HOLLINESS AND THE PROPER FEAR OF GOD!
Holiness and the proper fear of God The Apostle Peter starts out in this passage that I am going to write about saying as obedient children not fashioning (conforming) ourselves according to the formal lusts of our ignorance. The implication is when we were not Christians we did not really know our sins nor did we care or even struggle with them. I think the word lust is interesting because all sin starts out with lust. Then Peter goes to the correct course of action and writes but He which has called you is holy so we need to be holy in all manner of conversation. In this context the word conversation means behavior. Then Peter goes on to quote Leviticus 11: 44 - 45. In this setting God is saying be ye holy for I am holy. The Apostle then writes if we do call on the Father remember He is without respect of persons judging according to every man's work. Then Peter says pass the time of our sojourning here in fear while we are living on earth which is only for a short ti