The Holiness of God
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God is Holy
God is Holy
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11 “Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods?
Who is like you, majestic in holiness,
awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?
3 And one called to another and said:
“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
the whole earth is full of his glory!”
8 And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say,
“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty,
who was and is and is to come!”
God’s holiness is his inherent and absolute greatness, in which he is perfectly distinct above everything outside himself and is absolutely morally separate from sin. - John MacArthur
Two "Aspects” of Holiness
Two "Aspects” of Holiness
Majestic Holiness
Majestic Holiness
This speaks to the fact that God is inherently great and resists all compromises of his character and therefore is transcendently distinct from all his creatures in infinite majesty. He is majestically unique. This sense of God’s holiness qualifies all his other attributes, and all these qualify his holiness. -John MacArthur
(Biblical Doctrine, pp. 183-184)
This speaks to the fact that God is inherently great and resists all compromises of his character and therefore is transcendently distinct from all his creatures in infinite majesty. He is majestically unique. This sense of God’s holiness qualifies all his other attributes, and all these qualify his holiness.
11 “Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods?
Who is like you, majestic in holiness,
awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?
1 Sam
2 “There is none holy like the Lord:
for there is none besides you;
there is no rock like our God.
3 Let them praise your great and awesome name!
Holy is he!
3 Let them praise your great and awesome name!
Holy is he!
Ps
5 Exalt the Lord our God;
worship at his footstool!
Holy is he!
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9 Exalt the Lord our God,
and worship at his holy mountain;
for the Lord our God is holy!
Ps 99.
Moral Holiness
Moral Holiness
Since God is inherently great and therefore transcendently distinct from everything outside himself, he is most certainly separate from sin, being morally and ethically perfect, abhorring sin and demanding purity in his moral creatures. -John MacArthur
(Biblical Doctrine, p. 84)
Since God is inherently great and therefore transcendently distinct from everything outside himself, he is most certainly separate from sin, being morally and ethically perfect, abhorring sin and demanding purity in his moral creatures
12 “When you come to appear before me,
who has required of you
this trampling of my courts?
13 Bring no more vain offerings;
incense is an abomination to me.
New moon and Sabbath and the calling of convocations—
I cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly.
14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts
my soul hates;
they have become a burden to me;
I am weary of bearing them.
15 When you spread out your hands,
I will hide my eyes from you;
even though you make many prayers,
I will not listen;
your hands are full of blood.
16 Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes;
cease to do evil,
17 learn to do good;
seek justice,
correct oppression;
bring justice to the fatherless,
plead the widow’s cause.
3 And one called to another and said:
“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
the whole earth is full of his glory!”
4 And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. 5 And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”
Is
Sanctification: Growing in Holiness
Sanctification: Growing in Holiness
God’s holiness is a model for our holiness
44 For I am the Lord your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground.
15 but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, 16 since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
In the process, we will be renewed in the image of Christ in “true righteousness and holiness” as we become more like him who saved us for himself - Mark Jones
Jones, Mark (2017-06-30). God Is: A Devotional Guide to the Attributes of God (p. 168). Crossway. Kindle Edition.
God’s holiness demands our holiness
1 Peter 1
14 Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
our doctrine of holiness must never be divorced from who Christ is and what he actually came to do. He came to die in order to make us holy. - Mark Jones
Jones, Mark (2017-06-30). God Is: A Devotional Guide to the Attributes of God (p. 170). Crossway. Kindle Edition.
24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.