THE HOLINESS OF GOD

 THE HOLINESS OF GOD

It is one thing to sing God is holy but another thing to understand what it means. Holiness is one of God’s most prominent attributes. Holiness has to do with God’s separateness from His creation as the Superior One and His absolute moral purity! R. C. Sproul said that “when the Bible calls God holy, it means primarily that God is transcendentally separate from and other than man. He is so far above and beyond us that He seems almost entirely foreign.”

This holiness is often identified in Scripture with the chorus of the heavenly beings crying “holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty.” These seraphim are saying that God is holy to a superlative degree and is to be honored and elevated above all else.  See Isaiah 6:1-7

God Himself is separate from and other than anything or anybody else in creation. He is distinctly and infinitely superior to His creation and all His creatures. After all,. He designed and made them! And He sustains them.

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It means he is morally perfect without sin or moral blemish.

It means that all His decisions and judgments are perfect.

It means that He takes delight in all that is good, true, worthy and upright.

It means that He cannot tolerate sin because His very nature is one of purity.

It means to ascribe to Him kingly majesty.  (Exodus 15:11; Psalm 22:3)

It means that if you are to understand Biblical salvation and the sacrifice of Jesus for sin, you must grasp something of the holiness of God.

“When I Look Into Your Holiness”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEdxYnl4UdI