The Holiness of God Almighty
We may worship God because he is the creator or because he is all powerful, but what about His holiness.
Many men think that aliens are our creator and would rather think that aliens put us here rather than a HOLY God.
I) God's Holiness:
Holiness is the very excellency of the divine nature; the great
God is "glorious in holiness" (Ex. 15:11). Therefore we read,
"Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look
on iniquity" (Hab. 1:13).
Just as power is the opposite of weakness, as wisdom is the
opposite of folly, knowledge the opposite of ignorance, so
holiness is the opposite of all moral blemish or defilement.
He is absolute purity, unsullied even by the shadow of sin. "God
is light, and in him is no darkness at all" (1 John 1:5).
The sum of all moral excellency is found in Him.
The Bible says, "Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and
canst not look on iniquity" (Hab. 1:13).
Ps 29:2 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship
the LORD in the beauty of holiness.
S. Charnock said, "Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience His
eye, mercy His bowels, eternity His duration, but holiness is
His beauty"
Pink: This perfection, as none other, is solemnly celebrated
before the throne of heaven, the seraphim crying, "Holy, holy,
holy, is the LORD of hosts" (Isa. 6:3). God Himself singles out
this perfection, "Once have I sworn by my holiness" (Ps.
89:35). God swears by His holiness because that is a fuller
expression of Himself than anything else.
Why did not the seraphim cry, "Powerful, powerful, powerful, is
the LORD of host."
II) Holiness is why He is due all worship:
"Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; he is
holy" (Ps. 99:5).
While things like wisdom, knowledge and power may be admired.
While we may extol God because he is the creator, it is God's
holiness that makes worship due him.
J. Howe (1670) said, "It is an attribute of attributes."
It is an attribute that runs through all other attributes of
God. As Pink put it, it is the glory of all the rest of his
attributes. As all his other attributes would be weak without
almightiness to back them, so all would be uncomely without
holiness to adorn them.
It is what seperates his kind of power from all other power.
Satan can work wonders and appear as an angel of light but he
is not holy. Although none has the power of God, it is the fact
that it is adorned in holiness that sets his power apart.
Re 15:4 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.
IT DOES NOT SAY FOR THOU ONLY HAS A BIG STICK OR ROD OF IRON.
CHRIST"S ROD OF IRON WILL BE A HOLY ROD.
Ps 29:2 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name;
worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.
Ps 96:9 O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear
before him, all the earth.
Ps 99:5 Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his
footstool; [for] he [is] holy.
Ps 99:9 Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill;
for the LORD our God [is] holy.
III) The man who made the website that mocks a baptist church and
mocks God's judgements fails to understand God's holiness.
He is critisising God's judgement on the world when he sent the
great flood, but it is God's holiness that causes and question
of God's actions to vaporize.
"The LORD is righteous in all His ways, and holy in all his
works" (Ps. 145:17).
When God destroyed the world because of sin, it was a HOLY WORK.
God created the angels as HOLY angels, but some kept not their
fisrt estate. Gog created Satan perfect, but it was INIQUITY
that was found in him (Ez 28:15). God made man upright (Ecc
7:29), but man rebelled against a HOLY God.
It is not just that God is creator and has the right to do what
he wants with His creation, but it is His holiness that gives
him the moral right to do so.
IV) The Antichrist:
His attributes:
wisdom and understanding: He will understand "dark
sentences" according to Da 8:23
greatness: Da 8:9
power and great authority:
Re 13:2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard,
and his feet were as [the feet] of a bear, and his mouth
as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his
power, and his seat, and great authority. 4 And they
worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast:
and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who [is] like
unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
miracles:
Re 13:14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by
[the means of] those miracles which he had power to do
in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on
the earth, that they should make an image to the beast,
which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
signs and wonders: "[Even him], whose coming is after the
working of Satan with all power and signs and lying
wonders," (2Th 2:9)
Holiness will be completely absent from his makeup. He is
called the "son of perdition."
Satan is designated "that evil one" according to 1Jo 3:12.
1Jo 3:12 Not as Cain, [who] was of that wicked one, and slew
his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own
works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

V) It is God's holiness that causes men to fall prostrate before
him.
Ex 3:4 And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God
called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said,
Moses, Moses. And he said, Here [am] I. 5 And he said, Draw
not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for
the place whereon thou standest [is] holy ground. 6 Moreover
he said, I [am] the God of thy father, the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his
face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
It is God's holiness that seperates men from God the most. It is
his holiness that makes men at enmity with him.
Ro 8:7 Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God: for it
is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
God's law is holy and reveals God's holiness.
It is the holiness of God that men are in rebellion against not
his power for they shall worship Satan and the antichrist
becasue of his power.
It is holiness that makes men hate God's word. The scriptures
are called the "holy scriptures." If they were just some
mystical writings men would love it. But because they are the
"holy scriptures" unregenerated men hate it and mock it.
One might say, no it's because the Bible is truth, but it is
truth clothed in holiness.
Isaiah was undone because of the holiness of God:
Isa 6:3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy,
holy, [is] the LORD of hosts: the whole earth [is] full of
his glory. 4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of
him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. 5 Then
said I, Woe [is] me! for I am undone; because I [am] a man
of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of
unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of
hosts. 6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a
live coal in his hand, [which] he had taken with the tongs
from off the altar: 7 And he laid [it] upon my mouth, and
said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is
taken away, and thy sin purged.
VI) It is God's holiness that required the sacrifice of Christ.
Pink: God's holiness is manifested at the cross. Wondrously,
and yet most solemnly does the atonement display God's
infinite holiness and abhorrence of sin. How hateful must
sin be to God for Him to punish it to its utmost desserts
when it was imputed to His Son!
S. Charnock: Not all the vials of judgment that have or shall
be poured out upon the wicked world, nor the flaming furnace
of a sinner's conscience, nor the irreversible sentence
pronounced against the rebellious demons, nor the groans of
the damned creatures, give such a demonstration of God's
hatred of sin, as the wrath of God let loose upon His Son.
Never did Divine holiness appear more beautiful and lovely
than at the time our Savior's countenance was most marred in
the midst of His dying groans. This Himself acknowledges in
Psalm 22. When God had turned His smiling face from Him, and
thrust His sharp knife into His heart, which forced that
terrible cry from Him, "My God, My God, why hast thou
forsaken me?" He adores this perfection, "Thou art holy,"
(v. 3) (S. Charnock).
It was God's holy law that was violated.
It is sin that God can not look upon (Hab 1:13).
Because God is holy, acceptance with Him on the ground of
creature doings is utterly impossible.
Christ was that HOLY substitute. God ONLY is holy (Rev
15:4) and Christ is HOLY (Lu 1:35).
Every poor sinner who has fled to Him for refuge stands,
"accepted in the beloved" (Eph. 1:6).
VII) It is God's holiness that gives God the right and obligation
to cast the unregenerated sinner into a lake of fire.
"The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD"
(Prov. 15:26).
Men do not believe in the holiness of God.
They think that his love and mercy will override everything
else, but it is His holiness that every attribute that he has is
adorned with.
It was for the one sin of Adam that man was cursed.
It was for one sin that a cursed was placed on the posterity
of Canaan. It was for one sin that Moses was not allowed to
enter the promised land.
WHY? ALL BECAUSE GOD IS HOLY.
HOW MAN NEEDS A SUBSTITUTE.
VIII) Because God is holy his people should be holy .
Le 19:2 Speak unto all the congregation of the children of
Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD
your God [am] holy.
This is not just a command to them that were under the law:
1Pe 1:16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
S. Charnock: "This is the prime way of honoring God. We do not
so glorify God by elevated admirations, or eloquent
expressions, or pompous services of Him, as when we aspire to
a conversing with Him with unstained spirits, and live to Him
in living like Him."
Pink: Then as God alone is the source and fount of holiness,
let us earnestly seek holiness from Him; let our daily prayer
be that He may "sanctify us wholly; and our whole spirit and
soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Thess. 5:23).