HOLINESS - The state or quality of being holy.

The God of the Bible is the very essence and source of that which is holy. Three attributes which demonstrate that God is holy are:
 

• [1] The fact that He is morally pure.
  Example: God always speaks the truth.
   
• [2] God is righteous.
  
   
• [3] As God is righteous, he always acts in a manner that is just. Example: Because God is righteous and just, He cannot overlook sin and must punish wrong. However, God is merciful; And in his great love for humanity, wanted to give people a chance to avoid eternal punishment. By allowing his son

  Jesus Christ to suffer punishment for our sins, God can justly forgive sinners who repent of their sins and accept Jesus Christ as the Lord of their life.

  When a person lives in a manner consistent with the divine will of God, that person is in a state of being holy: that person is living a life of holiness. God requires his people to live a life of holiness (see Hebrews 12:14).

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this scripture of the week

DEDICATED TO OUR VISITORS IN JAPAN:

Romans 5:6-9

6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.

8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

(KJV)
 

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