Category: The Holiness of God
How Then Shall We Live, Before The Holiness of God?
How Then Shall We Live? Are you still bored? Do you still think that God is an irrelevant subject? Would you still go through your life with self as the center and citadel of your existence? Your wasted conversations on trifling things? Your concealing the gospel to a friend or loved one, or a fellow passenger on the bus? How then shall we live? It is not my desire to simply challenge you on these issues. Christian ...
How Then Shall We Live, Before The Holiness of God?
How Then Shall We Live? Are you still bored? Do you still think that God is an irrelevant subject? Would you still go through your life with self as the center and citadel of your existence? Your wasted conversations on trifling things? Your concealing the gospel to a friend or loved one, or a fellow passenger on the bus? How then shall we live? It is not my desire to simply challenge you on these issues. Christian ...
The Great Exchange: Replacing the Glory of God for a Lie
The Great Exchange How do we account for this mysterious reality where the great majority of men and women even amongst those who profess the name of Christ are indifferent towards the presence of God? Is it perhaps because they are uninformed? Or because of sheer ignorance? Will that work however? When before the judgment seat of Christ is it possible for us to plead ignorance? When our time comes to die and we stand before the ...
The Great Exchange: Replacing the Glory of God for a Lie
The Great Exchange How do we account for this mysterious reality where the great majority of men and women even amongst those who profess the name of Christ are indifferent towards the presence of God? Is it perhaps because they are uninformed? Or because of sheer ignorance? Will that work however? When before the judgment seat of Christ is it possible for us to plead ignorance? When our time comes to die and we stand before the ...
Do You Tremble When You Come Before the Holy?
What Have We Missed? We often cry out to God's mercy when we are enduring great trials, pains, and heart-wrenching problems. We seek God so desperately in these moments, often promising that we would surrender our lives if He would save us in those crisis moments. We cry out to God, His love, His mercy, His grace. In that, the God of love would help us in our time of great need. This happens so often ...
Do You Tremble When You Come Before the Holy?
What Have We Missed? We often cry out to God's mercy when we are enduring great trials, pains, and heart-wrenching problems. We seek God so desperately in these moments, often promising that we would surrender our lives if He would save us in those crisis moments. We cry out to God, His love, His mercy, His grace. In that, the God of love would help us in our time of great need. This happens so often ...
A Boring and Irrelevant God
A Boring and Irrelevant God A poll was conducted years ago to find out what are the reasons behind why people ceased attending Church. This survey was directed at people who previously were members of a local Church congregation and eventually ceased attending their respective Churches. The main and most popular reason why churched people quit Church is because, from their point of view, Church was boring. The second reason is that Church was irrelevant. The dry ...
A Boring and Irrelevant God
A Boring and Irrelevant God A poll was conducted years ago to find out what are the reasons behind why people ceased attending Church. This survey was directed at people who previously were members of a local Church congregation and eventually ceased attending their respective Churches. The main and most popular reason why churched people quit Church is because, from their point of view, Church was boring. The second reason is that Church was irrelevant. The dry ...
God Hates the Sinner And Hates the Sin
One of the most popular beliefs of the day is that God loves everybody, and the very fact that it is so popular with all classes ought to be enough to arouse the suspicious of those who are subject to the Word of Truth. God’s love toward all His creatures is the fundamental and favorite tenet of Universalists, Unitarians, Theosophists, Christian Scientists, Spiritualists, Russellites, etc. No matter how a man may live—in open defiance of Heaven, ...
God Hates the Sinner And Hates the Sin
One of the most popular beliefs of the day is that God loves everybody, and the very fact that it is so popular with all classes ought to be enough to arouse the suspicious of those who are subject to the Word of Truth. God’s love toward all His creatures is the fundamental and favorite tenet of Universalists, Unitarians, Theosophists, Christian Scientists, Spiritualists, Russellites, etc. No matter how a man may live—in open defiance of Heaven, ...
We Have Banished the Holy God of Scripture
If there is any doctrine that rivals God's sovereignty in importance it is the holiness of God. But do we have any sense or appreciation of the holiness of God in our churches today? David Wells writes that God's holiness weighs "lightly upon us." Why? Holiness involves God's transcendence. It involves majesty, the authority of sovereign power, stateliness or grandeur. It embraces the idea of God's sovereign majestic will, a will that is set upon proclaiming himself to ...
We Have Banished the Holy God of Scripture
If there is any doctrine that rivals God's sovereignty in importance it is the holiness of God. But do we have any sense or appreciation of the holiness of God in our churches today? David Wells writes that God's holiness weighs "lightly upon us." Why? Holiness involves God's transcendence. It involves majesty, the authority of sovereign power, stateliness or grandeur. It embraces the idea of God's sovereign majestic will, a will that is set upon proclaiming himself to ...
How Can We be so Indifferent to His Majesty?
In the English language when we want to call attention to something that's particularly important, to give it emphasis, there are different ways that we can do that in print. We can underline words, or italicize them, put them in bold face type, put little quotation marks or brackets around them or fill the page with exclamation points. That's what we do with emphasis. Well the Jews did the same thing. They did all of that, ...
How Can We be so Indifferent to His Majesty?
In the English language when we want to call attention to something that's particularly important, to give it emphasis, there are different ways that we can do that in print. We can underline words, or italicize them, put them in bold face type, put little quotation marks or brackets around them or fill the page with exclamation points. That's what we do with emphasis. Well the Jews did the same thing. They did all of that, ...
The God that Hates Iniquity and Sin.
It is infinitely benevolent of God, I will venture to say, to cast evil men into hell. If that be thought to be a hard and strange statement, I reply that inasmuch as there is sin in the world, it is no benevolence to tolerate so great an evil; it is the highest benevolence to do all that can be done to restrain the horrible pest. It would be far from benevolent for our ...
The God that Hates Iniquity and Sin.
It is infinitely benevolent of God, I will venture to say, to cast evil men into hell. If that be thought to be a hard and strange statement, I reply that inasmuch as there is sin in the world, it is no benevolence to tolerate so great an evil; it is the highest benevolence to do all that can be done to restrain the horrible pest. It would be far from benevolent for our ...
A Sense of Security in One’s Sins.
One of the most popular beliefs of the day is that God loves everybody, and the very fact that it is so popular with all classes ought to be enough to arouse the suspicions of those who are subject to the Word of Truth. God’s Love toward all His creatures is the fundamental and favorite tenet of Universalists, Unitarians, Theosophists, Christian Scientists, Spiritualists,
A Sense of Security in One’s Sins.
One of the most popular beliefs of the day is that God loves everybody, and the very fact that it is so popular with all classes ought to be enough to arouse the suspicions of those who are subject to the Word of Truth. God’s Love toward all His creatures is the fundamental and favorite tenet of Universalists, Unitarians, Theosophists, Christian Scientists, Spiritualists,