Main Point - We must actively pursue holiness if we claim to trust in the Lord Jesus.

1. The Lord Jesus Christ is holy, and the pursuit of holiness is therefore the mark of everyone who has been born of Christ. (2:29)
2. We as believers have been adopted as children into the family of God (3:1).
3. If we understand our privilege of being children of God, then we will realise the responsibility of bearing the family the likeness (3:2).
4. Those who live in hope of being completely like Christ one day will pursue holiness now (3:3).
5. Not pursuing this holiness, but living in a life of sin is, in fact, an evidence that we don't know God and we haven't experienced grace (3:4).
6. Since Christ came to make us holy, the person who practices lawlessness shows that she or he doesn't really know Christ (3:5-6).
7. You do what you are (3:7-8).
8. The children of God and the children of the devil are distinguishable by the contrast of their habit and character (3:10).

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