The God of Holiness

There is no attribute of God so difficult to define, so peculiarly a matter of Divine revelation, so mysterious, incomprehensible, and inconceivably glorious, as His Holiness. It is that by which He is specially worshiped in His majesty on the Throne of Heaven (Isaiah 6: 2 ; Revelation 4:8, 15:4). It unites His Righteousness, that Judges and condemns, with His Love, that saves and blesses. As the Holy One He is a consuming fire (Isaiah 10:17) ; as the Holy One He Loves to dwell among His people (Isaiah 12:6; Psalm 68:18). As the Holy One He is at an infinite distance from us; as the Holy One He comes inconceivably near, and makes us one with Himself, makes us like Himself. The one purpose of His holy Covenant is to make us holy as He is holy. This is the purpose of His New Covenant that is so resisted by the spirit of the world and the churches that are influenced and governed by it. God has only one way into His relationship with us and that is through the death of all self will and the influence of the spirit of the world now so prevalent in the church.Oh! hear the call: to come out from among them, to take up His yoke and learn of Me.

As the Holy One He says: " I am holy; be you holy; I am the Lord which hallow you, which make you holy." The highest conceivable summit of Blessedness is our being partakers of the Divine nature, of the Divine Holiness.

This is the great blessing Christ, the Mediator of the New Covenant, brings. He has been made to us "both Righteousness and Sanctification" ---righteousness in order to, as a preparation for, sanctification (Remember and consider that the words sanctify, sanctity, saint are the same as make holy, holiness, holy one.) or holiness. He prayed to the Father: "Sanctify them; for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves may also be sanctified in Truth." In Him we are Sanctified, saints, holy ones (Romans 1:7; 1 Corinthians 1: 2). We have put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and holiness. Holiness is now to be our very nature.

We are holy in Christ. As we believe it, as we receive it, as we yield ourselves to the Truth, and draw near to God to have the holiness drawn forth and revealed in intimacy with Him, its fountain, we shall Know how Divinely true this is.