When Jesus commands us to be perfect as our Father in heaven is perfect (Matt. 5:48), this simply shows that God’s own absolute moral purity is the standard toward which we are to aim and the standard for which God holds us accountable. The fact that we are unable to attain that standard does not mean that it will be lowered; rather, it means that we need God’s grace and forgiveness to overcome our remaining sin. Similarly, when Paul commands the Corinthians to make holiness perfect in the fear of the Lord (2 Cor. 7:1), or prays that God would sanctify the Thessalonians wholly (1 Thess. 5:23), he is pointing to the goal that he desires them to reach. He does not imply that any reach it, but only that this is the high moral standard toward which God wants all believers to aspire.
Wayne Grudem

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#1 · September 15, 1999, 7:31 am

Posted by: clean-hewmor <clean-hewmor@...>

After a quarrel, a husband said to his wife, "You know, I was a fool when I
married you."
She replied, "Yes, dear, but I was in love and didn't notice."

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Young Son: Is it true, Dad, I heard that in some parts of Africa a man doesn't
know his wife until he marries her?
Dad: That happens in every country, son.

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A woman was telling her friend, "It is I who made my husband a millionaire."
"And what was he before you married him?" asked the friend.
The woman replied, "A billionaire."

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Just think, if it weren't for marriage, men would go through life thinking
they had no faults at all.

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