BE HOLY - In Every Aspect Of Your Life

The teachers in vast numbers have perverted the grace of God and use it to cover the sins of those who willfully continue in sin. They pronounce the sinner who is continuing in sin "under grace", just as the Catholic priests do when they falsely claim to be able to forgive sins and pronounce a sinner "forgiven". This along with the teaching of easy believism which has people repeat a sinner's prayer. They then pronounce the sinner "saved". This has devastated the church by creating countless believers who are indeed still "unbelievers". Both the Protestants and Catholics have come together in these lies, preparing the great falling away, the apostasy. 

Brothers and sisters, are you listening to Laodicean "man's opinions" teachers who tickle your ears with a few pleasant verses and thousands of their own words? Or are you searching the scriptures, judging yourself with the word of God and correcting your life as we are commanded to do? We must work out our salvation with fear and trembling. We have not finished the race yet.   

• And so, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only when I was with you but even more now that I am absent, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling. Philippians 2:12 ISV
• 24You know that in a race all the runners run but only one wins the prize, don’t you? You must run in such a way that you may be victorious. 25Everyone who enters an athletic contest practices self-control in everything. They do it to win a wreath that withers away, but we run to win a prize thatj never fades. 26That is the way I run, with a clear goal in mind. That is the way I fight, not like someone shadow boxing. 27No, I keep on disciplining my body, making it serve me so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not somehow be disqualified. 1 Corinthians 9: 24-27 ISV

We saw in the previous verses of 1 Peter 1 that the prophets and those who went before us were not serving themselves, but those of us who would believe after the cross. As we continue in Peter's letter to the church, we find that we who believe the Gospel are personally responsible 
to be holy in every aspect of our lives, just as the one who called us is holy.

1 Peter 1  ISV  Be Holy

13Therefore, 

• prepare your minds for action, 
• keep a clear head, 
• and set your hope completely on the grace to be given you when Jesus, the Messiah,k is revealed. 
• 14As obedient children, do not be shaped by the desires that used to influence you when you were ignorant. 
• 15Instead, be holy in every aspect of your life, just as the one who called you is holy. 16For it is written, “You must be holy, because I am holy.”l

17If you call “Father” the one who judges everyone impartially according to what they have done, 

• you must live in reverent fear as long as you are strangers in a strange land. 

18For you know that it was not with perishable things like silver or gold that you have been ransomed from the worthless way of life handed down to you by your ancestors, 19but with the precious blood of the Messiah,m like that of a lamb without blemish or defect. 

20On the one hand, he was foreknown before the creationn of the world, but on the other hand, he was revealed at the end of time for your sake. 21Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.

                   Write It On My Heart