Holy God

A holy God must punish sin, but "For our sake he made him [Jesus] to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God."

 

What does it mean for the Lord to be holy? Psalm 5:4-6 gives us a glimpse of what it means by telling us some things that our holy Lord won't tolerate.

4 For you are not a God who delights in wickedness;
evil may not dwell with you.
5 The boastful shall not stand before your eyes;
you hate all evildoers.
6 You destroy those who speak lies;
the Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man. (ESV)

I have seen video after video posted that tries to tell me that the Lord will save everyone. It doesn't matter what they have done because the Lord's love is unconditional. That just flies in the face of what the Lord has revealed in these verse. When someone delights in wickedness and evil, they cannot dwell with the Lord. The Lord will not accept them until they turn from their evil. Our holy Lord has no association with wickedness.

Some people boast that they will get into heaven because they have lived a good life or maybe just enough above average to earn salvation. Other boasting is more subtle. They say they accepted Jesus as their Savior. They had the smarts or goodness in them to turn to Jesus. This is actually boasting because they are claiming a portion of the credit for salvation for themselves. Whatever part they claim is taking away from what the Lord does in salvation, which is really 100 percent. Ephesians 2 verses 8 and 9 clearly tell us that salvation is all the Lord's work so that we can't boast about contributing even 1 percent to our salvation. According to Psalm 5 verse 5, boasting is what evildoers do.

What will our holy Lord do to evil people? He will destroy them because he abhors all kinds of evil including lying and murder. That's the bad news. But the good news is that instead of punishing everyone because we are all evil, he punished the only one who has never done wrong, Jesus Christ. When we turn to Jesus to be saved from the Lord's wrath, our sins and their punishment is attributed to Jesus. In exchange, Jesus's perfectly pure life is attributed to us. If you want to know more about this, watch my video on Youtube, "The Gospel in 3 Minutes" It will tell you how to turn to Jesus for salvation from the Lord's wrath.

May God Bless you!