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Holy, Holy, Holy: Proclaiming the Perfections of God is unavailable, but you can change that!

The angels in Isaiah’s vision of God’s heavenly temple (Isa. 6) used threefold repetition to praise His holiness, the superlative form of emphasis in the Hebrew language. Their cry tells us that nothing is as significant as the holiness of God. Tragically, the holiness of God has been obscured in our time, and as a result, the church’s doctrine and ethics have been tarnished, entertainment has...

that sound familiar to you? Do you recall hearing anything like that from the pen of Moses? How about Exodus 20:2–3: “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me”? These declarations from God to Cyrus affirm the uniqueness of God. In the remainder of this chapter, I want to consider briefly what is unique about the God of the Bible. The term holy has two common references. The first and
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