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Holiness is not only the most outstanding character of God, but it is also His most desired quality in His people. The Book of Leviticus was meant to teach the people of Israel about ritual and moral purity. This Book reveals the holiness of God in ways found nowhere else in the Bible. In His call to holiness, God makes three statements repeatedly—

1. Be holy;
2. Be holy as I am holy;
3. I make you holy (Lev 19:2; 20:7,8; 21:8).

We can observe the involvement of all the three Persons of Trinity in our life of holiness. The Father proclaims the call: "Be holy!" The Son presents the model: "As I am holy!" The Spirit promises His help: "I make you holy!"

Without the second and the third statements, the call of God to holiness would be impractical and unreasonable. We may ask, "What does a God who lives in Heaven know about the struggles and hurdles we face on earth in order to live holy?" The answer to this question is Jesus who came down from the sinless Heaven to the sin-sick world. Taking the human form and facing all sorts of temptations, He lived an absolutely pure life, thus giving us a pattern.

We still have a question: "Jesus was the Son of God born by the Holy Spirit. But we are born in sin. He was God in man. But we are fallen creatures. How can we be holy like Him?"

✿ The Holy Spirit is the answer.

He indwells us and in accordance with His very name, His primary work is to make us holy. The Father's passion, the Son's pattern, and the Spirit's presence are all-sufficient for us in our pursuit of holiness. When God is for us, who can be against us— in the highway of holiness?

The Bible is a Book of divine promises. The promise of promises in the Old Testament was the coming of Jesus Christ, and that in the Gospels was the outpouring of the Holy Spirit (Acts 13:32; Lk 24:49). The crowning promise of the Epistles is that we shall be made holy like Jesus. Apostle Peter summarises all the promises for the New Covenant people in 2 Peter 1:3,4, "His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness...by which have been given us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature."

October 22 2015 • Report