Holiness Unto the Lord

Death, Suicide and Euthanasia and the Bible

Today we are going to talk about Holiness. Someone here asked for a message about Holiness.

First, how do we define holiness.

As John Brown, a nineteenth-century Scottish theologian, wrote, “Holiness consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God

1 Samuel 2:2 NASB95

“There is no one holy like the Lord, Indeed, there is no one besides You, Nor is there any rock like our God.

After the fall of the temple in a.d. 70 the fact that God’s name is holy became a reason among the Jews for not Vocally naming Yahweh; instead they used the indirect expression of “the Name.”

Henry, Carl F. H. God, Revelation, and Authority. Vol. 6. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 1999. Print.

Luke 10:27 NASB95

And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

Matthew 22:37 NASB95

And He said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

Mark 12:30 NASB95

and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’

I Need to Love.

1 John 4:7 NASB95

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

I Need to Know God Loves me.

1 John 4:10 NASB95

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Perfect Love is Holiness

1 John 4:12 NASB95

No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us.

Matthew 5:48 NASB95

“Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

God is Love

1 John 4:16 NASB95

We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

Perfect Love cast out Fear.

1 John 4:18 NASB95

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.