Book Summary: The Holiness of God
Chapter 1
Publishing Information:
ISBN:
978-0-8423-1498-5
Copyright:
1985
222
pages
Chapter 1. The Holy Grail
Key Verses:
Joshua
1:5 – “As I was with Moses, so I will be with thee.”
Habakkuk
1:12 – “Art thou not from everlasting, O Lord my God, mine Holy One?”
John
1: 1-3 – “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the
Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by
him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.”
Key Quotes:
Sproul
recounted his conversion experience. He was a college student at the time. One
night, his sleep was disturbed and he was mysteriously impelled to get up and
leave his dorm room. He went to the chapel, and fell to his knees…:
“I
was in a posture of prayer, but I had nothing to say. I knelt there quietly,
allowing the sense of the presence of a holy God to fill me. The beat of my
heart was telltale, a thump-thump against my chest. An icy chill started at the
base of my spine and crept up my neck. Fear swept over me. I fought the impulse
to run from the foreboding presence that gripped me.
The
terror passed, but soon it was followed by another wave. This wave was
different. It flooded my soul with unspeakable peace, a peace that brought
instant rest and repose to my troubled spirit. At once I was comfortable. I
wanted to linger there. To say nothing. To do nothing. Simply to bask in the
presence of God.”
That
moment was life-transforming. Something deep in my spirit was being settled
once for all. From this moment there could be no turning back; there could be
no erasure of the indelible imprint of its power. I was alone with God. A holy
God. An awesome God. A God who could fill me with terror in one second and with
peace in the next. I knew in that hour that I had tasted of the Holy Grail.
Within me was born a new thirst that could never be fully satisfied in this
world…”
“We
cannot think rightly of God until we begin to think of Him as always being
there, and there first.”
Questions:
Allowing
God’s holiness to touch our lives:
1.
When you think of God as holy, what
comes to your mind?
2.
Describe a time when you were overcome
by God’s holiness.
3.
Are you attracted to God’s holiness?
4.
What does it mean for you to be holy in
the coming week?
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