The Holiness of Christ

Recap
• In chapter 3, we see the need for holiness in our fellowship with God

• He does not require us to live a perfect sinless life to have fellowship with Him, but
• We need to be serious about holiness

• Grieve over sin instead of justifying it

• Earnestly pursue holiness as a way of life

an example of Holiness?
• Christ said

“Be holy, for I am holy”

• We need to consider the holiness of Christ because
1. We need to be firmly grounded in our security in Christ

2. His life is meant to be an example of holiness for us

His followers His enemies
Jesus lived a
1 John 3:5 Luke 23: 13-16
1 Peter 2:2
Psalms 45:7
perfectly holy
life

John 8:46
Himself
 Holiness of Jesus is

Absence of sin
+
Perfect conformity to the will of the Father

Actions Attitudes Motives

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A L V A
E O F S
God’s Holiness

R NC
Our imperfections
A
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“ 看啊，这炭碰了你的嘴唇，你的过犯已被除

ASS 掉，你的罪恶已被赦免。”
“Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is
taken away, and your sin atoned for.”
以赛亚书 6:7
上帝使无罪的基督担当我们的罪，
使我们可以借着基督成为被上帝接纳的义人。

For our sake He made Him to be sin who knew no sin,

so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
哥林多后书 5:21
 A true Christian wouldn’t think
these evil thoughts that you are
thinking!

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We need to be firmly grounded in our security in Christ

His life is meant to be an example of holiness for us

因为我做的都是祂所喜悦的
I always do the things that are pleasing to him
约翰福音 8:29
 ‘ 上帝啊，我来是要遵行你的旨意，
我的事都记在圣经上了。’
‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,
as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’
希伯来书 10:7
Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations,
enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it
consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God
wills.

John Brown
Conclusion
1. We need to be firmly grounded in our security in Christ

2. His life is meant to be an example of holiness for us

• How is our desire to follow Christ in doing the will of the Father?