be healthy, when we lose our health and become sick. What, then is the opposite of holiness? ‘Sin, of course!’ says someone; and that is correct as far as it goes. But sin expresses itself in many ways. As the opposite of righteousness, for instance, sin, says the Bible (1 John 3:4), is lawlessness. It is living in total disregard of God’s law, as if God’s law did not exist. But what is sin as the opposite of holiness? It is this that the Lord Jesus is about to teach us. In identifying the traitor,