"7 KEYS TO HOLINESS, FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT REALITY 'IN CHRIST'"!
#1 - Christ is "the standard". Christ is "holiness personified" and finally realized for the sake of every believer, and ultimately "all humanity" when we receive and appropriate HIS "perfect sacrifice".
#2 - Christ made holiness possible, by meeting every righteous requirement, and by faith - allowing the "believing disciple" to appropriate HIS Finished Work from faith to faith, from glory to glory, and from strength to strength.
#3 - All things are fulfilled or consummated in Christ, so all the believing disciple must do is appropriate, apply and apprehend - as the Spirit wills.
#4 - Christ Himself said, "Be ye holy, as I am holy."; and this was a commandment for every believing disciple to enter in to the rest of HIS finished work. It was not a command to do work outside of believing upon the work HE accomplished; but to explicitly and implicitly believe upon what HE completed at Calvary.
#2 - Christ made holiness possible, by meeting every righteous requirement, and by faith - allowing the "believing disciple" to appropriate HIS Finished Work from faith to faith, from glory to glory, and from strength to strength.
#3 - All things are fulfilled or consummated in Christ, so all the believing disciple must do is appropriate, apply and apprehend - as the Spirit wills.
#4 - Christ Himself said, "Be ye holy, as I am holy."; and this was a commandment for every believing disciple to enter in to the rest of HIS finished work. It was not a command to do work outside of believing upon the work HE accomplished; but to explicitly and implicitly believe upon what HE completed at Calvary.
As long as the believer is "believing upon HIS Finished Work", we do not place and undue burden upon anyone to perform in their own strength, according to John 6:28-29; because it's not possible. The Law was our schoolmaster that "demands", but now grace is our equalizer that "supplies"; and we win, if we depend upon HIM!
#5 - The Finished Work is the completion of all righteousness - through Christ's Perfect Sacrifice. Although this does not give the believer "right or license to sin", it does diminish the mental anguish and struggle associated with "bearing burdens we weren't meant to carry" in our own strength.
#6 - GRACE is the complete transfer of the Finished Work - in full manifestation, to the believing disciple of Christ who abides. "Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God." As we apply "what we know", we experience the expanding and increasing intensity of HIS amazing grace in the continuum of our developmental process "in Christ".
#7 - If we place the burden of holiness on any believer - outside of them explicitly appropriating God's grace through Christ's "finished work", it is a form of Galatianism.
#5 - The Finished Work is the completion of all righteousness - through Christ's Perfect Sacrifice. Although this does not give the believer "right or license to sin", it does diminish the mental anguish and struggle associated with "bearing burdens we weren't meant to carry" in our own strength.
#6 - GRACE is the complete transfer of the Finished Work - in full manifestation, to the believing disciple of Christ who abides. "Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God." As we apply "what we know", we experience the expanding and increasing intensity of HIS amazing grace in the continuum of our developmental process "in Christ".
#7 - If we place the burden of holiness on any believer - outside of them explicitly appropriating God's grace through Christ's "finished work", it is a form of Galatianism.
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