2019 SHUV SHOW: “What Is Holiness?” What does Holiness do? Christene Jackman

2019 SHUV SHOW
“WHAT IS HOLINESS?”
What does Holiness do?
Christene Jackman © 2019
https://www.ChristeneJackman.com/

EXCERPT: " Welcome to the Shuv Show. I’m your host Christene Jackman. Shuv is an ancient biblical Hebrew word that means to turn back, to repent and come back to the Ways of the Lord, specifically, the God of Avraham, Yitzkak, and Ya’akov, the God of The Bible. The God of the Bible is called The Holy One.
Kohelet / Proverbs 9:10 instructs us,

“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.” +Kohelet / Proverbs 9:10

God is called the Holy One. But what does that really mean??
Holy. Let’s discuss Holiness. I’m sure you’ve heard that English word, “holy” a k-billion times in your life, when reading Scripture, singing praise & worship songs, etc. BUT: have you ever really stopped to ask the Lord exactly what does holy mean? What does holy look like? Think like? Act Like? Yes, Act like.

We are to do holy. Look, if God had only meant for us to spiritualize things we read in Scripture, He would have made us with just a head and heart. But, no, He created us with feet and hands, eyes and mouths and ears. Spirit, Soul AND Body. It’s important to understand exactly what holiness is because God commands us in the Tanakh (Gen-Mal) to be holy as He is holy. And that command is reiterated in the Brit Chadasha (Matt-Rev) in 1 Kefa/Peter 1:13-16,

“Therefore, prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Yeshua the Messiah --as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance, but just as He who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior; because it is written, "You shall be holy; for I am holy." – 1 Kefa/Peter 1:13-16 HNV

Peter is quoting the Tanakh here. He also counsels us to be “children of obedience.”
Remember: what books of the Bible did the first disciples of Messiah Yeshua have to learn what obedience looked like? That’s right—only Genesis-Malachi. In fact, Matt-Rev hangs on those foundational books. Peter is quoting the Tanakh: “but just as He who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior; because it is written, "You shall be holy; for I am holy."

Holiness is much more than merely a state of mind. We are to do holy. Lose that Greco/Roman/Western mindset that tells you to downplay (or bypass) the literals in Scripture and live in the wee-oo wee-oo world of the ethereal. If our physical bodies and physical actions don’t matter, then why did God say it was very good when He made us? If our physical bodies don’t matter, then why resurrect it? Why not just live in spirit form after we die? Yes, flesh-wise, we live in a fallen world, but we are to submit our troublesome flesh to God and strive to live by His Ways, not ours, or a flavor of the week denomination.

Our Adversary is really excellent at muddying things up, distracting us by that old seductive question, “Did God really say?” . . . ."