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whatever He wills. He is perfect in purity as it relates to His Holiness, Righteousness
and Justice. He is perfect in His purity as it relates to His relationship with man.
#2: Created Purity – this is the purity which relates to the perfection of the Garden
of Eden prior to the fall of man. When God said in Genesis 1, that “It is good…” He
was applauding the purity and the perfection of that which He had made.
#3: Positional Purity – this is the purity that comes to us as a result of our
relationship with Christ. This is the purity depicted for us in the parable that Jesus
told, in Matthew 22, as it related to the man who came to the king’s party wearing
the wrong robe. The idea here, that Jesus was trying to portray, was that of a robe
of righteousness that covers our sinful robe and gives us a position of purity to be
able to enter the presence of the King. It is this purity that makes us Christians, as it
is this purity that deals a death blow to our sin and sinful nature and ultimately
presents us befo ɔ