I hope you did not misunderstand me, for i was speaking of growth, of becoming practically holy what we are positionally. That while the believer is holy in Christ, he is yet to become more set apart, distant and distinct from sin or sinners:
Positional: Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification [hagiasmos] of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. (1Pe 1:2)
Practical: I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness [hagiasmos]. (Rom 6:19)
Follow peace with all men, and holiness [hagiasmos], without which no man shall see the Lord: (Heb 12:14)
For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness [hagiasmos]. (1Th 4:7)
There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy [hagios] both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband. (1Co 7:34)
Have a God night.
I guess I did misunderstand. Yes I would agree. We are holy and we are to act holy. But how do we act holy? God is leading us to be righteous. I want to be a righteous man. But what exactly is a righteous man?
This shouldn’t be construed that I’ve fallen off the grace only wagon into the salvation by works. Rather, I think it revolves around a deeper relationship with God.
Certainly intriguing questions.