People sometimes accuse the church of turning ‘God Almighty’ into ‘God all-matey’. Christians often struggle to reconcile the holiness of God with the access we have to him through Christ Jesus. This passage from Hebrews helps us to understand how we should approach God.
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Why did God give the Law, and why did God send Jesus? We can’t understand how Jesus fulfils the old covenant unless we understand what God wants from us in the first place. The answer is summed up in one word – holiness. In this sermon we think about holiness and how Jesus is the fulfilment of everything that God promised for us.
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Many Christians today have too low a view of who God is and what his holiness means. God is Almighty, not “all-matey”. This passage from Exodus 19 demonstrates what it means to come into God’s presence, and how much we should therefore treasure Christ.
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In the first step of our journey learning about holiness, we see that spiritual knowledge is vital. But do we mean by knowledge? How does spiritual knowledge differ from worldly knowledge? And how do we get it?
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This is the first part of a new course called “A practical guide to holiness”. We think about what holiness is, why we should be interested in it, and the dangers of ignoring holiness.
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What happens when we die, according to the Bible? Death is one of the biggest mysteries of life – we don’t know what lies beyond the grave. The Bible teaches us that, although there are some things we don’t know, there are things we can be sure about.
Find out more about the Firm Foundations course by watching the Introduction. The previous session (part 39, on Death) is here.
What does it mean for God to be “Holy”? In this session we look at what God’s holiness is and what difference it makes to us as Christians.
The series on Galatians I mention is available under the Galatians tag. The particular video I referred to about why we still should do good is part of the Galatians series – available here.
Find out more about the Firm Foundations course by watching the Introduction. The previous session is here.
