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Originally Posted by AreYouReady?
Brother MTD, can you expound a little more about what makes us pure and separated to the will of God?
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Sure. It starts with the new birth. Repenting, being baptized into Jesus in water and spirit. When one does that he is in Christ. He is actually (because he is a new creation) holy and pure right then and there.
Due to the Holy Ghost power in him he is now able to live as Jesus lived. Through the learning of the commands of Jesus he begins to know how to walk and please God.
Here would be an example.
Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to
walk and to
please God, so ye would abound more and more. 2 For ye know what
commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
1 Thess. 4:1-2
So what is this enabling power the Holy Ghost brings a disciple?
5 And hope maketh not ashamed ;
because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
Romans 5:5
Yes its that simple! The power of love.
Now we are able to fulfill the first and great commandment.
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. Matt. 22:36-38
God puts within us a measure of love from him and for him. That is the power that works in us. If one loves him they will want to please him.
4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
John 15:4-5
This "abiding in Jesus" is being holy. Staying attached to him. We are to make it our
LIFE to see to it that this happens.
1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For ye are dead ,
and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear , then shall ye also appear with him in glory. 5
Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth;up fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Thats it in a nutshell.
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