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Believers are called to holy living. This is\u00a0the clear teaching of the Bible<\/a>.<\/p>\n Throughout this blog series, we have considered the question:<\/p>\n \u201cHow then does the believer cultivate holiness?\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n The first way is to\u00a0know and love Scripture<\/a>. Live present-tense, total commitment to God. Form habits of holiness. Pursue harmony and symmetry in holy living. Root out all inconsistencies, by the grace of the spirit, and enjoy godly activities.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t fall prey to the \u201cone-more-time\u201d syndrome. Postponed obedience is disobedience. Tomorrow\u2019s holiness is impurity now. Tomorrow\u2019s faith is unbelief now. Aim not to sin at all (1 John 2:1); ask for divine strength to bring every thought into captivity to Christ (2 Cor. 10:5), for Scripture indicates that our \u201cthought-lives\u201d ultimately reflect our character: \u201cFor as he thinks in his heart, so is he\u201d (Prov. 23:7a). An old proverb says it this way: Sow a thought, reap an act; sow an act, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Believers are called to holy living. This is\u00a0the clear teaching of the Bible. Throughout this blog series, we have considered the question: \u201cHow then does the believer cultivate holiness?\u201d The first way is to\u00a0know and love Scripture. Second, we should\u00a0consider ourselves dead to sin and alive to Christ. Third, we should\u00a0repent daily. Fourth, we also\u00a0cultivate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-misc","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5883"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5889,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5883\/revisions\/5889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSecond, we should\u00a0consider ourselves dead to sin and alive to Christ<\/a>.
\nThird, we should\u00a0repent daily<\/a>.
\nFourth, we also\u00a0cultivate holiness through prayer and work<\/a>.
\nFifth, we flee all worldliness.
\n<\/a>Sixth, we seek fellowship in the church<\/a>.<\/p>\nFinally, commit completely to God.<\/h3>\n