Amazing Facts
A Remnant, Walking in White!
In Victorian London, preacher William James Pearson labored to distribute Christian literature and share the love of Jesus with those he met. For years, Pearson wrote a new hymn each week, including “Jesus, Thy Fullness Give.”
Jesus, thy fullness give, my soul and body bless; cleanse me from sin that I may live the life of holiness. In white, in white, walking in white; He makes me worthy through his blood to walk with him in white.
You don’t always hear about the need for personal holiness these days. Some churches seem to have forgotten the concept altogether. God, however, wanted His people in Sardis to be holy, set apart for His use. “You shall be holy to Me, for I the Lord am holy, and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be Mine” (Leviticus 20:26). Peter, the once-blaspheming disciple now redeemed and emboldened by the Holy Spirit, instructs: “As He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, ‘Be holy, for I am holy’” (1 Peter 1:15, 16).
Holiness comes from God through the Holy Spirit. We cannot be holy—we cannot claim undefiled garments—on our own. It is only through the infilling of the Spirit through the Scriptures and through prayer that we can receive power to keep from stumbling and remain pure. Jesus reminds us, “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” (Luke 11:13). We do not receive holiness because we do not ask for it (John 16:24).
What is the reward of all this? Well, for those believers in Sardis who did not spiritually soil themselves, the reward was a promise that they would walk with Jesus in white. Later in Revelation, we read about a white-robed throng who’ve “made [their robes] white in the blood of the Lamb” (7:14). Clearly, those few from Sardis of whom Jesus approved would be in that number.
Jesus, we ask that You cleanse us from sin. Help us, as the hymn writer said, “to live and do the right, and part with all that’s wrong!” We want to walk with You in white!
For Further Study: Ecclesiastes 9:8; Isaiah 61:10; Luke 21:36
KEY BIBLE TEXTS
Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy. Revelation 3:4
A Remnant, Walking in White!
In Victorian London, preacher William James Pearson labored to distribute Christian literature and share the love of Jesus with those he met. For years, Pearson wrote a new hymn each week, including “Jesus, Thy Fullness Give.”
Jesus, thy fullness give, my soul and body bless; cleanse me from sin that I may live the life of holiness. In white, in white, walking in white; He makes me worthy through his blood to walk with him in white.
You don’t always hear about the need for personal holiness these days. Some churches seem to have forgotten the concept altogether. God, however, wanted His people in Sardis to be holy, set apart for His use. “You shall be holy to Me, for I the Lord am holy, and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be Mine” (Leviticus 20:26). Peter, the once-blaspheming disciple now redeemed and emboldened by the Holy Spirit, instructs: “As He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, ‘Be holy, for I am holy’” (1 Peter 1:15, 16).
Holiness comes from God through the Holy Spirit. We cannot be holy—we cannot claim undefiled garments—on our own. It is only through the infilling of the Spirit through the Scriptures and through prayer that we can receive power to keep from stumbling and remain pure. Jesus reminds us, “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” (Luke 11:13). We do not receive holiness because we do not ask for it (John 16:24).
What is the reward of all this? Well, for those believers in Sardis who did not spiritually soil themselves, the reward was a promise that they would walk with Jesus in white. Later in Revelation, we read about a white-robed throng who’ve “made [their robes] white in the blood of the Lamb” (7:14). Clearly, those few from Sardis of whom Jesus approved would be in that number.
Jesus, we ask that You cleanse us from sin. Help us, as the hymn writer said, “to live and do the right, and part with all that’s wrong!” We want to walk with You in white!
For Further Study: Ecclesiastes 9:8; Isaiah 61:10; Luke 21:36
KEY BIBLE TEXTS
Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy. Revelation 3:4
Amazing Facts
A Remnant, Walking in White!
In Victorian London, preacher William James Pearson labored to distribute Christian literature and share the love of Jesus with those he met. For years, Pearson wrote a new hymn each week, including “Jesus, Thy Fullness Give.”
Jesus, thy fullness give, my soul and body bless; cleanse me from sin that I may live the life of holiness. In white, in white, walking in white; He makes me worthy through his blood to walk with him in white.
You don’t always hear about the need for personal holiness these days. Some churches seem to have forgotten the concept altogether. God, however, wanted His people in Sardis to be holy, set apart for His use. “You shall be holy to Me, for I the Lord am holy, and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be Mine” (Leviticus 20:26). Peter, the once-blaspheming disciple now redeemed and emboldened by the Holy Spirit, instructs: “As He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, ‘Be holy, for I am holy’” (1 Peter 1:15, 16).
Holiness comes from God through the Holy Spirit. We cannot be holy—we cannot claim undefiled garments—on our own. It is only through the infilling of the Spirit through the Scriptures and through prayer that we can receive power to keep from stumbling and remain pure. Jesus reminds us, “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” (Luke 11:13). We do not receive holiness because we do not ask for it (John 16:24).
What is the reward of all this? Well, for those believers in Sardis who did not spiritually soil themselves, the reward was a promise that they would walk with Jesus in white. Later in Revelation, we read about a white-robed throng who’ve “made [their robes] white in the blood of the Lamb” (7:14). Clearly, those few from Sardis of whom Jesus approved would be in that number.
Jesus, we ask that You cleanse us from sin. Help us, as the hymn writer said, “to live and do the right, and part with all that’s wrong!” We want to walk with You in white!
For Further Study: Ecclesiastes 9:8; Isaiah 61:10; Luke 21:36
KEY BIBLE TEXTS
Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy. Revelation 3:4
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