I love The Bible Project and their efforts to explain biblical themes in the manner they do.
This video about holiness had me intrigued the first time I watched it. What any good teaching does for me is it leads me back to God in His Word. This video said something profound about Jesus and what it is to be holy.
I like the reference to holiness and purity and how they have a lot in common and how Jesus displayed holiness that was able to heal and transforms people. Following Him and believing in Him would allow us to likewise flow in this purity that is greater than the impurity we were in.
It’s that picture, though, of the purity of Jesus reaching out to people, inviting them into wholeness from the inside out, from heaven to the heart. That picture of Jesus proclaiming and practising purity that was about what it is to really live. Not primarily based on what cannot or should not, but on what can and was always meant to be. Holiness as love-giving, life-healing, hope-giving, truth-revealing, uplifting existence that reflects the Creator in whose image we are made.
So purifying myself as He is pure is not primarily about what I am not allowed to do, say, eat, wear, etc. It’s about living the life – the intentional abundant life that Jesus lived – practising that in community with other like minded people to display to the world the wonder and beauty, glory and righteousness, joy and peace to be found in the loving Father through the loving Son by the power of the HOLY Spirit.
It’s a picture we see all the time in the episodes of the ministry of Jesus and it’s the picture we see in the efforts of the early church and the epistles that encourages the Body of Christ to be about the business of following Jesus, being pure as He is pure.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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