What the Bible Teaches Us about God Pt 3

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• What the Bible Teaches Us about God Pt 3
• The Moral Attributes of God

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• The Moral Attributes of God
• 1. Holiness - God is Holy

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• Isa 61-5
• 1 In the year of King Uzziah's death, I saw the
  Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with
  the train of His robe filling the temple.
• 2 Seraphim stood above Him, each having six
  wings with two he covered his face, and with two
  he covered his feet, and with two he flew.
• 3 And one called out to another and said, "Holy,
  Holy, Holy, is the LORD of hosts, the whole earth
  is full of His glory."
• 4 And the foundations of the thresholds trembled
  at the voice of him who called out, while the
  temple was filling with smoke.
• 5 Then I said, "Woe is me, for I am ruined!
  Because I am a man of unclean lips, and I live
  among a people of unclean lips for my eyes have
  seen the King, the LORD of hosts." (NAS)

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• Gods Holiness refers to His ultimate
  uniqueness.
• God is separate from all that is.

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• Gods Holiness refers to His ultimate
  uniqueness.
• God is separate from all that is.
• God is not only unique He is absolutely pure.

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• Ps 54 For Thou art not a God who takes pleasure
  in wickedness no evil dwells with Thee. (NAS)
• Gods holiness means He cannot tolerate sin nor
  look upon anything that is not absolutely pure
  and holy like Himself.

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• Because God is holy believers are to be holy as
  well.
• Lev 1144 Eph 14, 527
• 1 Pet 115,16.

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• The Holiness of God reveals that we are sinful.
• The Holiness of God how sinful we are.
• The Holiness of God demands clear cut decisions
  about life.

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• Righteous is a dimension of Gods purity. It is
  Gods holiness applied in moral governance and
  the domain of law. Its holiness in action.

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• Three aspects of Gods Righteousness
• 1. Wrath Gods righteous response towards sin

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• Rom 118-19
• 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven
  against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of
  men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.
  (NAS)

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• Three aspects of Gods Righteousness
• 1. Wrath Gods righteous response towards sin
• 2. Impartiality -

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• 1 Pet 117 And if you address as Father the One
  who impartially judges according to each man's
  work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time
  of your stay upon earth (NAS)
• Col 325 For he who does wrong will receive the
  consequences of the wrong which he has done, and
  that without partiality. (NAS)

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• What is that impartial judgment?
• Death!
• Rom 623 For the wages of sin is death.

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• Three aspects of Gods Righteousness
• 1. Wrath Gods righteous response towards sin
• 2. Impartiality
• 3. Longsuffering

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• The Moral Attributes of God
• 1. Holiness - God is Holy
• 2. Love God is Love

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• 1 Cor 134-8
• 4 Love is patient, love is kind, and is not
  jealous love does not brag and is not
  arrogant,
• 5 does not act unbecomingly it does not seek its
  own, is not provoked, does not take into account
  a wrong suffered,
• 6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but
  rejoices with the truth
• 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes
  all things, endures all things.
• 8 Love never fails (NAS)

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• Love
• 1. Is Active it does something.

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• John 316
• 16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His
  only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him
  should not perish, but have eternal life. (NAS)
• Rom 58
• 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us,
  in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died
  for us. (NAS)
• I Jn 41
• 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but
  that He loved us and sent His Son to be the
  propitiation for our sins. (NAS)

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• Love
• 1. Is Active it does something.
• 2. The ultimate manifestation of Gods love is
  Jesus Christ

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• Love
• 1. Is Active it does something.
• 2. The ultimate manifestation of Gods love is
  Jesus Christ.
• 3. Humans are the special object of Gods love.

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• There are 4 ways Gods love is manifested
  towards us.

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• There are 4 ways Gods love is manifested
  towards us.
• 1. Benevolence

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• There are 4 ways Gods love is manifested
  towards us.
• 1. Benevolence
• 2. Grace

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• There are 4 ways Gods love is manifested
  towards us.
• 1. Benevolence
• 2. Grace
• 3. Mercy

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• There are 4 ways Gods love is manifested
  towards us.
• 1. Benevolence
• 2. Grace
• 3. Mercy
• 4. Longsuffering

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• 2 Pet 39 The Lord is not slow about His
  promise, as some count slowness, but is patient
  toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for
  all to come to repentance.
• (NAS)

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• Gods holiness reveals the fact of our sin. It
  also brings the unfortunate realization that we
  can not meet the righteous demands of a holy God.
  Like Isaiah we can only say, "Woe is me, for I
  am ruined! We only become holy and righteous
  when Gods holiness and righteousness is applied
  to our lives because of the Love of God. It can
  only come by the blood of Jesus Christ .