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Exploring HisExcellencies

He is Holy John Isaacs

May 24, 2009KingsWay Community Church


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Everythingwill work out

fine,

if we press into

God's presence


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NotK i g

The Most Common

Barrier ToPressing Into

God


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What is Godlike?I think God is like

God has revealed Himself

in the Bible to be

- Will lead toidolatry!

- Will inspire


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God is who theBible (in itstotality)reveals Him to


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We willexperience God

more completely aswe come to

understand Himmore clearly.


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The Bible Reveals

God To Be

1. All GoodThe Goodness of God is the sum total of allof Gods favorable

characteristics


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The Bible Reveals

God To Be

2. All PowerfulGod is able to act or to produce any effect or result that He

wants


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The Bible Reveals

God To Be

3. All Wise Able to see the most perfect way and howto get there by the

most perfect means


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The Bible Reveals

God To Be

4. EternalGod is forever. Hedidnt have abeginning and He will

not have an end


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The Bible Reveals

God To Be

1. All Good2. All Powerful3. All Wise

4 Eternal


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The Bible Reveals

Gods Attributes As 1. OriginalThe source or cause fromwhich everything arises. He

isnt a copy of anything allthings exist as a copy of Him.


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The Bible Reveals

Gods Attributes As 2. EssentialImplies belonging to the very nature of a thing and

therefore being incapable of removal without destroying

the thing itself or its


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The Bible Reveals

Gods Attributes As 3. InfiniteWithout measure. To extend indefinitely or to be endless.

Subject to no limitation or external determination.


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The Bible Reveals

Gods Attributes As 4. ImmutableTo not be capable of changeor susceptible to any

variation.


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The Bible Reveals

Gods Attributes As

1. Original2. Essential3. Infinite

4 Immutable


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1. He is originally powerful: Powerful in Himself, which nothing

else is.2. He is essentially powerful:

Not only powerful, but He is power itself.

3. He is infinitely powerful:There is no measure to His power.

4. He is immutably powerful:There was never a time when God was more or less powerful. Hedoesnt change.


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Jesus was and is the perfect representation of God theFather.

He is the revelation of Godsgoodness . He is the demonstration Gods

power . He is the manifestation of God wisdom .


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With the goodness of God

to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of

God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it,what do we lack? Surely weare the most favored of allcreatures.-


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Godis

Holy


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Isaiah 6:3And one called toanother and said:"Holy, holy, holy isthe LORD of hosts; thewhole earth is full of

his glory!"


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Revelation 4:8Each of the four livingcreatures had six wings andwas covered with eyes allaround, even under his wings.Day and night they never stopsaying: " Holy, holy, holy isthe Lord God Almighty, who

was, and is, and is to come."


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Holiness The loftiness, exaltedness,and splendor of God. The absolute purity of Hisgoodness. God is untouchedand unstained by evil. He isperfectly pure and complete in

His character.


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Holiness He is separate from Hiscreation. Distinct from all elsein the universe.


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When you talk about theholiness of God, you have notonly the problem of anintellectual grasp, but also a

sense of personal vileness,which is almost too much to

bear. Each one of us is borninto a tainted world, and welearn impurity from ourcradles.


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We nurse it in with ourmothers milk, we breathe it inthe very air. Our educationdeepens it and our experience

confirms it evil impuritieseverywhere. Everything is

dirty; even our whitest white isdingy gray. This kind of worldgets into our pores, into ournerves,


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until we have lost the ability toconceive of the holy .Holiness means purity, butpurity doesnt describe it

well enough. Purity merelymeans that it is unmixed, with

nothing else in it. But thatisnt enough. We talk of moralexcellency, but that isntade uate. To be morall


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someone else in moralcharacter. But when we saythat God is morally excellent,who is it that He exceeds? The

angels, the seraphim? SurelyHe does but that still isnt

enough. We mean rectitude;we mean honor; we meantruth and righteousness; wemean all of these uncreated


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eternal. God is not now anyholier than He ever was. ForHe, being unchanging andunchangeable, can never

become holier than He is.And He never was holier than

He is, and Hell never be anyholier than now. His moralexcellence implies self-existence for He did not et


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anyone nor from anywhere.He did not go off into somevast, infinitely distant realmand there absorb His

holiness ; He is Himself theHoliness . He is the All- Holy ,

the Holy One; He is holiness itself, beyond the power of thought to grasp or of word toex ress be ond the ower of


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cannot express the holy, soGod resorts to association andsuggestion. He cannot say itoutright because He would

have to use words for whichwe know no meaning. He

would have to translate itdown into our unholiness. If He were to tell us how whiteHe is we would understand it


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dingy gray. God cannot tell usby language, so He usesassociation and suggestionand shows how holiness

affects the unholy.

Knowledge of the Holy by A. W. Tozer

05-24-2009 exploring his excellencies - his holiness

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