1 Peter 1:16b<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201c\u201cBe holy, for I am holy.\u201d <\/em>God was, is, and always will be holy. Man in our finite mind, no matter how brilliant one may be, cannot fathom just how holy God really is. Isaiah said, \u201cFor thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name\u00a0is<\/em> Holy\u201d (Isaiah 57:15). He is so Holy that His Name is Holy. We ought to be aware anytime we use that word holy in our comments, unless we are using it properly and in the context of God and all that pertains to Him. The first word on the cover of your Bible is \u201cHOLY\u201d; the question is, do you regard it as HOLY and read it as Holy? It is Holy because God spoke it, that<\/em> made it Holy. You say you believe in God, \u201cYou do well. Even the demons believe\u2014and tremble\u201d (James 2:19), but they\u2019ll never be holy. You will never become holy on your own; you need to be in the Word for the Word to be in you. God is Holy, His Word is Holy, and it was given to make you holy. Our text today says \u201cBE HOLY\u201d, and it isn\u2019t a suggestion!<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1 Peter 1:16b \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201c\u201cBe holy, for I am holy.\u201d God was, is, and always will be holy. Man in our finite mind, no matter how brilliant one may be, cannot fathom just how holy God really is. Isaiah said, \u201cFor thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name\u00a0is Holy\u201d (Isaiah […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":825,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}