Am I holy and righteous?

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Am I holy and righteous?? Answer: Yes!

 2 Corinthians 5:21. 

A lot of people do wonder if they are holy or righteous..

God has already made (by HIS authority, grace and power: Romans 3:20-26), believers in Christ, now the Saints, holy… for ye are one with God. (1 Corinthians 6:17). That is our spiritual geography that does not change based on works or the flesh. God has set us aside, sanctified us and justified us. (1 Cor. 6:11). We are DECLARED holy by God, not by our flesh works …but by our faith in Jesus Christ. For our flesh is dead, we are only perfected only in the Spirit. (1 John 3:9).  


The apostle’s prayer is for all believers, everywhere: “May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Thessalonians 5:23). Just as the temple of old was sanctified for God’s use, our bodies, temples of the Holy Spirit, are set apart for God’s holy purposes (1 Corinthians 6:19). What does it mean for us to be holy? When God told Israel to be holy in Leviticus 11 and 19, He was instructing them to be distinct from the other nations by giving them specific regulations to govern their lives. Israel is God’s chosen nation and God has set them apart from all other people groups. They are His special people, as such they were given standards that God wanted them to live by so the world would know they belonged to Him. When Peter repeats the Lord’s words in 1 Peter 1:16, he is talking specifically to believers. As believers, we ALREADY have been "set apart" from the world unto the Lord. As those born again, we walk out (work out) our new identity in Christ (2 Cor 5:21), for we are in the world but not of it.  


God isn’t calling us to be perfect, but to be distinct from the world. First Peter 2:9 describes believers as "a holy nation." It is a fact! We are separated from the world; and are new creations in Christ, which Peter tells us how to do in 1 Peter 1:13-16. Paul also tells us, “I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” Amen! 🙏

Galatians 2:20.



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