HOLINESS is a product of righteousness. When we receive righteousness as gift, we get born again. We received the empowerment to become children of God.

In another word, we receive the empowerment to live Holy because nobody who has not received the righteousness of God through salvation will have the capacity to live Holy. And so Holiness is a product of our utilizing the righteousness which we have received as gift. 

The ability to become sons of God; for the bible says “as many as received Jesus, where given the power and authority to become sons of God”, meaning it was salvation that empowers us to live according to God’s standard; and Holiness is living according to God’s standard. 

It is only the man who has received righteousness as gift that receives the empowerment to live a Holy life. And so, righteousness produces holy life whereas righteousness is received as a gift from God by reason of faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ. 

Now people of God, because this is so; because our relationship with God is not based on work or what we did, it is based on what Jesus did and our faith in what Jesus did, many people have come to regard that as almost as a license to live the way they want; To live without regards to the principles of biblical morality. Even in the church, so many people think because we are in the dispensation of grace, where the blood of Jesus is available to speak forgiveness and cleansing for us, and then it has become a basis for going in out of sin without regards for God’s standard because we are forgiven and we will always be forgiven. That is a wrong idea of about how we ought to relate with God.

From Pastor Mike Onyeka.

Victorious People Assembly Int'l Inc.