Friday, June 23, 2023

Daily Devotional by John Piper- June 23, 2023

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How You Must Fight for Holiness

Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. (Hebrews 12:14)

There is a practical holiness without which we will not see the Lord. Many live as if this were not so.

There are professing Christians who live such unholy lives that they will hear Jesus' dreadful words, "I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness" (Matthew 7:23). Paul says to professing believers, "If you live according to the flesh you will die" (Romans 8:13).

So there is a holiness without which no one will see the Lord. And learning to fight for holiness by faith in future grace is supremely important.

There is another way to pursue holiness that backfires and leads to death. The apostles warn us against serving God any other way than by faith in his enabling grace.

For example, Peter says, "Whoever serves, [let him do so] as one who serves by the strength that God supplies — in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ" (1 Peter 4:11). And Paul says, "I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me" (Romans 15:18; see also 1 Corinthians 15:10).

Moment by moment, grace arrives to enable us to do "every good work" that God appoints for us. "And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work" (2 Corinthians 9:8).

The fight for good works is a fight to believe in this future grace.

 
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