Nothing To Hide: Holiness

Purity; Nothing to Hide

“Nothing to Hide”

6.13.10

 

Purity first must be understood as interchangeable with Holiness

• Our Responsibility
• Asking the Right question
• Not “how far is too far?’
• “how holy can I be”
• What holiness is not
• Self-Righteousness
• Religion/Pride
• Despair
• Self-Attained (II Cor. 5.21)
• “The Great exchange”
• This is the key to understanding holiness
• Self-Contained
• What Holiness is
• Purity
• Hagiós/Hagnós
• “sacred (physically pure morally blameless) innocent; modest, perfect—chaste, clean, pure”
• You do not have purity aside from holiness, nor do you  have holiness aside from purity
• Separation
• Consecrated- “set apart, fenced in, holy, devoted and/or dedicated.”
• In the world, not of the world
• “…not as complete detachment, but as a subtle attitude on particular points.”
• It is all about the standard you hold yourself to
• Areas of life to be consecrated
• Mind (Rom 12.1-2; Prov 23.7)
• Body (I Cor 6.15-20)
• Relationships
• Technology
• The Source
• The Cross
• It was here that Jesus paid for our sin and the opportunity to be pure
• “The Great Exchange” (II Cor 5.21)
• Day of Atonement (See below)
• The Gospel
• Makes new (II Cor 5.17)
• Old Passed away-Dead and gone
• All is new
• Thoughts
• Actions
• Words
• Gives new identity
• No longer identified by sin
• Stuff done by us         
• Commission-things we should not do
• Omission-things we fail to do
• Now identified in Christ
• Day of Atonement
• Propitiation- removal of wrath
• Expiation- removal of sin
• Now identified by his life, death, burial, and resurrection