Holiness, Godliness, Usefulness
02/15/2014, by John Kincaid
Lesson 148: Desiring Holiness: Bible Study
The Holy Spirit also creates a desire for holiness by showing us God’s standard in Scripture. God’s standard is perfect, beautiful and good. We delight in his law.
Rom.7:12, 22 the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. I delight in the law of God.
Again notice what God does vs. what we must do: we need to study Scripture often.
The Holy Spirit will reveal our need, and cause us to desire holiness, as we read the Bible.
Living by the Spirit means that we obey the Spirit (by our will) and depend on the Spirit (by our faith).
We escape corruption (of the world and our own heart) as we participate in the divine nature, which God enables us to do through the indwelling Holy Spirit.
2 Pet.1:4 he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.
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.
