ANG KABANALAN NG DIOS

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Ang Kabanalan Ng Dios
The Holiness of God

Isaiah 6:1-5
Anong bagay ang nagpapaiba [set apart] ng Dios sa atin?
"Who among the gods is like you, O LORD? Who is like you-- majestic in holiness, awesome in glory, working wonders? Ex 15:11 (NIV)

Ang salitang ‘holiness’ [sa Hebrew] ginagamit sa isang sense ng separateness, sacredness, apartness, pagkaiba, o’ pagkawalay.

Ang Dios lamang ang kasing banal na ganito. God is the only One that is Holy in this sense. “Who will not fear you, O Lord, and bring glory to your name? For you alone are holy.” Rev 15:4 (NIV)
"There is no one holy like the LORD; there is no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God.”1 Sam 2:2NIV

Ngayong araw nais ko na makita natin kung ano talaga ang Dios sapagkat naniniwala ako na kung kilala natin kung sino nga siya at ano Siya, tayo ay magbago dahil sa kanya.

May dalawang tanong tayong sasagutin. Una, tungkol po sa deskripsyon ng ating Dios at pangalawa, tungkol po sa karapatdapat nating reaksyon kung makaharap natin ang kabanalan ng Dios.

Ano ba ang deskripsyon ng ating Panginoon?

Ang ating Panginoon ay ang makapangyarihang Manlilikha . He is Sovereign Creator.

1. Before anything was created there was the Holy One. All things created came into being at the utterance of his voice. He spoke and they were.

2. From eternity He has remained unchanged, needing nothing, self-sustaining, dependent on none. All his creation is dependent on Him.

3. He is alone is self-existent. He has no beginning and no boundaries or limitations except that of his own perfect attributes.

We are dependent on Him for everything, space, substance, life itself, but He needs nothing. He never has. He never will. Who is like the LORD who is separate, sacred, and apart from us?

What should an encounter with God’s holiness cause us to do? Kung makaharap natin ang Dios na banal ano kaya ang mangyayari sa atin?


1. An encounter with God’s holiness should cause us to worship Him. Ang bawat encounter natin sa kabanalan ng Panginoon ay dapat magudyok sa atin na sumamba sa Kanya. Every encounter with God in Scripture, God in His glory, causes the one who sees the revelation to fear and tremble.

Moses asked for the encounter and got more than he bargained for. He asked to see God with his own eyes. God, in His mercy, put him in the cleft of a rock and covered him, but allowed him to catch a glimpse of His backside. He said, “You cannot see my face for no man can see my face (a full complete revealing of the glory of God) and live.” And the result of that glimpse was a face that so glowed that people ask that it be covered.

Habbakuk heard the Lord in the third chapter of his book and here is how he described his reaction: 16 I heard and my heart pounded, my lips quivered at the sound; decay crept into my bones, and my legs trembled. Habakkuk 3:16 (NIV)

2. An encounter with God’s holiness should cause us to see our deplorable sinfulness. Ang bawat encounter natin sa Panginoon ay dapat magudyok sa atin na makita ang ating sariling kasuklamsuklam na pagkamakasalanan.

Job demanded to meet with God and when he did, Job said he would put his hand over his mouth. “I deplore myself and repent in dust and ashes.”

• If we want to see ourselves let us use God’s mirror of holiness. According to that mirror, we are not so bad, we are just very bad.

Parati nating kinukumpara ang ating sarili sa iba at parati nating konklusyon na mas OK pa rin tayo. Kung alam lang natin kung ano talaga tayo then we would say pataytayo. If we only had a revelation of the standard, the holiness of God, we would be pronouncing doom on ourselves. Maintindihan natin ang sinabi ni James na “grieve, mourn, and wail”. Si Isaiah ay nagsalita “I am ruined.” The word literally means unraveled, “natanggal sa pagkahabi” . He felt like a rug all unwove with threads in heap on the ground. “I thought I had it all together, but when I see God in His holiness, I am a mess.” I see the vile things that have come from my heart and over my lips. Isaiah saw that his false standard, the people around him, had mouths as vile as his own did. This filthiness, he recognizes as himself, has seen the holiness of God. He will never compare himself with man again. He has a new standard. He will never walk in pride again. He has seen how lowly he really is.

• God’s mirror tells us we are simply doomed.

As Isaiah beholds this awesome beautiful sight, he is conscious of how filthy – how out of place – deserving of righteous justice his condition is. In chapter 5 as the Seer of God he is pronouncing woes on the people of Israel. Woe is the opposite of blessing, a declaration of wrath to be poured out in justice. But in chapter 6 the holiness of God causes him to pronounce woe against himself.

• God’s mirror tells us that God’s holiness is such that we should rightly fear God.

A holy God is the last thing man would ever desire to see. It is that holiness, that otherness, that causes us to fear. In the light of such purity we cry with Isaiah, “Woe is me! I am undone.” The revelation of such purity causes us to see how impure we are. In the light of that absolute purity we see the loathing of sin. “Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity.” Hab 1:13

3. An encounter with God’s holiness should cause me to emphasize holiness. Ang bawat encounter ay nangangahulugan ng isang panibagong emphasis sa kabanalan Niya.
His holiness will cause me to condemn sin especially in my own being

The fact that “God is holy” condemns all impurity. The Word declares God hates all workers of iniquity. (Ps 5:5) Like a mother hates the disease that ravishes the child she loves, our Father God hates sin. His holy purity is all that should be. Everything else is vile, out of place with all creation that this pure God created in a state of goodness. Evil is the destructive disease of creation that was created in holiness, wholeness, purity. What is this black speck of evil rebellion before all this brilliant holy goodness? It is my sin. And what will holy justice do with such evil rebellion toward His glorious goodness? Judge it righteously! He will give me what I deserve, unless I flee to the One who took that judgement in my place. As Moses hid in the cleft of the rock so we hide our unholiness in the wounds of Christ as the glory of God passes by.









4. An encounter with God’s holiness should make me treat Him as the one and only Holy God. Ang encounter natin sa Kanya dapat ay mag-udyok sa atin na ituring Siya bilang kaisaisang Dios na banal at wala ng iba.

If there is an attribute that we ought to see it is the holiness of God.

The Scriptures refer to God as Almighty but more frequently He is described as holy. Sa Hebreo ang repetition ng salita ay nagsisigniy ng importansiya ng isang bagay. It is a verbal and written devise used to make us tune in more attentively and add emphasis.
Ang istilo na ito ay ginamit ni Jesus noong sinabi Niya Katotohanan, katotohanan….Verily, ______.”
Ginamit rin ni Paul ang repetition noong sinabi niya na ang huwad na mga guro ay dapat iaccurse kahit sila pa ay magpapakita bilang angel of light. Kaya sinabi niya, “Again I say unto you”, at pagkatapos ay inirepeat niya ang lahat ng sinasabi niya

In Isaiah we read of the praise around the throne of God in the Old and New Testaments the angels are not crying, “holy” or “holy, holy” but “holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts!”

These seraphs created to be in the presence of God in all his glory are continually overwhelmed again and again with his holiness. They do not cry love, love, love or merciful, merciful, merciful, or even powerful, powerful, powerful. For the beauty of all those attributes is what is overwhelming them and so they spontaneously cry from the depths of their beings these descriptive words, “Holy, holy, holy!”

Those three pair of wings, a design of their Creator, give them one to shield their faces from the full brilliant splendor of His holiness. As they peak through those feathers designed to dim the brilliance they are overwhelmed again. These are no robots, no unfeeling beings, they are so enthralled they can do nothing else. Can you see them in your mind as the fly around the throne and peaking a glimpse like Moses took they are overwhelmed with the holiness of God. From the depths of their being through vocal chords designed to voice praise to God ‘they were calling to one another: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory."’ Isaiah 6:3 (NIV) 4 At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke. Isaiah 6:4 (NIV) One day you will witness this with your own eyes and you’ll be singing Revelation 4:11.

Ang lahat ng nasa sa kanya ay banal. His justice is holy justice, His wisdom a holy wisdom, His arm of power a “holy arm” (Ps 98:1), His truth or promise a “holy promise” (Ps 105:42). His name, which signifies all His attributes in conjunction, “is holy,” Ps 103:1

Holiness is the beauty or splendor of all his attributes, and thus we worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. Ps 110:3 “Power is God’s hand or arm, omniscience His eye, mercy his bowels, eternity His duration, but holiness is His beauty.” SC 2 Chron 20:21 God appointed singers in Israel “that they should praise the beauty of his holiness.”


5. An encounter with God will cause me to live for Him in holiness. Ang encounter natin sa Kanya ay dapat magtulak sa atin na mamuhay na banal kagaya Niya.

Our holy God demands that we be holy? Over and over again in the Law God said we are to be holy because He is holy! Peter repeats it in the New Testament. All impurity does not belong in God’s creation! It should not be in God’s presence.”
Let us consider these verses from (Lev 20:8, 21:15,23):
“Consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am your holy God. Keep my decrees and follow them. I am the Lord who makes you holy….I am the Lord, who makes him holy….I am the Lord who makes them holy….

What do we see here?
God is holy.
He demands that we live holy lives.
His laws are to be standards that we should follow.
We are by nature unholy, unable to obey.
But instead of obliterating us to nothing He changes us that we may be able to obey Him.
We are not perfect. We are only a people whose perfect and holy God is at work in changing us.

Conclusion: Today we stand in that pure Presence of the Holy One we are as He created us to be. We are good only because He our good God covered us. Our goodness is not because of what we did, but what He did in our place. His holiness is satisfied because He made us holy and is continuously making us holy. Rebellion is gone. All is pure and in unity. Praise his holy name!