Ever wonder how if God being holy is such an alien idea then why does he call us to be holy? Isn’t that a difficult prospect!
God: Be holy as I am holy.
Me: Yeah, only I don’t know what that is! Remember?
Well, if that conversation is yours – as it is mine. Here is a sermon I heard earlier this week while aerating and thought of my last post. It is by Dr. Derek Thomas and I believe it will do you well.
God highlights his sovereign pleasure in his creation by choosing the promise as the way of the Savior. Mercy abounds from the very beginning of the Bible. Only through the promise do we have hope. In Galatians 3, “Until Christ came,” The Savior has come. It has happened. All of history revolves around this reality.
When we say God is holy we struggle with what holy means. We define terms intensively and ostensively. Ostensively we point to examples of a thing to define it through these examples. For example, when talking to a child or someone who speaks a different language we can point to the color red as we…
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