Email from Abiding Place Daily Bread – June 4, 2025 (The Fourth Day – Genesis 1:14-19) 1 Thessalonians 4:7 – For God did not call us to moral impurity, but to holiness. The Call to Holiness The call to holiness is not only a central theme of the Bible, but has also been a central theme of the Church for two thousand years. Christ Jesus is our holiness, and He made us holy when we were born again. Above all things, we must understand that the Lord Jesus has established us in holiness and empowered us to walk in holiness. Still there is a call to live in holiness, and grow and develop in holiness. One of the ways to understand holiness is to consider how its primary biblical synonym is purity and cleanness of life (1 Corinthians 1:30, 6:11; Ephesians 4:24). We are called to be obedient children, not fashioning ourselves after the former sin we once lived in, but to be holy just as God is holy (1 Peter 1:14-16). We are called to perfect holiness in the fear of God (2 Corinthians 7:1). We are to cleanse ourselves from every evil thing (2 Corinthians 7:1; 1 John 3:3). We are to put to death all the deeds of the body that would be contrary to the ways of God by the Spirit of Holiness (Romans 8:13; Colossians 3:5; Ephesians 4:22). We are to abstain from all fleshly lust (1 Peter 2:11; Galatians 5:16, 24; Romans 13:14). We are to have the outworking of righteousness, which is by Christ Jesus and which is the ways of holiness (1 John 2:29, 3:7; Romans 6:16-22; Ephesians 5:9). Holiness is found in being a servant of righteousness (Romans 6:16,19). We are to receive correction that we might be partakers of His holiness (Hebrews 12:10). We are the temple of holiness in which the Spirit of Holiness dwells – we must not defile the temple (1 Corinthians 3:16-17, 6:19-20; 2 Corinthians 6:16). Our lives are to be established in holiness (1 Thessalonians 3:13). We are warned that without holiness that only comes from Jesus, we cannot see the Lord (Hebrews 12:14). Blessings, Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
Daily Bread 6/4/2025
