How Does One Become Holy?

Numbers Kay Arthur

Lesson 3

How Does One Become Holy?

Map – will be needed

Hebrews 12:14 – Pursue peace

3 Pictures:

How we become holy - What does God do to make a person holy?

What you do to be holy.

What you be.

Under first drawing, write Ephesians 1:13:14.

Hebrews 10 – sanctified by faith in Christ

I Cor. 6:19-20 – your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit.

Under second drawing, write Ephesians 5:18.

“To fill us” Means that He is going to control us.

Gal. 5:16-22

I Peter 1:14-16

Titus 1:16

I Cor. 10:1-11

“To play” means to be involved in licentiousness, in debauchery.

We will see this in Exodus 32, Numbers 25 and Numbers 21.

Numbers 15:2-3

Numbers 15:17-18

Numbers 14 – “The Way by the Sea”

Numbers 15:22

Fail – shagah - It is pronounced “shaw-gaw”. It is a sin of ignorance.

When you unwittingly fail, when you commit a sin of ignorance, it is one of inadvertence.

1. Holy people do not sin defiantly.

Numbers 15:30-31

Psalm 103 “He knows our frame. He knows that we are but dust.”

When we sin defiantly, God has to judge that.

Numbers 15:32-36

The Sabbath was a picture of our heavenly rest that is yet to come.

Hebrews 10:26-27

Real holiness. genuine holiness does not habitually sin willfully after having the knowledge of the truth, after hearing God say, “This is the way; walk ye in it.”

Numbers 16

Numbers 15:37-40

2. Holiness is not automatic.

Talis or talit.

Ezk. 36

Numbers 16:1-3-5

3. Everyone who describes himself as holy, or others as holy, is not necessarily holy.

4. God knows who is holy. God knows those who are His.

II Timothy 2:19-21

Two fold seal on holiness.

1.Holiness means set apart

2.Everyone who names the name of the Lord abstain from wickedness.

The Heavenly seal is that God knows.

The earthly seal is that you see it by my deeds.

Numbers 16:8-10

5. Holiness is not presumptuous.

Hebrews 5:4

6. Holiness brings a separation. Holiness does not spurn God.

Numbers 16:12b-13

Numbers 16:22-26, 30

II Cor. 6:14

Numbers 16:17

I Cor. 7:1

Num.16:28-30

7. Holiness must judge sin, and holiness does not question the just judgment of God.

Numbers 16:40-41

Rev. 15:3-4