Email from Abiding Place Daily Bread – June 3, 2025 (The Third Day – Genesis 1:9-13) 1 Thessalonians 4:7 – For God did not call us to moral impurity, but to holiness. We Are Called To Holiness The opposite of holiness (agiasthos) is uncleanness (akatharsia). Uncleanness is moral impurity, whereas holiness is moral purity. Without holiness, which is a state absent of all immorality, no man can see God (Hebrews 12:10,14; 2 Corinthians 6:17). We are to be perfect in holiness (1 Peter 1:15-16; 1 Thessalonians 3:13; 2 Corinthians 7:1; Romans 6:22, 13:11-14; 2 Peter 1:3-11). Paul makes it very clear how all moral impurity is a function of demon spirits, and is condemned by God. He commands such actions not even to be named one time among us who are the holy ones (saints) of God (Ephesians 5:3; Romans 6:19). Furthermore, Paul identifies such deeds as both the actions of the reprobate (those influenced by the power of the devil), and of those who do not have any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and of God (1 Corinthians 6:9-10; Romans 1:24; Ephesians 4:19, 5:3-6; Galatians 5:19-21). Those who believe they can practice immorality, and be right with God and on their way to living eternally in His Holies of Holies, have been deceived – and all who hear them likewise are deceived by their iniquity (1 Corinthians 6:9-10; Galatians 6:7; 1 John 1:6, 1 John 3:7-8; Ephesians 5:6; Romans 16:17-18; 2 Timothy 4:3; 2 Thessalonians 3:14; 2 Peter 2:19-20; 2 Peter 3:3). Those things that are immoral defile the whole body, which is the temple of God – and God has promised to destroy those who defile His temple (1 Corinthians 3:16-17, 6:9-20; James 1:15-16, 3:6; Mark 9:43-45; Romans 6:16,23; Revelation 22:10-15). Blessings, Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
Daily Bread 6/3/2025
