The Word is a glass to show us our spots, and Christ’s blood is a fountain to wash them away. Remember that it is now the church that is the dwelling place of God upon the earth. No one is ever worthy of the body and blood of our Lord, but we can remember it in a fashion which is worthy and appropriate. (4) The holiness of God should caution us about what we accept and practice from the contemporary “church growth” movement. Isaiah’s response is far from what we hear today from many who claim to teach biblical truth. It is a transcendent purity.24. But Acts 5 and 1 Corinthians 5 and 11 strongly warn us about worship that fails to take the holiness of God seriously enough. When Jesus told the paralytic that his sins were forgiven and then proceeded to heal him, the people could not escape the implications: 5 And Jesus seeing their faith said to the paralytic, “My son, your sins are forgiven.” 6 But there were some of the scribes sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, 7 Why does this man speak that way? He is the King of Israel; let Him now come down from the cross, and we shall believe in Him. Other texts in Scripture say a great deal about the tongue and the way sin is evident in our speech (see, for example, many of the Proverbs, also Matthew 12:32-37; Romans 3:10-14; James 3:1-12). I am distressed by those who, in the enthusiasm and excitement of their worship, transgress very clear instructions to the church regarding worship. They protested they had not been “led” as much as “mis-led” by Moses to a land far from what they were promised. 19 Write therefore the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall take place after these things” (Revelation 1:12-19). Martin Luther once said to Erasmus: "Your thoughts of God are too human." And justice does not make law — it only reveals law. A prolific writer, Sproul authored more than a hundred books, including The Holiness of God, Chosen by God, and Pleasing God, and contributed dozens of articles to national evangelical publications. Today's Offer Get Jonah on an MP3 CD for Your Gift of Any Amount. You shall thus bring forth water for them out of the rock and let the congregation and their beasts drink.” 9 So Moses took the rod from before the LORD, just as He had commanded him; 10 and Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly before the rock. God’s holiness will drive some away, but it will drive the elect to the cross. Lewis Institute Senior Fellow ne of the most important attributes for understanding God and ourselves is God’s holiness. 50 And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up [His] spirit. 19:4–6; Lev. If you were to ask, "How is the holiness of God revealed?" To satisfy his need for a faultless sacrifice, God himself had to become that Savior. The prophet Isaiah saw a vision of God in which seraphim, winged heavenly beings, called to each other, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty." This caused great consternation for those who thought they had silenced Him once for all (see Acts 4:1-2). Jesus did the greater, and some did believe. I will mention just a few of my concerns. The death of Uzziah seems to have spelled the end of an era, a golden era, for Judah. But when the word holy is applied to God, it does not signify one single attribute. They were indeed a “stiff-necked people,” even as God Himself had said (see Exodus 33:5). 9 Worship the LORD in holy attire [or, in the splendor of holiness]; Tremble before Him, all the earth (Psalms 96:9). When Jesus died on the cross, he became the fitting sacrifice, punished for all the sins of the human race, past, present, and future. Job 6:60. 4 Why then have you brought the LORD’S assembly into this wilderness, for us and our beasts to die here? It is also the basis for strong confidence (14:26). It causes us to hate and to avoid evil (8:13; 16:6). 3 Who may ascend into the hill of the LORD? What shalt we do to resemble God in holiness? In 1 Peter 1, Peter calls upon the saints to live in fear of God (1:17). The church cannot “accept” those who profess to be Christians but live like pagans (1 Corinthians 5:1-13). Put differently, how can the church focus on evangelism in its gathering when its principle tasks appear to be worship and edification? 4 So they brought it with the ark of God from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill; and Ahio was walking ahead of the ark. But the point we must remember is that the idea of the holy is never exhausted by the idea of purity. Peter was a professional fisherman, but when he obeyed the instructions of the Lord Jesus, the results were awesome. If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. By His sacrificial death on the cross of Calvary, Jesus Christ paid the penalty for our sins, and thereby made it possible for us to partake of His holiness. The priesthood of a few in the Old Testament has become the priesthood of all believers in the New. Now Miriam died there and was buried there. I have always concentrated on the fact that this couple lied, which they did. We often describe God by compiling a list of qualities or characteristics that we call attributes. One of the seraphim touched Isaiah’s mouth with a burning coal, symbolically cleansing him and his mouth. And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of … 5 Meanwhile, David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the LORD with all kinds of [instruments made of] fir wood, and with lyres, harps, tambourines, castanets and cymbals. Consequently, Paul would not dilute the gospel to make it more appealing to men (2 Corinthians 2:17; 4:1-2). Usually, I think of His agony in terms of His horror at the thought of enduring the wrath of the Father, the wrath we deserve. When God gave Moses the Ten Commandments, he expressly forbid using the name of God disrespectfully. 2 Seraphim stood above Him, each having six wings; with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. God is holy, and thus His church must be holy as well. Through His Spirit inside us He also helps us live as holy people, set apart from sin in our own lives. The Gospel Truth About How to Get to Heaven. 2 “There is no one holy like the LORD, Indeed, there is no one besides Thee, Nor is there any rock like our God (1 Samuel 2:2). This leads to the next observation. These examples are but a few of the accounts in Scripture dealing with God’s holiness and its impact on saints. So too it is the source of much that is good. Law can no more be different from what it is, than God can be different from what he is. The holiness of God indicates God does not accept what is not holy. Our comprehension of the holiness of God, based on natural senses, remains insufficient. Verse 6: "And He said, 'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' The submission of the wife to her husband most often is expressed by her obedience to him (see 1 Peter 3:5-6). He was a sinless sacrifice dying in our place. That is, the word holy calls attention to all that God is. (2021, February 8). As we approach the subject of the holiness of God, let us be mindful of the importance of this divine attribute. General Biblical Studies, Interdenominational Christian Training Center. The ark was a symbol of the presence of God, a most holy object (see 2 Samuel 6:2) which was to be hidden in the holiest place in the tabernacle, the “holy of holies.” According to God’s instructions, it was to be transported by the Kohathites who carried it by holding onto poles inserted through its attached rings (see Exodus 25:10-22; Numbers 4:1-20). We say that God is a spirit, that He knows everything, that He is loving, just, merciful, gracious, and so on. of Jesus: 47 Now when the centurion saw what had happened, he [began] praising God, saying, “Certainly this man was innocent” (Luke 23:47). 25 Ibid., p. 57. Fairchild, Mary. 23 Ibid., p. 55. It is purity and transcendence. Isa 6:6. At Kadesh, there was no water for the people to drink. Not that He is merely holy, or even holy, holy. Scripture exalts the holiness of God. When we use the word holy to describe God, we face another problem. Irreverence is a dangerous malady. Because God is holy, we who are His people must be holy too. Pray for a holy heart. If the holiness of God accomplishes in our lives what it did in the lives of those men like Isaiah whom we read of in the Bible, we will become increasingly aware of the depth of our own sin and our desperate need for forgiveness. They gave the remainder of the money to the apostles as though it were the whole amount. A glimpse of God’s holiness makes us aware of our own sin. As I think of the holiness of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ (not to exclude the Holy Spirit), I am all the more awe-struck by the cross of Calvary. We must practice and proclaim His excellencies to the world (1 Peter 2:9), and prominent among God’s excellencies is His holiness. Paul was faithful to his calling and the message he was given to proclaim, even unto death (see 2 Corinthians 3-6). Who Is God the Father Within the Trinity? Two men in Scripture who were permitted to see into the throne room of heaven and write about it; both reported hearing one continuous refrain, spoken day and night: "Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty." When God struck Ananias and Sapphira dead, unbelievers did not flock to church, but all came to fear God and rightly so. The holiness of God is one of his attributes that carries monumental consequences for every person on earth. An attack on God's name was an attack on God's holiness, a matter of grave contempt. This free gift, called grace, justifies or makes holy every Christ follower. 7 And he touched my mouth [with it] and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin is forgiven.” 8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I. Christians of today think and speak so differently of God than did the fathers of long ago. What a wonderful Savior! And to whom shall He go up from us?” 21 So they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath-jearim, saying, “The Philistines have brought back the ark of the LORD; come down and take it up to you” (1 Samuel 6:19-21). Legal purifications were types and emblems of it. I was struck by this statement made by a psychologist at the beginning of this century, which is so different from what we are now being told: “This reverence has been significantly defined by the psychologist William McDougall as ‘the religious emotion par excellence; few merely human powers are capable of exciting reverence, this blend of wonder, fear, gratitude, and negative self-feeling.”27. He and his message would be spurned. Moses never saw the land to which he came so close. When we lose a sense of God’s holiness (as many have), then we lose the realization that anything is holy or unholy. The earth quaked, and the temple was filled with smoke. Also, Uzzah seems to have been both sincere and zealous in his role in bringing the ark of God to Jerusalem, yet God struck him dead for his irreverence. A Savior was necessary for three reasons. God’s holiness was taught not only in the rules about worship but also in the instructions He gave His people about their behaviour. In the last song, in Revelation 15:3–4, the saints sing, “For You alone are holy.” In between these two songs, God is often called the Holy One or the Holy One of Israel. Instead of merely speaking to the rock as commanded, in his anger, Moses struck the rock twice. Paul further says that when the Corinthians eat the bread and drink the cup “unworthily,” they are guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord (1 Corinthians 11:27), and in so doing they do not “judge the body rightly” (verse 29). For the Christian, the resurrection of our Lord from the grave is a comforting truth, which should also inspire reverence and awe, for the resurrection of Christ from the dead is proof of His holiness. From my understanding of church history, revivals have been closely associated with a renewed and enhanced awareness of the holiness of God, accompanied with a heightened conviction of personal sin. Irreverence is a sin of great magnitude with dreadful consequences. Favorite quotes: "The moment Jesus was slain, the instant the Just One died for the unjust, the veil in the temple was torn, The presence of God became accessible to us. 27 William McDougall, An Introduction to Social Psychology (New York: Methuen, 1908), p. 132, cited by Kenneth Prior, The Way of Holiness (Downers Grove: Inter-Varsity Press, rev. 5 Then I said, “Woe is me, for I am ruined! God has not changed, nor has mankind. In this series, R.C. But Paul was a man intent on pleasing God rather than men (2 Corinthians 2:15-16; 4:1-2). 17 Obey your leaders, and submit [to them]; for they keep watch over your souls, as those who will give an account. When things are made holy, when they are consecrated, they are set apart unto purity. For example, the wife is to respect (literally fear) her husband in Ephesians 5:33. Because I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts” (Isaiah 6:3-5). The resurrection is the seal of approval on the holiness of Jesus Christ. (Isaiah 6:3; Rev. As we study the attribute of the holiness of God and the Son of God (not forgetting the Holy Spirit of God), let us consider the response which this truth should produce in our lives as we seek to worship and serve Him. (Exodus 15:11). Sproul was a beloved theologian and speaker, appearing at conferences, churches, colleges, and seminaries around the world. Let them do this with joy and not with grief, for this would be unprofitable for you (Hebrews 13:17, emphasis mine; see also 1 Corinthians 3:10-15). There is the emphasis on the resurrection of Christ and the hope of resurrection for all men, although, for the unbeliever, this hope is ill-founded. Instantly, he was struck dead by God. In His holiness, God made a provision for our sins. When the man born blind was healed by Jesus, the scribes and Pharisees were most reluctant to admit that such a miracle had taken place. Thus, the sin of Ananias and his wife was a sin of irreverence, a sin against God’s holiness. Our hearts should be filled with gratitude and praise for the grace He has bestowed on us. I have often thought of the agony of our Lord in the Garden of Gethsemene. The John who once walked with our Lord and even reclined on his breast (see John 13:23) now falls before Him as a dead man, overcome by His holiness and glory: 12 And I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. God did not accept Cain or his offering (Genesis 4:5). I am not entirely opposed to accountability, except that the church sometimes speaks more of accountability to men than of accountability to God. Even more, it was identified by God as an act of unbelief: 12 “Because you have not believed Me, to treat Me as holy in the sight of the sons of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them” (verse 12). and who may stand in His holy place? The holiness of God is the root of many wonderful fruits, springing forth from a heart which has come to reverence God as the Holy One. Great fear came upon the entire church, not to mention the rest of the community. 4 And in [all] this, they are surprised that you do not run with [them] into the same excess of dissipation, and they malign [you]; 5 but they shall give account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead (1 Peter 4:4-5). God took Moses’ irreverence most seriously. Moses’ anger with the people overcame his fear of God. Irreverence is a most serious offense, as we can see from both the Old and New Testaments. (6) The appropriate response to the holiness of God is fear (reverence), and the outworking of fear is obedience. The Bible never says that God is love, love, love, or mercy, mercy, mercy, or wrath, wrath, wrath, or justice, justice, justice. 20 And the men of Beth-shemesh said, “Who is able to stand before the LORD, this holy God? Then to guarantee humans meet his standards, God imputes, or credits Christ's holiness to every person who receives Jesus as Savior. Dr. R. C. Sproul (1939 – 2017) was the founder of Ligonier Ministries, a Reformed Christian Indeed, the holiness of God is a matter of great importance to every living soul. But in the context of studying the holiness of God, two additional details seem of more import than I had previously thought. Sproul in his living room in the Ligonier Valley Study Center to hear an early message on the majesty of our Creator. BECAUSE THOU WILT NOT ABANDON MY SOUL TO HADES, NOR ALLOW THY HOLY ONE TO UNDERGO DECAY’ (Acts 2:23-27, emphasis mine). One of the most impacting books I've ever read. We must discipline and remove those who refuse to live like Christians. Many people attend church on Easter Sunday for the first or second time of the year (they also come at Christmas). Let us not forget to whom we must give account: 36 “And I say to you, that every careless word that men shall speak, they shall render account for it in the day of judgment” (Matthew 12:36). “Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates, holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God.… Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God.”28. The things Jesus said and did marked Him out as One who stood head and shoulders above any other (merely human) being. He is incapable of contradicting himself because moral goodness is his very nature. "What Is the Holiness of God?" God cleanses us from sin when we trust in Jesus so that we are no longer separated from Him. At the outset of the revelation given to the apostle John (recorded as the Book of Revelation), John saw a vision of the Lord exalted and holy. God had spoiled their celebration, and David was miffed. Why had God been so harsh with Uzzah? His ministry was not going to be regarded a success (as if many of the prophets of old were successful). It was a most jubilant procession as the ark made its way home. How can a church focus its principle service (Sunday morning) on evangelism when its principle tasks seem to be otherwise, as outlined in Acts 2:42 (namely the apostles’ teaching, fellowship, breaking of bread, and prayer)? In the New Testament, more freedom seems to be given in worship. The Christian should be especially concerned with the holiness of God. But when the oxen stumbled, and it looked as though the cart might be overturned and hurled to the ground, Uzzah reached out to steady the ark. Second, he required a spotless sacrifice to pay the debt for humanity's sins. Just as the generosity of Barnabas encouraged others to give in the same way, the half-hearted, deceptive act of Ananias and his wife could have adversely affected others in the church by encouraging them to do likewise. 9 All nations whom Thou hast made shall come and worship before Thee, O Lord; And they shall glorify Thy name. The Bible says, "There is no one holy like the Lord." the absolute moral purity of God and also the absolute moral distance between God and his human creatures. Seraphims cry, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts, the whole earth is full of his glory.' I have been asked to speak on the holiness of God, and I think that R. C. finds some delight in giving me subjects that he has mastered. I believe God wanted Isaiah to understand that the vision of His holiness was to have a great impact on what he said and how he said it. 33 If this man were not from God, He could do nothing” (John 9:30-33). This knowledge caused them to be God-pleasers rather than man-pleasers (see Galatians 1:10). “Unworthily” in the King James Version is rendered “in an unworthy manner” in the NASB. Jesus, the Son of God, was incarnated as a human being, born of a woman but retaining his holiness because he was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit. ed., 1982), p. 20. 25 For David says of Him, ‘I WAS ALWAYS BEHOLDING THE LORD IN MY PRESENCE; FOR HE IS AT MY RIGHT HAND, THAT I MAY NOT BE SHAKEN. God rescues holiness from contextualization’s ruin. No one whom God has chosen and in whom the Spirit is at work can fail to come to Him, so why the need to woo the lost to come to church? The Bible writers draw a sharp contrast between the Lord's character and that of humankind. In a moment of anger, Moses sinned, and for this sin he was kept from entering the land of promise. In reality, all God accepts from us is that which He produces in and through us. Yet this act was so serious in God’s sight that He forbade Moses to enter into the land of promise. Further, Luke includes a comment on the effect the deaths of Ananias and Sapphira had on the church and the community. Only upon reflection did David realize the gravity of the error. The law of God, therefore, is simply a transcript of God's being — the holiness of God in the form of moral requirement. When the Bible speaks about God’s holiness, the primary thrust of those statements is to refer to God’s transcendence, to His magnificence, to that sense in which God is higher and superior to anything there is in the creaturely realm. Our sins are forgiven. Throughout the life and ministry of our Lord on the earth, it became increasingly clear this was no ordinary man; indeed, He was more than a prophet and more than a mere man. The miracles and signs performed during Jesus’ earthly ministry pointed to His holiness, as did the events surrounding His death. Fear or reverence leads to obedience. In chapter 2, fear (reverence or respect) is the root of obedience to kings, to cruel slave masters, and obedience to harsh husbands (3:1-6; see also Paul’s words in Ephesians 5:33). Throughout Scripture, the holiness of God is a recurring theme. Bob was born and raised in a Christian home i... More, Lesson 21: The Bible Is Unique In Its Story, Let Me See Thy Glory - A Study of the Attributes of God. First, God knew human beings could never meet his standards of perfect holiness by their own behavior or good works. Which was the greater act, to come down from the cross, or to rise up from the grave? The promises of the coming of Messiah in the Old Testament became increasingly specific, until it was evident that Messiah must not only be human but divine (see Isaiah 9:6-7; Micah 5:2). (1) The holiness of God should guide and govern our thinking on “God’s acceptance.”. ( shall we say “ holiness ”? we give assent you were to ask ``... 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