Holiness

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Holiness

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Let no corrupt communication...None

Cussing & Corrupt communication should bother you

Ephesians 4:29-30

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

Hebrews 3:15

While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

Ephesians 5:18

And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

Romans 8:1

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

The Sons of Thunder

(you don’t get this name because you tip toeing around)

Mark 3:17

And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder:

…But even being a son of thunder…

We cleanse ourselves from all filthiness

We have been made free from sin

We don’t yield to iniquity

Romans 6:19

I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

2 Corinthians 7:1 - 7 

Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Holiness is hindered by the lust of the eye

Subtil means:

Thin, not dense or gross

Acute, piercing

Sly, artful, cunning, crafty, insinuating

Planned by art, deceitful

Deceitful, treacherous

Refined, fine, acute

Knowing your enemy: Subtil also means slight, delicate, or fine. It can also mean faint or delicate in quality, making it difficult to describe or explain.

Eve has no fear of the serpent – why?

Remember that the Devil tells partial truths

Genesis 3:1-5

3 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

- Here comes the eyes again -

6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

Personal conjecture: I have always thought it was a fig tree – when Jesus said no man eat fruit of you hear after forever, it was like him saying that what happened in the garden of Eden was no longer going to effect mankind anymore – (though I realize he still had to go to the cross)