# ✝️ Salvation, Holiness, and the Law – Bible Understanding
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# ✝️ Understanding Salvation and Holiness
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**First, understand salvation**
– Salvation and holiness are more than 613 laws.
– No flesh can be holy.
– Only your spirit that is born again is holy.
– You need the Holy Spirit to direct you to be holy.
– God never promised that your flesh won’t sin.
– The flesh and the heart think evil, and only by God can it be controlled.
– God hears your prayers through Christ.
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**Old Testament Truth**
– In the Old Testament, God told them to offer animal sacrifices for sins yearly.
– God gave the laws for them to know why they die coming into His presence.
– They must come offering blood—an innocent two-year-old animal must pay for their sins.
– Even those who did not come out from the temple had to offer it.
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**New Covenant Truth**
– Jesus is the forever Lamb.
– His blood is the river you are soaked in forever.
– Holiness isn’t about you keeping the laws.
– Living well is a reward, not for salvation.
– Living well is for you to fulfill your purpose in life, not to keep laws.
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# 📖 Supporting Bible Verses
## ❓ Q1: Is salvation and holiness more than 613 laws?
📖 **Romans 3:20**
“Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.”
📖 **Galatians 2:16**
“A person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ.”
📖 **Hebrews 10:1**
“The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves.”
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## ❓ Q2: Can the flesh be holy?
📖 **Romans 7:18**
“For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh.”
📖 **John 6:63**
“It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing.”
📖 **Romans 8:8**
“Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.”
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## ❓ Q3: Which part of man is holy?
📖 **John 3:6**
“That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.”
📖 **1 Corinthians 6:17**
“He who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.”
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## ❓ Q4: Who directs us to live holy?
📖 **Romans 8:14**
“For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God.”
📖 **Galatians 5:16**
“Walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.”
📖 **John 16:13**
“When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth.”
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## ❓ Q5: Did God promise that our flesh will not sin?
📖 **Romans 7:23–25**
“I see another law at work in me… Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord!”
📖 **Galatians 5:17**
“For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit… they are in conflict with each other.”
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## ❓ Q6: Is the flesh and heart naturally evil, and who can control it?
📖 **Jeremiah 17:9**
“The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can understand it?”
📖 **Genesis 6:5**
“Every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.”
## ❓ Q7: How does God hear our prayers?
📖 **John 14:13–14**
“Whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.”
📖 **Hebrews 7:25**
“He always lives to make intercession for those who come to God through Him.”
📖 **1 Timothy 2:5**
“There is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus.”
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## ❓ Q8: Did God require animal sacrifices yearly for sins in the Old Testament?
📖 **Leviticus 16:34**
“This shall be a lasting statute for you: Atonement shall be made once a year for all the sins of Israel.”
📖 **Hebrews 9:7**
“The high priest entered the inner room once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.”
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## ❓ Q9: Who is Jesus in this covenant?
📖 **John 1:29**
“Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.”
📖 **Hebrews 10:10–12**
“We have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.”
📖 **Revelation 5:12**
“Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing!”
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## ❓ Q10: What does it mean to be washed and soaked in His blood?
📖 **Revelation 1:5**
“To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood.”
📖 **Hebrews 9:14**
“How much more shall the blood of Christ… cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.”
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## ❓ Q11: Is holiness about keeping laws?
📖 **Galatians 3:3**
“After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh?”
📖 **Romans 10:4**
“Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.”
📖 **2 Timothy 1:9**
“He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done, but because of His own purpose and grace.”
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## ❓ Q12: Is living well a reward or salvation?
📖 **1 Corinthians 3:14**
“If anyone’s work remains which he has built on, he will receive a reward.”
📖 **Ephesians 2:8–10**
“For by grace you have been saved through faith… not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works.”
# ✝️ Summary
– The **Law** reveals sin.
– The **Blood of Jesus** removes sin.
– The **Spirit** leads into holiness.
– The **flesh** remains weak until resurrection.
– The **born-again spirit** is already holy.
– Salvation is **a gift**, not a reward.
– Good living is **fruit**, not the root of salvation.
