The holiness of God the Father is manifested (part 4)

John Gill has shown us many facets of the manifestation of God the Father's holiness. Let us discover more facets by quoting another good theologian, Claude Duval Cole:

" There is a display of Divine holiness in redemption. His holy nature will not allow Him to look upon sin with the least degree of allowance. Salvation is not at the expense of His holiness. The Redeemer must bear the wrath due the sinner, for wrath is the exercise of His holiness. God's hatred of sin was as much manifested in redemption as it will be in judgment. The only difference is that in redemption the guilt of the sinner is transferred to the Savior. The wrath that fell upon the Savior on Calvary had its source in the holiness of God.

God's holiness appears in human conversion. "And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness" (Eph. 4:24).

Holiness will be displayed in the glorification of the believer. When our salvation is consummated we will be restored to the holiness of God. We will not have His power, nor His wisdom, but we will have His holiness. The Psalmist said, "As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness" (Ps. 17:15). This likeness will be both moral and physical, and the moral likeness to God will be holiness. The believer, while here on earth, struggling against sin, rejoices in hope of the glory of God. "By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God" (Rom. 5:2). Sin is an awful burden to the believer; salvation is the restoration to his original holiness in creation.

The holiness of God will appear in all its purity in the day of judgment. Because God is holy, His wrath will he hot. His holy face will be too much for sinners to look upon. "And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb" (Rev. 6:16).

Claude Duval Cole "The doctrine of God", chap. 23, "the holiness of God".

The beauty of birds

"Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they"

Matthew 6: 26

The holiness of God the Father is manifested! (part 3)

Let us continue to read what the great theologian John Gill has to say about God the Father's holiness:

The holiness of God the Father is manifested in his acts of grace

"The holiness of Jehovah the Father is to be observed in those acts of grace which are peculiar to him; as in choosing some in Christ his Son to everlasting life, before the world began. Now though not the holiness of the creature, nor even the foresight of it, is the cause of this act; yet holiness, or the sanctification of the Spirit, is fixed as a means in it; and it is the will of God, that those whom he chooses and appoints to salvation should partake of it, or come to salvation through it; nay, he has not only chosen them "through" it, as a means, but he has chosen them to it, as a subordinate end; he has chosen them to be holy in part, in this life, and perfectly in the life to come; and holiness of heart and life, is the evidence of interest in it, and nothing more powerfully excites and engages to it. The covenant which he has made with his Son Jesus Christ, on the behalf of the chosen ones, provides abundantly for their holiness, both internal and external; see (Ezek. 36:25-27) and the promises of it serve greatly to promote it, and to influence the saints to be "perfecting holiness in the fear of God" (2 Cor. 7:1). And in this covenant is laid up a rod of correction, in love, to chastize with it the sins of God's people (Ps. 89:29-34). Justification is an act of God's grace towards them; it is God, even God the Father, that justifies, through the imputation of his Son's righteousness to them; by which the holy law of God is so far from being made void, that it is established, magnified, and made honourable: nor are justified persons exempted from obedience to it, but are more strongly bound and constrained to serve it; and though God justifies the ungodly, yet not without a righteousness provided for them, and imputed to them: nor does he justify, vindicate, or approve of their ungodliness, nor connive at it; but turns it from them, and them from that: and faith, which receives the blessing of justification from the Lord, by which men perceive their interest in it, and enjoy the comfort of it, is an operative grace, works by love to God, to Christ, and his people; and is attended with good works, the fruits of righteousness: the like may be observed with respect to other acts of the Father's grace; as adoption, pardon, &c."

John Gill, "A body of doctrinal divinity", book 1, chapter 20, "Of the holiness of God".

The beauty of the flower

"The grass withered, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever"

Isaiah 40:8

The holiness of God the Father is manifested (part 2)

The holiness of God the Father is manifested in his works of providence

Let John Gill continue to show us how God the Father's holiness is manifested:

"The holiness of God appears in his works of providence; which, though many of them are dark and intricate, not easily penetrated into, and to be accounted for; yet there is nothing criminal and sinful in them: the principal thing objected to the holiness of God in his providences, is his suffering sin to be in the world; but then, though it is by his voluntary permission, or permissive will, yet he is neither the author nor abettor of it; he neither commands it, nor approves of it, nor persuades to it, nor tempts nor forces to it; but all the verse, forbids it, disapproves of it, dissuades from it, threatens to punish for it, yea, even chastises his own people for it; and, besides, overrules it for great good, and for his own glory; as the fall of Adam, the sin of Joseph's brethren, the Jews crucifixion of Christ; which have been instanced in, and observed under a former attribute: wherefore the dispensations of God, in his providence, are not to be charged with unholiness on this account."

John Gill "A body of divinity-book 1, chapter 20 "On the holiness of God"

The beauty of the sea

So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. Psalms 104: 25

The holiness of God the Father is manifested! (part 1)

So far, we have looked at some characteristics of God's holiness. We will now begin to examine how this holiness is displayed. Here is what the great baptist pastor and theologian John Gill has to say about this:

The holiness of the Father is displayed int the works of creation


"In the works of creation; for as he made all things by his Son, not as an instrument, but as co-efficient with him, so when he overlooked them, he pronounced them very good; which he would not have done, had there been anything impure or unholy in them. Angels, not only those that stood, but those that fell, were originally holy, as made by him: the elect angels continue in the holiness in which they were created; and the angels that sinned are not in the estate in which they were at their creation; they kept not their first estate, which was an estate of purity and holiness; and abode not in the truth, in the uprightness and integrity in which they were formed (Jude 1:6; John 8:44). And as for man, he was made after the image, and in the likeness of God, which greatly consisted in holiness; a pure, holy, and upright creature he was; and had a law given him, holy, just, and good, as the rule of his obedience, and which was inscribed on his heart; some remains of which are to be found in his fallen posterity, and even in the Gentiles." From "A body of doctrinal divinity", book 1, chapter 20 "On the holiness of God".

Find also a contribution of the pastor and theologian Claude Duval Cole, in his book
"Definitions of doctrine", book 1, chapter 23:

"The Holiness of God appears in creation. There was not a flaw in creation when it came from His hand. Everything was beautiful and glorious. "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day." (Gen. 1:31). And again, "The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works" (Ps. 145:17). So far as is known there are only two kinds of moral beings: angels and man, and these were created morally holy. But sin has marked and defaced God's handiwork, so that nothing is like it was when created except, perchance, the holy angels. Man is ruined and fallen, by nature a child of wrath. And the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain, waiting to be delivered from the curse of sin. "For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now" (Rom. 8:22). "

In the next post, we will see how the holiness of God the Father is displayed in his works of providence.

The beauty of youth

Look attentively to the eyes of this charming young lady. You surely can't help it: you got to smile back!

Vous êtes bien jolie mademoiselle!

The three Persons of the Trinity are holy!

In the last post, we have seen that God only is essentially, originally, underivatively, perfectly, and immutably holy.

We need to understand that the 3 persons of the Trinity are Holy. Let us look at what Dr. John Gill says on the subject :

" This must be understood not of one person in the Deity, to the exclusion of the rest; as not of the Spirit, though he is peculiarly called the "Holy Ghost", and the Holy Spirit, yet not to the exclusion of the Father and Son; so not of the Father, to the exclusion of the Son and Spirit; for as they are the one God, who is a Spirit, they partake of the same common and undivided nature, and all the perfections of it, and of this with the rest. Hence we read of the holy Elohim, or divine Persons, in the plural number; and of the Holy Ones, the Holy Father, the Holy Son, and the Holy Spirit, (Josh. 24:19; Prov. 30:5; Dan. 4:17). And no doubt respect is had to the holiness of the three divine persons, by the seraphim, when they said, "holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts!" (Isa. 6:3) and by the four beasts, or living creatures, continually employed in the same divine service, celebrating the perfections of God in much the same language, saying, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God almighty!" (Rev. 4:8). As there is no doubt made of the Deity of the Father, there can be none of his holiness: our Lord addresses him under the relation of "Father", and under the epithet of "Holy Father", (John 17:11) and all that has been said of the holiness of God belongs to him; of which there can be no question made: and it is as true of the Son as of the Father; for as the Father is the holy Father, he must be the holy Son, since he is of the same nature, and is "the brightness of his Father's glory, and the express image of his person"; and as the Father is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity, so is the Son; as the Father loves righteousness and hates iniquity, this is expressly said of the Son, (Heb. 1:8, 9) he is eminently called "the Holy One of God", (Ps. 16:10) and "the Holy One of Israel", more than thirty times in the prophecy of Isaiah; and particularly is so called along with the titles of Redeemer and Husband, which are peculiar to the second Person, the Son of God, the Redeemer of his people, and the Husband of his church, (Isa. 47:4, 54:5) yea, he is called the "most holy", who was anointed with the Holy Ghost above his fellows, and "having the Spirit without measure", (Dan. 9:24) the title of holy he takes to himself when addressing the church, which is an emblem of the purest state of the church militant on earth, the church of Philadelphia; "These things saith he that is holy" (Rev. 3:7). Nay, the devil himself gives it to him; "I know thee, who thou art, the Holy One of God" (Luke 4:34). Besides, Christ is not only holy in his human nature, even perfectly so, and sanctified and set apart to his office as Mediator, by his Father; for which office holiness is a necessary requisite and qualification; but he is the Fountain of holiness to his church and people; they are sanctified in him and by him; he is made sanctification to them, and all the holiness, or holy graces that are in them, are all from him, (John 1:14, 16) which could not be, if he was not holy, and even holiness itself. And as for the blessed Spirit, the third Person in the Deity, the epithet of "holy" is commonly given to him, as before observed; and very truly, since he is of the same nature with the Father and the Son; and so he is holy by nature and essence, and as appears by his graces, operations, and influences; and by his being grieved, speaking after the manner of men, with the sins and impurities of men; the reason of which is, because they are so contrary to his pure and holy nature, that he cannot bear them, but expresses his dislike and displeasure at them (Eph. 4:29, 30).

In the next post, we will examine how the holiness of God the Father is displayed.

Marcel

Aglow

"Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day." Psalm 71: 8

The holiness of God is absolute

Dr. John Gill stands as one of the most important and yet misunderstood of our Baptist forefathers. His spirituality and intellect were only matched by the intensity with which others loved him or reviled him. Tom Nettles says of Gill, "He has doubtless been judged more harshly and even maliciously than any man of comparable repute in Baptist history." How could one man demand such respect and at the same time engender such hard feelings?

Dr. Gill was "a master in Israel". Let him speak about the Lord's holiness. He said that GOD ONLY is essentially, originally, underivatively, perfectly, and immutably HOLY:

"Holiness is an essential attribute of God; it is his nature and essence; it is himself; he is holiness itself; "he swears by himself, because he can swear by no greater"; and he will not swear by any less, and yet he swears by his holiness, (Heb. 6:13; Ps. 89:35; Amos 4:2, 6:8) which places put and compared together show that the holiness of God is himself; and it has been thought to be not so much a particular and distinct attribute of itself, as the lustre, glory, and harmony of all the rest; and is what is called "the beauty of the Lord", (Ps. 27:4) as it is the beauty of the good angels, and of regenerate men; and, indeed, what is wisdom or knowledge, without holiness, but craft and cunning? or what is power, without it, but tyranny, oppression, and cruelty? but God is "glorious in holiness", (Ex. 15:11) this dives a lustre to all his perfections, and is the glory of them; and therefore none of them are or can be exercised in a wrong manner, or to any bad purpose. And as it is his nature and essence, it is infinite and unbounded; it cannot be greater than it is, and can neither be increased nor diminished; when, therefore, men are exhorted to "sanctify" the Lord, and are directed to pray that his "name" may be "hallowed", or sanctified, (Isa. 8:13; Matthew 6:9) the meaning is not as if he was to be, or could be made more holy than he is; but that his holiness be declared, manifested, and celebrated more and more; it is so perfect that nothing can be added to it. And as it is his nature and essence, it is immutable and invariable; the holiness of a creature is changeable, as the holiness of angels and men; which has appeared by the apostasy of the one, and the fall of the other; and the holiness of saints, though its principle is the same, the acts and exercises are variable. But God is always the same holy Being, without any variableness, or shadow of turning. He is originally holy, he is so in and of himself, and of no other; there is none prior and superior to him, from whom he could derive or receive any holiness; as his Being is of himself, so is his holiness, which is himself: the holiness of angels and men is not of themselves, but of God; he is the fountain of holiness to all rational creatures that partake of it; it is peculiar to him, yea, only in him; Hannah says, in her song, "There is none holy as the Lord", (1 Sam. 2:2). In another song yet to be sung, the song of Moses and of the Lamb, it is said, "Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy" (Rev. 15:4). The holiness of creatures is but a shadow of holiness, in comparison of the holiness of God; the holy angels are chargeable with folly in his sight, and they cover their faces with their wings, while they celebrate the perfection of God's holiness; as conscious to themselves, that theirs will not bear to be compared with his (Job 4:17,18; Isa. 6:2, 3). " Taken from "A body of doctrinal divinity", book 1, chap. 20, "Of the holiness of God".

Could we say it better? This great theologian truly honours the Lord's holiness! May our gracious Lord gives us a more exalted view of His unsearchable, unspeakable and unbounded holiness!

Marcel

The uniqueness of God's holiness

Recently I was listening to a sermon on the holiness of God by A.W. Tozer (SermonAudio.com). By the way, they have more than 700 sermons on this subject. A remark that he made stroke me. He said that he considered himself unworthy of even trying to speak on the this aweful subject. The reason is that we are fallen sinners and that our bodies, our minds, our speech and acts are now tainted by sin and that we cannot fully comprehend these things. If A.W. Tozer felt unworthy, I feel even more unworthy. No man, even the most holy of them, can really and fully describe the absolute and infinite holiness of the LORD.

But the LORD gave us the Scriptures and revealed many things to us about His holiness. I think that it is our duty to study these things and go the higher that we can.

One of the first things we must know about God's holiness is that it is ABSOLUTELY UNIQUE.

The holiness of God have two (2) aspects: His moral purity and His transcendence.


HIS MORAL PURITY

Moral purity implies absolute separation from that which is sinful. To be holy is to be righteous, moral and pure. There is NO ONE LIKE GOD IN HIS MORAL PURITY.

"There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God." 1 Samuel 2: 2

"To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One." Isaiah 40: 25

"Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest." Revelation 15: 4

"Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?" Habakkuk 1: 13


The holiness of God is the very antithesis of all moral blemish or defilement.


HIS ABSOLUTE TRANSCENDENCE

God is also separated from that which assumes a lower form of existence. He is absolutely different from the angelic and human form of existence.

"For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones." Isaiah 57:15

Vincent Cheung makes this interesting remark: "Some people wish to stress the possibility of having genuine fellowship with God, and therefore favour his immanence in a way that denies his transcendence. Detecting this distorsion, others who desire to maintain a high view of God overcompensate by denying his immanence. However, divine transcendence does not preclude divine immanence, and divine immanence does not diminish divine transcendence. These two qualities of God are true and consistent with other divine attributes. Our passage says that God is indeed "high and lofty", and no one is like Him, but by his own will, He is also close to those whom he has chosen, and who will humble themselves before Him.

A right understanding of divine holiness should cause us to worship and fear God:

"Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy." Psalm 99: 5

The holy God is inherently worthy of worship and extreme reverence; it is a serious sin to deny Him of proper worship."

Let us know the LORD better so that our worship will be acceptable to His sight and will exalt His holy person!

Marcel

Sunday smile

"And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven."
Matthew 18:3

The sense of God's holiness has been greatly depreciated

A wrong appreciation of God's holiness leads both the society and the evangelical world to shallowness.

Let us begin by the shallowness of society. The Holy Bible tells us that "in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away".

I am presently 60 years old. I can testify that we have seen much change in the general morality of society. When I was young, there was almost no divorce but it has now attain the rate of 50%. Young women having babies without being married was rare and those who were having abortions were shameful but now they parade in streets and have their sin paid by the government. Homosexuals had a very low profile socially and now they have gay pride parades. Drugs were almost absent and now drugs are rampant and even pre-teen kids are victims. Schools were places where children were in security and in a moral environment but now they live in a violent and depraved environment. We could go on and on with examples of how the society have lost most of its moral standards. Many people today negate the idea of sin. Why is that so? Simply because they have rejected the Bible and its truth. They have voluntarily lost the sense of the holiness of God and of His infinitely high standards of living and morality.

Seeing such phenomena in the society without God is not surprising. But now we begin to see a parallel in the evangelical world. The Scriptures says that people will profess to believe but they will not act accordingly: "having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof". Don't we see today many people affirming they believe in God but they act as if they were pagans?

In an article entitled "Is the acknowledgement of God's holiness essential?", Dr. David Wells says: "The loss of the traditional vision of God as holy is now manifested in the evangelical world. It is the key to understanding why sin and grace have become such empty words. What depth of meaning can these terms have except in relation to the holiness of God? Divorced from the holiness of God, grace is merely empty rhetoric, pious window dressing for the modern technique by which sinners work out their own salvation. Divorce from the holiness of God, our gospel becomes indistinguishable from any of a host of alternative self-help doctrines. Divorced from the holiness of God, our public morality is reduced to little more than an accumulation of trade-offs between private interests. Divorced from the holiness of God, our worship becomes mere entertainment. The holiness of God is the very cornerstone of Christian faith, for it is the foundation of reality. Sin is the defiance of God's holiness, the Cross is the outworking and victory of God's holiness, and faith is the recognition of God's holiness. Knowing that God is holy is therefore THE KEY to knowing life as it truly is, knowing why he came, and knowing how life will end."


Let us go back to our Bibles and put our great, holy and sovereign LORD on the throne (not only as our saviour but also as our master)! This is the only way society and the evangelical world will bring back a holy and healthy morality. This is also the only way by which we will avoid self-deceit and hell.

Marcel

God's Art

"The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handiwork"

Psalm 19:1

The beauty of the LORD's creation!

"Blessed be his glorious name for ever:
and let the whole earth be filled with
his glory; Amen and amen.
Psalm 72: 19

What can we know about GOD'S holiness?

In an article on GOD's holiness, Vincent Cheung says: "The doctrine of GOD'S incomprehensibility does not nullify the possibility of true and abundant knowledge about HIM by finite human beings through scriptural exegesis. We must not allow GOD'S incomprehensibility to negate his knowability. Although we cannot possess exhaustive knowledge about HIM, we can indeed have true knowledge about HIM. Whatever GOD reveals to us through the words of Scripture is true, and we have true knowledge about GOD to the extent that we know and understand these words."

This little quote teaches us two things:

1) we will never know everything there is to know about GOD (the limitation will remain even after the resurrection of believers);

2) we can learn about HIS HOLINESS through the words of Scripture.

Let us suppose a man with very great mental abilities. Let us also suppose that he is a christian and that he decides to pass his whole life studying the Bible about GOD'S holiness. The more he studies, the more he sees the unspeakable profoundness of the Word of GOD. Let us also suppose that he is faithful and that he does that diligently all his life. Will he know all that it is humanly possible to know about the LORD'S holiness? Absolutely not! Because no one can exhaust all the riches of GOD'S Word! Well, will you say, if that is true, it is not very encouraging to study this doctrine. This attitude is also wrong! We must study this teaching simply because GOD commands us to do it. So our knowledge and understanding will be in direct proportion of our efforts. Our LORD said: "Thou shalt love the LORD thy GOD with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." (Matthew 22: 37) How can we love someone that we do not know? The more we know about HIM, the more we love HIM.

Lesson number 1: it our responsibility to study and learn the more we can about GOD and about HIS HOLINESS in particular. And we can not do that without efforts and time. We have a great tendency to laziness!

The other day, I was discussing about the matter of holiness with two other christians and I told them: "I would be curious to ask the average christian to write all he knows about GOD'S holiness just from the top of his mind? How many pages could he produce?" And how many pages could I produce? This little question puts us in face of our responsibility: we must study the Scriptures! How many theology books have you read and studied since you are a christian? If we are ignorant, it is by our own fault. There is never been a time in history where good books are available at very good prices! For example, I had Steven Charnock's book "The existence and attributes of God" (1140 pages) for $9.99! By the way, Charnock has written 100 pages on the attribute of holiness. And even if we do not have any money, there is a lot of good books that you can read free on the internet. We have no excuses!

If we cannot fully understand GOD's holiness in a whole life of study and that eternity will not be sufficient to extensively grasp this same holiness, do we begin to see how great GOD's holiness is? And don't forget, holiness is only one of HIS attributes!...

Dear readers, the greatness of OUR LORD is wonderful! "O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen." Romans 11: 33-36 These are my favorite verses. They are so profound!...

Marcel

O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness Ps. 96:9

When I first thought of having my own blog, I have hesitated for many reasons. First, it is time consuming and I do not have much time left. I am very busy. Second, I did not want to share trivialities. Third, I am not very technically inclined and I am not familiar with HTML and all this stuff. Fourth, my mother tongue is french and I wanted to write it in English because my brothers and sisters of my church are English and I do not master English. But I have been encouraged by a brother that assured me that writing a blog is now easy.

The reason that decided me to go on was that I have been greatly blessed by some postings of brothers and sisters IN CHRIST that have a blog. I know that many christians are longing for holiness in their personal lives. My idea was to share knowledge and experiences to grow in holiness in a very practical and on a day-to-day basis. So, I began to read on the subject of holiness. I bought Stephen Charnock book "The existence and attributes of God" and read the section on holiness. I read my theology books on holiness and I searched the internet for articles on the subject.

Here are the first impressions I found:

1) the Bible teaches the INCOMPREHENSIBILITY of GOD. Psalm 145:3 says that "his greatness is unsearchable". To "comprehend" means to have a complete understanding of GOD. This is impossible for finite beings, including sinless angels. No matter how much about GOD we come to know, there will always be more to know about HIM;

2) the holiness of GOD is his crowning attribute;

3) we cannot really go in the right direction for our own holiness before we have elevated our minds to contemplate with the more accurateness that a man can attain the infinite, unspeakable, unsearchable HOLINESS of our GREAT, GREAT, GREAT LORD! And when you are there, your comprehension of the holiness of GOD is like a grain of sand compare to the universe, and even then, the grain of sand is infinitely too big! In one word, HIS HOLINESS knows no limits!

Here is the outline of how I intend to treat the subject:

We will begin by examining GOD'S HOLINESS:

1) GOD's holiness DEPRECIATED
(how our misapprehension affects our daily lives)

2) GOD's holiness DESCRIBED
(correct our false views about the grandeur of this attribute)

3) GOD's holiness DISPLAYED
(describe the holiness of the LORD in the Scriptures)

This part should take many postings.

We will do our best to exalt our views of GOD'S HOLINESS. After that, we will develop how we can grow in holiness in our own lives in very pratical ways.

It will be MAN'S HOLINESS:

1) man's holiness DELIMITED
(what is man's holiness, his possibilities, his limits)

2) man's holiness DEMANDED
(holiness is mandatory; "Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the LORD")

3) man's holiness DEMONSTRATED
(how holiness will manifest itself concretely in the daily lives of saints)

May the LORD open our eyes to the infinite greatness of HIS HOLINESS so that our sanctification may have the highest standards for HIS GLORY!

Marcel