LOVELESS HOLINESS

LOVELESS HOLINESS
Joh 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. 35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
Holiness is a beautiful life. Holiness is a doctrine of the bible but it is still the life God wants all His children to live in.
When you taste Christ’s own holiness, Bible based holiness, it is sweet in every areas you look at it.

BENEFITS OF HOLINESS

1. Freedom – Spiritual freedom that goes into physical freedom and emotional freedom. This help you to live a stress free life and thereby live a happy and longer life.
2. SOCIAL FREEDOM – When you are living a Bible based Holiness, you have peace with ALL men. No bitterness, murmuring or quarrelling. People in your area will love to relate with you.
3. PEACEFUL MARRIAGE – a holiness wife is a beautiful wife that every man will always desire. A holiness husband is a wonderful man that his wife can even die for. Think of their children, they will made good leaders for our nation because they will be given basic and great foundation for true living.
4. PROSPERITY – a holiness man/woman will be prosperous because he/she will work truthfully with ALL. People will trust him/her with their money, properties and God also will bless the work of his hands.
5. HAPPINESS – Holiness and happiness go together. What gives people sorrow or sadness will run away from you. You will see God in the right perspective and you will see yourself the way you truly are.
6. HEAVEN – Of course, heaven is your home but this world will be like even heaven to you because of God’s closeness to you and the reality of love that you will enjoy.

WHAT IS HOLINESS?
I. Holiness is the habit of being of one mind with God, according as we find His mind described in Scripture. It is the habit of agreeing in God’s judgment, hating what He hates, loving what He loves, and measuring everything in this world by the standard of His Word.
II. A holy man will endeavour to shun every known sin and to keep every known commandment. Rom. 7:22; Ps. 119:128
III. A holy man will strive to be like our Lord Jesus Christ. He will not only live the life of faith in Him and draw from Him all his daily peace and strength, but he will also labour to have the mind that was in Him and to be conformed to His image (Rom. 8:29). It will be his aim to bear with and forgive others, even as Christ forgave us; to be unselfish, even as Christ pleased not Himself; to walk in love, even as Christ loved us; to be lowly–minded and humble, even as Christ made Himself of no reputation and humbled Himself.
IV. A holy man will follow after meekness, patience, gentleness, patience, kind tempers, government of his tongue. He will bear much, forbear much, overlook much and be slow to talk of standing on his rights. We see a bright example of this in the behaviour of Moses when Aaron and Miriam spoke against him (Num. 12:3).
V. A holy man will follow after temperance and self–denial. He will labour to mortify the desires of his body, to crucify his flesh with his affections and lusts, to curb his passions, to restrain his carnal inclinations, lest at any time they break loose.
VI. A holy man will follow after charity and brotherly kindness. He will endeavour to observe the golden rule of doing as he would have men do to him and speaking as he would have men speak to him. He will be full of affection towards his brethren, towards their bodies, their property, their characters, their feelings, their souls.
VII. A holy man will follow after a spirit of mercy and benevolence towards others. He will not be content with doing no harm; he will try to do the right things to others.
VIII. A holy man will follow after purity of heart. He will dread all filthiness and uncleanness of spirit, and seek to avoid all things that might draw him into it.
IX. A holy man will follow after the fear of God. I do not mean the fear of a slave, who only works because he is afraid of punishment and would be idle if he did not dread discovery. I mean rather the fear of a child, who wishes to live and move as if he was always before his father’s face, because he loves him.
X. A holy man will follow after humility. He will desire, in lowliness of mind, to esteem all others better than himself.
XI. A holy man will follow after faithfulness in all the duties and relations in life. (Col. 3:23; Rom. 12:11).
XII. A holy man will follow after spiritual–mindedness. He will endeavour to set his affections entirely on things above and to hold things on earth with a very loose hand. Col 3: 1 – 3
When you are born again you are called a Christian that is, LITTLE CHRIST. You are to be the image of Christ.

BLESSINGS FROM HOLINESS1Timothy 4: 8; 6: 6

1. Joy and inner peace
2. Easy relationship with others
3. Prayer easily answered
4. God is happy with you
5. Satan will fear you
6. You can easily hear from God
7. Heaven is your home at last Matthew 5: 8; Hebrew 12: 14

WHAT IS LOVELESS HOLINESS?
Ga 6:2; 1Jo 2:8-10; 3:14-18, 23; 2Jo 1:5
Joh 15:12-13; 17:21; Le 19:18,34; Ps 16:3; 119:63; Ro 12:10; 1Co 12:26; 13:4-7; Ga 5:6,13-14; 6:10; Eph 5:2; Php 2:1-5; Col 1:4; 3:12-13; 1Th 3:12; 4:9-10; 2Th 1:3; Heb 13:1; Jas 2:8; 1Pe 1:22; 3:8-9; 2Pe 1:7; 1Jo 4:7-11; 5:1
This is the type of holiness many of us are practicing today.

1. We preach holiness and practice hate.
2. We preach holiness and have unforgiven spirit.
3. We preach holiness and backbite
4. We preach holiness and gossip.
5. We preach holiness and still we will be happy over the misfortune of others.
6. We preach holiness and hate Christians from other denominations.
7. We preach holiness and roar like a lion over our children or customers in the market.
8. We preach holiness and bark like a dog at our wives
   Do you know that a Christian is a sheep of the Lord and sheep do not roar or bark?
   Our Loveless Holiness is driving many people away from the church.
   Backsliders are killed and the wounded soldiers of Christ are killed in the name of traditions or church policies.
   Where Is Your Love?
   Where is your love to your wife, children and neighbours?
   Where is your love to God, His work and His minister?
   Love Gives —
   John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
   If you love, you will give.
    How readily do you give to God your tithe and offerings?
    How readily so you give to your wife and children?
    How readily to you give to the ministers of the gospel?
    How readily do you give to the needy around you?
   Love Gives —
    Love
    Care
    Time
    Money
    Compassion
    Experience
    Materials and others things.
   Where Is Your Love?
   Check your life, is your own holiness void of love?
   Pray and cry to God for the fire of the altar to fall on you right now.
   Loveless Holiness will carry you to hell and make your life miserable here on earth – CHANGE.