I Am: Holy

August 16, 2015 Series: Who? I Am

Topic: Sermon

So for those of you who have been here through the summer, as you know we have been doing a series looking at the attributes of God. We’ve looked at his love, faithfulness, power, wisdom, truth and this morning I get the privilege of speaking to you about his holiness! Now Martin and I debated this one because arguably, his holiness is not one of his attributes, but rather, in a sense, it’s what shapes all his attributes! You could could say that this whole summer series is summed up with this - the holiness of God: His love is a holy love, His mercy is holy mercy, his wisdom is a holy wisdom, and even His anger is a holy anger. And so it’s a tremendous privilege for me to speaking on God’s holiness, and I hope it will be as much of a blessing for you to hear this morning as it has been for me to prepare! But before we dive in, I’d like to ask you a question: does God’s holiness scare you or does it comfort you? I want you to think about that for a minute... I guess the answer to that largely depends on what you understand the holiness of God to be! Perhaps the world holy confuses you, perhaps it seems overwhelming, perhaps it seems like a concept you’ll never grasp! You sing these songs about God’s holiness but aren’t really sure what it’s all about! I think for me, for a long time the holiness of God confused me, because I’m told that God is holy, but then I’m told to be holy myself, and it all just seems weird! But you know, the more I have studied the Bible and the more I have got to know God, the more I have found his holiness to be the most comforting thing in the world! There’s simply nothing greater in this universe than God’s holiness and I’m very excited to talk to you about it this morning. So, I have 3 points for you. I’d like to begin by discussing what God’s holiness is, then I’d like us to see why, for the child of God, this is the most comforting thing in the world, and finally, I want us think about what it means for us to be holy.

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