HOLINESS IS NOT OPTIONAL

 The reason many are  still troubled, still seeking, still making very
 little forward progress is because they have not, as yet, come to the end  of themselves. We're still trying to give orders, and inter-fering with God's work within us.      This thought came from A.W. Tozer; Personal Life: Personal Holiness (A. W. Tozer)

But as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, "Be ye holy, for I am holy." 
--1 Peter 1:15-16

You cannot study the Bible diligently and earnestly without being 
struck by an obvious fact--the matter of personal holiness is quite 
important to God!

   Neither do you have to give long study to the attitudes of modern 
  Christian believers to  discern that by  and large we consider the 
     expression of true Christian holiness to  be an option:  "I have   looked it over and considered it, but I don't buy it! Holiness is not optional."

  I am of the opinion that we who claim to be apostolic Christians do not have the privilege of ignoring such injunctions.  I do not mean a pastor can forbid or a church may compel.   If  we are people of the Bible (Scripture) we dare not ignore the instruction, "Be ye holy."...
  But, brethren, we are still under the holy authority of the Apos-
tolic command.  Men of God have  reminded us in the Word that
God asks and expects us to be holy men and women of God, 
because we are the children of God, who is holy. The doctrine of holiness may have been badly and often  wounded--but the pro-
vision of God by His pure and gentle, loving  Spirit is still the 
positive answer for those who hunger and thirst after righteous-
ness and for a life well-pleasing to God. 

 HOLY:  “SET APART TO THE SERVICE OF GOD.  SACRED”
            “CHARACTERIZED BY PERFECTION AND     
                                TRANSCENDENCE”
                         “SPIRITUALLY PURE, GODLY”
        “EVOKING OR MERITING VENERATION OR AWE”
                      “FILLED WITH POWER OF DEITY”
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   (This post taken from a website featuring the Bible Knowledge and  publications of the late A.W. Tozer with  permission, in 2012 
but is no longer available there.."  You can find Tozer's "Morning and Evening Devotions" at;  https://www.studylight.org/devotionals/toz/ 

             "Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without 
             which no man shall see the Lord."  Hebrews 12:14... 

             God bless as you and I seek Jesus Christ in life
             experiences and from his Word every day.
                                    donporter,sr 2.16.15, edited 2.23.17...