Comments on: Why Live Holy?

By: Pastor Leo Pike

Pastor Leo Pike — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 05:31:07 +0000

If you are a Christian you are living holy…………………….

By: Andre van der Merwe

Andre van der Merwe — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:33:46 +0000

Hi Gabriel, yes that is a favorite verse among legalists. However if we turn New Testament commands into laws for us to obey, we are really just creating a new version of the law for ourselves.

Commands in the New Testament are to be seen as a picture of what it can look like when we allow the Spirit to manifest Himself through us, for Christ to live HIS live through our members. A moral, upright lifestyle is a result of intimacy with Jesus and not something we do to get His approval.

So to address the verse in question, I like the way that the Message translation states it:

1 Pet 1:15 As obedient children, let yourselves be pulled into a way of life shaped by God’s life, a life energetic and blazing with holiness.

Bless you brother!

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:00:10 +0000

hello brother andre, i am so glad that i found your website and because of grace preaching, sin has lost all its power over me.. But this is what i want to ask you: i have totally understood what is holy and how we christians are made holy but what about 1 Peter 1:15 where he says that we must be holy in all our conduct, i checked the greek word of ‘be’ in this verse and its meaning is ‘to become,’ we become holy when we put our faith in Christ, but why does Peter say that we be holy in all our CONDUCT? thanks

By: Dirk

Dirk — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:21:10 +0000

Thank you for these wonderful truths.For the first time I do understand why a murderer on the cross was saved without living a “holy life”. Its all about Jesus and His finished work on the cross. This murderer was at the right place at the right time. When the flood-stream of Gods grace was poured out on planet earth this murderer was saved. When we approach Jesus on His merits the worst us us will be successful. When we approach Him based on our own merits(holy life) the best of us will fail.
I love this website.

By: Andre van der Merwe

Andre van der Merwe — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 05:38:17 +0000

I am humbled by and deeply grateful for your kind words Kim! Thank you so much, you gave me and my wife that warm fuzzy feeling when I shared it with her as well – you know, that feeling of being loved by close, caring family

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:10:40 +0000

I have been a born again Christian since 1992. Your teachings on grace have revolutionized my understanding of my relationship with God. I am reading your book “Grace – The Forbidden Gospel” and it turned on so many lightbulbs of understanding and joy in my spirit that at times I literally could not wipe the smile off my face. Glory to God!!!! And God bless you and your ministry.

By: Andre van der Merwe

Andre van der Merwe — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:32:37 +0000

Hi Peter

Our life is not holy because of our actions – our entire life actually becomes holy because of who lives inside us. 2 Cor 4:7 talks about us being jars of clay carrying a great treasure on the inside.

We are holy if we are spirit filled, whether our actions reflect it or not. Any good works that we do are only a result of God having prepared them in advance for us to walk in according to Eph 2:10

Bless you brother.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:21:22 +0000

hi,

what about 1 thess 4:7,

7 For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.

…which calls us to live a holy life? Here is sounds like a holy life is determined by a persons actions (being pure for example), and not in a gift, or something that we became when we believed.

Thanks

By: Tobias Skradde

Tobias Skradde — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:37:53 +0000

Hi there. First let me say – excellent site. I don´t feel like an alien anymore, because this pure grace teaching is not that spread here in germany even in my church. This is like a plattform to meet others on this grace journey.

You talk about holy living towards people. The scriptures out of Ephesians you use are followed by that on verse that makes many people nervous” -DO NT GRIEVE THE HOLY SPIRIT.
I´d like to hear an interpretation from a grace perspective on that. Often this is teached as “you disqualify or the holy spirit will no longer have fellowship with you if you don´ t repent….” and so on.
Thank you.

By: Me

Me — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:30:17 +0000

Rom 6:22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your FRUIT unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.