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Re: My holiness standards are BETTER!
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Originally Posted by noeticknight
...However, what I believe God honors most, what He has been trying to tell us for some 2000 years, is that we should follow Him according to His life; because God has already become the standard...in the person of Jesus Christ. He is the ultimate Christian standard. " Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me." ( Mark 8:34) Make no mistake my friends, there are more Christians taking up their cross and following Christ, than just the ones you smile at sitting beside you in the pew.  |
Great post, ntn.  I hope you don't mind if I borrow that last bit!
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--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
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