1) Why are we different from the world and the worldly? There are several reasons for this reality. The first level is that God called us His own, which means that we are “holy” or “set apart” for His purposes. That set apart is from the world and the worldly. He sets us apart by choosing us. Another level of being separated is that we respond to Jesus as He is, alive and well and at the right hand of the Father. Still another level is that the Holy Spirit has sealed us. But there is one more thing that we engage with…2) HMIM. He Must Increase Ministry. I was so blessed to see that I could generate a non-profit with this title. John the Baptist stated this in John 3:30, “He must increase, but I must decrease.” There are two major parts to it. First, Jesus must increase in all we say, do, and think. We, as in self-glory, must decrease. 3) Holy than thou doesn’t work very well. A myriad of people have convinced themselves that their good works will outweigh their bad ones. Even though that is not statistically true, they still FEEL like their balance will put them in the plus column before God. But God says, “nope.”