Essay On Holiness

As a person part of the Nazarene denomination, I feel that we typically view holiness in the same way as most people, at least that is what I thought. I did not realize there were different views of what holiness was. Holiness defined by the Nazarene church would be the after math of us being saved. Being cleansed by the holy spirit, renewing us in the image of God, and producing us in the character of Christ. In shorter words, holiness is equal to Christlikeness. Holiness does not just mean that once you are cleansed by the Holy Spirit, that that is all you have to do. One has to make the decision to live for Christ and present him to others through themselves. Christlikeness equals holiness, which then means that when we make the daily decision to be Christ like, we are being holy as well. “We believe that the Holy spirit convicts, cleanses, fills, and empowers us as the graces of God transforms us day by day into a people of love, spiritual discipline, ethical and moral purity, compassion, and justice” (We Are a Holiness People, 2015). Holiness is not something that we can come by on our own. It is only possible by asking the holy spirit to take part in our lives and transform us
They have scripture to back it up. Ephesians 4:24 talk about putting on our new self, the one who is like God in righteousness and holiness. “New self” meaning the born again child of God. Going farther into Christ’s likeness, we read 2 Corinthians 3:18 which states that we are being transformed into Jesus’s likeness with increasing glory. Not to leave this out, Leviticus 11:44 shares with us that we should be holy as God is also holy. Jesus gave us a clear example to live by. He was. As he said in scripture “I am”. Meaning that Jesus was God, who was holy, meaning that he was holy. His example of life on earth was pure and holy. We must then, as children of the living God, live as Christ lived, holy and pure