* that is, “acting or being without the intervention of another object, cause, or agency ” not “instant.” (definition from ). The first chapter is what will separate her from most books on the topic-following John Owen, she talks about sanctification as the immediate* work of the Spirit through the work of rebirth/regeneration and the changing the nature of the believer. The other strength of this book is the way that Perry uses two chapters to address the believer’s response to God’s holiness in their own. There is always the promise of Christ’s work for His people, His redemption in the midst of this-our only hope. She never uses that as a way to induce fear and despair, never tells the reader to give up-or to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps to a makeshift righteousness (a futile effort, anyway). One thing that I found reassuring and impressive throughout the book was that while the point of the book was to remind us about the holiness of God, how He should be seen as perfect in distinction to the fallen humanity we see all around us. Then she follows that up with two chapters on the sanctification of believers-how we reflect that Holiness. But if you stop and think about that for a minute, what all the implications of it are, how it can (and should) shape our lives? That’s when you remember that that profundity is often hidden in simplicity.įrom this jumping-off point, Perry spends the five chapters looking at the holiness of God from various perspectives-as a characteristic of God, as His moral perfection, as His transcendence-what the implications of God’s holiness mean that when it comes to sinful men, and (in a great angle) what it would mean for Creation and Humanity if God were not holy. On the one hand, that might seem kind of obvious, nothing worth writing a book about. The impetus for this book came from that above thought-although as she notes, one of the goals of the book is to remove that “if” from the phrase “If God can’t sin.” If He, and He alone, is really worthy of that trust-how should that impact our lives? What a “blessed” assurance it is to understand and embrace God’s holiness as an intrinsic part of His nature and to then remember his promises are “Yea, and amen.” If He can’t sin against me, shouldn’t that make Him the most trustworthy being there is?” What’s Holier Than Thou About?

If God can’t sin, then He can’t sin against me. What I know is that what I thought, and what I thought of, I wanted an answer for: “If God is holy, then He can’t sin. I don’t remember the day I thought about it and i my coffee was iced or warm.

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