We don't dare take this word holy in our mouths too casually.[b] "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect: (Matt:5:48), and "Be ye Holy; for I am Holy" (1 Peter 1:16).[b]either we are going to be very holy or not at all.
Are you remembering that one of the evidences of the end of the age is a great falling away when the love of many will grow cold? Many! Where are they going to come from? When iniquity shall abound some will come out of this audience, out of the whole inflated Christendom that exists today. [b]Iniquity is abounding more and more daily. Very seductive and powerful. And if it is only a plastic Cross to which we've come, a piece of cheap junk jewelry, we're almost assuring ourselves that we will be among the victims
1 Peter 1:15 [b]But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
2 Peter 3:11 ¶[b] Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
James 1:26 ¶ [b]If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
it is to me a fearful thought, if i dont control my tongue, if im not Holy in all my conversation, my whole religion is worthless, all my praying, all my service, all my cross carrying is nothing but a big delusion......its worthless...vain...
Isaiah 6:5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.