Holiness

God is in no way involved in our sinfulness. He cannot be mixed with evil. The problem is in man. In man the problem is bound up with his lust. The nature of God is such that He only gives good gifts. And when God touches your life, it is to produce life not death, to produce righteousness not sin, to make a new creation not exercise the old one...God doesn't lead people into sin, He leads them to be creations of a new kind like Him. He leads them out of sin into new life. And that would be inconsistent with any thought that He would lead us into sin. He is recreating us away from sin, not into sin. 

~John MacArthur 

Salvation of a person is first and foremost to be a display of God's power and work in His enemy's life; an eternal trophy of God's power, will, purpose, grace, mercy and glory.

Eph 1:11  also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to

His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will,12  to the end that

we who were the first to hope in Christ would be to the praise of His glory.

Eph 2:8  For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the

gift of God; 9  not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10  For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. 

1Co 15:10  But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not

prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with

me. 

Gal 5:16  But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the

flesh. 17  For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for

these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please. 

Col 1:4  since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love which you have for

all the saints; 5  because of the hope laid up for you in heaven, of which you previously heard

in the word of truth, the gospel :6  which has come to you, just as in all the world also it

is constantly bearing fruit and increasing, even as it has been doing in you also since

the day you heard of it and understood the grace of God in truth; 

Col 1:9  For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you

and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and

understanding, 10  so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please

Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the

knowledge of God; 11  strengthened with all power, according to His glorious

might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously 12  giving thanks to the

Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in Light.

2Tim 2:19  Nevertheless, the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal, "The Lord knowsthose who are His," and, "Everyone who names the name of the Lord is to abstain from wickedness." 

     Titus 2:11  For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, 12instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age,