Post by Les Brewer on Jun 6, 2023 19:29:06 GMT
*_THE TWO SIDES OF HOLY LIVING_*
Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
— Psalm 45:7
Holiness or holy living has two legs that it thrives upon, which can not be mingled into one. Just as a normal human being can not conveniently walk on one leg, so holy living or Holiness of life depends on these legs. Jesus who is actually our Holiness manifested these two legs of holiness, He loves righteousness and hated wickedness and all forms of iniquities. We can not be less intense of the love for righteousness and hatred for sin and wickedness.
The Holy Spirit the author of the scriptures permitted to be written when the scripture says “Be ye angry, and sin not.” It is cleared that there can hardly be goodness in a man if he be not angry at sin; he who loves truth must hate every false way. How our Lord Jesus hated it when the temptation came! Thrice it assailed Him in different forms, but ever He met it with, “Get thee behind me, Satan.” He hated it in others; none the less fervently because He showed His hate oftener in tears of pity than in words of rebuke; yet what language could be more stern, more Elijah-like, than the words, “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer.”
He hated wickedness, so much that He bled to wound it to the heart; He died that it might die; He was buried that He might bury it in His tomb; and He rose that He might forever trample it beneath His feet.
Christ is in the Gospel, and that Gospel is opposed to wickedness in every shape. Wickedness arrays itself in fair garments, and imitates the language of holiness; but the precepts of Jesus, like His famous scourge of small cords, chase it out of the temple, and will not tolerate it in the Church. So, too, in the heart where Jesus reigns, what war there is between Christ and Belial! And when our Redeemer shall come to be our Judge, those thundering words, “Depart, ye cursed” which are, indeed, but a prolongation of His life-teaching concerning sin, shall manifest His abhorrence of iniquity. As warm as His love is to sinners, so hot is His hatred of sin; as perfect as is His righteousness, so complete shall be the destruction of every form of wickedness.
O thou glorious champion of right, and destroyer of wrong, for this cause hath God, even thy God, anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Come Lord Jesus, take your place in my heart, create your passionate love for righteousness and your passionate hatred for sin in me, that I will live and walk as you walked in Jesus Name!
Have a wonderful and a blessed day!
God bless us all.
Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
— Psalm 45:7
Holiness or holy living has two legs that it thrives upon, which can not be mingled into one. Just as a normal human being can not conveniently walk on one leg, so holy living or Holiness of life depends on these legs. Jesus who is actually our Holiness manifested these two legs of holiness, He loves righteousness and hated wickedness and all forms of iniquities. We can not be less intense of the love for righteousness and hatred for sin and wickedness.
The Holy Spirit the author of the scriptures permitted to be written when the scripture says “Be ye angry, and sin not.” It is cleared that there can hardly be goodness in a man if he be not angry at sin; he who loves truth must hate every false way. How our Lord Jesus hated it when the temptation came! Thrice it assailed Him in different forms, but ever He met it with, “Get thee behind me, Satan.” He hated it in others; none the less fervently because He showed His hate oftener in tears of pity than in words of rebuke; yet what language could be more stern, more Elijah-like, than the words, “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer.”
He hated wickedness, so much that He bled to wound it to the heart; He died that it might die; He was buried that He might bury it in His tomb; and He rose that He might forever trample it beneath His feet.
Christ is in the Gospel, and that Gospel is opposed to wickedness in every shape. Wickedness arrays itself in fair garments, and imitates the language of holiness; but the precepts of Jesus, like His famous scourge of small cords, chase it out of the temple, and will not tolerate it in the Church. So, too, in the heart where Jesus reigns, what war there is between Christ and Belial! And when our Redeemer shall come to be our Judge, those thundering words, “Depart, ye cursed” which are, indeed, but a prolongation of His life-teaching concerning sin, shall manifest His abhorrence of iniquity. As warm as His love is to sinners, so hot is His hatred of sin; as perfect as is His righteousness, so complete shall be the destruction of every form of wickedness.
O thou glorious champion of right, and destroyer of wrong, for this cause hath God, even thy God, anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Come Lord Jesus, take your place in my heart, create your passionate love for righteousness and your passionate hatred for sin in me, that I will live and walk as you walked in Jesus Name!
Have a wonderful and a blessed day!
God bless us all.
