Christians, does God call us to be holy?
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Yes. Holy means set apart for God's purposes.
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ok,we can do nothing apart from God,Jesus said actually commanded us to love one another,however we cannot do this without Gods help,as for intercessory prayers that is when you feel led by the Holy Spirit to pray for someone other than yourself
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You know when I was a young man, I always pray to God especially before I go to sleep and go to church on sunday and praise God. But I failed to recognize the fact that, those were just part of being Christian and not the whole Christian faith. I can probably tell you now that everyday should be Holy and everyday you should praise God by being a true Christian and what is a true Christian?  What is a true Christian?  \n\nListen to Him:\n\n"But to you who hear I say, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,  bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. To the person who strikes you on one cheek, offer the other one as well, and from the person who takes your cloak, do not withhold even your tunic. Give to everyone who asks of you, and from the one who takes what is yours do not demand it back. Do to others as you would have them do to you. \n\nFor if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do the same. If you lend money to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit (is) that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, and get back the same amount.  But rather, love your enemies and do good to them, and lend expecting nothing back; then your reward will be great and you will be children of the Most High, for he himself is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked. Be merciful, just as (also) your Father is merciful. \n\n"Stop judging and you will not be judged. Stop condemning and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven. Give and gifts will be given to you; a good measure, packed together, shaken down, and overflowing, will be poured into your lap. For the measure with which you measure will in return be measured out to you."  And he told them a parable, "Can a blind person guide a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit? \n\nNo disciple is superior to the teacher; but when fully trained, every disciple will be like his teacher. Why do you notice the splinter in your brother's eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own?  How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me remove that splinter in your eye,' when you do not even notice the wooden beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! Remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter in your brother's eye. \n\n"A good tree does not bear rotten fruit, nor does a rotten tree bear good fruit. For every tree is known by its own fruit. For people do not pick figs from thornbushes, nor do they gather grapes from brambles. A good person out of the store of goodness in his heart produces good, but an evil person out of a store of evil produces evil; for from the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks. "Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' but not do what I command? \n\nI'm sure being Christian yourself, i don't have to teach you this, I am just sharing some refreshing thoughts.
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This is why we are not to be unequally yoked as we are told in the Holy Bible. There is but one TRUE God. Serve Him only.\nhttp://planttel.net/~meharris1/mikescorner.html
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yes and yes\n\nyou cannot hold on to your sin and and Christ. You cannot serve God and mammon (other gods). which is anything that takes priority over God. All need to turn from sin that's repent = 180 degree turn.\n1Cor 6:9-11Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor *homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.\n\nMessenger
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Do you mean Holy?  Holy means set apart for a specific purpose.  Pure.  Unmixed.\n\nThere is only one God.  The Father, Son (Jesus) and the Holy Spirit (sometimes also refered to as the Holy Ghost) are One.  United.  As each of us is one in body, mind and soul.
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uh no.\nmore later have to get on with the day.\n\nthere are three God Heads, in One Jesus the Holy Spirit and God the Father. One in agreement, one in power and part of it is the very mystery of God.\n\nwe are falliable, unknowing humans and He is an all knowing, loving God who reveals Himself through creation, the Bible the life of Jesus and His intimacy with those who call upon Him out of a pure heart.\n\nIsaiah 55:6-11\n6. \nSeek the Lord while He may be found;\ncall to Him while He is near. \n7. \nLet the wicked one abandon his way,\nand the sinful one his thoughts; \nlet him return to the Lord,\nso He may have compassion on him,\nand to our God, for He will freely forgive. \n8. \n"For My thoughts are not your thoughts,\nand your ways are not My ways."[This is] the Lord's declaration. \n9.\n "For as heaven is higher than earth, \nso My ways are higher than your ways,\nand My thoughts than your thoughts. \n10. \nFor just as rain and snow fall from heaven,\nand do not return there\nwithout saturating the earth,\nand making it germinate and sprout,\nand providing seed to sow\nand food to eat, \n11. \nso My word that comes from My mouth\nwill not return to Me empty,\nbut it will accomplish what I please,\nand will prosper in what I send it [to do]." \n\nhave a good week, interesting ques.\nGBU
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I am dead in Christ, and alive to God!\n\nI believe in  and do the following:.......\n\nJoh 3:21  But he who practices truth comes to the Light so that his works may be revealed, that they exist, having been worked in God. \n\nI have done this............\n\nRom 10:9  Because if you confess the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved. \nRom 10:10  For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses unto salvation. \n\nI have called on the name of my Lord, Jesus Christ with ALL of my heart, soul, and mind!.............\n\nRom 10:13  For everyone, "whoever shall call on the name of the Lord will be saved." \n\nI want to, desire to, and am trying to............\n\nJoh 14:15  If you love Me, keep My commandments. \n\nJoh 14:21  He who has My commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves Me. And he who loves Me shall be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will reveal Myself to him. \n\nI am bornagain!................\n\nJoh 3:7  Do not marvel that I said to you, You must be born again. \n\nJoh 3:3  Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless a man is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. \n\nI have been called to do this:............\n\n\n1Pe 1:15  but according to the Holy One who has called you, you also become holy in all conduct, \n1Pe 1:16  because it is written, "Be holy, for I am holy." \n1Pe 1:17  And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges according to the work of each one, pass the time of your earthly residence in fear, \n1Pe 1:18  knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers, \n1Pe 1:19  but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot; \n1Pe 1:20  indeed having been foreknown before the foundation of the world, but revealed in the last times for you, \n1Pe 1:21  those believing in God through Him, He who raised Him up from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God. \n1Pe 1:22  Purifying your souls in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to unfeigned love of the brothers, love one another fervently out of a pure heart, \n1Pe 1:23  having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the living Word of God, and abiding forever. \n\nI have been purchased by the precious blood of Christ Jesus!.............\n\nJoh 6:54  Whoever partakes of My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. \n\n\nI want to Glorify God!!!!...............\n\n1Co 6:19  Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, whom you have of God? And you are not your own, \n1Co 6:20  for you are bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
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Hi, i don`t think so in the strict sense of sacrament, as a sacrament mediates divine grace and that this divine action makes the action itself sacred.\nI think it would be more correct to say that we can be visible reminders of of God`s grace in the living out of our Christian calling and in this sense we are more properly as sacramental, in that we carry this life of grace in us since our Baptism, but yet we are not the source of this grace.\nexamples of sacramental would be bringing the love and knowledge of God to others, which if the person is willing to except would be an occasion of healing and reconciliation, as scripture tells us,,we hold a treasure not made of gold, in earthen vessels wealth untold, this treasure is the Lord,the Christ from Whom all good things come.
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No. Because we are told in Proverbs that mans heart is decietful above all else.\nAlso if we try to get to heaven by doing something good our selves, we are wasting our time, as that is what all religions teach.  The Bible tells us that Jesus paid in full, the price on the cross.  Neither is  there salvation in any other, for there is none other name under heaven given among men, wherby we must be saved.  Acts 4:12\nBut we are all as an unclean thing and all our righteousness are as filthy rags. Isaiah 64:6\nSo there is NO WAY we can save ourselves, only Christ can do that, "For by grace ye are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. Ephesians 2:8-9\nAll have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Romans 3:23
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Absolutely.\n\nBut in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.  -1 Peter 3:15
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Of course we need to love one another!  \n\n "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another." -Jesus, John 13:34 \n\nAnd yes, we are saved by God's grace, not faith.  One can believe in God & still not serve Him.
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No offense taken.  I believe in God because of what He has already done.  He gave His son for us, would he not freely give us all things?  (Romans 8:32)  That does not mean that we will be rich if we ask Him for it, because that may not be good for our spiritual growth.  However it does mean that He has everything we need and He wants to provide for us.  Just like I would do for my sons.
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It means to live a life that is clean and holy and to do all that to know to serve God.  He knows we are human and not perfect, but we can strive to live like the Lord.
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I think that is one of the main ways God communicates to us. Our conscience is the holy spirit.
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God is Holy; He cannot even look upon iniquity. Inherently sinful man must clean himself up (even with His help) before approaching the Holy of Holies.\n\ne.g. If one maintains a willful lifestyle of iniquity, he cannot become reconciled unto God.
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I think you are partially right.  For a purely human standpoint, everything you say is true.  But to me, as a Christian, I see a very real definition of where to find GOD.  Thank you for a beautiful easy way to describe his omnipresent facet.