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God’s Holiness: How a Holy God is Both Far and Near
Connecting the Dots Series
9/29/21
“We tend to have mixed feelings about the holy.
There is a sense in which we are
at the same time attracted to it and repulsed by it.
Something draws us toward it,
while at the same time we want to run away from it.
We can’t seem to decide
which way we want it.
Part of us yearns for the holy, while part of us despises it.
We can’t live with it, and we can’t live without it.”
- R.C. Sproul
What is holiness?
“Without the holiness of God, sin has no meaning and grace has no point.”
– Mark Dever
“And so it was, after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said
to Eliphaz the Temanite, ‘My wrath is aroused against you and your two friends,
for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.
Now
therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job,
and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and My servant Job shall pray for
you.
For I will accept him, lest I deal with you according to your folly; because
you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.’”
Job 42:7-8
Old Testament
קָ דֹוׁשadj.
sacred, holy — 1. of God, as separate, apart, and so sacred, holy: a. exalted on theophanic
throne; heavenly throne; in victory.
b. separate from human infirmity, impurity, and sin.
c. קְ דֹוׁש י ְִש ָראֵ ל
= divine name (originating fr.
trisagion), pl.
intens.
קד)ו(ׁשים.
2. a. of place, sacred, holy, chambers of
priests, camp of Isr., + מָ רֹוםof heaven; of the court of the tabernacle, of Jerusalem.
b. persons: priests,
Aaron, Levites, prophet, Nazirite, Isr.; remnant in Jerus.; קדׁשיםsacred; קדׁשיםsacred ones, saints
(song).
c. angels.
d. קדׁשים מיםholy water.
e. time, of Sabbath.
New Testament
ὅσιος, (a) holy, pious (implying the right relation to God); τὰ ὅσια, the pieties, the pious deeds, Ac.
13:34: (b) (Hebrew Chāsīd means not only godly, pious, but also beloved of Yahweh), ὁ ὅσιος, the Holy
One (i.e. the Messiah).
ἅγιος, set apart by (or for) the God, holy, sacred, e.g.
ἁγία πόλις (of Jerusalem) Mt. 4:5; τὸ ἅγιον
πνεῦμα, practically synonymous with τὸ πνεῦμα τοῦ θεοῦ; ὁ ἅγιος τοῦ θεοῦ (Mk.
1:24) of the Messiah;
οἱ ἅγιοι, of the Christians as the new people of God, taking the place of the Hebrews: τὸ ἅγιον, τὰ ἅγια,
the temple; τὰ ἅγια τῶν ἁγίων, the inmost part of the temple, the inner shrine.
How a Holy God is Both Far and Near 1
- Holiness carries the notion of _______________, _________________, ___________ and
_______________ from those things that are bad and ____________.
- To be holy is therefore to be _______ _______ or ________.
How holy is God?
"When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible
reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His
love at the center of that holiness."
~ Oswald Chambers
- Our God is not only holy, but He is ____________ _________ (Is.
6:3)
- Our God is so holy, his ________ is holy (Is.
57:15)
- He is _______ ________ from all that is not holy.
- Like all of God’s ______________, God’s holiness is intertwined and unified with his
___________ attributes.
You cannot separate the attributes of God.
“The holiness of God is not to be conceived of as one attribute among others.
It is rather a
general term representing the conception of God’s consummate perfection and total
glory.
It is His infinite moral perfection crowning His infinite intelligence and power.”
–
A.A. Hodge (1823-1886)
“Holiness is the most sparkling jewel of God’s crown.
It is the name by which He is known.”
–
Thomas Watson (1620-1686)
“Holiness is to be regarded not as a distinct attribute but as the result of all God’s moral
perfection together” – R.L. Dabney (1820-1898)
How a Holy God is Both Far and Near 2
“When Scripture calls God, or individual persons of the Godhead, ‘holy…’, the word signifies
everything about God that sets him apart from us and makes him an object of awe,
adoration, and dread to us.
It covers all aspects of his transcendent greatness and moral
perfection and thus is an attribute of all his attributes, pointing to the ‘Godness’ of God
at every point.”1
– J.I. Packer (1926-2020)
God is so holy, He is far away
- Because God is holy, he is _________ all else.
God is __________________.
- Transcendence means that God is __________, __________ ___, and ______ everything.
-Millard Erickson: “[God] being distinct from and even removed from [the universe].”2
- All of Scripture describes God as the ________ ________, above and set apart from all.
- He sits far above the earth (Isaiah 40:22; Acts 7:49; Hebrews 1:3)
- Nothing can contain Him (1 Kings 8:27; 2 Chronicles 2:6; Jeremiah 23:24; Acts 17:24)
- His thoughts and ways are far above ours (Isaiah 55:8-9; Romans 11:33)
- God is unknowable to all except Himself (1 Corinthians 2:10-11)
- He resides outside of matter and time, holding all together while nothing upholds Him
except Himself (Genesis 1:1-2; Colossians 1:15-18; Hebrews 1:1-4)
- Connecting the Dots with Transcendence:
- God is Spirit, not limited by space or time (Ps 139; Jn 4:24)
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