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Christ the Lord: Jesus’ Person and Kingdom

PART I

Earlier we touched on the nature of the gospel at some length; it is worth pausing to register its heart again here, allowing the impression to settle afresh.

The final and perhaps most surprising aspect of God's holiness is what we might call his ‘fellowship-holiness’ — the truth that God's holiness is not only a barrier to relationship but the foundation of it.

God’s Purity-Holiness

The Spotless Moral Character of God

When most people think of holiness, they think primarily of moral purity — and they are not wrong.

God’s Majesty-Holiness

Over Us and Above Us, Yet for Us

When Scripture speaks of God's holiness, it often does so in language that emphasizes his absolute majesty and transcendence. This is what we might call God's "majesty-holiness" — the aspect of his holiness that sets him infinitely above and beyond all creation. This divine majesty can seem intimidating, even terrifying. Yet paradoxically, it is precisely God's absolute transcendence that makes him able to help us in ways that no one else can.

God’s Identity-Holiness

The Holiness of the Holy Trinity

When Scripture declares ‘Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty’ (Isa 6:3), it is not simply giving God a threefold emphasis for dramatic effect. Many biblical scholars have seen in this triple declaration a hint of the Trinity — the holiness of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. God's holiness is not an abstract divine attribute but the perfect life of the triune God: three Persons in one essence, existing in eternal communion of love.

God’s Difference-Holiness

Not Like Us, Yet For Us

One of the most fundamental aspects of God's holiness is what we might call his ‘difference-holiness’ — the reality that God is wholly other than his creation, utterly unlike anything else that exists. This difference is not accidental or arbitrary; it is essential to who God is. And paradoxically, it is precisely because God is so utterly different from us that he can be so completely for us.

The Holiness of Jesus Christ

Incarnate Perfection and Our Great High Priest

When the Bible speaks of God's holiness, it is not presenting an abstruse divine attribute that happens to apply to Jesus along with the Father and Spirit. Rather, in Jesus Christ, holiness becomes incarnate. The eternal holiness of God takes on human flesh, lives a human life, dies a human death, and rises with a glorified human body. In Christ, we see not only what God's holiness looks like, but what human holiness was always meant to be.

Five Features of God’s Holiness

From Threat to Promise

Making complex subjects simple is a genuine good — at least to the extent that it is possible. But we must not assume that only what is convenient, comfortable, or immediately comprehensible is worthy of belief. As one teacher used to say, ‘To communicate simply you must understand profoundly.’ Genuine clarity grows out of real depth. When ideas are oversimplified, they may appear attractive at first, but they tend to generate confusion later.

God Is Goodness Itself

Benjamin Dean

When we call God good, we are not applying an external standard to him, as if goodness existed independently and God happened to measure up. We are saying something far more radical: God does not merely conform to goodness. God is goodness.

Our Father’s Goodness

The Fatherly Heart Behind All That God Gives

What does it mean that God is good? One of the most searching answers in Scripture is also one of the simplest: God is good in the way a father is good. Not as a metaphor or a distant analogy, but as a living, personal, familial reality.

The Goodness of God from Moses to the Messiah

An Old and New Testament Survey

If you want to know what God is like, the Book of Exodus gives you one of the most direct answers in all of Scripture. Standing at Mount Sinai, Moses makes an audacious request: show me your glory. God's response reframes the question. It is not visual spectacle that captures God's essence.

Good from the Very Beginning

Creation, Blessing, and the Goodness of God

There is a word that runs like a golden thread through the opening pages of the Bible, repeated so insistently that no reader can miss it. That word is ‘good’. God makes the light, and it is good. He separates sea from land, and it is good.

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