11/17/19 THE PLAN, POWER AND PURPOSE OF HOLINESS

11/17/19 THE PLAN, POWER AND PURPOSE OF HOLINESS
 
Re-post from six years ago.

I talked to my Sunday School class today about the plan, the will and the power that comes with entire sanctification to implement the changes God wants to bring into our lives (attitudes, affections, amusements, affiliations, actions). Though the primary purpose of entire sanctification is to deliver believers from the sinful nature (carnal mind, the old man, double minded, the flesh, evil heart of unbelief, root of bitterness, as it is called in the Bible), we are then enabled to progress in our walk with God. We are able to make changes, we are able to eliminate the negative and accentuate the positive by the fullness of the Spirit of God, in a holy and blameless heart.

All of the people who have grown to true spiritual maturity had to experience heart purity first. Purity of heart is a work of salvation, maturity is a walk of obedience.

Hey, though I was justified and sanctified wholly by faith, I have had to follow Jesus if I wanted to remain faithful, which is essential to remaining saved. I have had to change things in my life, therefore young Christians need to do the same. Like it or not younger Christians need to honor, seek, listen and follow the counsel of older, who have become wiser because they have experienced God's leading and teaching. If the younger ones do not honor and submit to the seasoned saint, they are trying to live the Christian life in a different way than God has planned.

If the younger one eventually comes to the same point of view as the older Christian, think of all the time they wasted by not doing the Biblical thing (honoring, submitting and obeying their spiritual leaders, including Christian parents, and pastors) from the beginning. On the other hand, if the younger one does not come to the same conclusions concerning Biblical living as the mature and pure believer, then the younger one has been duped, misled into a false direction, therefore moving away from the revelation of God.