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The Holiness of GodThe Holiness of God
Character of God—part 1
God is Separate & Above His Creation
Hosea 11:9 “I will not carry out my fierce anger, nor devastate Ephraim again. For I am God, and not man— the Holy One among you. I will not come in wrath.”
What is God’s Holiness?
God is Wholly PurePure
Isaiah 5:24 “Who will not fear you, O Lord, and bring glory to your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before you for your righteous acts have been revealed.”
What is God’s Holiness?
God Abhors & Rightly PunishesPunishes SinSin
Habakkuk 1:13 “Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrong.”
What is God’s Holiness?
God Abhors & Rightly PunishesPunishes SinSin
Exodus 34:6, 7 “The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished.”
What is God’s Holiness?
God’s Holiness Pictured
Isaiah 6:1 “In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple.”
What does God’s Holiness Look Like?
God’s Holiness Pictured
Isaiah 6:2 “Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying.”
What does God’s Holiness Look Like?
God’s Holiness Pictured
Isaiah 6:3 And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.”
What does God’s Holiness Look Like?
God’s Holiness Pictured
Romans 1:20 ever since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen in what has been made so they are without excuse.
What does God’s Holiness Look Like?
God’s Holiness Pictured
Isaiah 6:4 At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.
What does God’s Holiness Look Like?
God’s Holiness Reveals Man’s SinSin
Isaiah 6:5 “Woe to me!” I cried, “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
What does God’s Holiness Look Like?
God’s Holiness Reveals Man’s SinSin
Zechariah 1:6… Then they repented and said, “The Lord Almighty has done to us what our ways and practices deserve, just as he determined to do.”
What does God’s Holiness Look Like?
God’s Holiness Reveals Man’s SinSin
1 Peter 1:15-16 Just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”
What does God’s Holiness Look Like?
God’s Forgives Sin When We ConfessConfess
Isaiah 6:6,7 Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.”
What does God’s Holiness Look Like?
God’s Forgives Sin When We ConfessConfess
Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates his love for us in this: while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
What does God’s Holiness Look Like?
God Can Use Use You to Take His Message to Others
Isaiah 6:8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
What does God’s Holiness Look Like?
