Holiness is a relationship in Jesus Christ in which the individual is being transformed into an ever-expanding likeness of Christ Himself. This relationship has no point of action except in the sanctifying blood of the exalted Son of God. A holiness person is not seeking after holiness, but after Jesus Christ, because there is no other source of Holiness. Holiness is the nature of Jesus Christ manifest by the work of the Holy Ghost applying the Word of God made alive by His blood. People that seek Holiness as its own object will often add one legalistic addition after another. Every great Holiness movement has always destroyed its own self by transferring the hunger for "HIM" to a hunger for perceived Holiness.

True Biblical holiness is not hardness, legalism, or mean-spirited people making everyone miserable with their own list of concocted standards. The Bible is a Holy Book from Genesis to Revelation and every standard set in Scripture is the joy of transformed saints. Godly women or men will separate themselves from activities that are declared off limits by the Holy Bible. No godly woman wants to look like a man or dress like a man. The same is true of godly men. The body is the temple of the Holy Ghost and He dwells in every saint to possess them, body, soul, and spirit. There is no such thing as being a partaker of God's grace, while the body is left to wallow in sin. You cannot possess the true faith in your spirit and leave the body in the clutches of unclean living. A born again person is repulsed by the suggestion that they can continue the old lifestyle of breaking the commandments of God while still professing righteousness.

The standards of holiness are set forth in Scripture in a plain and clear fashion. Isaiah describes the "Highway of Holiness." "And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein." (Isaiah 35:8). The prophets of hardness will pick words out of the plain statements of truth and exaggerate them to support their doctrines of men exactly like the Pharisees did in Jesus' time. These hard teachings are always based on some highly suspect method of interpretation. Isaiah's statement precludes this kind of religious fantasy. He said that God's "highway of holiness" was so plain and so pure that a wayfaring man though a fool (simple-minded) should not err therein. If you have to produce a scholarly sounding defense for your doctrine of hardness to prove your point, you have already disproved yourself. The way of purity and holiness is simple and available for the uneducated mind. Just obey the plain Word of God, adding no intricate meaning or disobeying no simple truth. Holiness is the standard of God's laws and commandments produced in the heart by the sanctifying Blood of Jesus Christ.

Bible holiness is beautiful. There is a remnant of godly people that the Father Himself has reserved to Himself for this end-time generation. These saints are both pure in lifestyle and attitudes. They do not seek attention nor are they ashamed of their testimony. The Bible is their "paper pope" and they live by every Word of God. Jesus said, "But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." (Matthew 4:4).