SM: Holiness.2

What is the difference between holiness and standards?

Man’s interpretation or application of God’s holiness.

Examples of standards

dress length, sleeves, wedding rings, hair length on men, how tight cloths are, skinny jeans on men, facial hair on men,

Who determines standards?

Submission determines standards.

I decide submitting to my fathers authority as a child.

Wife decides submitting to husbands authority

Dad decides submitting to church authority.

Church decides submitting to Kingdom authority.

Kingdom is under Christ’s authority

Family structure:

Dad is responsible for his family and to his local church.

Local church is responsible for the local saints and to the Kingdom of God.

Kingdom of God is responsible for the saints of God and to Jesus Christ.

Children and wife can make any decision within Dad’s “rules”.

Family can make any decision within the local church “rules”.

Local church can make any decision within the Kingdom “rules”.

If church rule is skirts to the knee, dad can say to the ankle but have not scriptural right to say above the knee.

Dad leads the family.

The church leads the families.

The Kingdom leads the church.

Each level has it’s own God assigned authority to lead those below and can never violate the authority above it.

The Kingdom is defined by the Bible.