On the last day, God will not acquit us because our good works were good enough, but he will look for evidence that our good confession was not phony. Itโs in this sense that we must be holy.
Kevin DeYoungLet us shout of our God from the rooftops, that the whole world would stand in silence before him.
Kevin DeYoung...,the will of God for your life is pretty straightforward: Be holy like Jesus, by the power of the Spirit, for the glory of God.
Kevin DeYoungChristians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and spiritual disciplines are necessary for the cultivation of holiness, the pattern of piety in the Scripture is more explicitly about our character. We put off sin and put on righteousness. We put to death the deeds of the flesh and put on Christ. To use the older language, we pursue mortification of the old man and the vivification of the new.
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