The big question is: What is it about holiness that makes people up and suffer and throw everything else away? First off, what IS holiness? The definition is Set Apart. To be set apart. Okay..from what? Well, set apart from sin in this case.
So, the big thing is to be set apart from sin. But is it really worth giving up everything for this holiness?
-Hebrews 12:14 '..Without holiness no one will see the Lord.'
Humm, so maybe it's not so much about holiness as it is about seeing the Lord. -Matthew 12:14 'The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid again; and from joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.'
Jim Elliot is a perfect example of someone who willingly gave up everything for the sake of Christ. And you want to know what he said?
-'He is no fool who gives what he can not keep, to gain what he can not lose.'
Let me just say it like this: It's not about what you give up..it's all about what you gain. And if the gain of knowing God is worth giving up everything else in my life...I want in.
'That I MAY KNOW HIM, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death.' Phil 3:10 
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