’re frustratingly stuck in this ole world, but let’s marshal our best energies to not be of it.” No doubt, it’s an emphasis that’s sometimes needed, but isn’t something essential being downplayed? We do well to run stuff like this through biblical texts. And on this one in particular, we do well to turn to John 17, where Jesus uses these precise categories of “in the world” and “not of the world.” Let’s look for Jesus’s perspective on this. (from https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/let-s-revise-the-popular-phrase-in-but-not-of)
- “In, but not of” — if you’ve spent much time Christian circles, you’re probably familiar with this slogan. In the world, but not of the world. It captures a truth about Jesus’s followers. There’s a real sense in which we are “in” this world, but not “of” it. In, but not of. Yes, yes, of course. But might this punchy phrase be giving the wrong impression about our (co)mission in this world as Christians? The motto could seem to give the drift, We are in this world, alas, but what we really need to do is make sure that we’re not of it. In this way of configuring things, the starting place is our unfortunate condition of being “in” this world. Sigh. And our mission, it appears, is to not be “of” it. So the force is moving away from the world. “Rats, we’re frustratingly stuck in this ole world, but let’s marshal our best energies to not be of it.” No doubt, it’s an emphasis that’s sometimes needed, but isn’t something essential being downplayed? We do well to run stuff like this through biblical texts. And on this one in particular, we do well to turn to John 17, where Jesus uses these precise categories of “in the world” and “not of the world.” Let’s look for Jesus’s perspective on this. (from https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/let-s-revise-the-popular-phrase-in-but-not-of)
- “In, but not of” — if you’ve spent much time Christian circles, you’re probably familiar with this slogan. In the world, but not of the world. It captures a truth about Jesus’s followers. There’s a real sense in which we are “in” this world, but not “of” it. In, but not of. Yes, yes, of course. But might this punchy phrase be giving the wrong impression about our (co)mission in this world as Christians? The motto could seem to give the drift, We are in this world, alas, but what we really need to do is make sure that we’re not of it. In this way of configuring things, the starting place is our unfortunate condition of being “in” this world. Sigh. And our mission, it appears, is to not be “of” it. So the force is moving away from the world. “Rats, we’re frustratingly stuck in this ole world, but let’s marshal our best energies to not be of it.” No doubt, it’s an emphasis that’s sometimes needed, but isn’t something essential being downplayed? We do well to run stuff like this through biblical texts. And on this one in particular, we do well to turn to John 17, where Jesus uses these precise categories of “in the world” and “not of the world.” Let’s look for Jesus’s perspective on this. (from https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/let-s-revise-the-popular-phrase-in-but-not-of)
- But notice that for Jesus being “not of the world” isn’t the destination in these verses but the starting place. It’s not where things are moving toward, but what they’re moving from. He is not of the world, and he begins by saying that his followers are not of the world. But it’s going somewhere. Jesus is not huddling up the team for another round of kumbaya, but so that we can run the next play and advance the ball down the field. Enter verse 18: “As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.” And don’t miss the surprising prayer of verse 15: “I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.” Jesus is not asking his Father for his disciples to be taken out of the world, but he is praying for them as they are “sent into” the world. He begins with them being “not of the world” and prays for them as they are “sent into” the world. So maybe it would serve us better — at least in light of John 17 — to revise the popular phrase “in, but not of” in this way: “not of, but sent into.” The beginning place is being “not of the world,” and the movement is toward being “sent into” the world. The accent falls on being sent, with a mission, to the world — not being mainly on a mission to disassociate from this world. (from https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/let-s-revise-the-popular-phrase-in-but-not-of) What is your holiness path? Where is your walk with God taking you. Is it a walk away from the world into God and onto heaven or away from worldliness into God and then into the world?
- Paul puts out the two axis of excellence in holiness: The Love of God is the vertical and the love of others is the horizontal.