{"id":7806,"date":"2016-08-16T23:44:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/godsholiness\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T23:44:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:44:22","slug":"godsholiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/godsholiness\/","title":{"rendered":"GOD\u2019S\nHOLINESS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>A true love for God must begin with a delight in his holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Jonathan Edwards<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Before I begin to think and consider the love of God and the mercy and compassion of God, I must start with the holiness of God.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>M. Lloyd-Jones<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of all sin, was never invented by any of Adam\u2019s fallen descendants.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>A.W. Pink<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>We cannot grasp the true meaning of the divine holiness by thinking of someone or something very pure and then raising the concept to the highest degree we are capable of. God\u2019s holiness is not simply the best we know infinitely bettered. We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensible and unattainable. The natural man is blind to it. He may fear God\u2019s power and admire His wisdom, but His holiness he cannot even imagine.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>A.W. Tozer<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A true love for God must begin with a delight in his holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this. Jonathan Edwards Before I begin to think and consider the love of God and the mercy and compassion of God, I must start with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/godsholiness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GOD\u2019S<br \/>\nHOLINESS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}