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Place
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Surabaya
Corner
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Sharing
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- Holiness
is the habit of being of one mind with God. It is the habit of
agreeing in God’s judgments, hating what He hates, loving what He
loves an seeing things the way He sees them; one who entirely agrees
with God and does not start doing one’s will different from God’s
will. He knows the spirits of the world and keeps off whether his
friends like it or not. He is a man of many principles and discipline.
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holy man is in the habit of shunning every sin, fighting to overcome
his bad habits successfully. He has succeeded to be keeping all the
commandments and all the laws of Christ. He strives (tries)
successfully to imitate Jesus Christ, whose life alone can lead one to
salvation. It is not every man who cries, “Lord, Lord,” is a child
of the Lord. It is not
all who hear the Word of God are children of God. It is the doers of
the Word of God that are God’s sons and heirs of the promised
Kingdom of God.
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holy man is given the Spirit in Jesus Christ, the Spirit that gives
spiritual gifts and forms a man into the likeness and image of Jesus.
Without possessing this Spirit in Jesus as one’s spiritual Director
within one, as one’s power to do good and to endure hardships and to
accept crisis cheerfully and the power to pray constantly and the
power to love and humble oneself, no one, no matter how good one is,
can be that holy and see God. – Romans 8:29.
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Spirit that Christ sends to the one He wants to set free, will make
one very patient – detached from material goods, chaste, meek (free
from anger,) obedient, kind, compassionate, full of understanding,
very wise, prudent and God-fearing. The Spirit of Christ will help one
to hate and avoid human honors, human praises, titles, dignity,
respect and to seek to do God’s will only. Peter said that Christ
suffered for us, leaving us an example that we should follow. – 1
Peter 2:21.
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holy man bears much, endures much talks less, overlooks much, travels
less, has much time with God, speaks much about God, is filled with
the thoughts of the Lord; His ways and how to please Him rather than
pleasing oneself.
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Spirit of God leading a holy man leads him to love mortification of
his senses and regulates his desires to be free from the desires of
the flesh. He has no need again to see the beauty of the material
world around, to admire beautiful things, to have great love for
eating or drinking. The hunger for sex has been diminished by the
Spirit of the Lord in him. The body is thus prepared for resurrection.
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holy man loves people and the good things about them, but hates evil
in them. He loves to help. He keeps on making peace. He is gentle,
quiet often, unnoisy, calm, self-controlled, truthful, and very honest
and cheats no one. He is able to live with bad people, his
persecutors, his accusers, yet he remains sinless, patient and is
found full of virtues required by God.
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is prepared to die or be cast out or be excommunicated rather than
offending God, doing evil, or supporting an evil action. But the
spirits of pride will fight him greatly. With pride, Satan has always
succeeded in destroying the spiritual life of too many Christians.
Humility therefore is the chief study and practice of man wishing to
make it to heaven and to the holiness.
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Bible says, “Unless you possess the Spirit of Christ, you cannot
belong to Him” – Romans 8:9. If this Spirit of Jesus is lacking in
you, you continue to fall into one sin or the other, incapable of
getting free. Look around and look into you, the troubles we have are
results of lack of the Spirit of Christ controlling Christians and our
decisions. We follow Christ up to a point and stop. Then we begin to
do our own things in our own ways.
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- Bro.
Mike hails from Nigeria and visits Jakarta once in a while
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