Holiness, believers’ growth in

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Believers are enabled to grow in holiness on account of the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ, foreshadowed by the OT sacrificial system, and through the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit.

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Holiness begins with God’s initiative

God chooses who and what is to be holy

2 Chronicles 7:16 NIV

16 I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that my Name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.

See also Ex 20:11; Nu 16:7; 2 Ch 29:11; Zec 2:12

God chooses and calls his people to holiness

Dt 7:6; Eph 1:4

See also Dt 14:2; Ro 1:7; Col 3:12; 1 Pe 1:2; 1 Pe 1:15

Holiness is conferred by the holy God

Holiness is conferred by the presence of God

Exodus 29:42–43 NIV

42 “For the generations to come this burnt offering is to be made regularly at the entrance to the tent of meeting, before the Lord. There I will meet you and speak to you; 43 there also I will meet with the Israelites, and the place will be consecrated by my glory.

See also Ex 3:4–5; Ex 19:23; 2 Ch 7:1–2

Holiness is conferred through covenant relationship with God

Exodus 19:5–6 NIV

5 Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, 6 you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.”

See also Dt 28:9; Eze 37:26–28; 1 Pe 2:9

Holiness is conferred by the sovereign action of God

1 Thessalonians 5:23 NIV

23 May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

See also Le 20:8; Is 4:3–4; Eze 36:25; Zep 1:7; Ac 15:9; Heb 2:11

Holiness through the OT rituals

Cleansing from what is unclean

Numbers 8:6–7 NIV

6 “Take the Levites from among all the Israelites and make them ceremonially clean. 7 To purify them, do this: Sprinkle the water of cleansing on them; then have them shave their whole bodies and wash their clothes. And so they will purify themselves.

Purification and atonement through sacrifice

Nu 8:12–14 The OT sacrificial system and holiness laws foreshadow the perfect sacrifice of Jesus Christ that enables believers to grow in holiness through faith.

See also Ex 29:35–37; Le 8:14–15; Le 16:5–10; Le 16:15–22; Le 16:29–30

Consecration by anointing

Leviticus 8:10–12 NIV

10 Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and everything in it, and so consecrated them. 11 He sprinkled some of the oil on the altar seven times, anointing the altar and all its utensils and the basin with its stand, to consecrate them. 12 He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head and anointed him to consecrate him.

Holiness through Jesus Christ

Through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ

Hebrews 10:10 NIV

10 And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

See also Eph 5:25–27; Col 1:22; Heb 1:3; Heb 9:13–14; Heb 9:23–28; Heb 10:14; Heb 10:19–22; Heb 13:12; 1 Jn 1:7; 1 Jn 2:2; 1 Jn 4:10

Through relationship with Jesus Christ

1 Corinthians 1:2 NIV

2 To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be his holy people, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ—their Lord and ours:

Holiness through the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit

2 Thessalonians 2:13 NIV

13 But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you as firstfruits to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth.