How firm of foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

Welcome to Through the Bible with Dr. J. Vernon McGee.

As our five-year journey through the whole word of God continues,

we're traveling through the Old Testament book of Zachariah, beginning in chapter 13.

But first here's Dr. McGee with a special introduction on God's holiness

and how we can reflect his character.

Now, last time I was talking about the holiness of God, and the reason for that is that

there will be a holy people on this earth in the millennium, and heaven for the believer means that he will be a holy person. And holiness is just something that we

today try to avoid. We don't talk about it. It's not preached about very much. And today it's how we can do

things, how we can become wonderful people when we're not wonderful people.

Well, God wants us to be holy, and he says, be ye holy as I'm holy.

How in the world can we be holy when we are farther from God in respect to holiness than any other of the wonderful attributes of God.

We are so unlike him here.

Now, we were saying last time that holiness is part of the character of God,

that he did not become holy by going to school and graduating and majoring in holiness.

And there are people today that they try to act cultured and educated.

But instead of acting cultured and educated, why not be cultured and be educated? And you won't have to act like that.

And God doesn't have to act like that. God is holy. And we see on the positive side of the holiness of God. In Hebrews 12, 29, it is said our God is a

consuming fire. And in the little epistle of 1 John, we didn't dwell on that when we went

through it,

but you have contrasted the three definitions of God,

and you have God is light, that is God is holy.

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