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I Still Believe in the Power of a Holy Life

 Jude 3 – “Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.”

Jude, the half-brother of Jesus writes to encourage us to “contend for the faith.” The term Jude uses is “the faith.” The faith encompasses Christianity as a whole. This is more than our personal faith or belief in God. It is the essential truths of Christianity. We must stand for truth and make a declaration of our faith.


A "Declaration of Faith" is a formal statement or confession of belief, often used within Christian communities to articulate core doctrines and theological positions. Such declarations serve as a means of unifying believers around shared convictions and are often employed in both personal and communal settings, including worship services, catechism, and church membership processes.” (i)


What is our declaration of faith?  I still believe in the power of holiness. The world we live in celebrates perversion and wickedness. We have a message of holiness. Holiness is not referring to legalism, but true biblical purity. Holiness is not keeping a man-made rule book. Holiness is beautiful. Psalms 96:9 says, “Oh, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness! Tremble before Him, all the earth.”


In a world of fakes, fake news, fake politicians, fake preachers, and fake people, we are looking for something real. People are looking for something authentic that answers the moral dilemma of our day. I still believe in the power of a sanctified holy life.

What is sanctification? It is a work of grace where we are delivered from the power of sin. Romans 6:11-13 says, “Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.“


When we experience sanctification the power of sin is broken in our lives. Holiness is the life of God lived out in our lives by the power of the Holy Spirit. It is not a life of bondage, but a life of glorious liberty. We need to seek God earnestly until He performs a sanctifying work in our lives where we are liberated from the bondages of the flesh, the world, and devil.


[i] Biblehub.com

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