Holiness, Godliness, Usefulness
01/17/2014, by John Kincaid
Lesson 119: God's Microscope
As we allow the Holy Spirit to examine our heart under His microscope, He uses our sin to make us aware that we need even more holiness.
Sometimes we do the right action, but with the wrong motive. God is not pleased. A holy motive means that we want to do something purely because it is God’s will.
Isa.6:5,7 And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!” [the seraphim angel said to Isaiah,] “your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for.”
When we consider how holy God is, we say with Isaiah, “Woe is me”. His perfect purity magnifies our impurity, which drives us to see our need for a Savior.
We need the same assurance Isaiah received: our guilt and sin are erased. The more we grow in holiness, the more we become aware of our sinfulness.
God accepts saved sinners because they are covered by Christ’s righteousness. We must remember this hour by hour, to foil Satan’s attacks.
The Holy Spirit makes us more sensitive to our sinfulness. This causes us to grow deeper in our desire to strive for holiness.
About This Series
The goal of this series is to become more useful in serving the Lord Jesus Christ, as an instrument in the Redeemer's hand. The theme verses for the series are Ephesians 4:22-24, Philemon 11, 2 Timothy 2:21
- to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,
- and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
- Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.
- Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work.
