Salt Guide to Practical Holiness

Salt Guide to Practical Holiness

Joshua

YOURSELVES: FOR TO MORROW THE LORD WILL DO WONDERS

AMONG YOU." Joshua 3:5

3:5 AND JOSHUA SAID UNTO THE PEOPLE,

SANCTIFY YOURSELVES: FOR TO MORROW

THE LORD WILL DO WONDERS AMONG YOU.

"The reason  some do not see the greatest  of          Initiative

God's  wonders is because they have  not  yet 

sanctified themselves."  *1


Holiness today and wonders tomorrow.                   Holiness



Exodus 19:10,14,15;  Leviticus 20:7;  Numbers 

11:18; Joshua 7:13; I Samuel 16:5; Joel 2:16.  

All of these scriptures put the initiative of 

sanctification  or the act of  sanctification 

directly upon the person.                                  

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*1 THOMPSON, PEPPER, Daily Holiness Textbook



    6:18 AND YE,  IN ANY WISE KEEP YOUR-

    SELVES FROM THE ACCURSED THING, LEST 

    YE MAKE YOURSELVES ACCURSED, WHEN YE         Accursed Thing
                                                 
    TAKE OF THE ACCURSED THING, AND MAKE 

    THE  CAMP  OF ISRAEL  A  CURSE,  AND          Cursed Thing
                                                 
    TROUBLE IT.   (See also 7:1; Deuter-

    onomy 13:17)





It is strange and interesting that the trans-

lators  of  the King James  translated,  "the 

devoted  thing"  (Hebrew,   CHEREM)  as   the 

"accursed thing."                                                



That  which  is accursed of God is  the  very 

thing man devotes himself to.   Achan desired 

the thing God forbid.  See Joshua 7:1,4,5,11, 

12,13,15; Deuteronomy 13:17





    7:12  NEITHER WILL I BE WITH YOU ANY 

SALT GUIDE TO PRACTICAL HOLINESS JOSHUA ____________________________________________________________ MORE, EXCEPT YE DESTROY THE ACCURSED Precept/Promise FROM AMONG YOU. 13. UP, SANCTIFY THE PEOPLE, AND SAY, SANCTIFY YOUR- Cleansing SELVES AGAINST TO MORROW: FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, THERE IS AN ACCURSED THING IN THE MIDST OF Evil Influence THEE, O ISRAEL: THOU CANST NOT STAND BEFORE THINE ENEMIES, UNTIL YE Purging TAKE AWAY THE ACCURSED THING FROM AMONG YOU. "The glory of the victorious church was that men proclaimed the Gospel with holy unction and certified it by holy lives." *1 Nothing but sanctification will cast every accursed thing out of the Church. Ministers will find it to their interest not to Initiative deviate, but to accept God's way of dealing with such accursed things. We cannot purify ourselves, but we can make an entire consecration of ourselves to God. ========================== *1 STEWART, Come O Breath When we do our part, God does his. *1 Morals affect our relationship with God and our power against the enemy. ========================== *1 THOMPSON, PEPPER, Daily Holiness Textbook