Peter attested to this Truth when he recorded by The Holy Spirit in his 1st Epistle chapter 1:
13 So then, prepare your hearts and minds for action! Stay alert and fix your hope firmly on the marvelous grace that is coming to you. For when Jesus Christ is unveiled, a greater measure of grace will be released to you.
14 As God’s obedient children, never again shape your lives by the desires that you followed when you didn’t know better.
15 Instead, shape your lives to become like the Holy One Who called you.
16 For Scripture says: “You are to be Holy, because I am Holy.”
17 Since you call on HIM as Your Heavenly Father, the impartial Judge Who judges according to each one’s works, live each day with Holy awe and reverence throughout your time on earth.
True Holiness includes justice, mercy, Truth, and righteousness. To be Holy is to be absolutely devoted to GOD in all that we do, demonstrating Who HE is to the world. Holiness surrounds GOD’S Throne and we are seated with HIM in Heavenly places… we are set apart for GOD.
HIS Grace has imbedded Holiness into our lives, yet we are to make right choices and to yield to Christ and GOD’S Word as The Holy Spirit lives in us. Holiness is not merely actions we perform, but what we absorb and manifest as we live our lives in GOD’S Presence. Christ is our Holiness:
Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in 1st Corinthians chapter 1:
30 For it is not from man that we draw our life but from God as we are being joined to Jesus, the Anointed One. And now He is our God-given Wisdom, our virtue, our Holiness, and our redemption.
And Paul also wrote in Ephesians chapter 2:
4 But God, Who is rich in mercy, because of His great Love with which He Loved us,
5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the Heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
We have become a re-created people that will fulfill the destiny He has given each of us, for we are joined to Jesus, the Anointed One. Even before we were born, FATHER planned in advance (Psalm 139:16) our destiny and the good works we would do to fulfill it.
As we comprehend this revelation, we will walk in Holiness with a Supernatural boldness like that of the Disciples on and after the Day of Pentecost!