Our God is Holy

“...to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane”  - Ezekiel 42.20

 

Our God is Holy.

 

The above verse is talking about the future Temple and how God makes a clear, separation between the sanctuary and the profane”, between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean.

 

The God of the Bible is Holy.  He is very different from all the other gods man might worship.  He does not “share”.  He cannot share because He is holy.  He is holy and everything about Him is holy.

 

Holy means He is separate from everything else.

 

God is not inclusive – being Holy means He is exclusive.

 

Saying that God is “inclusive” would be like telling a child to go ahead and eat the mud pie they have made while playing!  Who would do such an unkind thing?  God is holy, He is clean – mud is not!

 

As much as man wants to say that God will take us any way we might want to come to Him, that is just not possible.  They only way we can ever come to this God – the God of the Bible – is to be washed.  To be washed in the blood of the Lamb.  That makes us clean.  That makes us holy.  That makes us “just as if I’d had never sinned” – justified.

 

The nature of man is to hate the holiness of God, because the holiness of God means we cannot worship ourselves – we are unworthy of worship, we are unclean, even all the good we might do – “we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.” Isaiah 64.6

 

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