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Holy As I Am Hoy

Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy – Leviticus 19:2.

The Israelites were to be separated from sin and to cling to the Lord. God’s holiness served as a model for all the congregation. These instructions include today’s professing Christian.

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Flesh

Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die, but if you through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. For as many are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God – Romans 8:12-14.

The Scripture uses the word “flesh” in five ways. It may refer to (1) the body or physical being, (2) the old nature or sin nature, (3) the epidermis [skin], (4) man’s immaterial nature, or (5) the whole being of man.

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Coveteousness

And He said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth – Luke 12:15.

To covet is to want something that someone else has, and the person will go to any length to have what they covet, no matter what it costs them.

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