The Real God - The Holiness of God, Part 1

Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

God is holy, and He wants us to be holy, but how do we do that? What’s it really look like to be holy? Do we have to give up everything fun? Do we have to be serious 24/7 and keep a perfect, holy checklist? Join Chip for the surprising answer.

Defining the Holiness of God:

“We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensible and unattainable. The natural man is blind to it. He may fear God’s power and admire His wisdom, but His holiness he cannot even imagine.” -A. W. Tozer, Knowledge of the Holy

How does God reveal His holiness to us?

Through SUPERNATURAL ENCOUNTERS
Through PLACES
Through the LAW
Through the PROPHETS
Through His WRATH and JUDGMENT
Through His SON
Through His PEOPLE

God’s holiness raises two important questions:

If God is so holy that He cannot even gaze at sin, how can sinful people like us have a relationship with Him? -Romans 5:6-10
If trusting in Christ’s work on the cross blots out our sin before God and we are holy in His sight, why do we keep on sinning?

Justification: Positional holiness - Point-in-time status with God
Sanctification: Progressive holiness - Ongoing improvement
Glorification: Permanent holiness - We are finally like Him

How must we respond to the holiness of God?

It’s a COMMITMENT we make. -Hebrews 12:14
It’s a COMMAND we obey. -1 Peter 1:13-16, Hebrew 13:4

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0:00.0	Let me ask you a question. What comes into your mind when you hear the word holy?
0:07.0	I mean, what do you think of when you think God is holy? Is it candles? Is it incense? Is it unattainable perfection?
0:15.0	Well, here's the deal. How can we be holy if we can't even define it? Stay with me.
0:25.8	Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.
0:30.9	The mission of this daily program is to intentionally disciple Christians through the insightful Bible teaching of Chip Ingram. Thanks for being with us as we dive back into a series,
0:35.8	The Real God, How he longs for you
0:38.0	to see him.
0:39.2	So far we've learned about God's goodness and sovereignty.
0:42.5	And today he'll shed light on another attribute of God that reveals a part of his character
0:47.1	you may not have thought about before.
0:49.6	So if you're ready, go to Hebrews chapter 12 in your Bible as we join Chip for his message, the holiness
0:55.3	of God.
0:57.5	I'd like to take you back for just a moment and imagine if you could that you are a camera
1:04.5	crew and that God has suspended time and he's going to allow you to film something.
1:17.5	And I want you to imagine that you're sort of that fly on the wall or that camera crew,
1:25.5	and you had to really work on the set design because as you watch the children of Israel come through the Red Sea, it was just mind-boggling.
1:30.0	And you've done multiple interviews with teenagers and older people,
1:35.3	and they talked about the terror of watching all those plagues and the frogs and the Nile
1:42.2	and all these things that after literally 400 years,
1:46.9	these acts in God's power. And I'd like to take you back to Exodus 19. And imagine if you
1:58.7	literally were filming and watching and think i'm always i guess something
2:05.8	about me is always drawn to when god does something the first time seems to me that it's very
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