Category: PURITY FROM US

“1 Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to  please God;

2 for you know what commandments we  gave you through the Lord Jesus.

3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality;

4 that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in  sanctification and honor,5 not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God;

6 that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also  forewarned you and testified.

7 For God did not call us  to uncleanness, but in holiness.”

The word corruption has become a slang in our nation. Every situation anchors on corruption. When you talk about politics, it falls on corruption. Talk about getting a  job( employment), it’s down on corruption. Being promoted in offices ends on corruption. Even in God’s house, corruption takes  ground. Everything falls on corruption, this is my point, corruption depicts impurity. When you forget about pleasing God to make yourself happy, it’s impurity. When you bring others down to get to the top, when you practice partiality, favoritism, tribalism, nepotism, it’s a sign that you are not living a life of purity, a holy life requested by God.

We believe we are more holier than those caught in the web of sexual immorality, extramarital affair or the armed robbers but how holy art thou? How righteous are you to your maker? Many sees you and called you holy, are you that holy? Being Holy is not a product of ourselves but surrendering to the Holy Spirit of God. You can be moral but not holy. God want us to be pure and this starts from our heart, Ps 24:3-4

“3 Who may ascend into the hill of the LORD? Or who may stand in His holy place? 

4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart, Who has not lifted up his soul to an idol, Nor sworn deceitfully.”

What you do in the physical has been rehearsed in your heart. If your heart is pure the thought won’t get through to the action stage. Negative thought can come but a pure heart resist it. How pure in heart are you? Many might not know you in-depthly but you know who you are and what you do. Is God happy with you? You preach about holiness but are you truly holy to God? The way you treat your spouse, taking advantage of others, denying people their entitlement, does it present you holy unto God? God is interested in your turning back. He is waiting for your repentance, it’s not too late. Forsake your old ways and turn to Him today.