Just how pure and holy are we? Don't ask our friends right? Ha ha!

Pure has to do with moving out of your old.entrenched patterns that may have brought you many things you really did not want.

Keep yourself pure:.1Timothy 5:22.

One moves to his or her new awakened state, but before awakening is the alert stage. One alert is the alternate thoughts.(alternate thoughts are what?).coming to mind when one thinks good thoughts. Be alert for these coming to mind. The great apostle Paul went through this alert, this, 'getting his attention' stage.

Pure has to do with honesty, sincerity, wholeness of mind:.James 1:8; 4:8.

Holy has to do with being whole. When you are whole, you are well and things go great in life, even when they don't, because one's spirit is 'above' his life, that is spiritual things are more important. It's because you know your base is God, so you are able to remain unruffled when life's storms come about.

When you are whole, you are one with all that is. When you are not whole, life itself alerts you that something is off kilter and needs to be fixed. Growing spiritually leads one evermore on the road to completeness:.Colossians 2:10.

1Thessalonians 4:7 "For God has not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness."

Are we made pure by the do's and don'ts of religion?.Acts 15:9 "...purifying their hearts by faith." Colossians 2:10 "And.you are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power."

1Corinthians 3:16,17 "Know you not that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?.....the temple of God is holy, which temple you are." Ephesians 5:27 "That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish.".Now, how could we ever become that way on our own? Forget it! It's been done for us!

John 15:3 "Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.".It's a 'clean' by acceptance of the gift; thus, it's by belief.

Holy means of the purest of love intent, sincere, of the purest motives for the best for self and others, which is what love is, which is what the Great Infinite One is. Once a person has been made whole in heart and mind and physicality, it's up to them if they want to stay whole, stay in that frame of mind and carry on in spiritual growth toward a reward:.Luke 9:62 "And Emmanuel said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God."

Romans 3:25,26 "Whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness.(notice it says His righteousness, not ours, as religion purveys).for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God...To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness; that he might be just and the justifier of him which believeth in Emmanuel.".Notice it says that by believing in Emmanuel.(what He did), that His.(Emmanuel's) righteousness is placed upon that which kept us from.(a relationship with).God in the past. In other words, through belief and belief alone.(as Emmanuel's sacrifice was enough), we are reconciled to God.

One is now righteous, holy and perfect, not because of anything he or she may have done, but only because of what Christ had already done. And what was that?

Colossians 3:10 "And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him.".That is, we are becoming like the Infinite, which is what learning in life is really all about:.Philippians 2:5,6.

In Old Testament times the Creator came into the physical temple that was built for Him according to His instructions.

In the New Testament, the kingdom of God, also called the kingdom of heaven, is where the Creator dwells:.1Corinthians 3:16 "Know you not that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?".Today you build the temple of God in your soul. You build it with love in all you do. Make love the track you'll take and the Sun will shine in your heart:.Matthew 13:43.

The dwelling place has changed from a physical temple to a spiritual one, a spiritual one in humans who open the door by deciding to be of a higher consciousness than the ego level they have lived in blindness with all their lives.

The Creator loves us so very much that any works of righteousness we may conjure up cannot be compared to the gift of salvation by belief and belief alone, the gift that makes you equal with the Infinite Presence:.Romans 5:17.

Being 'saved,' is being made a member of the God family; brought into it by belief. To be saved means to be transformed:.John 17:15-17.

Christ saves now and since we all were saved before the world was created, it therefor means to awaken one to the state that is true about him that's he or she is not presently aware of. 

If the evil in the world bothers you, you can be saved from it by accepting Christ's nature of love.(called 'accepting Emmanuel, or accepting Christ', which is really your decision to live by the same high consciousness He lived by).into your heart; a new creation will begin immediately. You will get through life easier with assurance of this hope in you:.Luke 1:71,74 "That we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all that hate us...That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear."

1Peter 1:15,16 "But as he which has called you is holy, so be you holy in all manner of conversation.(old English for 'conduct'); Because it is written, Be you holy, for I am holy.(in other words, follow my example)."

Acts 15:9 "And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith."

If one wants to be holy, he must acknowledge the truth about his present state of being and that, in his Soul, he is righteous and perfect and holy. Life is for the experience of bringing this out.

You are pure if you believe that in Christ you are pure! That is what brings the power of the Holy Spirit into you and changes you into His perfectness; but now, it is a thing affecting the heart and not of any decisions to conform to a mode of behavior based upon the many legalistic religions' do's and don'ts. Now it is from the depth of a changed, a renewed heart. 

Titus 1:15 "Unto the pure.(saturated with Christ).all things are pure. But unto them that are defiled.(original Greek is 'to dye with another colour').and unbelieving is nothing pure, but even their mind and conscience is defiled." Romans 14:23

The Creator's pure loving nature does not occupy anywhere that He considers out of order or impure in any way!.1Peter 3:4 "But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price."

More closer to the original Greek:."But rather, the hidden person.(motivations from Christ's nature of love in one's heart).of an incorruptible meek.(mildness of disposition, gentleness of spirit).and peaceable attitude of heart which is occupied in that place by God Eternal."

And He does 'occupy you' if you have chosen His love nature to be yours. This gift is made possible for those who want this high end nature:.Romans 5:17. 

Our hearts are purified by faith.(Acts 15:9).in taking action to show compassion and fervent appreciation of others:.1Peter 1:22.

1st Peter is also saying here that by obeying the truth we purify ourselves. Obeying what truth?.1John 2:4 "He that says, I know him and keeps not his commandments, is a liar and the truth is not in him."

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