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Title: CALLED TO BE HOLY


1
CALLED TO BE HOLY
  • 1 Peter 115-16
  • Troy Self, Associate Pastor

2
AN OUTLINE
  • I. A WARNING, V. 14
  • II. AN EXHORTATION, V. 15
  • III. A CONFIRMATION, V. 16
  • I. Warning, in two parts
  • A. Against indulgence
  • B. About ignorance

3
1 Peter 114
  • As obedient children We are called children, not
    by birth but by adoption.
  • Obedient Strong attentive hearkening, that is,
    (by implication) compliance or submission
  • Obedience brings blessingsdisobedience causes
    conflicts.

4
1 Peter 114
  • I. A WARNING
  • A. INDULGENCE
  • True holiness has a negative aspect. It is
    experienced when believers are not
    being conformed to the former lusts.
  • Fashioning yourselves means to be shaped by or
    conformed
  • Kistemaker the world has its own lifestyle to
    which believers often are drawn, but Peter warns
    them not to conform to the evil desires that are
    prominent in the world.

5
1 Peter 114
  • B. IGNORANCE
  • the former lusts in your ignorance
  • For believers, such former lusts were theirs in
    ignorance, before they were saved and when they
    did not know any better
  • Philips How dare we be ignorant of the means of
    grace available to us.

6
1 Peter 114
  • Philips cont. The NT has much to say about the
    new life we have in Christ, the power of the
    indwelling Holy Spirit, the principle of an
    exchanged life, the unique position that is ours
    in Christ, the cleansing power of His blood, and
    His high priestly work on our behalf. We must
    come to grips with our former lusts by availing
    ourselves of these provisions!

7
1 Peter 114
  • Obedience to God indicates negatively that his
    children will not go on living as they used to
    do, molded by whatever their sinful desires
    suggest.

8
II. AN EXHORTATION
  • It is unfortunate that holiness is a subject that
    makes a lot of believers very nervous.
  • Woodside Baptist Church puts a great emphasis
    upon the practicalities of a life of holiness.
  • In the eyes of the unsaved, a believer who says
    nothing and does nothing is fine, but a believer
    who tries to apply and promote his faith is to be
    rejected and ridiculed.
  • The whole subject of holiness is one fraught with
    difficulty, for people both inside and outside
    the church.

9
HOLINESS DEFINED
  • The original meaning of the ancient biblical word
    translated holy is to be separateseparated and
    accordingly to be different and to be
    distinct.
  • God has chosen this word holy to describe
    himself. He quite definitely states that holy is
    his name.
  • When God attributes the name holy to himself, he
    is drawing attention to the fact that he is
    separate, different, distinct, transcendent he
    is totally other.

10
HOLINESS DEFINED
  • Now, positively, obedience to God necessitates
    becoming holy like him.
  • The world holy came to express the essential
    character of God himself, summed up in such terms
    as purity, truth, sincerity, righteousness and
    opposition to evil.

11
HOLINESS DEFINED
  • Peter quotes from Leviticus 1144 also cited in
    Lev. 192, a command that God directed to the
    people of Israel as they journeyed to the
    Promised Land. It referred to their character as
    Gods people in keeping his commands.
  • Holy, therefore, includes the sense of belonging
    to God, a people marked off and separate from the
    world by their way of life.

12
HOLINESS DEFINED
  • Let us remember that holiness affects not only
    our personal relationship to God, but all our
    relationships.
  • It affects all you do manner of conversation
    your conduct, and Peter is greatly interested in
    this theme 212 31, 2, 16.

13
HOLINESS DEFINED
  • Examples
  • Isaiah Isaiah 63.
  • Joshua speaking to Israel Joshua 2415-19.
  • You havent grasped his otherness, his
    transcendence, his distinctiveness. You havent
    begun to understand that to serve the Lord means
    to recognize that he is so totally different than
    all you are and all you have, and all you do is
    going to be totally different.

14
HOLINESS DEFINED
  • It doesnt just mean to be different or other,
    but it means to be different or distinct,
    separate, as God is different and distinct.
  • As we see this idea in Scripture developing
    throughout the OT, we see days and things are
    called holysoon we see that people are set apart
    and are called a holy people.
  • Peter echoes this statement further in his
    epistlethat Christians are a holy nation
    people.

15
HOLINESS DEFINED
  • If holy people are to be clearly distinguishable,
    they must exhibit distinctive lifestyles based on
    different ethical considerations derived from the
    Holy One.
  • Now in the NT, we discover that the emphasis
    switched from outward ceremony to inward
    consecrationa change of heart, not merely a
    change of clothes!
  • NT holiness in the heart produces a holy people
    who desire what the Holy One desires and who act
    upon what the Holy One wants and wills.

16
HOLINESS DESIRED
  • In many hearts, there is no great desire to be
    holy.
  • A. We are motivated by the character of God!
  • Both the old and new testaments speak about his
    holiness more than any other attribute of God.
    The descriptive adjective holy describes the
    state and action of Gods being.
  • God is sinless, cannot be influenced by sin, and
    in his holiness destroys sin.
  • The quality, attribute of God that drew us to him
    is holiness, and so how can we be against it in
    our own lives?

17
HOLINESS DESIRED
  • B. We are motivated by the call of God!
  • He called us to a relationship with him. He
    called us to himself. Romans 829-30
  • Thats Gods ultimate purpose, to make me like
    his Son Jesus Christ, and that means he is
    conforming me to be holy, separate, distinct from
    the people, culture, ethics and conduct of this
    rotten old world.

18
HOLINESS DESIRED
  • C. We are motivated by the command of God!
  • I can be holy while doing nothingI cannot
    however, be nothing and be holy!
  • Yet the Bible calls us saints that is, we are
    made holy through Jesus Christ.
  • As saints we receive Gods call to holy living.
  • Peter expects the believers to be imitators of
    God in respect to holiness.

19
III. A Confirmation from the OT
  • D. We are motivated by the consistency of God.
  • Peter opens the Scriptures and appeals to the
    highest authority.
  • He offers confirmation of his teaching with words
    spoken by God himself.
  • Peter takes the written word from Leviticus
    1144-45.
  • He appeals to Leviticus, for it features the
    theme holiness.

20
III. A Confirmation
  • In fact, the adjective holy appears more often in
    Leviticus than in any other book of the Bible.
  • Peter is pointing out that throughout the OT God
    has revealed himself as holy, making holy demands
    upon his people.
  • He has shown them the rewards of holiness, and he
    has also shown them the consequences if they
    refuse to be holy. He has always been, presently
    is, and always shall be, HOLY.

21
CONCLUSION
  • Peter is concerned that the way in which
    Christians live should testify to their faith in
    God, show the character of God and give
    credibility to the gospel the behavior of
    Christians should be an incentive for other
    people to believe!
  • God calls his people out of a world of sin to a
    life of holiness and he expects that whatever we
    do, say, or think is holy.

22
CONCLUSION
  • The daily confession of the Christian ought to
    be
  • So shall no part of day or night from sacredness
    be free.Horatius Bonar
  • Peter expects the believers to be imitators of
    God in respect to holiness.

23
SO WHAT?
  • Have you been called by God to salvation?
  • Do you realize we evidence repentance and
    conversion by a desire to be holy?
  • Do you crave God through Christ? His fellowship
    and love? His relationship?
  • Do you recognize areas of your life that are not
    consistent with holiness?
  • Are you willing to separate yourself from those
    former lusts and walk as an obedient child of God?
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