ypt, and
shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem." Isa. 27:13.
8. God's hill is holy. "Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall
dwell in thy holy hill?" Psa. 15:1.
9. God's name is holy. "My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord; and
let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever." Psa. 145:21.
10. God's works are holy. "The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy
in all his works." Psa. 145:17.
11. God's people are holy. "For thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy
God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto
himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth." Deut. 7:6.
Read Eph. 1:4; Col. 1:22; 1 Pet. 1:15; 2 Pet. 3:11.
12. God's people are his holy temple. "If any man defile the temple of
God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye
are." 1 Cor. 3:17.
13. God's church is a holy church. "Husbands, love your wives, even as
Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; that he might
sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word; that he
might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or
wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without
blemish." Eph. 5:25-27.
14. The way to heaven is a holy way. "And an highway shall be there, and a
way, and it shall be called the way of holiness; ... the redeemed shall
walk there." Isa. 35:8, 9.
Let us repeat: God is holy; heaven is holy; the angels are holy; Christ is
holy; the Spirit is holy; God's Word is holy; the way to heaven is holy.
Reader, we want you to picture before you a holy heaven and the holy way
that leads to heaven. Read this text: "Follow peace with all men, and
holiness without which no man shall see the Lord." Heb. 12:14.
Looking into the Word of the Lord we find that man was chosen to holiness.
Eph. 1:4. That God calls him to holiness. 1 Thes. 4:7. That God designed
that man should serve him in holiness. Luke 1:75. That God chastens man in
order that he might be partaker of his holiness. Heb. 12:10. That God
purposes that man shall be saved from his sin and bear fruit unto
holiness. Rom. 6:22. That God commands him to be holy in all manner of
conduct. 2 Pet. 3:11. God commands him to be holy because he is holy. 1
Pet. 1:15, 16. Looking unto God's great and holy plan in redeeming man,
and the holiness of heaven, and God sitting on his holy throne, and Christ
the Holy One at his right hand,
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