The Holiness Of God / Be Holy For I Am Holy

So in the Old Testament who is the Lord? The Lord is Jehovah. In the New Testament who is Lord? It is Jesus therefore Jesus is Jehovah and you remember what Jesus told the religious leaders in John chapter 8? Before Abraham was, I Am! That is the name given to Moses in the burning bush, Jehovah, I am who I am. Jesus takes that sacred name and applies it to Himself.

What’s the point – Jesus is Lord, He is the only sovereign, Lord of Lords and King of Kings and the spirit of Christ (The Holy Spirit) is said to dwell in you! This is why saint is the primary term used in the Bible to describe Christians. You are a saint, which means Holy one! God’s spirit is in you therefore you are holy! It’s not because you are perfect, it’s not because you are completely pure, God is, we know that, but you are holy because God has made you that way, He has set you apart and He has set you apart for a purpose.

Another story that helps us understand these things is the story of Moses. Moses actually received a glimpse of Gods glory which emanates from His holiness. Isaiah saw it through a vision, Moses saw it up close and personal.

You remember when Moses asked God to see His face, the Lord said no man can see my face and live but Moses I’ll put you in the cleft of the rock and I shall pass by and you shall see my back. You know what it’s like to see something out of the corner of your eye, then you look and it’s gone? Or maybe it wasn’t really there! Well, it’s like Moses out of the corner of his eye got a glimpse of Gods back, not His face, but a brief glimpse of Gods back and you know what happened, his face shone so bright the people were afraid to look at him so he had to cover his face with a veil.

Why go through all these accounts? Because these are the stories God has given to help us understand who He really is. The God many people know, or the God they think they know seems more like Santa Claus than the God of the Bible. To understand and know the God of the Bible (the only God who really exists) to know the God of the Bible you have to go to the Bible. That’s the only way! The only other way you could possibly know about God is if He sent to you and angelic messenger!

Maybe that’s the way God used to do it but Hebrews 1 says God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, 2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son… And what is the New Testament but the New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Now Go back to Isaiah chapter six. The prophet see’s the Lord on His throne, high and lifted up, the angels serve Him day and night, the seraphim’s are not silent rather they lift up their voices, verse 3 And one cried to another and said

Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts;

The whole earth is full of His glory!”

This is significant and it’s something that could be easily missed. Of all the attributes of God none are elevated to this degree. When we have something important to say what do we do? We usually repeat it right?