Faith and Works: Holiness = Heaven

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Coming up on Renewed Mindsets, I'm going to quote CS Lewis.

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Holiness is the habit of being of one mind with God, according as we find His mind described in Scripture.

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It's 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.

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Today we're going to conclude all my talks on holiness.

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We're going to wrap it up nicely.

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This is powerful people.

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Let's go, boys, boys.

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Hey, welcome to Renewed Mindsets, where we study the basics of the faith through the lens of our middle-aged experiences.

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I'm Rick.

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Welcome to the show where I help you, gen Xers and Millennials, navigate spiritually through a world that looks nothing like we expected back when cars were square and mullets were totally awesome.

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I am so glad you're here.

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The last few weeks we've talked a lot about holiness.

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We're going to do it one last time here.

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I should have four or five good episodes about holiness.

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I could probably talk about it for the next 10 years, but we're going to move on to some other things.

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But I'm going to clear up some stuff about holiness today.

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Holiness equals heaven.

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No, holiness equals no heaven.

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Right, there's not going to be anybody in heaven who didn't walk in good works on earth.

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Now I know some of y'all out there going there.

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He goes.

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He's saying that you can't be saved unless you work.

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But the Bible says, uh-uh, that's not what I'm saying.

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The words of Hebrews 12.14, it talks about it.

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There's a holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

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No holiness, no heaven.

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What does that mean?

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Faith without works is dead.

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That's James 2.26.

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That's just flat out direct, right there.

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I don't know how anybody can justify a life or a faith that doesn't require holiness unless they don't look at James 2.26.

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Faith without works is dead.

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Philippians 2.12 says you can work it out.

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Work out your own salvation.

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With fear and trembling.

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It's right there in the Word of God.

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No one will be in heaven who did not walk in good works on earth.

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You know we can make an illustration out of it Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned.

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John 15, 2 and 6.

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In the Psalms it's even in a song.

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He leads me in the paths of righteousness.

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For his name's sake, what are the paths of righteousness?

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In repetition, no one will be in heaven who did not walk in good works on earth.

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It's all over the word of God.

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Now we've got the Word of God.

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Now we've got two groups of people, I would say two heresies here, and we need to avoid them both.

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No one's going to be in heaven based on good works, and I'm going to say that right up front.

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By grace, you've been saved through faith and this is not your own doing.

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It's a gift from God.

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It's not a result of works so that no one may boast.

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Ephesians 2.8.9.

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A person is not justified by works of the law Galatians 2.16.

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Christ's righteousness, not ours, justifies entirely the man, woman or child who believes in him, who justifies the ungodly, shall be counted righteous before God.

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His blood brings us near God and his righteousness imputed to us is needed.

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In other words, jesus, jesus, jesus, not us, so that no man may boast.

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Now, although the Christian walks into a narrow path full of good works, god prepared for them to walk in beforehand right.

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So here we have it.

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No one in heaven who did not walk in faith producing good works on earth, the obedience of faith Romans 1.5, or faith working through love Galatians 5.6,.

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And no one in heaven will be there on the basis of his good works.

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One heresy says that it doesn't matter if you work or run or fight at all.

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The other says that you're working, running and fighting to earn your place before a holy God.

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James calls the first one faith of demons James 2.19,.

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And Paul calls the second one faith of the bewitched Galatians, 3.1.

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One error sits comfortably among evangelicals and the other among Catholics it's the dead faith, closer to home, that I need to talk about.

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You've all heard it, you all know it, you know what I'm going to say.

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Please hear me out that one error that's common among evangelicals Once saved, always saved.

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Oh, you knew I was going to say it.

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Dead faith, a faith which produces no works, is not necessarily a silent faith.

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Once saved, always saved, is kind of like putting a jewel up a pig's snout.

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But you say, nothing shall separate his true children from the love of God.

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The shepherd will lose none of his sheep Right Now.

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If you understood once saved, always saved, properly, it would stand for an amazing truth that, from the vantage point of the throne of God, his children, predestined to be saved from before time began, will not fall away and he's going to bring them home.

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He wrote their names down in the book of life.

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His son has atoned for their actual sins.

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He seals them with his very, very spirit as a down payment, the spirit that's going to surely bring his work to completion.

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At the day of Christ Jesus, nothing shall separate his true children from the love of God.

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The shepherd will lose none of his sheep.

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But from this some people draw crooked lines Instead of deducing.

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With Paul, god's firm foundation stands bearing the seal.

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The Lord knows who are his and let everyone who names.

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The perseverance of the saints is optional.

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They might imagine God putting souls on a conveyor belt to glory.

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Once saved, always saved, no matter how deeply compromised their lives may be.

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And in doing that they pit the essential doctrine of justification against the blood, sweat and toil of the doctrine of sanctification.

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Judging the first to eclipse the second?

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We do not need holiness.

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Judging the first to eclipse the second.

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We do not need holiness, that's what it's thought Because once saved, always saved.

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And by saved we can't help but conclude that they include saved from needing to obey Ooh.

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Texts that speak conditionally of inheriting eternal life, conditions that God empowers his true children to meet.

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That doesn't make any sense to people who believe.

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Once saved, always saved.

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How can you stomach texts about the need to continue, stable and steadfast in the faith, to endure to the end.

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What does that mean to you?

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To stand firm through trials, to put the flesh to death by the Spirit.

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To stand firm through trials, to put the flesh to death by the Spirit, to work out one's own salvation with fear and trembling, to make our calling and election sure through energetic striving.

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2 Peter 1.1-11,.

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The shouts of their dead faith cry Lord, lord, while they disobey Him with their lives.

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That's a faith I know all too well.

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You got two types of Christians.

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You got talkers and you got doers.

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You got people that are faithful and you got people that are talking about faith.

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Right, right, like the people that are talking about faith, hear a question are you going to heaven when you die?

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And they're like, yeah, I'm going there.

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And when he says it he speaks very Christianly.

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He's got excellent doctrine, and by that I mean people who are good talkers.

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Might learn the necessity of being born again, the insufficiency of work, the need of being born again, the insufficiency of work, the need of Christ's righteousness and all that right, and besides that, a man might learn what it is to repent and to believe and to pray and to suffer, and he might also learn all the great promises of God and the consolations of the gospel and he might feel good about that.

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And he might learn to refute false opinions or to vindicate the truth and to instruct the ignorant.

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Yeah, he could be a great teacher.

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Proper doctrine communicated well is not a sufficient sign of living faith.

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Being faithful is more than knowing the talk.

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You got to listen to what I'm saying here.

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People like that.

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They're really good to people that don't know them, because people that do know him know that that's not enough.

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That's just religion, and religion doesn't have any place in the heart of a Christian.

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It's all lies and it's a religion that's just there to make noise.

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His Christianity is only in his tongue.

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And how do I know this?

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Because I've been in that family and I've seen that person at home and I've seen them out in public.

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That tree is known by its fruit.

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That person is a saint out in the world and he's a devil at home.

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And, like the Pharisees of Jesus' day, he says a whole lot but he obeys very little.

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Matthew 23.3 that man was me.

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That man was me.

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The new covenant promises that Christians with new hearts will hate their sin and feel it to be the shame that it is.

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It's easy for us to imagine that God has saved us because we know doctrine People who just talk the talk.

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That's a great religion.

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It's a religion of tongue and it's proved untrue by the people that they've loved, by the relationships that they've had, by the life that they've led.

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Because I talked about truth but I was never changed by it, changed by it.

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The grace that I used to preach never trained me to say no to ungodliness and live a godly life, like we're taught in Titus 2, 11 through 14.

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Cs Lewis compared that person to a scholar that has a parrot, because the parrot hears the scholar reading in other languages and talking about science and all that, and the parrot can repeat what he overhears, but he has no knowledge of it.

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He's just repeating what he heard.

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Christians that observe that type of life talk about prayer, talk about repentance, talk about faith and a new birth, but we only know to just talk about it.

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We don't know anything about it.

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That's a fearful place to be.

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It's horrible.

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You've got to look inward at yourself.

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Are you a talk-to-talk person or do you walk it out in life, because I was a talker and God woke me up from my delusion, and my prayer for you is that he would do the same thing, because in the end, you don't venture far from the city of destruction.

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You label yourself a Christian, you label yourself faithful and the parts of you that aren't you ignore your words need to travel beyond your faith and obedience and in the end you're really lost.

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You need to examine yourself to make sure that you're in faith and you're truly born again.

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I ask myself all the time now, am I born again?

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You got to ask the Holy Spirit plainly.

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If the Holy Spirit answers, there's a good chance you've got it.

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You've got to be plain Whether this thing is set upon your heart and your house.

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This conversation, this question it's helpful to ask do you hate your sin?

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I'm not talking about hating it like a hypocritical pastor who stands up and denounces pornography while he's indulging in it himself.

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I'm talking about a new covenant promise with a new heart, where you hate your sin and you know that it's shameful and it makes you sick to think about doing it, much less doing it.

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You shall remember your ways and all your deeds with which you have defiled yourselves and you shall loathe yourselves for all the evils that you've committed.

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Ezekiel 20, 43.

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Blessed are those who mourn for their sin.

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Matthew 5, 4.

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God will not despise the heart broken over its sin.

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Psalm 51, 17.

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Do you love God?

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Paul said it as plain as day If anybody has no love for the Lord, let him be accursed.

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1 Corinthians 16.22.

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Do you love him?

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Do you desire to know him?

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Do you love him above your father and your mother, and your wife or husband, your children?

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Can you confess that God's love is better than your life?

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Do you hate your remaining sin because it's against him, or do you love it?

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Do you obey what you know?

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Jesus says if you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

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John 13, 17,.

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That servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or act according to his will will receive a severe beating.

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Luke 12, 47.

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Now we can imagine that we've advanced much in religion or the love of Christ because we know more and more texts on the subject.

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But these texts, these verses that we've memorized, we've got to believe them and obey them and love them.

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They must take root in us.

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If we truly know and love him, we're going to keep his commandments John 14, 15, and 1 John 2, 3.

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What do others see?

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What do others see?

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A work of grace in the soul reveals itself either to a person who possesses it or to people that are watching them.

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That means if you are truly born again, if you are truly a Christian, not only will you know it, but other people are going to know it too, because they can see it, other Christians' judgments.

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They might not be infallible, but they can help uncover some blind spots and signs of grace that we might not see ourselves.

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Lord, I've got friends that have told me some things.

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It's just little things.

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Now, let me tell you, get you a good woman that'll just flat out tell you that is not of God.

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You're going to stop that now.

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I love it.

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That is not of God.

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You're going to stop that now.

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I love it.

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People of faith and Christians today keep along a narrow way with the word of God in their hands and the love of God in their hearts, and they do good in this world.

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That's what a true, faithful Christian does, and they're going to do it because God is working in them to will and to work for his good pleasure, and it produces the fruit of the Spirit in them.

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We have to do good.

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A Christian has to do good.

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They must do good because they've got the Word of God, the Book of Promises, that command them and warn them and woo them on to paradise for eternity in heaven.

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Nobody in heaven is going to be there on the basis of their good works and no one's going to be in heaven who didn't walk in good works on earth.

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So we press on in holiness towards our heavenly home, because Jesus has already made us his own.

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You have got to be born again.

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We're going to go back to 1 Peter 1.16.

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Be holy, for I am holy.

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That is a quote.

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It's a quote directly from Leviticus 11.45.

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Right in the middle of Levitical legislation on clean and unclean food, god says to his people I am the Lord, your God.

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You will sanctify yourselves and you're going to be holy for I am holy.

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And you shouldn't defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth on the earth, for I am the Lord that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God.

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Therefore, be holy, for I am holy.

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To be holy, we need to be connected to God, because that's the source of holiness.

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There's no one holy like the Lord.

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1 Samuel 2.2.

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God alone is holy and he's infinitely and interchangeably and eternally holy.

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Infinitely and interchangeably and eternally holy.

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And to be holy we must be separated to God as a possession of his.

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We have to surrender our life to God completely.

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You can't live a double life.

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You can't live in this world and be part of this world and be holy.

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You can't do it.

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You have to be claimed by the Holy Spirit.

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To be holy, we need to be separated from the common or the ordinary.

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We are not part of this world.

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When God was talking about that in Leviticus, it talked about any creeping thing on the earth.

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What he was talking about was to be holy.

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We need to be separate.

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There's clean and unclean.

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You can't be part of both.

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You can either be unclean or you can be holy, and people that are clean are devoted to God, and that's how you become holy.

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It doesn't have anything to do with cleanliness.

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It's just religious categories that are used to emphasize that God has a standard of moral and ethical right and wrong, and they're as clearly distinguishable as the category of clean and unclean, because you can visualize that Clean and dirty it has nothing to do with cleanliness.

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It has everything to do with filth.

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We read in Habakkuk 1, 12 through 13,.

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It says God is too pure to behold evil and unable to tolerate wrong.

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1.12-13, it says Now we understand that God never compromises his holiness, even in his exercise of love and mercy and kindness.

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So when we get in 1 Peter 1.14, that's why he tells Christians that God's command to be holy requires that they be obedient and stop living like they lived before they were saved.

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God is loving and merciful and kind, and holiness requires separation from all that is not loving and merciful and kind, merciful and kind.

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It requires separation from all that is unclean or things that are morally defiling against God.

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I don't even know if that's a good way of saying that, but there's no exceptions.

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We need to be morally pure in every area of our life.

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One way to do that is to be obedient to God's Word.

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Holiness requires obedience to God's Word.

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Sanctify yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord, your God, leviticus 20.

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It's right there in black and white.

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To be holy, we need to be connected to God.

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That's the source of holiness.

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We need to be separated to God as one of his possessions.

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We need to be separated from the common or the ordinary or everybody else in the world, and all the things of this world Be separated from all that God says is unclean or things that morally defile.

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And we need to be obedient to God's Word.

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If you're not doing that, you're not holy, you're not living a life of holiness.

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My gosh people, the times that we're living in.

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We're at the end of the road here.

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This is the basics.

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These are the basics that should have been taught to you 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago.

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You got to get it.

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Now there's going to be so many that are going to be here one second and the next standing before the Lord and he's going to say depart from me, you, worker of iniquity.

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I never knew you and you're going to go what?

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But I did all these things in your name.

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It hurts my heart.

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Holiness people, it's not an option.

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God uses that command through Peter, that all Christians be holy.

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Holiness is a character trait that people should see.

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Through everything that we do, through everything that we do, follow peace with all men and holiness, for which no man shall see the Lord without.

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That's Hebrews 12, 14.

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The scriptures let us know that holiness is an absolute requirement for every Christian.

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Rethink what you've been taught Christian.

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Rethink what you've been taught.

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Deception is rampant.

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In the end days, in the end times, so many people that count themselves as Christian have been deceived.

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Even the elect can be deceived.

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Swallow your pride and rethink what you think you know.

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You don't want to make a mistake.

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All you're hearing from me is you need to step up your game.

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You're not hearing that you need to give up everything that you knew.

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You need to add to what you know.

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Just add to what you already know.

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If you call yourself a Christian, what is it going to hurt to start living a life that's holy and being truly born again, where it changes your heart and changes your life?

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Because without a change of heart, without a change in your life, how are you born again?

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What are you born again into?

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I'm just going to ramble at this point.

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I love you.

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I do this podcast because I love you.

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This is so important.

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Nothing I say is more important than this.

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Holiness is not an option for a Christian.

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You must be born again.

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The executive producer of Renewed Mindsets is Yelena McClellan.

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Associate producer and spiritual advisor is Kimmy Shirley.

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Special music by Weston McCurry.

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Well, that's all for this week's show.

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You know, the name of this show speaks my hope for you.

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It's taken from the words of Romans, chapter 12, verse 2.

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Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

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And now, deep Thoughts by Rick Uhas.

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Now, deep Thoughts by Rick Uhas.

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You know, living a life as a Christian without holiness reminds me of an old Jack Handy.

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If God dwells inside us, like some people say, I sure hope he likes enchiladas, because that's what he's getting.

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