Number 2 The Holiness Of God. Series

Our main scripture this morning Is going to be in 1 John chapter 3…… verse 2…….

So if ya wanna turn there while we’re getting started that would be great……

We’re also gonna be jumpin around to a lot of different scriptures This morning….

And I may or… may not give ya time to get to each one……..

And So if yah can yah might wanna write’em down and check them all out later…….

but this one here… this one…. Is gonna be the key to our message this morning…..

So lets go ahead and get started…….

1 John 3:2 (NKJV)

2 Beloved………

now we are children of God……

and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be……

but we know…… that when He is revealed……

we…… shall be like Him…… for we shall see Him…. as He is…

Thats gonna be a glorious day isn’t it……

When we finally get to see our Lord for ….. WHO… he really is…….

Yeah know…. A lot of people …. think…. that they might know who GOD is….

they might think they might know….. what GOD is like…….

But in reality… they have only seen a fleeting glimpse …. of who GOD really is…..

It says in John 1:18 (NKJV)

18 No one has seen God at any time.

The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father,

He has declared Him.

The scripture plainly states that Jesus… is the only Man… that has ever walked on this earth……

And…. has seen GOD… personally….. He is the only one… that truly knows… WHO God is…..

And he has shared with us… through scripture….. WHO he is…….

We only have to open our bibles… and scan the words inside…. to find out WHO God is…..

It shares with us… what he looks like….. and what we should expect from him…… And what he expects from us…..

But as we put on our sleuth hats…… and open our bibles to find out… just who this… GOD is…..

we can read a lot of words that tell us…. Who GOD is….….

Sadly the world…. and our culture that we live in…. has watered these words down …..

so that they no longer mean the same thing they meant when they were written………

Yah know… its pretty sad when words that are supposed to have a … very strong spiritual meaning….

These words are supposed to speak to our very souls………

But they have become instead….. just another slang word that we use in our everyday lives…..…..

And one of those words… that we’re gonna be looking at today…… Is the word Holy……..

And this is probably the best word that fully describes …. WHO God is…..

But if we take that word…. and combine it with what the world wants us to think it means…..

It becomes completely useless…….. and it doesn’t really help us to understand God at all……

When we take the word Holy……. and use it to describe things that really aren’t holy………

Words like

“holy cow,”

“holy smoke,”

“holy mackerel,”

“holy Toledo,”

and……..we’ve all heard this… right…… “holy roller.” …….

Yah know………

I’m sure there are reasons why these terms came about………

but I can’t imagine what……. “holy” …..actually had to do with any of them….…..

All I know is that when an important spiritual word like …….“holy”…… becomes a slang term we hear almost every day….…….

People stop wondering what it really means…..

And it just becomes an everyday expression……

And as those words are used improperly … every day………..

Even Christians…. that should know better…… begin to lose touch with what the word HOLY….. actually means…

And in turn …. we begin to view God as this lenient grandfather type figure….….

who sits back … and winks at their little sins and indiscretions from his great big rocking chair in heaven……

And Im here to tell you…

thats a really bad way to think about a Holy GOD……

The proof of that statement is in the fact that if you look around you right now…..

Ill bet each and every one of us here know’s some… so called christian in their life…..…. that aren’t where they should be…..

Because they don’t realize …. what serving…… A HOLY GOD……. is really all about..….

If we were to take a look at the… history of our church’s…..

we would see that… every single major revival that has ever taken place……

Was sparked…. and fueled by the concept….. of the holiness of God…..

Great church leaders back then….. knew that to keep the holiness of God at the center of their ministries was literally the KEY….. to making revival break out….

And The term … HOLY…. has been so watered down ….. that people just don’t care anymore……

They have taken one of the key attributes of GOD….. and turned it into nothing more than just a slang word we use when we’re surprised or upset…..