Calvary Baptist Church

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Holiness

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You know, John the Baptist would never get hired anywhere today. No church would touch him. He was a public relations disaster.

Mark 1: 6 says this about him. “And John was clothed with camel’s hair and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey.”

His message was as rough as his dress. A no – nonsense, bare – fisted challenge to repent because God was on His way. No, John’s style wasn’t smooth. He made very few friends and had lots of enemies, but low and behold, what do you know? He made hundreds of converts. How can we explain it? It certainly wasn’t his charisma, nor his money or position for he had neither one. Then just what did he have? He had one word: Holiness.

Holiness means the state of being holy and seeks to be like God. You want to make a difference in your world? Then live a holy life. Be faithful to God. Be faithful to your spouse. Pay your bills. Be the employee who does the work and doesn’t complain. Don’t speak one message and live another.

1 Peter 1: 15 & 16 says: “But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.” (KJV).