God is holy, I have never heard a sermon on the holiness of God,I find that very strange,I wonder why?,of course it is mentioned by most evangelical preachers in their sermons,but as I have said I have not heard anyone preaching on that subject. The hymn writer wrote'Only Thou art holy'.this applies to all the Godhead ,Father ,Son,and Holy Spirit'.In 1 John 1v 5, we read,'God is light; in Him there is no darkness at all'. J.I.Packer writes,When John says that God is 'light', with no darkness in Him at all, the image is affirming God's holy purity'. He also writes,'Every facet of God's nature and every aspect of His character may properly be spoken of as holy, just because it is His. The core of the concept however is God's purity,which cannot tolerate any form of sin '.(Habakkuk 1 v 13 ) It is important to stress there is only one God Isaiah 46 v9, we don't have two different god's,the God of the OT is the God of the NT. When man sinned that created a major problem, for sin separates us from God. It means there is a gulf between us and God, (Isaiah 59 v 2/ John 3 v 36 ) and that includes every human being.The holiness of God will never change,that will never be compromised,unlike humanity who see holiness as something oppressive,that takes the fun out of life,ignoring the fact that much we engage in ,destroys life.We will look at this next time, I will leave you with this thought,the holiness of God is something to be feared,Bruce Milne writes of the terror of the holiness of God.
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