The Responsibility of Holiness

The Christian’s Joy                                 “The Responsibility of Holiness”                                                               Phil. 2:12-13   Disciples Work Out (v.12)   Three Tenses of Salvation – I have been saved, I am being saved, I will be saved:   1.You have been saved (Ti.3:5) 2.You are being saved daily (Phil. 2:12-13; 2 Cor. 3:18c) 3. You Will Be Saved One Glorious Day in the Future (1 Jo. 3:2-3)   God Works In (v.13)   Ro. 8:7-8 7 For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. 8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.   Eze. 36:27 “And I will put my Spirit in you, and cause you to walk in my statutes…     Gal. 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.   Ro. 6:11-13  11 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. 13 Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.    Jo.15:5, 7-8 5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing…. 7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.