An expository sermon on holy living

An informative sermon on devoted livingAn expo mystifyory sermon on Holy LivingIntroductionHow many of you experience Holy this morning? Dont worry you dont view to lift up your hands. When rough unriv wholeed babbles ab step forward(predicate) Holiness the first intimacy I think ab out(a) it divinity fudge and His holiness. This morning I want to talk about our call to a dedicated livinglife. We all know that we be called to operate a holy life and what do we do about it. DO we give and quarter any travail towards it or atomic number 18 we honorable praying for god to make us Holy and waiting for incinerate to fall down from heaven to make us Holy. We live in a ara where holiness has lost its content. In this contemporary edict everything goes, we kind of a little do anything as long as we feel pricy about it. What is our responsibility in this world, What atomic number 18 we called to do in this un holy situation? So we ar going to look at the reasons wherefore we ar called to live a Holy life.Main Points1. We atomic number 18 called to live a holy life because He is holy (1 16)A Real meaning of holyThe word Holy is derived from a cluster of words in Greek. It means to be pure, to be sterilize apart, sanctify and so on. save no meaning of this word can describe it properly.1 delivery boy was the better example for Holiness. Be Holy for I am Holy is menti superstard for about 5 times in the Bible. Holiness is non a fresh thing which the apostles discovered in the new-made Testament, it was present from the beginning of the darkened Testament. He divinity fudge gave Moses all the laws non to make their life knockout besides to bring them one step closer to holiness one step closer to Himself.B One of the rudimentary characteristics of GodGods Holiness can neither be understood nor grasped by our human minds. Holiness is one of the images of God which was lost in the garden of Eden. It could be only replaced by God H imself, by dying on the cross and making us pure. HE is always Holy. We be called to live alike(p) Him. So we ar called to be Holy. When we were made we were made in the image of God. One of His fundamental images is holiness. So we were obviously made Holy. that we fell from our holiness because of our disobedience. We are missing out in one of the fundamental images of God. We have to be made into his image so one day we can run into His face. If we are non made into His image we go forth not recover Him face to face. It is just as simple as that if we are not holy, we will not see God.C IllustrationOnce, as an experiment, the great scientist Isaac normality stared at the image of the sun reflected in a mirror. The brightness burned-over into his retina, and he suffered temporary blindness. Even after he hid for three age behind closed shutters, still the bright spot would not glide by from his vision. I used all means to divert my imagination from the sun, he writes, But if I thought upon him I presently saw his return though I was in the dark. If he had stared a few proceedings longer, Newton might have permanently lost all vision. The chemical substance receptors that govern eyesight cannot withstand the full force of unfiltered sunlight. There is a parable in Isaac Newtons experiment, This is what the Israelites experienced in the wilderness. They had attempted to live with the ecclesiastic of the Universe visibly present in their midst scarce, in the end, out of all the thousands who had so gladly fled Egypt, only two survived Gods Presence. They were all revealed and called to be Holy as God. But only two survived in the end.22. We are called to live a holy life because we do not accommodate to evil desires (1 14)A We also have our share in Holiness (Hebrews 12 14)It is honest that when we come to salvation in messiah He washes all our sins away and makes us Holy. We live on perfect and clean through Jesus, that it is our duty to t hen keep ourselves clean. Holiness is not only what God can give to us but it is also what we can license with what He gave us. Paul says it quite clearly in Hebrews 12 14 (NIV) To make Make every suit to live in pause with all men and to be Holy. Without without which we cannot see Godholiness no one will see the Lord. Holiness is a serious matter. We tend to run God for granted. When we give in or conform to the evil desires of the world, we say that it wasnt our breach but it is our flesh. We blame it on our human nature. Paul challenges us not to try to be holy but take every effort possible in other words we must strive or even fight to be Holy. Effort means to use muscle to get something done.3 Holiness should be such a longing of our boldness that we would put our whole energy to get it done.B No compromise in HolinessHoliness is being spotlessly clean. Without Holiness we can never enter the presence of God. The Old Testament non-Christian priests were the perfect example of this. The priest entered the presence of God only once a form. They dreaded that moment. opinion it was regarded very high to enter the Holy of Holies, it was dreadful at the selfsame(prenominal) time. In that moment if they were found guilty of sin , there was no time for explanation they were just struck dead. They prepared themselves for the whole year for that one day in Gods presence, the presence of the Holy God. We are so privileged that there is no curtain between God and us, we dont rent a high priest to stand in for us any more, Christ has already done it for us. We can enter Gods presence anytime anywhere we want. As for us its not a once a year thing its an every day thing. WE are living in the age of grace, God does not strike us dead anymore, though grace is on hand(predicate) for free it is not cheap, so let us not take it for granted.C IllustrationIn the forests of northern Europe and Asia lives little animal called the ermine, cognize for his snow -white fur in winter. He instinctively protects his white finishing against anything that would soil it.Fur hunters take advantage of this unusual trait of the ermine. They dont set a snare to catch him, but instead they find his foundation, which is usually a cleft in a rock or a hollow in an old tree. They smear the entrance and interior with grime. so the hunters set their dogs loose to find and chase the ermine. The frightened animal flees toward home but doesnt enter because of the filth. Rather than soil his white coat, he is confine by the dogs and captured while preserving his purity. For the ermine, purity is more peculiar than life. HGB4It doesnt always cost our lives to be Holy. But most of the time it could cost things or tribe that are dear to our hearts. When we are of this world, we make the things of the world our own. We usually stand by to things and people which could take Gods place in our lives. So when we come to Christ we ought to replace them with C hrist. When we do the right thing, even our own friends might not understand us, their there might even come times where we have to give them up for holiness, for there is no compromise on Holiness.3. We are called to live a holy life because we were redeemed by the precious blood. (1 23)A Free access to Holiness The way of Holiness (Isaiah 35 8)It is true that we dont have to do anything to blend in Holy because we are washed by His blood. But we have to take effort in keeping it. It is quite clear in Isaiah 35 8 that the way to God is holiness, there is no other way. Christ has done his part, by making the way. But to keep our self on the highway or to get kicked wrap up lies on our hands. There is no place for unclean or heinous people on this road.B Set Apart to be an exampleWe are set apart and called to be holy not to seclude ourselves from the world but to be the light. D.L. Moody, A holy life will make the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns, they just shine. One of the misconceptions in the churches today is that they become holy and they become literally set apart. They dont associate or unite with the people of this world. They develop something which is famously called as the Holy huddle. They become so holy that the people of this world cannot even get close to them, they just have to be set apart. But that is not what God has called us to be. The difference between the Pharisees and Jesus was that Jesus toughed touched the unclean but they didnt. The Pharisees where were Holy as well, they did everything God commanded them to, but they didnt understand it. We are not called to be a Pharisee but we are called to be more like Him. We are not made Holy to be set in museums as specimens but to reach out to the unclean in turn. When we become holy day by day let us be humbled by the fact that we dont deserve it , but it is through grace. seize out to make them Holy. As the story of Isaac Newtons experience let our holiness hurt their eyes, not to chase them away from us but to draw them closer to Him who has called us to be Set apart, to be Holy.In remnant let us make every effort to be more like Him every day. Let us just not sit back and pray for holiness but take every effort to be holy. Holiness is not only what God gives us but it is what we manifest with what He gave. Let us not compromise with the things of the world. argon we willing to lay down everything to pursue holiness? Holiness is not only works and deeds but is also passionately act a relationship with God. Let us never compromise with holiness. If you are thinking that you have done all these all through out your life. Youve always been pursuing God for holiness and have a rattling(prenominal) relationship with God, then dont become a Pharisee. Let us not settle down in that place in a holy huddle but let us affect others with our holiness. Let us be a light shining in this unholy land. We are set apart not to be in a museum but to be a lig ht, that hurts the eyes but still draws them closer.Bibliographyhttp//bible.org/illustration/ermine 03 September 2009Fwd. Ogilvie, L. J. Nelsons Three in One Bible Reference chap Nashville doubting Thomas nelson Publisher, 1982 03 September 2009Ed.. Martin Ralph p. and Davids, Peter H, Dictionary of the last mentioned New Testament and its development Leicester Inter Varsity Press, 1997.1 Ed. Ralh P. Martin and Peter H. Davids, Dictionary of the Latter New Testament and its development (Leicester Inter Varsity Press, 1997), p. 485.2 03 September 20093 Fwd. Dr. Llyod lavatory Ogilvie, Nelsons Three in One Bible Reference Companion (Nashville Thomas nelson Publisher, 1982), p. 206.4 http//bible.org/illustration/ermine 03 September 2009