Holiness Everywhere, It’s the Law

Q: What does the Bible say about holiness?

The Bible describes holiness as being set apart for God, emphasized in Ezekiel 43:12. Holiness in the Bible is primarily about separation unto God. Ezekiel 43:12 states that the whole territory surrounding the house of God shall be most holy, indicating that this holiness is a divine requirement. It is emphasized throughout Scripture that God's people must be distinct and set apart for His purposes. This concept of holiness permeates the law of God and reflects the character of God himself, who commands His people to be holy as He is holy (1 Peter 1:16). Holiness is not merely an external standard but reflects a genuine heart dedicated to serving and reflecting God's glory.

Q: How do we know God's requirement for holiness is true?

God's requirement for holiness is rooted in His unchanging character, as indicated in Scripture. We know that God's requirement for holiness is true based on His nature and the consistency of His Word. In Ezekiel 43:12, God establishes holiness as the law of His house, confirming that it is non-negotiable for His people. Moreover, God, being holy by nature, requires His people to mirror that holiness in their lives. The Scriptures continually affirm that holiness is essential for relationship with God, pointing us to passages like 2 Corinthians 7:1, where believers are called to cleanse themselves from filthiness and perfect holiness in reverence to God. Thus, holiness is not only a command but also an expression of the believer's identity in Christ.

Q: Why is the concept of holiness important for Christians?

Holiness is vital for Christians as it defines their identity and relationship with God. The concept of holiness is crucial for Christians because it defines their identity and the nature of their relationship with God. In Christ, believers are called to embody holiness as a reflection of God's character. Holiness signifies being set apart for God's purposes, affecting how believers interact with the world around them. Ezekiel 43:12, along with 2 Corinthians 7:1, emphasizes that living a life that perfects holiness in the fear of the Lord is essential for maintaining that distinctiveness. Being holy enables Christians to witness effectively to a world that needs the truth of the Gospel, exemplifying Christ's love and righteousness in their conduct.

I remember those who requested prayer. I have the Dawson Malone of the Snead family and also Ronald James, who's just been diagnosed with diabetes and has a bad place on his foot. So it's not looking good. So remember him in your prayers also, if you will. Seek the Lord's help for him.

Let's begin our worship service with a hymn number 466, Christ liveth in me. Once far from God and dead it seemed, No light my Lord could see, But in God's Word the light was seen. Now Christ is liveth in me Christ liveth in me Christ liveth in me God of salvation is that Christ Springs of life from yonder sprung, flowers of earth set free! So life and light and love came forth, now Christ will live within me! me. me. me. me. his spirit Christ, live and be free! Christ, live and be free! All our salvation is in Christ, live and be free! All in all, my heart is filled Christ live within me What our salvation is, and Christ liveth in me.

After Scripture reading and prayer, we'll sing hymn number 40. Grab your vinyls, Terrapedia Ezekiel, chapter 43. Mark your Bible there, or put your finger there, and mark 2 Corinthians, chapter 7. In Ezekiel chapter 43 verse 12, this is the law of the house. Upon the top of the mountain, the whole limit thereof, round about, shall be most holy, because this is the law of the house. In 2 Corinthians chapter 7, Paul writes, having therefore these promises, Dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of the Lord.

Let us pray. Our Father, we pray in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, who is our holiness, for you have made him to be unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. It is in that name we approach unto you boldly, knowing that we are accepted in the beloved and welcome in your presence. We are thankful that you remember our sins no more because of the shed blood of Jesus Christ, because he died for us and perfected us and wrote your word in our hearts. Help us, Lord, to remember and recall the wonder of the fact that we who deserve eternal punishment and death were saved from it on the merits of another whose death perfectly satisfies your law and justice.

Father, we pray for those of our company who are sick, going through trials. We ask the Lord you'd be with them for these have been added to the prayer list. the Lodi family, the Sneed family, and also Ronald James. We ask the Lord your help for them. For the others who requested prayer, we ask your help for them.

We know thou art God. And we know that in this world that seems full of chaos and ruin, that your hand is the controller of all things. cannot and will not ever understand your providence and what you're doing now. We know that in the end it will work for our good and for your glory. We are astounded at the declaration of the word of God. And we bow to your wisdom and your will in all things.

Father, we ask in this day that you might cause us in our hearts to worship you. to uplift the name of Jesus Christ, to look to Him in all things. I pray you'd teach us your word. We know that if you teach us, it will draw us and bring us to Jesus Christ. Help us now, we pray in Christ's name. Amen.

Hymn number 40, Praise is Thy Name. ♪ O God, my Father, there is no shadow of turning with Thee ♪ ♪ How changes snuff a young passion to faith-filled love ♪ ♪ As thou hast been, that's forever will be ♪ Praise Thy faithfulness! Praise Thy faithfulness! Morning by morning new mercies I see, ♪ Oh, I have healed thy hand and clothed thy lip ♪ ♪ Great is thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me ♪ ♪ Southern and wintering, springtime and harvest ♪ ♪ Sun, moon, and stars there ♪ To Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love! Praise Thy faithfulness! Praise Thy faithfulness!

Morning by morning new mercies I see... All I have needed Thy hand has provided Grace, I'm faithfulest, Lord, unto Thee I know blessings on I Great is Thy faithfulness! Great is Thy faithfulness! Morning by morning new mercies I see! I pray, Father, again we approach in the name of Jesus Christ our great Savior. He gave His life for His sheep. He laid Him down for His sheep. He calls His sheep by name. His sheep follow His voice and hear Him. He is under them eternal life.

We know that no gift from above is tainted. It's perfect. It comes from the Father of lights, in whom there is no variables, so shall it turn. And we know Jesus Christ is declared in your word to be the unspeakable gift that you've given your children. And according to your word, with him you've freely given us all things. As we return unto thee that which belongs to you, let us do so with joy and thanksgiving in our hearts. We pray in Christ's name. You're all I need you about your attention back to Ezekiel chapter 43.

The word from above, the word of God, which you hold in your hand, cannot be altered or appealed, no mitigating circumstances by which it can in any way be disallowed. It is the word of God. One man said that God's law cannot be bent, it can only be broken. That's true. Our Lord said, Be ye holy, for I am holy. Here in this passage in Ezekiel, this verse embraces that absolute inalterable principle.

And as all that is in the book applies to the Lord Jesus Christ and his work, that house on the hill there is none other than the habitation of God. The holy hill Zion that God has put his king upon. the church of the living God. The biblical concept of holiness is often the subject of the preacher of God's sovereign grace.

The reason that this is often the subject is that they understand what it means. Most people do not. The requirement is precise and the command is exact. Listen to it. is the law of the church, the house, that's the temple. It's talking about reconstructing the temple here. And we know the temple is the church of the living God, Zion. This is the law of the house upon the mountaintop, the whole limit. The word limit there is the word means abound or a border territory. The church is God's border territory.

We are fenced in. We are called a daughter enclosed. But it's a specific territory. This doesn't apply anywhere else. It applies in the house of God. The whole limit thereof shall be round about. That means everywhere in this house, in the house of God, in the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is the law. All must be holy. All must be holy.

The word holy brings about a very visceral reaction to most people in this day, especially those of the religious ilk. It's kind of like the word righteousness. The word holiness garners numerous, generally entirely erroneous meanings to the flesh. The word righteous means equity. The basic meaning of the word righteousness is equity and its meaning cannot be separated from the biblical doctrine of substitution wherein God equitably justified His elect. Romans 3 asserts that God declared His righteousness in justifying sinners and was just to justify them because of the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.

There was an equitable transaction there. We used to say Quantities equal to the same quantity are equal to each other. We had geometry in school. I'm sure you know that. Debbie says it this way, equals, equals, equals, equals, equals. But he says the same thing. Equity, righteousness.

Sin requires death. No mitigation. No appeal. the soul that sinneth it shall die. Our Lord Jesus Christ supplied that death. He met the requirement when he voluntarily gave up the ghost on Calvary's tree. And since acceptance from God must be right, it must be right, shall not the judge of all the earth do right? It must be equitable. God made Christ to be our righteousness to fill the vacuum that was left when our sin debt was paid and our sin was annihilated before God.

Christ is our righteousness. I have no other. I have no other righteousness. I dare not look to myself, it would be an embarrassment to call up anything that I do that I think might have merit. Jesus Christ alone is the righteousness that stands me before Almighty God. this is our salvation our salvation was right and equitable and fair and balanced in the economy of God he said in this great transaction in Romans chapter 3 that in the substitutionary work of the Lord Jesus Christ when Jesus Christ was charged with our justification God said I was righteous to do that he declared his righteousness in doing that We look at ourselves and say, how can it be right that God would save somebody like me?

But God said, when I saved you, I did it right, and I was righteous in doing so. The believer is glad to say that because of the work of Christ, he is righteous. Or better yet, righteousness, according to 1 Corinthians 1 and verse 30, applied to an individual, his views If he looks at himself, we're so skewed that he immediately responds with a kind of indignant indignation.

Man does not think of equity, he thinks of arrogance. When a person says, he knows to be a sinner, that I'm righteous before God. But every child of God says that and can say it. must say it if he's going to say the gospel clearly, I'm righteous before God. A natural man says that's just arrogance. That's just arrogance. A believer knows it's equity. Nobody really cares much for a righteous man.

Our Lord even said scarcely one thou for a righteous man. But there is likewise a gut reaction to the word holy. or holiness when it's applied to men. Rather than indignation, the word holy or holiness generally on some level evokes feelings of guilt and discomfort or uneasiness.

Many years ago we were down in Louisiana, Debbie and I, we walked into this museum that had statues that a lot of western Sculptors had made, and one of them, I forget who it was, it was a famous American sculptor, did a lot of western stuff, horses and stuff, but he did one called the Puritan. A statue about 18, 20 inches tall, and it was all black. And this Puritan was And the statue was walking forward with a Bible in his hand, and his hat cocked to the side, and it was just intimidating. It was just a statue, but I thought, why would I hate to live like yonder with them people?

They would have probably put me on a wagging tongue and took hot pincers and tore off my skin. This guilt, upon the mention of the word holiness, It comes from what old Bill Clark, a French missionary, used to call regional sanctification. It flows from what folks are taught in the region they live as to what it meant to be holy. I was taught what it meant to be holy. And it had to be dressed, something about how you dressed, or the posture with which you walked, your demeanor, your countenance.

There were such things as go-to-hell sins. Like any other sin might not send you to hell. All sin is against God. We had holy denominations. Had people called holy rollers back when I was a boy. They're called charismatics now, but they were called holy rollers back then. And such holy people generally do not get an invitation to the party because they're not very popular. And they're not any fun.

When graceless religion reads words like those in our text in Ezekiel, their mind immediately runs to the regional convictions they grew up with and the carnal baggage that attended their birth. They speed with all haste to what they call the Christian life. That's a big deal, living the Christian life as if there was a moment. There is no life outside of the Lord Jesus Christ.

They look to self in the works they do or the works they forgo, what they do or don't do. And having a warped view in the concept of holiness, they proceed to categorize actions and list goals so that they might judge who has made or missed the mark. And it's the invention of many a straw man in religion by these who have their idea of what holiness is.

It's a comparative thing, you see. It's a comparative thing. If a person believes holiness is personal, that marriage is personal, you can be assured he's gonna find somebody of lesser esteem than himself to compare himself to so he'll look good. If he goes to church, attends worship service, he gives and sings songs and sings hymns and reads his Bible, And you look at him and he's a really fine fella, and you look at a drunk in the gutter, that's the guy he's gonna compare himself to. And he's gonna look good. But that's a straw man. That's a straw man. They come up with faux theological terms that suggest the believer has a way to go in the matter of holiness.

They call it progressive sanctification. The fellow recently on the back porch out here said, do you believe in progressive sanctification? He hadn't been back since I answered him. But he said, do you believe in progressive sanctification? I said, no, no such thing exists. I said, if it would occur in a man, it must occur in the soul.

Can God get more holy? Can Christ get more holy? No, neither can you. Holiness is a state of being. we'll turn over to our second text here in second corinthians chapter seven and say this is what i'm talking about having therefore these promises dearly beloved let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit perfecting holiness perfecting holiness in the fear of the lord now what is holiness in scripture the first and primary meaning of holiness is separation That's the primary meaning of holiness. It doesn't have to do with how you carry yourself.

It's being separated unto something which separates you from something. Paul said, I was separated unto the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. And then he wrote of the Corinthian church, this thing here, perfecting holiness in the fear of the Lord. And he's still talking about separation.

If you look back at the text in which it's written, Remember, the Bible wasn't written in verses. It was a letter. These were letters. This was the second letter to the Corinthian church, probably about 54, 56 A.D. is when it was written. The first letter Paul wrote was 1 Corinthians around 51 or 52 A.D. But here, Paul is writing to the church and he's told them to do something, to watch out for some things, to separate themselves from some things.

He says back in chapter six of the same chapter, Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. And the reason is because you can't really have fellowship with someone who doesn't love Christ. I mean, that means you can get away. Don't mean you, when I say separate, I don't mean separate yourself from people. Separate yourself from doctrine.

Wrong doctrine. We ought to be kind to everybody. And we ought to be willing to listen to anybody if they want to run their mouth into a total error, let them do it. Let them do it. Like a fella told me one time, I don't believe in predestination. And I looked at my watch and said, you said that right on time. So, you know, you can talk to people about things.

But Paul says this, be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers, because what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness. A believer is righteous, an unbeliever is not righteous. And what commune hath light with darkness? If there is light, darkness is dispelled. The two cannot live together. If you have darkness, you have darkness. For the minute you strike a match, it ain't dark no more. What concord hath Christ with Belial, the devil? What is their combination here? And what part hath he with an infidel? An infidel is one who absolutely rebels against the truth of the word of God.

We can't have fellowship with such. And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? We don't have idols in our churches. That's why we don't have crosses and things that would take people's minds off of Jesus Christ. We want to hear about Jesus Christ. We want to know about Jesus Christ. I remember one time Henry Mann told the story of a little six-year-old girl that had been under his ministry. She was a baby.

She had learned some things being under Henry's ministry. And her grandmother was a Methodist. And she went to stay with her grandmother one Sunday. And her grandmother took her to church at the Methodist church. And they had this great big cross. I mean, he went from the floor all the way to the ceiling, and people came up and knelt before that thing. And so she took her granddaughter up there, and she's going to kneel, and her daughter wasn't kneeling. She says, get down, honey, get down. She said, no, Mom, that's an idol.

And it is. The so-called Christian cross predates Calvary by some 900 and some years found in Mexico. Same cross. Did you know Semiramis, the wife of Nimrod? After he died, two years later, she come up pregnant. And she said, I got the son of God. Nimrod came back, the son of God. They all came back and he had sex with me and I now have a son of God named Tammuz.

You know what a symbol was? The tau, a type of the cross. This is way back. The cross is not a symbol of Christ. The crucifix that has an image on that cross is not a symbol of Jesus Christ. It's an idol, just as many what it is. I call it Jesu Mahagonas Lollipopus. That's what I call it. It's an idol. We walk by faith. Not by sight. And faith relies on one thing and one thing only. Not feelings. Not emotions. Not sentimentality. Faith relies on this right here. This is it. Totally subject to this. What do you believe? I believe what this book says. And the world says that's crazy. You gotta be able to see it. No. We walk by faith. and not by sight.

What fellowship hath the temple of God with idols? You are the temple. Ye are the temple of the living God. As God said, I will dwell in them and walk in them and I will be their God and they will be my people. That's the promise. He says, wherefore come out from among them. So evidently, some of the elect of God are in these crazy places. Indeed they are. I was in a pretty crazy place for a long time myself. Wherefore, come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, separate, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you.

I will be your father, and I will be your father unto you. You shall be my sons and daughters, saith God Almighty. These are promises. Now the next verse has to do with promises. Having therefore these promises, I'll be their God, they'll be my people. I'll be their father, they'll be my sons. Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of the Lord.

Whatever the meaning of the remainder of verse one is inextricably bonded to and based on and centered in the fact that those who are spoken of, they have something. They have something. Having therefore these promises. They have them. They're not hoping they'll get them. God has given them these promises. They possess and therefore believe the aforementioned promises. They are not looking to gain or progress in any way, shape, or form concerning the promises. They have the promises.

The admonition is to cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit. And here's the definition of perfecting holiness. The word filthiness is an interesting word. It means an action by which anything is defiled. The word filthiness, that's what it means. It means an action by which anything is devout or doing something that defiles you. And we know that you can't take anything into your body that defiles you.

Our Lord said that. I know religion talks about reformation and causing regeneration. You stop drinking, you stop chewing, you stop going to movie shows and things like that. Don't do drugs no more, you regenerate. No, you reform. You quit doing stuff.

Because what you take into your body, no matter if it's a vow, this thing won't work. It cannot defile you. It might kill you. But it can't defile you, because this defilement is before God. Christ said, it's what comes out of you. What's already in your heart and proceeds from your heart, that's what defiles you. That's what defiles you. You know, there's a number of things. Look at Mark chapter 7, time when you have the seven, when you have some time.

And this is not a contradiction of the words of our Lord, just about means filthiness. And it comes from Ruth, it means to pollute or stain. Paul uses the same language when he said about leaving another gospel in Galatians chapter one. He said, I'm amazed that you're so moved from the gospel to another gospel, which is not the gospel, but it's a polluted thing. It's a polluted thing. The thing is stained by coming in contact with something of a polluting nature, something nasty. And the nasty filthiness that is spoken of here has to do with contact or proximity or association with something that God forbids. Clearly this filthiness is in opposition to the promises of Christ and to the Christ that promises.

The believer is not stained by association with sinners. If we were, we wouldn't be nothing but stains. And our Lord, we're commanded to preach the gospel to every creature, and our Lord set the example for associations of being the friend of what? Republicans and Senate. The worst. The off-scouring of the universe.

But the believer is, however, stained and awful and polluted, and gets his feet dirty in association with false religion. If you want to know where the word holiness is preached a great deal without anybody knowing what it means, it's in legalistic religion. Putting a believer back under the law.

The epistles of Galatians and Colossians were written in warning against that very thing, and we have examples of that staying in action. It don't take much, it don't take much to lose our sight of Christ. to take our eyes off of him. We know that for a fact. We know that our truly, the only time we really have this joy in our souls and our hearts and our minds are settled and we're at peace is when we're hearing the gospel. The rest of the time when we're out in this world there ain't no peace, there ain't no joy unless God directs our minds back to him who died for us. But here, twice a week we can sit down and hear about him, and suddenly the world doesn't mean a thing. How sweet, how wonderful that truly is, that truly is.

Peter, James, and Barnabas, three of Christ's disciples, they'd walked with him, they'd talked with him, they'd seen him after the resurrection. been there at Pentecost when the Holy Spirit came and empowered them to preach the gospel. They went out and preached it in other languages. They preached it in their language and people heard it in their own language. It was a wondrous thing. They had been there. Peter saw Christ's transformer in our transfiguration. He saw him shine brighter than the sun. He saw somehow Elijah and Moses come across the compendium of time and stand with the Lord Jesus Christ and speak to him. He saw some wondrous things and he was in the place called Antioch. Antioch was in the Hellistic area, the Greek area. In Antioch, the gospel was preached by Paul. He didn't tell them we need to be circumcised, we need to be under the law.

He said, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. And he told them what Christ had done on Calvary and what he had accomplished on Calvary for them. And those crazy, crazy Gentiles believed what he said. They were just so joyous and happy that the Lord had saved them. And Peter, James, and Barnabas coming down to fellowship with them.

And here come some other people. some spies, some espionage agents called Judaizers, and they came in, and they came into that church, and they said, well, we know you fellas believe on Jesus, and hey, you know, that's the only, that's the way to go to heaven is believe on Jesus, but you've got to be circumcised. You've got to keep the law. You understand that, don't you? You just can't believe and that's it. You must be circumcised.

And so they sat over at this table at the church social, these Judaizers. And Peter was over here with the believers, these free men that the Lord had saved. And he started listening to those Judaizers. And Peter got up from that table. James got up from that table. Barnabas got up from that table and walked over and sat down with the Judaizers. Paul comes in and sees it. He said, I took Simon Peter's side, eyeball to eyeball, face to face.

You despise the grace of God. You despise the grace of God. It can happen. Don't think you're immune to it. Somebody with enough knowledge and intelligence and charisma and smartness Personality can draw you away just as easy as a moth is drawn to a flame.

That's why Peter says perfecting holiness is separating yourself from that filthiness of the flesh and corruption of the spirit. That's what perfecting holiness is. That's the word, taleo, used on the cross, used in Hebrews chapter 10. It means to bring to an end. The word holiness finds its primary meaning in being separate. Perfecting holiness is finishing the matter of separation. To find what that means, we only have to look at what he's just said here in verses 14 through 17 of chapter 6.

We are simply not to join hands with those who oppose Jesus Christ and his gospel. We're not all going to the same place. The truth of the matter is that in order to perfect holiness, we must reject the holiness that religious people espouse. that we are neither to saddle up to, embrace, or entertain in our minds. We are not to be yoked fellows with them, fellowship with them, have communion with them, be in concord or agree with them.

We don't separate from them by paying attention to them. Paul would not give attention to them for an hour in Galatians 2. We separate from them by separating unto something. We don't say, I don't have anything to do with you. Get out of my face. We said, let me tell you something. Let me tell you about Jesus Christ and what he did for you, and who he did it for, and what the result of that was. And that's all the separation you don't have to do. The gospel does the trick. The gospel does the trick.

Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourself from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness and holiness and separation in the fear of the Lord. And back in our text in Ezekiel, holiness, he said, that's our territory. That's our border territory in the church of the living God. Holiness is the law of the house. So-called holiness before men rests in what men deem as holy, but holiness before God is being separate from all that does. You're either holy or you're not. That's simple. In Christ, you're holy. Outside of Christ, you're not. Primary meaning, according to this, is separation.

It would be jazz with the context as God has charged his people with whoredoms here in Ezekiel. Whoredoms are always about idolatry, the worship of false gods. Babylon is called the great old. The mountain is Mount Zion. That's the church, the body of Jesus Christ. It's the assembly of the saints, the habitation of God.

This is the law of the church at the beginning and the end and all the way around, holiness. Language is inclusive and all-encompassing, the whole limit, the territory. And there around, about everywhere, shall be most holy The church is made of the scraps of society, the remnants, the offscouring of the universe, and not one member of the whole roundabout would lay any claim to personal holiness. Holy and revered is the name of God, yet right here in plain English, the law of this house, holiness.

Everything in this house that belongs to God and salvation is holy. Because that's the law of the house. It has to be that way. It has to be that way. Since the law condemns everyone in nature, if this requirement is to be met, it must be met by someone with whom the law has nothing to do, a perfect someone. must make this possible. And I want to make it possible, accomplish it, and make it happen.

The law has nothing to do with the righteous man. Paul said that to Timothy, who was singularly the truly righteous man that walked this earth, Jesus Christ. If the law had nothing to do with him, how did he fulfill the law? He died. He died. That's how the law was fulfilled.

The scriptures declare this to be the case. Our Lord died in the womb instead of His people. Most holy. How are you most holy? In Jesus Christ. Don't ask me to explain that. But the elect of God have been in Jesus Christ since the world began. Since before the world began. by substitution. We owe God a debt we couldn't pay. If we died, it wouldn't pay the debt. It would just last forever in hell. Never paying it off. Jesus Christ paid the debt. The debt we owe to God, he paid the debt by substitution.

What does that mean? And I still am full of wonder about this. When I really think about it, it's like, it almost scares me how marvelous this really is. How wondrous this fact is. I ought to die. And someone I hated by birth and cared not for at all, according to the word of God, 20 centuries ago, died in my place. I didn't know it. What does some God, some people, some person God raised up on his hind legs tell me? He didn't tell me about it. I didn't know anybody about it. Feel no wonder to consider that he died in my place.

That's substitution. That's the heart of holiness. In Christ, by substitutionary propitiatory laws of fulfilling sacrifice, God declares his church the whole limit roundabout. is most holy. His church is holy. And every one of his people perfect holiness in the fear of the Lord. How they do that? By trusting Christ alone, allowing nothing to interfere with that, nothing to enter into that picture.

My salvation, from stem to stern, from Alpha to Omega, from beginning to end, from ages is it, my salvation is a person named Jesus Christ. That's my salvation. Not that I belong to this church. Not that I read my Bible. Not that I give. None of that. Not that I pray. What's my salvation? 2,000 years ago, Christ died in my stead. When you sing that song, this is enough, that Christ died for me. Father, bless us to understand, pray for us. God bless you. Let's see y'all, are we doing okay?

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