Teaching by Lois Bergsma
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The Attributes of God - Part 10
Holiness-Justice-Wrath
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I. Holiness (Separate set apart)
Attribute which
describes God as morally separate and unique from all other creatures.
He is absolute
purity and perfection.
a.
Unique
Without
a like or equal unmatched:
Unequalled
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Rev
15:4
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Samuel 2:2
b.
Infinite holiness
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Isaiah
57:15
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Job
25:5
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I John
1:5
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Exodus
15:11
Rev. 4:1-8 AMP
AFTER THIS I looked, and behold, a door
standing open in heaven! And the first voice which I had heard addressing me
like [the calling of] a war trumpet said, Come up here, and I will show you what must take place in the future.
At once I came under the [Holy] Spirit
And He Who sat there appeared like [the crystalline brightness of] jasper and
[the fiery] sardius, and encircling the throne there
was a halo that looked like [a rainbow of] emerald.
Twenty-four other thrones surrounded the
throne, and seated on these thrones were twenty-four elders
(the members of the heavenly Sanhedrin), arrayed in white clothing, with
crowns of gold upon their heads.
Out from the throne came flashes of lightning and rumblings and peals of
thunder, and in front of the throne seven blazing torches burned, which are the
seven Spirits of God [the sevenfold Holy Spirit];
And in front of the throne there was also what looked like a transparent glassy
sea, as if of crystal.
And
around the throne, in the center at each side of the throne, were four living
creatures (beings) who were full of eyes in
front and behind [with intelligence as to what is before and at the rear of
them]. The first living creature (being)
was like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living
creature had the face of a man, and the fourth living creature [was] like a
flying eagle.
And the four living creatures, individually
having six wings, were full of eyes all over and within [underneath their
wings]; and day and night they never stop saying,
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God
Almighty (Omnipotent),
Who was and Who is and Who is to come.
Isaiah 6:1-5
Psalms 89:7
Psalms 111:9+10a
II.
Justice Righteousness (used
synonymously)
Attribute of God
which describes Gods fairness, Just treatment and impartiality toward all his
creatures.
It is the holiness of God as manifested and applied in moral government.
Ps. 33:5
Job 8: 3, 34
Deut. 2:4
Ps. 89:14 Ps 145:17
Justice Includes impartiality
Deut. 10:17
II Chron. 19:7
Rom. 2:6+11 AMP
Holiness & Justice meet at the cross
Ps 103:10 I Jn. 1:9
III. Wrath (Anger, indignation, vengeance, fury)
This attribute
(perfection) of God is His eternal detestation of all unrighteousness.
The outworking of
His holiness & justice demands wrath.
God does not
apologize for His wrath as though it is a less perfect part of His being
Ps. 7:11 Deut.
28: 59-63 Rev. 19:1-3
Eternal is present
Jn. 3:36 Rom. 1:18 Rom. 13:4
Num. 20: 8-12
Eternal includes future
But
because of your stubbornness and
your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for
the day of God
Luke 12:5
But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after the killing of
the body, has power to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him.
Deut. 4:23-24
Matt. 23:33
Matt 11:23 Rev. 21:8
II Cor. 5:10-11