So also Jesus suffered and died outside the city gates in order to make his people holy by shedding his own blood. Heb. 13:12 NLT

Are you a sinner or a saint? Are you a sinner that struggles to love God or a  lover of God who struggles with sin?

Religion teaches the first. The Gospel teaches the second.

The word holy comes from the Greek hagiazō which means to make holy, consecrate, sanctify. This is why Jesus died… to make you holy, acceptable, blameless and righteous.

If you are born again, this is your reality today. A truth not based on your performance but on Christ’s. It’s not that you will be holy one day in the future, when you finally grow up and stop disappointing God… you are holy now, even in your weakness, because of what He did on the cross.

Don’t you get it? We will never measure up to God’s perfect standard. That’s why there is JESUS.

Your spirit inside is as holy as it will ever be. You are a new creation. You are holy, chosen and greatly beloved (Col. 3:12).

The essence of living a victorious life over sin depends on understanding the nature of the new man. What or Who is the New Man? The new man is who you really are—God’s master piece, His new creation.

Closing Thought: The key to the Christian life is in the renewing of your mind (Rom. 12:1-2). You have to look into the mirror of the word of God, discover your identity, believe it, and start defining yourself by what God says you are in Christ.

Pablo