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6/26/2022 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA

Worship Leader: Matt Griffith
Speaker: Pastor Steve Estes
Title: Sanctification Sermon #1: What is Holiness?  Do I need it?
Scripture: Leviticus 19:1-2

Now the LORD said to Moses, "Speak to the entire assembly of Israel and say to them: Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy."

Notes:

1. God says, "I am holy."
     A. The meaning of "holy"
     B. First: God's holiness means He is separate from us
     C. Second: God's holiness means separate because He is superior to us
     D. Third: God's holiness means He is different from us
     E. Fourth: God's holiness means He has no evil in Himself

2. God sometimes declares certain places and objects "holy"
     A. Moses and the burning bush
     B. Other objects, places, and times
     C. These things are not ethically holy

3. God sometimes sets certain people aside to be "holy"
     A. Levites
     B. Israelites

4. God not only declares Christian believers "holy"--He commands us to be holy
      A. God's demand for holiness seems unattractive
      B. God's demand for holiness seems scary
      C. God's demand for holiness seems impossible

5. Three thoughts in response
      A. Regarding holiness as unattractive

      B. Regarding holiness as scary

      C. Regarding holiness as impossible

Benediction: May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through.  May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.  The one who calls you is faithful and he will do it. (1 Thessalonians 5:23-24)