QUESTION:
How Is Holiness Recognized By Others?
ANSWER:
“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.” [1 John 15-16]
“Watch, outside the gates of the walls, spread across the New Earth, nations will dwell in Eternal peace. Now what? Honored kings will bring their glory into it. No sin can be there. No more bobbed-haired women will enter that City. I'll guarantee you that. No more short-wearing, cigarette-smoking. Whoremongers, whores, or liars, idolaters, whatever they was, won't enter that City. No, it'll all be over. Sin will be gone. "Nothing to defile its HOLINESS shall enter there." That's what He said. "All has passed away, forever." [64-0802 The Future Home, Jeffersonville IN]
“The Bible said not let one dirty conversation come among you when you profess HOLINESS. Treat that little lady like she's your little sweetheart. If she's sixty years old, you be just the same. You be that gallant boyfriend; remember, you are. You don't try none of these new things; and I know what I'm talking. And you just be a husband, a genuine brother, a genuine Christian. I know that sounds... But the... You're my kids. I got a right to say what I want to, to you, you see. You're my kids; you live right. And you women, live the right way to your husband. And you husbands, live the right to you--to--to--to your wives. Be real, real nice, and respect one another just with... And your--your family relations and so forth like that, let it be just as reverently, and godly, and agreed with among you and everything as it can be. Don't never push, and shove, and--and be dirty and vulgar.” [64-0830m Questions And Answers, Jeffersonville IN]
“Let me prophesy something to you, just before it comes to pass. The whole world is grouping in insanity, and will get worse and worse and worse, until they'll be a bunch of maniacs. And it's almost that way now. Could you imagine a man driving with his lights off, on the wrong side of the road; a ricky, young kid, supposed to be right out of high school, kill a bunch of people. Does that stop them? The next one come right behind him, doing the same thing. Can you imagine a young man that thinks any self... anything of himself, getting out here and acting the way they do? Could you imagine a young woman, and a bloom of womanhood, beautiful, well-built, shaped, profile, face, beautiful; and the very thing of her being pretty shows that we're at the end time. See? She has went all together to worldly feature, worldly things and not the beauty of HOLINESS, sweetness in her soul. I've seen women, on the outside of them wasn't nothing to look at, but you speak to them one time, talk to them a few minutes, they're a real genuine something that you can't get away from. See, beauty of the outside is of the devil, it's of the world.” [65-0815 And Knoweth It Not, Jeffersonville IN]
“And a genuine son or daughter of God takes God's Word first. I don't care what anybody else says about it, they take God's Word first. "There's poison in the cup," and they believe it. Having faith in all His Word, His Seeds, brought a Eden of HOLINESS, love, and Eternal Life. That's what God's Eden produced, HOLINESS. And it brought an Eden of HOLINESS, of love, understanding, perfection, and Eternal Life. That's what God is planting, His Word, His Seed. That's what His Church will be at the end; It will be the same thing.” [65-0829 Satan's Eden, Jeffersonville IN]
“Now we find out, that every seed bringing forth of its kind, there was no death in the new... in that Eden. There will be no death in the new Eden. See, there was no, nothing else but HOLINESS, purity, and Eternal Life. Now, by unbelief in all of God's Word, has brought the seed of UNHOLINESS in Satan's Eden. We are now entering in where Satan is taking the throne, as the antichrist, in a--a Eden of this earth, a Eden of sin, perverted religion. He started not upon, "I am Satan. I am the great angel." No, not upon that, but upon perverting God's Word. And that's how he's brought his kingdom, in every age. And now in this great deceitful age, ready to take his throne, by his people! He has built hisself an intellectual, educated, scientific Eden; right, scientific preachers, scientific church, scientific theology, everything is scientific. Everything is on basis of knowledge. The whole church is built upon knowledge. It ain't built upon faith.” [65-0829 Satan's Eden, Jeffersonville IN]
“It was Eve that Satan used to make Adam sin, by her power of lust. Now the same, doing the same thing today. Notice, bobbed hair, painted facey, sexually dressed, see, she does that, and don't know that every one of those things is contrary to the Word of God. To cut her hair, makes her a dishonorable woman, a prostitute. To wear shorts, puts her disgracefully. Put sexy dresses on her, makes her a prostitute. "And she don't know it," not because of the HOLINESS of God; because the lust of Satan. She caused her... She causes her Adam to lust for her.” [65-0829 Satan's Eden, Jeffersonville IN]
"And I saw a New Heaven and a New Earth. First heaven, this first earth, was passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy City, the New Jerusalem, descending from God out of Heaven." There God will be with His true attributes, sons and daughters, where He can fellowship with them in HOLINESS, with their eyes blinded to any sin. There'll never be no more sin from there on. Let us strive hard; don't be deceived in this day, but, "strive to enter in at the gate." "For all that will be left out, will be whoremongers, lusters." "Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already." All with... outside will be ill-fame women, ill-fame man, and so forth. And only those that are redeemed, and in the Lamb's Book of Life, will enter in at the gate. So strive, friends; don't be deceived in this last day.” [65-0829 Satan's Eden, Jeffersonville IN]
“How could you ever draw a denomination through God's Filter? How could you do it? How could you draw a bobbed-hair woman through that Filter? Tell me. How could you ever draw a woman that wears slacks through There, when "It's an abomination for her to put on a garment pertains to a man"? See, God's Filter would catch her out there, It wouldn't let her come in. (But the church has got their own filters.) So I say that there is a thinking man's Filter, that's God's Word, and It suits a holy man's taste. That's right, a holy man; not a church man, but a holy man's taste. Because It's pure, HOLINESS, unadulterated Word of God! There is a thinking man's Filter. And church member, I advise you to use That one.” [65-1207 Leadership, Covina CA]
“These Ephesians believed that God's people ought to be holy. According to this verse they took steps to keep the body unleavened from sin. Most evidently the apostasy had already started. Sin had entered into the church. But they were obedient to the words of Paul when he said to put away the wicked from amongst them. They were a separated people. They had come out of the world, and now they weren't going to let the world enter amongst them. They would not put up with sin in the church. HOLINESS wasn't a phrase with them or a figure of speech; it was a way of life.” [Ephesian Age, Seven Church Ages Book]
“Yes, there He stands, the Lord of Glory. Once as the Father, He was surrounded by the angels, the archangels, the cherubims, and seraphims and the whole host of heaven, crying, "Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God of Hosts". Such was His HOLINESS that no man could approach unto Him. But now we see Him in the church, sharing His own HOLINESS with us, until in Him we have become the very righteousness of God. Yes, and there He stands, "Jesus, Perfect Everything,"--Lily of the Valley, the Bright and Morning Star, the Fairest of Ten Thousand, Alpha and Omega, Root and Offspring of David, Father, Son and Holy Ghost--the All and in All.” [Philadelphian Age, Seven Church Ages Book]
Bible References: I Peter 1:15-16; Hebrews12:14
[Answer provided by Bro. Ken Andes, Minister, Lynden, Washington, USA]