1. Living a
HOLY
Life

2. Living a HOLY Life
How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing, it is irresistible. —C. S. Lewis

3. Living a HOLY Life
1 Peter 1:13-16 Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”

4. Living a HOLY Life
What is holiness? —being morally good —being set apart —the imitation of God (imitatio dei)

5. Living a HOLY Life
Holy: 1) morally and spiritually excellent or perfect, and to be revered 2) belonging to, devoted to, or empowered by, God 3) consecrated; sacred —The Oxford Essential English Dictionary

6. 1. Holiness calls for an engaged mind
Living a HOLY Life
1. Holiness calls for an engaged mind

7. 1 Peter 1:13 Therefore, prepare your minds for action
Living a HOLY Life
1 Peter 1:13 Therefore, prepare your minds for action

8. Living a HOLY Life
Ephesians 4:17-24 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more.

9. Living a HOLY Life
Ephesians 4:17-24 You, however, did not come to know Christ that way. Surely you heard of him and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

10. Holiness calls for an engaged mind Holiness calls for self-control
Living a HOLY Life
Holiness calls for an engaged mind
Holiness calls for self-control

11. Living a HOLY Life
1 Peter 1:13 Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled;

12. Living a HOLY Life
Matthew 16:24-26 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

13. Holiness calls for an engaged mind Holiness calls for self-control
Living a HOLY Life
Holiness calls for an engaged mind
Holiness calls for self-control
Holiness rests on hope in Jesus Christ

14. Living a HOLY Life
1 Peter 1:13-16 Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed.

15. Living a HOLY Life
Hebrews 6:19-20 We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, where Jesus, who went before us, has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.

16. Living a HOLY Life
1 John 3:1-5 How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

17. Living a HOLY Life
1 John 3:1-5 Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure. Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin.

18. Holiness calls for an engaged mind Holiness calls for self-control
Living a HOLY Life
Holiness calls for an engaged mind
Holiness calls for self-control
Holiness rests on hope in Jesus Christ
Holiness looks like obedience and transformation

19. Living a HOLY Life
1 Peter 1:13-16 Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.

20. Living a HOLY Life
Colossians 3:1-10 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

21. Living a HOLY Life
Colossians 3:1-10 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.

22. Living a HOLY Life
Colossians 3:1-10 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

23. Living a HOLY Life
What is holiness? It is the process of being transformed from a sinner into the image of our Lord Jesus Christ.