KEY SCRIPTURE:1Ti 6:3 KJV” If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;”

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Godliness, in its simple literal meaning, could be explained as being like God. The Greek meaning is piety or holiness. If we are to consider the literal meaning, to be godly is to imitate His holiness. God is perfect in all His attributes. He has non-communicable attributes, that is, those that He can not share or impart to men. Examples  of these are His all-mighty power, His omniscience that is His all-knowing nature, His omnipresence  , His self-existing nature and others. God has communicable nature or attributes which He shares or can impart to men. These include His loving nature, His nature as light,His justice, his holiness. To be godly is to demonstrate every one of His communicable attributes.

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From the above, to be godly means you must be loving. 1Jn 4:7 KJV Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. Secondly, to be godly is to be light. 1Jn 1:5 KJV This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:Thirdly God is just and to be godly means you must be justDeu 32:4 KJV He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

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James Sidlow Baxter ( 1903-1999) was an Australian theologian who authored a number of books  and taught   extensively on the Holiness  of God. Said it is these three attributes of God combined together that reveal the Holiness of God. To walk in love, to be light, giving no place to darkness or sin, and to be just or upright is to reveal holiness. The child of God must know that these attributes of God came to him or her when he or she was born into Christ. The child of God must naturally exhibit a godly life or a life of Holiness.

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He would be able to do so by acknowledging that he or she is godly. He must accept that he is light and should not give place to any form of darkness or sin. Dullness  or sin is alien to you. He must also accept that he is just or upright with no crookedness about him. He must pursue them.

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CONFESSION: I’m born of God, and so I carry His nature of love, light and justice or righteousness. These traits are my normal lifestyle. I am a reflection of my heavenly father in his communicable nature. Praise the Lord

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THOUGHT:YOUR GODLY NATURE IS BY BIRTH INTO CHRIST , SO LIVE IT OUT.

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FURTHER STUDIES

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1Pe 1:16 KJV” Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.”

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1Ti 6:5 KJV” Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.”

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