It does not mean sinless perfection. It does not mean spiritually superior and obnoxious. It means a life, a heart, a mind, and a body that is genuinely separated unto the Lord. It is a life lived apart from the thinking and heart of this world, this flesh, and the devil, and lived apart to the Lord. But it will be worth it.
Sin is the excrement of the soul, the superfluity or garbage of naughtiness, the devil s vomit.
From this abominable filth Christ hath loved and washed his with his own blood, that he may make them kings and priests unto God and his Father. He not only washeth his people from their sins, but taketh away their swinish natures, whereby they would else return to their former wallowing in the mire. And there will be a tabernacle for shade . . . The Lord s people will be safe and secure, washed, and in the abiding presence of the Lord. Nothing is more necessary than that we follow our calling, and perform our duty faithfully.