The Attributes of God: The Holiness of God, Part 1

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K. The Holiness of God.

While we mention the holiness of God as the last of God’s attributes, let us never forget that it is not the least at all. Consider first:

1 Natural holiness. This is called the fundamental attribute, and is one attribute by which God wants His people to remember Him. Some Bible scholars declare that this is the most important of all of God’s attributes. We know why they make such a statement. It is because holiness is . God is called holy more times in the Scriptures, and His holiness is mentioned more, than His . Holiness is indeed the “.” When we think not of God’s holiness, we . We are living in the day of compromise, when people hold “light views.” It is hard to get people to consider their lost condition and the peril of hell ahead. They think lightly of salvation, because they have : “Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, , fearful in praises, doing wonders?” (); “I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for : neither shall defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. For I am the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore ” (); “Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, , is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory” (); “Thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose ; I dwell in the , 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” (); “I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. , keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are” (); “Grieve not the , whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption” (). See also Leviticus 19:1, 2; Joshua 24:19; Psalms 22:1-3; 99:5,9; I Peter 1:15, 16.

2. Aspects of holiness. By this we mean the mien of holiness that of which holiness is composed.

a. .

(1) Its Citation. “This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that , and in him is no darkness at all” ().

(2) Its Explanation. In Him is light. In Him is no darkness ever. Light is always pure. There is no such thing as dirty light, nor can anyone make dirty light. God is Light — pure, . There are two phases of purity: negative, ; positive, pure. God in His holiness is pure: free from all that defiles, and .

b. . This is another element of holiness.

(1) Its Citation. “He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and , just and right is he” (). “Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?” (); “O , the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou has sent me” ().

(2) Its Explanation. The formula for righteousness is found in : “If a man be just, and do that which is ...” that is, do things right, in a right way, “he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord God.” God is always right. He possesses character that makes Him do everything right. Righteousness always requires that which is . God never asks anything that is not right. God never commands that which will make us do wrong.


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