Page 61 Do not judge according to appearance, but JUDGE with righteous JUDGMENT. (John 7:24, NKJV) TEST all things; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil. (1 Thess. 5:21-22, NKJV) CONSIDER what I say, and may the Lord give you UNDERSTANDING in all things. (2 Tim. 2:7, NKJV) See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as WISE, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be unwise, but UNDERSTAND what the will of the Lord is. (Eph. 5:15- 17, NKJV) I speak as to WISE men; JUDGE for yourselves what I say. (1 Cor. 10:15, NKJV) JUDGE among yourselves . . . (1 Cor. 11:13, NKJV) Let the two or three prophets speak, and let the others JUDGE. (1 Cor. 14:29, NKJV) In sum, to make decisions regarding God’s moral will . . . to find the parking lot . . . we have the witness of the indwelling Spirit, the
In seeking after holiness we are not so much seeking after a thing as we are seeking a Person. The blessings of the gospel – election, justification, sanctification, glorification, and all the rest – have been deposited in no other treasury but Christ. We don’t just want holiness. We want the Holy One in whom we have been counted holy and are now being made holy. To run hard after holiness is another way of running hard after God.
Kevin DeYoung