Sunday Sermon | Holiness and the Promises of God | 2 Corinthians | Part 11

Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner continues the series on 2 Corinthians. 2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1. In this passage, we see a very important image, this idea of a temple. We know the location of the temple has changed as well as its realities - now the temple is living. Believers are described as the temple of God.There is a relationship between holiness in our own lives and a delight in the Lord as our God. It seems, because of our sinful flesh, most believers struggle for long periods to distinguish between the realities of our justification and our pursuit of holiness.One of the most challenging concepts of the Christian life is the recognition of this overwhelming joy that is at our fingertips, but it involves our own holiness and real righteousness.Paul asks five questions in this passage to which the answer to all is “None”. These things he compares, beginning with righteousness and lawlessness, have nothing to do with one another.Paul isn’t telling us to remove ourselves from the world but to remove worldliness from ourselves, the temple of the living God.There is a direct proportion to our own earnestness in casting off the old man and the joy that we have in Christ.