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“Be Ye Holy”: The Call to Christian Separation is unavailable, but you can change that!

Bring up the topic of Christian holiness today and you will get many differing definitions. Bring up the subject of “separation” and you may be either glibly dismissed or violently opposed. Sometimes seen as narrow, bigoted, non-progressive, and even impractical, separation is often disdainfully called “legalism.” But a scriptural study of holiness reveals that separation is an integral part of...

The possibility that the believer can imitate God’s holiness, or live a life of personal separation to God from sin, lies in the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross. Apart from salvation through Him, there is no possibility of forsaking sin, imitating God’s holiness, or having victory over sin. This is that part of the doctrine of salvation which is commonly identified as “sanctification.” Paul describes his desire to do good, his frustration with ever-present sin,
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