1. March 26, 2017

2. RIGHTEOUSNESS

3. HOLINESS
To be holy is to be set apart.
God is holy and is set apart.

4. HOLINESS
Luke 1: “We’ve been rescued from the hand of our enemies that we might serve Him without fear in holiness and righteousness before Him all our days.”
Romans 6:19 “Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and lawlessness. So now present your members as slaves to righteousness which leads to holiness.”
Ephesians 4:24 “Put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.”

5. HOLINESS
Righteousness and holiness are similar, but there is one distinct difference.
RIGHTEOUSNESS is about how Christians are to be distinctively different FROM the world.
HOLINESS is about how Christians are to be distinctively different IN the world.
Holiness is being righteous where people can see your Christ-like life and conduct.

6. In the meantime… HOLINESS This world is not my home
I’m just a’passing through
My treasures are laid up
Somewhere beyond the blue
In the meantime…

7. Holiness is being distinctive IN the world!
John 17:11-18
IN THE WORLD
“I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one.”
Holiness is being distinctive IN the world!

8. Israelites were set apart from the world.
HOLINESS
John 17:11-18
IN THE WORLD
Israelites were set apart from the world.

9. That’s not what God does with us today!
HOLINESS
John 17:11-18
IN THE WORLD
That’s not what God does with us today!

10. We are commanded to go into the world.
HOLINESS
John 17:11-18
IN THE WORLD
We are commanded to go into the world.
“preach the gospel to all creation” (Mark 16:15)
“make disciples of all the nations” (Matt 28:19)
“be the salt and light of the earth” (Matt 5:13-14)
“appear as lights to the world in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation” (Phil 2:15)

11. We are commanded to go into the world.
HOLINESS
John 17:11-18
IN THE WORLD
We are commanded to go into the world.
2 Corinthians 5:9-10 “I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people; [but] I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world, or with the covetous and swindlers, or with idolaters; for then you would have to go out of the world.”

12. We are commanded to go into the world.
HOLINESS
John 17:11-18
IN THE WORLD
We are commanded to go into the world.
1 Peter 2:9 “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.”

13. In the OT, clean became unclean. In Jesus, unclean becomes clean.
HOLINESS
Be in the world,
but not like the world.
Be different,
and make a difference.
In the OT, clean became unclean.
In Jesus, unclean becomes clean.