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"But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do, for it is written: ‘Be holy, because I am holy'"
1 Peter 1:15-16

God is wholly different because God is wholly Holy.

Reactions to the Holiness of God

encounter God

Then Abram fell on his face

And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and said, “The Lord, he is God; the Lord, he is God.”

“Now when all the people saw the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were afraid and trembled, and they stood far off and said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, lest we die.”

DEFAULT MODE:
FOR SEEING GOD OR EVEN ONE OF HIS HOLY ANGELS IS FACE ON THE FLOOR!

For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!

Woe is me for...

• I am ruined
• I’m doomed!
• I will be destroyed. I am not pure enough to speak to God,
• For I am lost
• I am dead
• Doom! It’s Doomsday! I’m as good as dead! Every word I’ve ever spoken is tainted— blasphemous even!,

Requirements from the Holiness of God

On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon's, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the boat. And when he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” And Simon answered, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.” And when they had done this, they enclosed a large number of fish, and their nets were breaking.

They signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink. But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.”