The Real God - The Holiness of God, Part 2

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

God's holiness raises two really great questions: 1) If God is so holy that He can't even look at sin, how can sinful people have a relationship with Him? 2) If trusting Jesus' sacrifice on the cross to cover our sin and make us holy in God's sight, why do we keep on sinning? Join Chip as he tackles these and more.

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	We all know that even the very best of Christians mess up and sin sometimes.
0:07.0	Well, if that's true, how do we obey God's command, be holy because I am holy?
0:13.0	How does that work? Well, stick around.
0:17.0	Thank you for being with us for this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip England.
0:22.6	Chip serves as our Bible teacher for this global teaching and discipleship ministry,
0:26.6	helping Christians develop an authentic faith.
0:29.6	In this program, Chip picks up in his series, The Real God, as he continues examining God's most essential characteristics that paint a clearer picture
0:38.7	of his nature.
0:40.3	Last time, he underscored the importance of God's holiness and provided a precise definition
0:45.5	from Scripture.
0:46.8	Today he'll continue explaining how God chooses to reveal the wonderment of His Holiness
0:51.7	to his people.
0:53.0	So if you're ready, grab your notes and Bible as we settle in for the remainder of Chips Talk.
0:58.7	I'd like you to open your Bibles, and I want to walk through a familiar passage, but I want you to see the pattern.
1:04.9	I'm sure most of you are familiar with Isaiah chapter 6.
1:08.8	But Isaiah chapter 6 is the pattern of what happens to a man or a woman who gets a
1:19.1	glimpse of the holiness of God as I read it I want you to begin thinking about three views one
1:27.2	an upward view two Two is an inward
1:30.9	view and three is an outward view. And in the context, I want to suggest that this is a deep,
1:38.6	deep crisis in Israel. And if you're a prophet in Israel and the world is falling apart and the political
1:45.8	situation is unstable, does this sound familiar, and you're not sure what the future is going
1:50.4	to be like, does this sound familiar? And everyone's fearful and you have a moral responsibility
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