2015 Baptist Doctrine Study Called to be Holy Growing in the Likeness of Jesus By Richard R. Melick...

2015 Baptist Doctrine Study

Called to be HolyGrowing in the Likeness of Jesus

By Richard R. Melick Jr.

Called to Be Holy

1 Corinthians 1:2 (NIV, emphasis added)

To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy.

Twofold Purpose of the Study

1. To present the doctrine of holiness in a readable, understandable way

2. To encourage Christians to pursue holiness personally

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Prayer

Philippians 1:9-11 (HCSB)

I pray this: that your love will keep on growing in knowledge and every kind of discernment, so that you can approve the things that are superior and can be pure and blameless in the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.

Let’s Pray

Overview

SECTION 1: DEFINING HOLINESS

Define holiness, explore the biblical definitions, present major evangelical theologies of sanctification

SECTION 2: PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION

Process of life transformation with a focus on practical biblical teaching of how to become holy

SECTION 3: COMPLETE HOLINESS

A brief description of complete holiness and guidance for reaching it

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Overview


Chapter 1: Holiness—Good for All of Us

Chapter 2: The Meaning of Holiness


Chapter 3: Who Am I?

Chapter 4: What’s New About a Christian

Chapter 5: Effecting Change


Chapter 6: Reaching the Goal p. 5

Holiness—Good for All of Us

Anti-Christian attitudes have encouraged 2 trends:

1. Increased Secularism.

2. The confusion of good and evil.

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Q: How have you observed the decline of a holy lifestyle in our society?

Q: How has the church responded?

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God Expects Holiness

A. God is holy.

Old Testament word: qadosh—holy, apartness, sacredness

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God Is Holy

Exodus 3:5-6 (HCSB)

“Do not come closer,” He said. “Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” Then He continued, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God.

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God Is Holy

Leviticus 11:44 (HCSB)

I am Yahweh your God, so you must consecrate yourselves and be holy because I am holy.

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God Is Holy

Psalm 22:3 (HCSB)

You are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.

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God Expects Holiness

B. God expects us to be holy.

– “No one can have a relationship with God without holiness.”

– “There’s no possibility of personal holiness without a relationship with Jesus Christ.” pp. 15-16


Old Testament Teaching

God revealed His plan to redeem people from sin.

Genesis 3:15 (HCSB)

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.

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Old Testament Pictures

1. Standards for those who serve God

2. Standards for the sacrificial animals

3. Standards for the sacrificial rituals

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Three Old Testament Themes

1. God is holy.2. People are sinful and therefore unholy.

Sin separates from God.3. It’s possible to relate to God through the

intervention of a substitute who gave up his life to make this relationship possible. p. 20


New Testament Teaching

3 Word Groups

1. Holy or sacred;

2. To make holy, consecrate, sanctify

3. holiness, consecration, sanctification

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The Holiness of the TrinityFATHER: Luke 1:49 (HCSB)

The Mighty One has done great things for me, and His name is holy.

SON: Mark 1:24 (HCSB)

“What do You have to do with us, Jesus—Nazarene? … I know who You are—the Holy One of God!”

SPIRIT: John 14:26 (HCSB)

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit—the Father will send Him in My name—will teach you all things and remind you of everything I have told you. p. 21


New Testament Pictures

1. Christians are the new temple.

2 Corinthians 6:16 (HCSB)

We are the sanctuary of the living God, as God said: I will dwell among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.

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2. Christians are the new sacrifice.

Romans 12:1 (HCSB)

Therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your spiritual worship.

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3. Christians are God’s priests.

1 Peter 2:9 (HCSB)

You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of the One who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

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New Testament Points

1. Holiness identifies whatever is holy as separate from the world.

2. Holiness challenges believers to become holy, separate from the sinfulness of the world.

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The goal of holiness is to belike Jesus.

Colossians 3:9-10 (HCSB)

Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self. You are being renewed in knowledge according to the image of your Creator.

Romans 8:29; 1 Corinthians 15:49; 2 Corinthians 3:18; Philippians 3:21

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1 Peter 1:15-16 (HCSB, emphasis added)

As the One who called you is holy, you also are to be holy in all your conduct; for it is written, Be holy, because I am holy.

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The Meaning of Holiness

Dimensions of Holiness

1. Immediate Positional (or Legal) Holiness—We are forgiven and made righteous.

Ephesians 2:4-7 (HCSB) God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love that He had for us, made us alive with the Messiah even though we were dead in trespasses. You are saved by grace! Together with Christ Jesus He also raised us up and seated us in the heavens, so that in the coming ages He might display the immeasurable riches of His grace through His kindness to us in Christ Jesus. pp. 31-35



2. Continuing Progressive Holiness

• Romans 6:12-13• Galatians 5:19-21• Romans 12:1-2• 1 Peter 1:13-14• James 4:7-10• 1 John 2:15-17• Hebrews 12:14 pp. 35-39



3. Ultimate Complete Holiness

1 John 3:2 (HCSB)

Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him because we will see Him as He is.

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3. Ultimate Complete Holiness

• Release from sin occurs at death.

• The completion of holiness is future.

• The promise of victory encourages daily life.

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Summary on Stages of Holiness

1. Believers are positionally holy at conversion.

2. Believers are expected to become progressively more holy through fellowship with Christ

3. Believers anticipate complete sanctification when the Lord returns. p. 43


Contemporary Evangelical Approaches to Sanctification

1. The Wesleyan Approach (pp. 43-45)

2. The Pentecostal Approach (pp. 45-46)

3. The Keswick Approach (pp. 46-47)

4. The Reformed Approach (pp. 47-48) pp. 43-48

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Who Am I?

Practical Holiness2 Corinthians 5:17 (HCSB)

If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come.

Personal Concerns: “sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry” (Col. 3:5)

Social Concerns: “anger, wrath, malice, slander, and filthy language from your mouth” (Col. 3:8)

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Who Am I?

Q: How many natures does a Christian have within?

Who Am I?

Colossians 3:9-10 (HCSB)

Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self. You are being renewed in knowledge according to the image of your Creator.

“Death to self is a past experience for believers.”

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Who Am I?

Sequence of Events in Conversion

1. Taking off the old self2. Putting on the new self3. Being renewed in knowledge of the Creator

Ephesians 4:22-24 (HCSB)

You took off your former way of life, the old self that is corrupted by deceitful desires; you are being renewed in the spirit of your minds; you put on the new self, the one created according to God’s likeness in righteousness and purity of the truth.

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Who Am I?

“There’s an antithesis between the old self and the new self. They don’t coexist.”

Romans 6:1-14

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Who Am I?

The Struggle to Change

Romans 7:15 (HCSB)

I do not understand what I am doing, because I do not practice what I want to do, but I do what I hate.

Galatians 5:16-18 (HCSB)

I say then, walk by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. For the flesh desires what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you don’t do what you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. p. 64

Who Am I?

Bachelor or Husband?

“Doesn’t he know he has a wife?”“Doesn’t he know he made promises?”

“Doesn’t he know he’s no longer a bachelor?”

Solution: Accept who he is and live out his commitment to married life.

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Who Am I?

The One-Nature Approach (pp. 66-71)

The Two-Nature Approach (pp. 72-77)

“Only the one-nature view adequately explains the change you experience at conversion. At that time you’re changed. You’re regenerated. The old nature is gone. The new nature has come. Therefore you’re responsible for your life and your relationship with Christ.” (p. 77)

What’s New About a Christian?

1. Values Change

2. Ambitions Change

3. Pleasures Change

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Ways Values Change

1. God Over Self

2. Eternity Over Time

3. People Over Things

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Ambitions Change(Internal actions to achieve what we value.)

1. Worship (John 4:23)

2. Christian Lifestyle (Matthew 6:33)

3. Stewardship (2 Corinthians 8:1-5)

4. Ministry (Mark 10:43-45)

5. Family Relationships pp. 92-99


Pleasures Change(The things we enjoy)

Philippians 2:13 (HCSB)

It is God who is working in you, enabling you both to desire and to work out His good purpose.

Psalm 1:2 (HCSB)

Instead, his delight is in the LORD’s instruction, and he meditates on it day and night.

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Colossians 3:1-2 (HCSB) If you have been raised with the Messiah, seek what is above, where the Messiah is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on what is above, not on what is on the earth.

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Philippians 3:8-11 (HCSB)

I also consider everything to be a loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. Because of Him I have suffered the loss of all things and consider them filth, so that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own from the law, but one that is through faith in Christ—the righteousness from God based on faith. My goal is to know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, assuming that I will somehow reach the resurrection from among the dead. p. 101


2 Corinthians 5:15-17 (HCSB)

He died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the One who died for them and was raised. From now on, then, we do not know anyone in a purely human way. Even if we have known Christ in a purely human way, yet now we no longer know Him in this way. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come.

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Effecting Change

Issues Confronting Christians in Their Daily Battle for Holiness

1. Knowledge (The Mind)

2. Choices (The Will)

3. Power to Make Holy Choices (The Holy Spirit)

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Effecting Change

Knowledge (The Mind)Romans 12:1-2 (HCSB, emphasis added)

Therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

1. Picture of a mold or form

2. Picture of a metamorphosispp. 112-113

Effecting Change

Knowledge (The Mind)

Contrasting Ways of Life

•Galatians 5:19-25

•James 3:13-18

Principles of Christian Growth

1. The desire to change: repentance

2. The desire to allow Jesus to reconstruct life pp. 114-115

Effecting Change

Choices (The Will)

Choices Promoting Holiness

1. Choosing salvation

2. Choosing total commitment

3. Choosing holiness day by day

Romans 6:11-12 (HCSB, emphasis added)

So, you too consider yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey its desires.

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Effecting Change

Power to Make Holy Choices(The Holy Spirit)

Three Verbs to Describe the Spirit’s Presence

1. Walk (Gal. 5:16)

2. Led (Gal. 5:18)

3. “Keep in step with the Spirit” (Gal. 5:25, NIV)

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Overview










Complete Holiness

Three Stages of Holiness

1. Positional Holiness

2. Progressive Holiness

3. Perfect Holiness

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Complete Holiness

Helps for Growing in Holiness

1. Natural Revelation (Creation, Human Conscience and Intellect, History)

2. Special Revelation

3. Prayer

4. Christian Community

5. Christian Service

6. Sufferingpp. 137-145

Complete Holiness

The Completion of Holiness1 John 3:2 (HCSB)

Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him because we will see Him as He is.

Romans 8:29-30 (HCSB)

Those He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers. And those He predestined, He also called; and those He called, He also justified; and those He justified, He also glorified. pp. 146-147

Complete Holiness

Practical Implications for Living a Holy Life

1. Holiness comes from knowing our destination.

2. Holiness comes from making godly choices.

3. Holiness comes from disciplined obedience.

4. Holiness comes from setting the right goal.

Philippians 1:6 (HCSB)

I am sure of this, that He who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. pp. 154-155

Claude King’s Supplements Follow

Parable of the Water Jug

https://vimeo.com/5400908

Parable of Two Containers


Parable of The PVC Pipe


Christ’s Final Command

“Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations … teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you.”

—Matthew 28:19-20 (HCSB)

Paul’s Example of Christlikeness

• 1 Corinthians 2:2-5

• 1 Corinthians 4:16

• 1 Corinthians 11:1

• Ephesians 5:1

• 1 Thessalonians 1:6-7

Disciple Making

Disciple-making guides people

to be transformed in Christlikeness

so they think and act like Christ.

Jesus’ Example

“I sanctify Myself for them,

So they also may be sanctified by the truth”

–John 17:19

Four Choices

1. Entire Consecration

2. Wholehearted Love

3. Complete Obedience

4. Full Surrender

The Homage Ceremony

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