How do we perfect Holiness?
Remember:
FATHER revealed HIS Holiness before HE revealed HIS Love so if we want to come into full maturity, we must pursue Holiness as well. We cannot treat our relationship with Our Heavenly Father as common for it is sacred.
2 Corinthians 7:1 NKJV
Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting Holiness in the Fear of God.
You perfect Holiness in the Fear of GOD, not in the Love of GOD. You can Love GOD with all your heart and still be lawless.
Jesus spoke in Matthew chapter 10:
26 “Don’t be afraid or intimidated by others, for God will bring everything out into the open and every secret will be told.
27 What I say to you in the dark, repeat in broad daylight, and what you hear in a whisper, announce it publicly.
28 Don’t be in fear of those who can kill only the body but not your soul. Fear only God, who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.”
The Fear of GOD has nothing to do with being afraid of HIM. It is terrified of being distant from HIM.
It is recorded by The Holy Spirit in Exodus chapter 20:
18 Now all the people witnessed the thunderings, the lightning flashes, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood afar off.
19 Then they said to Moses, “You speak with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.”
20 And Moses said to the people, “Do not fear (H3372); for God has come to test you, and that His Fear (H3374) may be before you, so that you may not sin.”
H3372 means to be afraid. H3374 means to be in awesome Fear.
It is vital that we ponder this verse. First of all, we are not to be afraid, but to be totally reverent with absolute respect.
In the 1990s during my morning prayer, FATHER spoke to me and told me not to use the word “awesome” unless I was addressing or describing HIM. People had begun using that word as a common response to worldly occurrences. It is clearly a Sacred Word.
21 So the people stood afar off, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.
Do you seek to come closer to FATHER and draw near or do you continue focusing on the temporary?