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When Moses first encountered Yahweh at the burning bush, the moment he entered God’s presence, he was instructed to remove his sandals.  Why?  Because the place where he stood was “holy ground” (Exod. 3:5).  Later in Moses’ life, after God delivered the Hebrew people from Pharaoh’s bondage, all the Israelites sang in celebration of God: “Who among the gods is like you, LORD?  Who is like you –majestic in holiness, awesome in glory, working wonders” (Exod. 15:11).  And the appropriate response of all who encounter Yahweh in a personal way should be something like the one Hannah gave when God answered her plea for a child: “There is none holy like the LORD; there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God” (1 Sam. 2:2).

 

Jerry Bridges said the following about the holiness of God: “Holiness is the perfection of all [God’s] other attributes.  His power is holy power, His mercy is holy mercy, His wisdom is holy wisdom.  It is holiness more than any other attribute that makes Him worthy of our praise.”  Tony Evans, in Our God is Awesome, wrote: “God’s holiness unlocks the door to understanding and making sense out of everything else about Him.  This attribute infiltrates all the other attributes.”  I want to show you how God’s holiness is His central attribute, linking all of His character.

 

This Sunday, we will enter the first of seven heavenly throne-room scenes in the book of Revelation. What we discover in Revelation is that human history is interpreted through the lens of the worship of a God who sits on His throne as the sovereign One, holy. In my opinion, there is no passage in the Bible that is as timely for us today as the one before us in Revelation 4!  

 

I look forward to worshiping with you this Sunday in our 9 and 11AM worship services. 

 

Grace,

Pastor Keith