How to end our war with God 

              Continuing Friday's blog, when we wrote about the word holy.                 In every case holy means something other. Things set apart. 

     "Things are not holy in themselves but become holy when sanctified by God. He alone is holy in Himself. Only God can change something from common to something different and apart." 

A 1985 article by the late Pastor R.C. Sproul

     "The word holy calls attention to all that God is. His love. His justice. His mercy. His knowledge, His spirit."

     "When we call things holy when they are not, that's idolatry" (extreme veneration or worship).       

     "We tend to have mixed feelings about holiness. We can't seem to decide which way we want it. The struggle we have with holy God is the conflict: He is just, and we are unjust."   

     At the age of accountability: "We are at war with God unless/until we are justified (declared righteous in the site of God). Only the justified person can be comfortable in the presence of holy God. For the (earnest) Christian the holy war is over."

     "Martin Luther explained, 'We are to fear God not like prisoners, but as children who do not wish to displease their father. We come to Him in confidence. We have access. We have a holy peace.'"

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 God.