An Authentic Calling: Representing Christ and His Kingdom through the Church

Ses s i on 3: A Ca l l to Ho l i nes s

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c. God’s kingdom rule is set apart from the world system with its greed, lust, and pride.

2. God has redeemed to himself his holy people; we are called to be saints , 1 Cor. 1.2 (ESV) – To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours.

a. Purchased as God’s own special possession, Titus 2.14

b. Set apart from the world unto God himself for his pleasure and purpose, Rev. 4.11; 2 Tim. 1.9

c. Charged to reflect God’s glorious holiness through its life and its prophetic presence and proclamation, 1 Pet. 2.9-10 (ESV) – But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his mar velous light. [10] Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

3. God’s people are to embrace the prophetic and apostolic traditions upon which our faith and practice are built.

a. 2 Thess. 2.15 (ESV) – So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter.