The Living Triune God of the Bible is referred to twice in the New Testament as being Love (I John 4:8, 16). He is referred to over 100 times in the New Testament as being Holy. (I do not point this out to diminish the wonder of His love for us).

Obviously the oft repeated call to holiness for God's people is intended for the prophets and thankfully as Peter notes, many of them were noted by or for their holiness.

God who is holy has always expected His servants or the leaders of His people to likewise be holy. It is impossible for them to please Him in their service to Him apart from walking in holiness.

Angels are highly involved in day to day life on planet earth, but most people are unawares or even oblivious to this activity. God chose to give Daniel much revelation of their activity, at least partly due to Daniel's steadfast seeking of God and His kingdom.

This category of holiness in the Old Testament is by far the greatest in terms of occurrences. As you can see there are pages and pages of them. This gives us a sense of the scope or breadth of holiness.

The following verses in the Old Testament all relate to God's call for His people to be a holy people. I offer them for your meditation...

Over the last weeks I have been compiling and sorting every reference to the word "holy" and "holiness" in the Old and New Testaments....

"the lost enjoy forever the horrible freedom they have demanded, and are therefore self-enslaved." C.S. Lewis - The Problem of Pain - p. 115 Dear Readers: Because some claim that a loving and good God would never cause the lost and rebellious to experience His judgment and the horrors of hell in an ongoing way; and they and others claim that God’s judgment will be immediate, once and for all, and will be over in a matter of minutes or hours, and will not continue throughout e

Genesis chps. 1-3 - God’s Original Plan for Marriage Genesis 2:24 - Man's Responsibility to leave parents Psalm 45:10,11 Wive's Responsibility to leave parents Psalm 112:1-3 - Blessing of God on man & family who fears God Psalm 127:1 - (re: building a home - not physical house) Psalm 128:1-4 - the Blessing of God on the family of the man who fears God Proverbs 2:16,17 – marriage as covenant with God Proverbs chps. 5-7 - pitfall of adultery Proverbs 5:15-19 – one solution

Thought it might be helpful to summarize the requests Paul listed in these passages and added one at the end. Romans 15:30-32 - - “ Now I urge you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God for me, that I may be rescued from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may prove acceptable to the saints; so that I may come to you in joy by the will of God and find refreshing res

I compiled this list for several reasons: First, so that leaders of Christ’s church will see the need to intentionally request prayer and not feel ashamed to do so. We are in good company when we do so.

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