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Exploring HisExcellencies
He is Holy John Isaacs
May 24, 2009KingsWay Community Church
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Everythingwill work out
fine,
if we press into
God's presence
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NotK i g
The Most Common
Barrier ToPressing Into
God
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What is Godlike?I think God is like
God has revealed Himself
in the Bible to be
- Will lead toidolatry!
- Will inspire
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God is who theBible (in itstotality)reveals Him to
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We willexperience God
more completely aswe come to
understand Himmore clearly.
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The Bible Reveals
God To Be
1. All GoodThe Goodness of God is the sum total of allof Gods favorable
characteristics
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The Bible Reveals
God To Be
2. All PowerfulGod is able to act or to produce any effect or result that He
wants
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The Bible Reveals
God To Be
3. All Wise Able to see the most perfect way and howto get there by the
most perfect means
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The Bible Reveals
God To Be
4. EternalGod is forever. Hedidnt have abeginning and He will
not have an end
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The Bible Reveals
God To Be
1. All Good2. All Powerful3. All Wise
4 Eternal
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The Bible Reveals
Gods Attributes As 1. OriginalThe source or cause fromwhich everything arises. He
isnt a copy of anything allthings exist as a copy of Him.
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The Bible Reveals
Gods Attributes As 2. EssentialImplies belonging to the very nature of a thing and
therefore being incapable of removal without destroying
the thing itself or its
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The Bible Reveals
Gods Attributes As 3. InfiniteWithout measure. To extend indefinitely or to be endless.
Subject to no limitation or external determination.
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The Bible Reveals
Gods Attributes As 4. ImmutableTo not be capable of changeor susceptible to any
variation.
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The Bible Reveals
Gods Attributes As
1. Original2. Essential3. Infinite
4 Immutable
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1. He is originally powerful: Powerful in Himself, which nothing
else is.2. He is essentially powerful:
Not only powerful, but He is power itself.
3. He is infinitely powerful:There is no measure to His power.
4. He is immutably powerful:There was never a time when God was more or less powerful. Hedoesnt change.
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Jesus was and is the perfect representation of God theFather.
He is the revelation of Godsgoodness . He is the demonstration Gods
power . He is the manifestation of God wisdom .
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With the goodness of God
to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of
God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it,what do we lack? Surely weare the most favored of allcreatures.-
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Godis
Holy
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Isaiah 6:3And one called toanother and said:"Holy, holy, holy isthe LORD of hosts; thewhole earth is full of
his glory!"
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Revelation 4:8Each of the four livingcreatures had six wings andwas covered with eyes allaround, even under his wings.Day and night they never stopsaying: " Holy, holy, holy isthe Lord God Almighty, who
was, and is, and is to come."
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Holiness The loftiness, exaltedness,and splendor of God. The absolute purity of Hisgoodness. God is untouchedand unstained by evil. He isperfectly pure and complete in
His character.
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Holiness He is separate from Hiscreation. Distinct from all elsein the universe.
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When you talk about theholiness of God, you have notonly the problem of anintellectual grasp, but also a
sense of personal vileness,which is almost too much to
bear. Each one of us is borninto a tainted world, and welearn impurity from ourcradles.
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We nurse it in with ourmothers milk, we breathe it inthe very air. Our educationdeepens it and our experience
confirms it evil impuritieseverywhere. Everything is
dirty; even our whitest white isdingy gray. This kind of worldgets into our pores, into ournerves,
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until we have lost the ability toconceive of the holy .Holiness means purity, butpurity doesnt describe it
well enough. Purity merelymeans that it is unmixed, with
nothing else in it. But thatisnt enough. We talk of moralexcellency, but that isntade uate. To be morall
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someone else in moralcharacter. But when we saythat God is morally excellent,who is it that He exceeds? The
angels, the seraphim? SurelyHe does but that still isnt
enough. We mean rectitude;we mean honor; we meantruth and righteousness; wemean all of these uncreated
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eternal. God is not now anyholier than He ever was. ForHe, being unchanging andunchangeable, can never
become holier than He is.And He never was holier than
He is, and Hell never be anyholier than now. His moralexcellence implies self-existence for He did not et
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anyone nor from anywhere.He did not go off into somevast, infinitely distant realmand there absorb His
holiness ; He is Himself theHoliness . He is the All- Holy ,
the Holy One; He is holiness itself, beyond the power of thought to grasp or of word toex ress be ond the ower of
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cannot express the holy, soGod resorts to association andsuggestion. He cannot say itoutright because He would
have to use words for whichwe know no meaning. He
would have to translate itdown into our unholiness. If He were to tell us how whiteHe is we would understand it
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dingy gray. God cannot tell usby language, so He usesassociation and suggestionand shows how holiness
affects the unholy.
Knowledge of the Holy by A. W. Tozer