Practical Holiness Commentary

Table of Contents

Note: Numbers indicate chapter

GENESIS

(1) The first revelation of the supreme goodness of God.
(2) The first act of God to sanctify (a day). The Divine law is instituted and the Divine moral revealed. The carnal mind is body oriented. Man attempts to modify the commandment. The carnal defense mechanisms against the moral commandment.
(3) The temptation. Desire for evil as opposed to hatred of evil. Hatred of evil reduces temptation. The "first commandment" (3:11) and the seven virtues of the Divine commandment.
(6) Environmental (worldly) corruption replaces purity. God, grace and judgment by John Heide. God's perfect and expressed hatred of evil. "Perfect" Noah merges from the darkness of evil environment.
(17) The first injunction to man to be perfect.
(25) Immediate pleasure versus ultimate good.
(35) Idols in Jacob's house? Cleansing essential to intimacy with God.

EXODUS

(1) Holy ground. The first instance of something declared holy after the fall of Adam. Cruden defines holiness. Seven things designated as holy. The new creation possess new obsessions, new affinities with all that is holy. Sanctification (to be holy) implies separation as well as dedication. The dichotomy of holiness definition. Forms of corrupt practices to be separated from. Sanctification, separation and holy sentiment. The holiness mentality defined. Non-holiness theology, unsound and unbiblical. Two kinds of morality; natural and supernatural.
(15) First direct reference to the holiness of God (v.11). The Hebrew forms of holy. What's in a name? The names of men and their meaning. God introduces Himself and gives His name. The TRISAGION. Holiness and intimacy with God.
(19) (22) Scripture texts only.
(23) Human emotion the enemy of Divine truth. The names of false deities not to be spoken!
(28) The golden signet. HOLINESS TO THE LORD. The sublime obsession: HOLINESS! The soul centers. The breastplate of righteousness over the heart. The golden signet pressed upon the thought-life. The heart, the seat of affection. The mind, the seat of knowledge.
(32) Aaron and flesh religion. Flesh religion does produce results. Nakedness: forbidden by scripture, practiced by carnal Christians. Children and the psychological implication of exposure to nakedness. Toleration of nakedness leads to pornographic behavior. Lust, license and licentiousness.
(34) The Ten Commandments the basis of God's covenant with man. Moral goals of God for man revealed in His moral commandments. Moral law and ceremonial law. Seven interesting facts to help us understand moral law better.
(39) The HOLY crown. Holiness TO the Lord.

LEVITICUS

(3) Acceptable sacrifices. Mere belief in fundamentalism not equivalent to sacrifice without blemish. God rejects sacrifices and worship of the disobedient. Sacrifices must be offered on God's terms. Terms specified.
(10) The new "capability concept." Amoral proficiency. Educated, but not dedicated; capable, but not qualified; competent, but not anointed. Priesthood to abstain from wine.
(11) Ascension in holiness.
(16) Cleansing of sin by atonement only. Perfection is moral achievement by grace. Gradualism. (18-22) His Lordship and our holiness related by Lawrence O. Richards, The Word Bible Handbook.
(20) Sanctify yourselves. The initiative of the believer (v.7). God the Sanctifier. The source of sanctification.

NUMBERS

(13) Discouraging others from entering the Holy Land a sin.

DEUTERONOMY

(1) God of the "Fathers." Church Fathers. Regarding the Fathers who were faithful. Consulting the Fathers. The wise young find wisdom, guidance in the Fathers. Conscience and direction of the church to remain in the hands of the Fathers. It is more a world of the young. Tradition's part in church's stability. The dynamism, energy and impulsiveness characteristic of youth. The maturity of the young. Our roots, our Fathers. Naboth's vineyard and the faith of the Fathers. The Fathers seen in the Feast of Tabernacles. Why the young need the Fathers. Advice to retiring minister. Getting old, giving it up, getting out and doing it graciously.
(6) The psychology of sanctification. The trichotomy of sanctification. The spirit, the soul and the body. Defining the triology of self. Biblical examples. Body discipline (5-6) The ten principles of happiness. The five simple divisions of the Ten Commandments. Cosmic laws and their relationship to the Ten Commandments.
(7) Separation, contamination and association. Osmosis. Commandments and the covenant.
(13) False prophets with miracles and signs. The cursed thing.
(14) Separation makes us "peculiar."
(18) Perfection.
(22) Similarity in cut of dress forbidden, Eerdman's Concise Bible Handbook.
(24) Holiness and righteousness defined.
(26) God's glory is in the holiness of His people. The Divine intent: holiness of man. The redemptive purpose: holiness.
(28) Trifling with the Word of God bring judgment. Imagination and manufactured religion short lived.
(30) Precept and promise always the characteristic of Word knowledge. Holiness and heredity. Stumbling over a mountain.
(33) A fiery law issues from His love!

JOSHUA

(3) Holiness today and wonders tomorrow!
(6) The "accursed thing" and the "devoted thing" are the same thing. Human and Divine values in contrast.

JUDGES

(5) Neutralism. Clearly identifying ourselves with God.
(16) Samson's battle with worldliness. Samson and the Charismatics. Credentials and credibility. The hypocrisy of synthetic holiness. Holiness without separation? Paralogism. External holiness. Trifling with externals. Visible purity. Twelve parallels between Samson and Charismatic movement.

I SAMUEL

(15) Mercenaries. Technology and the anointing. Electronic evangelism. The Divine concept of sin. Saul's mistake: praise apart from precept. Humanistic fundamentalism. The fear of God and the favor of man.
(16) Importance of appearance. "It's not what's on the outside that counts." Samuel fooled by Eliab's "outward appearance." "Inside," "outside" holiness, half-truths.

2 SAMUEL

(10) Solomon's fascination with grandeur. Different kinds of wisdom. Analyzing Solomon's mistakes. Three things forbidden, one thing required of Solomon. King's are not exempt. Success is not substitute for holiness. Resources reveal true faith.
(11) God has no favorites. Solomon overrelated to materialistic environment. No privilege characters in a moral kingdom.
(15) Friendly enemies. Controlled by influence. David commended for his obedience. Uriah spoiled the record. Asa: a good heart ... but.
(21) Ahab's life illustrates conflict between two natures. Evil influences.

2 KINGS

(9) God keeps records on the kings. The five standards of moral behavior the kings are judged by. The ostentatious Jezebel.
(16) Heathen influences on the church: Halloween.
(20) Hezekiah's moral diligence.

I CHRONICLES

(12) Loyalty.
(15) The command to self-sanctification. The initiative of the believer. Sanctification is by choice.
(16) Natural beauty and cleanliness.
(28) A death blow to eternal security (Calvinism), v.9.

2 CHRONICLES

(7) Turning from apathy. Fighting God?
(20) The beauty of holiness. Singing His holiness.
(25) The imperfect heart. Five ways obedience can be imperfect. Amaziah the organizer. The limits of natural ability. Faith in the world's resources.
(26) The ill effects of materialism on character. "But when he was strong ..." Morals determine destiny. Small and great rated by morals.

NEHEMIAH

(8) The Bible a moral book. The efficacy of the Word: righteousness!
(13) Nehemiah recalls the sin of Solomon.

JOB

(1) The test of the holy nature: reaction to adversity. "Submission to Divine arrangement. Good advice, but they had the wrong man. Five things Job's comforters teach us. The perfect man.
(8) God is bound to the perfect man.
(15) A high tolerance for sin.
(28) Beware the things that lead to sin.

PSALMS

(1) Right associations important to proper character development.
(4) An excellent description of sobriety.
(15) The virtues chapter.
(16) Moral "excellence."
(17) Unconscious holiness.
(18) The Mush God by Nicholas Van Hoffman. Cream of wheat divinity. God of the rotary and Optimists club. Hypocritical forms and formalities. Meeting spirit with spirit.
(19) Cosmic creation. The order of things. God's laws and God's love. Orderly, predictable for our pleasure. Respect for the order of things. Order; the hallmark of the creation. The precise meaning of agape. Apostates advocate blessing without obedience and promises apart from commandments. Bible reveals the cosmic (orderly) concept. Kingdom law; the moral order of Divine government. Law defined. Where does happiness come from? Only the lawless (the disorderly) oppose the orderliness of God's governmental law. Legalism defined. A summary of vs. 7-11. Freedom and the order of things. Right and wrong from the Divine perspective revealed only in scripture. Holy Spirit operates only within moral boundaries of Word knowledge. Constraints.
(32) Imputed and imparted sinlessness. The new creatures relationship to sin. Sin behind all unhappiness.
(33) The son of the righteous accepted.
(37) Tribute to the righteous. Mark the perfect man. Perfection; the lifestyle and obsession of the saint. The hypocrisy of "holiness people." The tongue. Lip and life.
(40) The highest theme: righteousness.
(50) David changes his tune after his encounter with sin. His tolerance of sin becomes intolerance toward sin. The religious wicked indited. Crucifiers of the Word. An exposition of Psalm 50 verse by verse. Contempt for Divine government. Contempt for the fear of God. Contempt for obedience. Contempt for holiness. Moving toward judgment. Being unconsciously demoralized. Deviation from biblical morality. The sufficiency of the Word. And nothing happened. Conduct related to salvation.
(51) Exomologesis. Seeing inside from the outside. Salvation and the joy of it. Morally qualified. Departure from hymnology. The message and the music of the church has changed.
(55) Prayer the path to perfection. Fifteen closet insights. The duty of prayer. Prayer the key to the holy nature. The two duties of man. The Word presence and the Spirit presence.
(58) Modern Christian's tolerance for evil.
(64) The fate of those who hold the righteous in contempt.
(73) The true Israel.
(80) Prayer and moral sensitivity. Holiness through prayer.
(82) Man is a god.
(84) Righteousness and peace.
(93) The modern church objective social and amoral.
(94) The willing heart.
(96) Worship is to be carried out in holiness.
(97) God, the source of righteousness and judgment. Perfect love characterized by perfect hatred for evil. The right of the righteous to rejoice.
(99) There is dignity in true holiness.
(101) The strange songs of the righteous. The evil of television.
(106) Constantly abiding in holiness. Holiness is delightful, not drudgery. When a blessing becomes a curse. My concept of God predetermines the conduct of man.
(107) Intelligent fools.
(112) Righteousness, not riches endure forever. Containing our riches. The marriage of precept and promise.
(119) Reveals the proper attitude of the redeemed toward the Word. Reveals proper Word relationship. The Word chapter begins with "happy." Loving obedience to the commandment is true happiness. The Word dispels evil from the life. Wisdom for the dynamic young. Whole heart holiness. Precautions against sinning. On being teachable. The Word: more sought than riches. A paradox: he delighted in the statutes. Wondrous things in the law. Longing at all times for the judgments of God. God opposes those who err from His commandments. Man slanders, the Word comforts. The Word better than the counsel of wise men. The Word replaces weakness. The provision of grace and the appropriation of grace. The initiative of the believer. "Running after the commandments." The Word teaches godliness. Superlatives; the whole heart. The secret so important to correct doctrine: a delight for the moral commandment. Avoiding covetousness. The desire to avoid vanity. Devoted to the fear of God! The answer is in the Word. The Word holds truth high. Loyalty to the law of God. There is liberty in obedience. Speaking the Word without shame. The holy attitude toward the Word; to delight in it! Lifting holy hands unto the commandments. Comforts in affliction. Crisis does not separate us from devotion to the Word. Comfort in reflection upon God's judgments. Persecutors forsake the Word. Singing the Word. God, You said it in your Word (v.58). Returning to God via the Word. Unquestionable, instantaneous obedience. No bad experience can separate us from the Word. The wicked revel, the righteous meditate in the Word. Surrounded by those who love the Word. To learn truth we must be teachable. Better to seek the Word than prosperity (v.70). A lust for the Word. Created for moral achievement. Word lovers are admired by the good. The Word lovers are attracted to each other. The heart is established in the Word. The Word is from heaven. The earth established by the Word of God! Power for life from the Word. Salvation in the precepts (v.94). In love with the Word. Keeping the Word we avoid evil. Understanding from the precepts. A vow to obey the Word. Heart involvement in the Word. The Word immunizes against temptation (v.113). Sinners don't hang around Word lovers. The fate of those who err from the Word. The fear of God a virtue. Voiding God's law - an exercise in futility. Thy testimonies are "wonderful." The Word expels the darkness of ignorance (v.130). "Panting" after the commandments. The Word to be the chief influence upon my life. Wickedness grieves the holy. God's nature revealed in the commandment (v.137). Salvation and the seeking of righteousness are synonymous. Peace promised to those who love the moral law (v.165). Salvation and obedience to the law linked. Moral law only kept by those who love it (v.167). Word knowledge based on the Word.
(128) The benefits of having the fear of God; revelation, contentment, peace, secret knowledge, pleasures, special attention, angelic presence, security, mercy, wisdom, delicacies, happiness, friends, approval, satisfaction, riches and long life.
(138) Pre-recreation and post recreation.
(141) Receiving correction. Good and evil factors in life. Death to self and rejection of the cross.
(144) Godship and Lordship relationship.
(149) Dancing. Dancing mentioned 27 times in the Bible. Not mentioned in the New Testament. Never done in the church or the temple. Dancing in the Spirit, dancing for joy and dancing in the flesh. Dancing around the golden calf.

PROVERBS

Proverbs addresses the mind of the redeemed.
(3) Professional evangelism and electronic ministries. Technology in modern evangelism. The morality of psychological promotionalism. Big evangelists and big business. Business psychologists sell Christ on cassette. Lost and don't know it.
(4) Wisdom.
(6) Sin a form of stupidity, demented conduct. The wicked use glamour as a device.
(8) Devilish riches and durable riches. The intelligence of righteousness. To reject wisdom is self- destruction. God's moral laws are moral absolutes containing moral wisdom, instruction. Man, not God suffers from disobedience.
(9) The seven basic functions of the mind. Transformation and the mind. Man, madness and misery. The Gadarene's mind experience. The prodigal's mind experience.
(11) The false balance. Justness and criteria. Inconsistency of Christians. (11-13) Instruction in righteousness.
(14) The cult of pluralism. Only one way! Ethics and the nations destiny. The admiration syndrome and modern model images. Admiration of achievers. Achievers without character, with poor character. Create model images with good character. TV influence through admiration. Five stages in Satanic plan to corrupt through admiration. Personality exploitation. Entertainment without character images devastating youth.
(15) The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination.
(16) Righteousness determines the destiny of dynasties.
(20) Alcohol. Facts about alcoholism. Facts about alcohol in the Bible. Is alcoholism a disease?
(21) The Spirit of Judas. The rich and the famous. Extravagance. James' warning. (22-29) Sundry and choice instruction regarding the wisdom of morality.
(30) Trifling with the Word damning!

ECCLESIASTES

(1) Vanity, word study. Vanity warned against in the Word. Extravagance. Cosmetics. Eight evils of vanity.
(7) The just and the unjust.
(8) Softness diametric to discipleship.

SONG OF SOLOMON

(2) The love cult. This is war! Rushdooney's "Theology of Love."

ISAIAH

(1) Without godly perception. Israel referred to as Sodom and Gomorrah! My relationship to God changes as my relationship to sin changes. Flattery without holiness is to no avail. The highest form of love. Cleaning up our act.
(2) When a righteous God encounters the sinning church. Judgment soon.
(3) God will vindicate the poor. God indites the daughters of Israel for their bodily attire. What is glamour to man is abomination to the Lord. The scandalous adornments of the women to be judged. A person's vices are known by their attire. Obsession with fashion and beauty characteristic evil elements of society. Finney on Fashions.
(4) Christians worldly as the worldly.
(5) Twisted values of the worldly. Defending the worldly lifestyle - rejecting holiness. Separation is half of sanctification. Three principles of holiness regarding pleasure.
(6) The cry of the holy. The trisagion. Character, conversion, conviction and conduct. Isaiah's crisis of total surrender.
(14) Sin and self-advantage. Sin and selfishness. Satan's advantage over the church; dumb carnal saint.
(26,28,29) Of righteousness, judgment and obedience within.
(30) The positive Gospel examined by Milton T. Wells.
(35) Holiness: "The way."
(47) God's sudden judgment upon perversion.
(48) Apostates. Truth. Moral Profits.
(54) The persecuted and the prosecuted.
(57) No holiness apart from God. On being right and contrite.
(60) God's will for man; that he be righteous!
(61) Righteousness must accompany praise. Emotional praise and righteous praise.
(62) God names the holiness people (v.12).
(65) Who are the "holier than thous?"
(66) A promise to those who "tremble at His Word."

JEREMIAH

(1) Holiness in time of moral decay. Holiness rejected, fundamentalism retained by apostates. The conscience of the prophet. Renewal, revival and reform.
(2) Rejecting the source of cleansing and purity.
(6) The old paths.
(7) Degeneration.
(8) The stupidity of the wise.
(9) Truth preserves us from corruption. The four carnal powers that demand admiration. Strength, beauty, skill and intelligence. Integrity. Favoritism.
(10) Reverence.
(12) The prosperity of the wicked. Corrupted church leadership. Natural righteousness. Righteousness distinguished from holiness.
(13) God asks, "will you be made clean?"
(14) False prophets carry a positive message.
(17) Left to itself the heart deceives.
(22) Prosperity deafens us to the Word.
(23) Righteousness that is holy. An encounter with a holy God. False prophets speak their own message. Many will believe false prophets. True ministers produce purity in the people (v.22).
(24) God desires intimacy with the pure of heart.
(25) Salvation is separation from evil.
(28) Six characteristics of the prophet.
(35) The way of holiness comprehensible.
(38) True compassion desires all men to be purged from evil.
(48) Super preachers, para-church ministries and accountability. The impotency of media ministries. The deceptions and motivations of media ministries. The Pauline formula to produce righteousness.

EZEKIEL

(2) The righteous rejected by the rebellious.
(3) Prophets do not attract crowds. Rebellion wipes out righteousness past.
(8) The intrigue, the unknown corruptions of the apostates.
(16) Israel commits sodomy.
(18) All iniquity judged the same. The sins of God's people. Good and evil defined. Poem: Geneology and sin. To be judged individually. The righteous compatible with God's moral law. Turn or burn. Lost rewards. God's judgments "not fair." Righteousness a matter of life and death (v.26-27). Only sin forsaken is forgiven.
(22) Is nakedness relative? An outline study on the relativity of nakedness by Robert Culp.
(28) Satan. The origin of sin. The Bible the history of sin. The attributes of Satan. His personality reflected in society's behavior.
(36) Cleansing. Idolatry.
(44) The Divine objective for man stated; holiness by teaching. God's call to moral living.

DANIEL

(10) The effect of God's Holy Presence.
(12) The efficacy of true religion: righteousness.

HOSEA

(4) The preserving knowledge of Kingdom law (v.6).
(6) The latter rain process. Pure Pentecost. Contemporary Pentecost. Charismaticism, anti-sanctification, non- moralistic. Moral digression finally judged. Iniquity is remembered.

AMOS

(5) God's love moralistic. No love apart from hate. Sinful love and holy hatred. Humanistic fundamentalism. Synthetic fundamentalism. Fundamentalism will not save us. Emotionalism will not save us. Music will not save us. Worship will not save us. Judgment and righteousness saves us. Crossover songs and rock sound. Youthful liberalism advocates sloppy philosophies. Personality dictates lifestyle of modern fundamentalism. Unbiblical practices practiced in body religion churches. Rock and traditional forms of music. The morality of the rock culture, its origin. Difference between sound and melody. Satellite ethics. Violations of the shepherd/flock relationship. Electronic evangelism. The result cult. Divided loyalties. Para-church takeover. Local pastors intimidated by celebrity preachers. Return to judgment and righteousness.

MICAH

(6) Goodness required: Justice, compassion, mercy, humility.

ZEPHANIAH

(3) A word of destiny.

ZECHARIAH

(4) Enemies of the Spirit; power and might. Faith and its resources. Spiritual faith and natural faith. Liberalism; the broad way. Humanism and secularism, anti-holiness. Anthroponistic ministries. Traitors and don't know it. Money not character objective of modern evangelism. Perverted faith. The efficacy of the cross.
(8) Evil is persistent. Truth conquers.
(13) The imperishable remnant.
(14) The day of universal holiness is coming!

MALACHI

(1) Corrupted sacrifices. Trifling with requirements not tolerated.
(2) The creed of the messenger. The law of truth.
(3) The standards of leadership. The ministry conveys righteousness. God judges the fearless. The worldly hate holiness. Sanctification demands separation. Worldliness of the body. Moral eminence of the visible self. The moral implications of the visible self. The consciousness and design of appearance based on moral concepts and values. Disobedient and getting away with it. God's silence and reversed values.

MATTHEW

(1) A moral redemption.
(3) The Holy Spirit nature. Dove power. Typology of the dove. The purity of the parakletos.
(5) The happiness of the righteous. Happiness in purity of heart. Happiness of the holy when hated. Poem: No Enemies? Spiritual light; the emission of moral splendor. The importance of appearance. I am another's environment. Jesus makes first mention of moral law. Ceremonial and moral law. Justification in neither ceremonial or moral law. Discourse on law by Vine. Governed by grace, governed by sin. Charismatic legalism. Talmudic legalism. Jesus gives us His commandments. Fantasizing forbidden. Provocative behavior. Accentuation of feminine charm. Glamour: lust or love? The ecstasy of beauty, Schopenhauer. Beauty and the process of sexual selection, Giacometti. Cosmetology. Extreme measures of self- discipline. The willing heart. The highest form of obedience. The key to obedience. Coping with compulsions. Two forms of obedience. Compulsory and voluntary conduct, Harry Emerson Fosdick. the test of love; persecution. Agape; supernatural character.
(6) Deliverence; moral or material? First love is singular love. A word to the rich. All that glitters is not God. Prosperity doctrine and pure doctrine.
(7) Golden rule insights. Two gates to where? The seed and fruit of the tree. Conditionless theology. Emotionalism and obedience. Lord! Lord! First it was modernism, now it's liberal fundamentalism. Obedience without compassion and worship without obedience. Credible credentials. Faith apart from holiness. Character over success. Workers of iniquity. I never knew you. Anomians in the judgment.
(8) The desire to be clean.
(12) Change the heart not the commandment. The commandment vital to kingdom government.
(13) Rooted within - self-initiative.
(15) The Talmud. The commandments of men. Carnality attacks the moral commandments of men. God and weeds. Five things to know about green evil.
(19) "From the beginning it was not so." Self-love and low esteem, Robert Holmes.
(23) Compassion and correction. Missionary from hell. Missions with a message.
(26) Flesh and spirit. The appetites defined.
(27) Calvary; picture of God's love and hate. "Welcome back to the chambers of holiness" - the veil is rent.

MARK

(7) Liberal traditionalism. Visible purity.
(8) Conflicting cross.
(9) The salted sacrifice. (10) The disadvantage of riches.
(12) Initiative to love.
(14) Discourse on Christian conscience. Moral consciousness. Conscience and prayer.

LUKE

(1) Apostasy no threat to the consecrated. What the prayer of Zecharias reveals.
(6) The Master and perfection. Out of the heart.
(11) The evil eye.
(12) Rich, but not righteous. Crowds or character?
(14) Salt a type of Christian purity. New standards of evangelism. "New evangelicalism." The Result Cult. Salt: A type of Christian character. Other salt symbols.
(15) Sin a form of mental illness. Obedience without compassion. The absoluteness of the Word. Back to the beginning.
(16) Holiness in hell.
(17) The silent majority. The immoral judged with the amoral. The appearance of things. Plurality, prosperity and positivism.
(18) Spiritual osmosis. Holiness and heathen customs.
(19) A holy Christ.

JOHN

(1) Christ as LOGOS. Guiltless and guileless.
(2) What is "in man." Seven basic hungers of man.
(4) Jesus the prophet.
(5) Morality and causation.
(7) Making God a devil.
(8) Information or knowledge? An ear for God. Tough talk.
(11) The second command.
(13) The joy of obedience. Happiness and the order of things. Seven steps to happiness. Obedience the highest form of love.
(14) The Spirit of truth. The affinity between God's love and God's commandment. The testimony of Jesus. Clean through the Word. Out of step with the world.
(16) Scriptural conversion process. The priestly prayer. Not of the world. Truth a sanctifier.
(17) Christ speaks of perfection.
(18) "What is truth." Definition of truth. Types of truth.

ACTS

The apostles doctrine; resource of the early church.
(11) Tozer's decription of a Christian.
(15) Pentecost is purity of heart. Power and purity. Called out and separated. The authority of the church to establish moral standards in changing times.
(19) Following the crowd.
(20) Repentance not to be confused with forgiveness. Special future for the sanctified.
(24) Striving for perfection.
(26) The "experience" of holiness. True faith produces a sanctified life.

ROMANS

(1) Spirit of holiness. The call to sanctity. Truth and logic. Truth that satisfies and truth that sanctifies. Latter day behavior. Eutychus neither in nor out. Gray Christianity.
(2) The miracle of conscience by Smyth. The Holy Spirit and conscience. Conscience in conversion.
(3) Sin and society. Anthropologists admits to sin in man. At the cross and after the cross. Justification followed by sanctification equals salvation. Phony faith. Human qualities which are confused with spiritual virtues - short of the glory. Righteousness; His and ours. The two kinds of sanctification. The two kinds of holiness.
(4) Understanding our state and standing. The Holy Spirit, a) With, b) In, and c) Upon.
(6) "Dead." Mortification not a theory. Body appetites intimidate conscience. Body religion. Initiative of the disciple essential to efficacy of the cross. Distinguishing righteousness from holiness. Separation. Body-life despises the moral law. Free from sin.
(7) Newness of spirit. The law is spiritual. The lawless and the legalists. Defamers. Lovers of God who hate His law? "Breaking" the commandments impossible. Law, government and social order. Law required Calvary. Paul declares moral law as good! The fall and man's spiritual immune system. Key words that refer to moral conduct; a) Sanctification, b) Holiness, c) Perfection, d) Virtue, e) Goodness, f) Moral, g) Ethics (Heathen versus Christian ethics), h) Deontology, i) Philosophy, and j) Casuistry.
(8) The Spirit frees us from the law of sin and death. Holy Spirit operates within moral boundaries. Traitors to truth. A right concept of moral law. The Word reveals Spirit ministry. That terrible carnal mind. Neo-body- oriented fundamentalism. The enemy we protect. Personality religion. How to identify pure Christianity; "If Christ be in you the body is dead!" Mortification. The redemption of the body. Christ, our model image. Man's obsession with personality. We know not Christ after the flesh. The character and personality of Jesus. Personality religion captivating fundamentalism. Model roles. Modeling. Imitating a phenomenon of human behavior. Imitating the admired. The model role scenario. The model role syndrome. Selecting models with character. The profound effect of modeling on the modern church. Bad personalities and good characters in the Bible.
(10) The center of being. To delight in purity and holiness. Righteousness; the hallmark of salvation. Good things come from good sources. Isolating verses the source of all error. A part never interprets the whole! The goodness and severity of God. Surrendering the body.
(12) Sacrifice and non-conformity. Body religion frustrates the grace of God. What is "true love?" Where there is precept there can be no preference. Knats and camels. Human holiness an abomination. Requiring more of men than God requires. Preference and precept. The imperative nature of the Word. The thrill of living the imperative life.
(13) Moral law expresses moral love. Profound advice (v.13).
(14) The weaker brother. Holiness Christians and chapter 14 teaching.
(16) Experience in sin not an aid living godly.

I CORINTHIANS

Corinth: magnificently worldly. Blameless. The ingredients of full salvation.
(2) Self-promotion abhorred by Paul. Paul among the perfect. Spirit of the world diametric to the Spirit of God. Natural man seeks not sanctification. Natural man can understand, preach Bible. A criteria for determining right (v.15).
(3) Defiling the temple of God.
(5) Debunking the "little things" argument. A little bacteria. The old leaven is purged. Church discipline. Prevention and correction. Treatment or termination. The difference between contact and fraternization.
(6) Sanctification distinguished from justification. Legal obligation and moral obligation. Neo- pentecostals defend vices and attack holiness. The "singles" phenomenon and Christian morality.
(7) The fashion of the world. Law and principle. Conformity. Erotica. Vanity, extravagance and fashion - three enemies of the holy life.
(9) Self-control.
(11) The ordinances of the church; hair and submission, communion and remembrance.
(13) Agape. The love cult errors. What agape is - and is not. Calvary reveals God's love and God's hatred.
(15) The evolution of compromise - seven steps downward. Tolerance of sin rebuked.

2 CORINTHIANS

Qualities of the Christian life in one verse (v.12). Satan, semantics and separation. Gifted and corrupted.
(3) Explanation of "the letter killeth."
(5) Morality and the new birth. Repentance, forgiveness and shallow conversions. Hating sin essential to new life. The seven elements of conversion to Christ; a) Repentance (conviction), b) Sanctification (hagiazo), c) Justification, d) Regeneration, e) Reconciliation, f) Transformation, g) Sanctification (hagiasmos). Separation: essential to holiness. The separation chapter of the New Testament. The five logics of separation (word study).
(7) Perfecting holiness. Godly sorrow.
(8) Grateful love the incentive to entire consecration, J.H. Smith. Falling towers and spiritual powers.
(10) The initiative of the Christian. Liberal philosophy, Sword of the Lord.
(11) False teachers. Transformed ministers of Satan. When power is in weakness. Infirmities not iniquities by J.H. Smith. Holiness the chief desire of every true minister. Perfection the closing thought.

GALATIANS

(1) Personality cults. The commandments of God and the consensus of men. Success or victory.
(2) Crucified with Christ.
(3) The bewitched and the bewitchers. Flesh works violate the Holy Spirit.
(5) Dualism. Confusing what feels good with goodness. Godly morality can be scripturally verified. Pluralism. The new evangelicalism. The effect of pluralism. Positive and negative moral action essential to holiness process. Discourse and word study; fruit of the Spirit. The appreciation of order. Walk in the Spirit.
(6) Forgiving the fallen. Three crucifixions; a) Christ crucified for sinners, b) I am crucified unto the world, and c) The world is crucified unto me.

EPHESIANS

(2) From creation chosen to holiness. The new man is "God- man."
(5) Walking in the light, goodness, righteousness. Ostracizing evil. God's love the premise of marriage. The glory of the church: holiness.
(6) What we are against.

PHILIPPIANS

(1) Progressive sanctification after the cross. Excellence.
(2) Remaining pure in a vile environment. The righteousness of law and grace distinguished.
(3) Milk and water nonsense by Paul Scherer. "I press, " initiative. "Enemies of the cross" among us.
(4) Legal and perfecting qualities. Paul, the model Christian. Paul's answer to the positive confession heresy (v.12).

COLOSSIANS

(1) Increase in knowledge equals moral improvement by J.H. Smith. Scripture qualifies the true message of a true minister.
(2) Philosophy of men the enemy of redemption. Source of happiness in obedience not circumstances. Hedonism and the modern Charismatic philosophy.
(3) Righteous equations. Prosperity teaching and covetousness similar.
(4) Completeness.

I THESSALONIANS

(2) The testimony of a holy man of God.
(3) To be made holy and to be holy God's intention through Christ. Poor exegesis misleads modern Christians. Holy by choice. Shallow modern theology and the biblical doctrine of personal holiness.
(4) The call to holiness. Despising God's call to holiness. Preference and conviction.
(5) Sanctification includes brain, heart and body. The trichotomy of man in sanctification.

2 THESSALONIANS

(2) Truth and the love of it. Salvation through sanctification. God's moral commandments aid in conversion. Apostolic traditions. Human traditions and holy tradition. Moral law and human reason. The woman's role subservient to man, not inferior. Imposing carnal customs on the church. (3) New birth, new mentality. The serious departures of liberalism. Humanistic fundamentalism. The new flesh oriented fundamentalism. The genuine and the original. Choosing between roots and the present generation. Characteristics of the apostates.

I TIMOTHY

(1) Godly edifying the chief objective of all ministries. Love issues from the moral commandment (v.5). Moral qualities to be achieved, defined. Thirteen kinds of people the law is for and one kind it is not for. Living inside of "sound doctrine."
(2) Instruction to women on adornment. The pearl principle. Love and the "least commandments." Living by biblical counsel highest kind of life. Modesty a deterrent to sin. Mothers, children, holiness and salvation. Sobriety. Lighthearted, neo-fundamentalism lacks seriousness. Character qualities of spiritual leadership. Leadership standards sets moral tone of the church.
(4) Conscience the superconsciousness. Facts about conscience. Godliness the Divine objective for all. Godliness profits. The danger of overconfessing. Doctrine saves.
(5) Uncontaminated by the environment.
(6) Godliness with contentment. Industrializing the Gospel. What true disciples pursue in life. You are known by what you seek.

2 TIMOTHY

(1) A pure conscience. A holy calling.
(2) The crown is to the lawful. Morals and spirituality. Changing times, not God's morals. Neo-anomianism. Easy-believism. Church corrupts when blessing is emphasized over moral transformation. A sanctified vessel. Holiness people should stick together (v.22). The new generic liberalism.
(3) God sees us different than we do. Traits of the apostate church. Distinguishing information from truth. Apostates fight holiness, resist truth. Oversimplified theology; "... and the Holy Ghost does the rest."
(4) The time has come. The moral philosophy of the satellite celebrities, media ministries and the para-church phenomenon. Why Christians follow wrong leaders. Historical faith versus contemporary faith. The contemporary Christian. The epigoni. The historical holiness position. Truth into fables. The world a dazzling enemy. Demus and the aion. Living in three worlds.

TITUS

(2) The demeanor of the godly woman. Grace is a teacher. Pure and peculiar.

PHILEMON

(v.21) Philemon a type of the willing servant.

HEBREWS

(1) Christ's battle as our battle, against sin. The Divine affection expressed; "He loved righteousness," He "hated iniquity." God and righteousness inseparable. People over principle destroys people. Love of truth over "love for people."
(2) He loved us before we were holy.
(5) The mature have keen moral sense. Babes look for blessings.
(6) Renewal impossible?
(10) His sacrifice sanctifies (hagiazo). Moral law and ceremonial law. The new nature is commandment oriented (v.16). The body under Word control. Saints better be serious about sin. The efficacy of Calvary: to produce righteousness in us!
(11) The glorious shout of victory; NO! What gives you pleasure reveals your character. Is respectability necessary to promote the kingdom?
(12) Sins and weights. Chastened for the perfection of holiness. Discourse on peace and holiness. The way of holiness. What holiness is not by John Thomas. Nipping sin in the bud.
(13) Contentment. Check the grace list. He suffered to sanctify. Perfection is personal and practical.

JAMES

(1) Scripture answers those who argue against perfection. God is not the source of evil, but sovereign over all evil. By His grace we have control. The heart can be overruled by the tongue. Pure religion defined. Spots. Little things can be destiny factors.
(2) The rich. The Gospel is classless. Conditionless grace the historical scourge of the church. The Royal Law, a greek word study by Robert Culp. James 2:24 encounters Calvinism. Dead faith and living faith.
(3) The sinful tongue - only Christ can tame it. The evidence of wisdom and knowledge; goodness. Wisdom from above is first pure.
(4) Worldliness destroys relations with God. The double minded. The new grinning Gospel.
(5) The prayers of a righteous man.

I PETER

(1) Justification distinguished from sanctification. Self- austerity, discipleship and self-improvement. Moral ignorance given to conformity. God's Word is God's will - "Be ye perfect." God the Father; the Divine model image. The command to holiness by B.P. Carroll. Purification through obedience.
(2) Growth in Christ is through the Word. Royal, holy and peculiar. The purpose of His sufferings; our righteousness.
(3) Chaste conduct. The holiness standard of the early church. Outward adorning disdained. Disciples of goodness. The holiness of God deep within the heart.
(4) Holy life hard on the flesh!

2 PETER

(1) Christ provides all for godliness, nothing for flesh nature. The dichotomy of sanctification explained.
(2) False profits. Nine characteristics of the false profits (mercenaries). The hideousness of sin! Just Lot - he hated sin. Liberalism, libertines and liberty. Turncoats had better repent.
(3) Memory and the holy ambition. After the big boom, holiness will be in style. Without spot when the big day comes!

1 JOHN

(1) Supreme things; light and truth. Better to confess than profess. Imperfect perfection. Only one holy attitude toward sin.
(2) Three things holiness is. Obedience the proof of being "in Him." Obedience the proof of love. The moral commandments and the love commandment distinguished by John. Love always means heart. Terms that define groups within the present day fundamental church. Seducers. Righteousness the chief characteristic of the born again.
(3) No love for purity reflects incomplete regeneration. Practicing sin, content with sin. Righteousness and love required of sainthood. The thing divinely hated. Sin is rebellion against God. Righteousness and holiness; horizontal and vertical goodness. Discourse on v.22. Two kinds of love and two kinds of commandments.
(4) The danger of isolating verses to accommodate theories. Satan is a fundamentalist! Selfless love is sinless love.
(5) Commandments not grievous to those with new hearts. The love of God and the moral law are the same thing in different form (v.3). Overcoming or overcome? John's epistomology statement (v.13). The holy can "take care of themselves." A final commandment to avoid idols.

2 JOHN

(v.9) The Christ life keeps us from sin!

3 JOHN

(v.9) Diotrephes the church demagogue. Demagogues, a) Rule by favor, b) Hate the true and righteous, and c) Love themselves immensely.

JUDE

Interpreting the causes of declension by James A. Stewart. (v.1-3) The roots of the Gospel. The genuine emerges from the original. (v.11) The destiny of apostates. (v.4-19) Thirty characteristics that expose and identify the false teachers. Three kinds of separation. (v.20) The most holy faith. The sources of holiness: His presence. Three intimacies; a) The brethren , b) The Word, and c) The holy tryst. (v.24) The capability of man and the ability of God.

REVELATION

(1) Atonement: God's solution to sin. Equivalence. Where life and death lie. Why blood?
(2) Three causes of the spiritual declension of the historical church. Corrupting influence peculiar to the Evangelical church.
(3) Garments white and undefiled. Environment has no advantage over grace. Asserted righteousness. "Thou sayest" opposes "Thus saith the Lord." The Laodicean philosophy. The subtle teachings of fleshology. A Satanic triumph by Halford Luccock. Cheap grace from Sword of the Lord. Poverty is better than riches by Jeromy Taylor. Holiness voices of the past sound strange to modern apostates. The moral issues of life are God's essentials by S.D. Gordon. Apostates oblivious to moral values.
(7) All holiness attributed to him.
(13) The persistence of evil.
(18) God cries out for separation.
(19) The church, white and beautiful.
(22) The awesome glory of the Living God. Overwhelmed in His presence. The reverence of holiness. God's final word, "blessed are they that do His commandments ... they ... have right to the tree of life." Dogs without. Poem: Bride Turned Harlot. HOLINESS TO THE LORD!

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Bill Burkett

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