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A.W. PINK: THE ATTRIBUTES OG GOD – CHAPTER 8
“Who shall not fear Thee, O Lord, and glorify Thy name? for Thou only art holy” Rev 15:4. He only is independently, infinitely, immutably holy. In Scripture He is frequently styled “The Holy One”: He is so because the sum of all moral excellency is found in Him. He is absolute Purity, unsullied even by the shadow of sin. “God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all” 1Jo 1:5. Holiness is the very excellency of the Divine nature: the great God is “glorious in holiness” Exo 15:11. Therefore do we read, “Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity” Hab 1:13.
As God’s power is the opposite of the native weakness of the creature, as His wisdom is in complete contrast from the least defect of understanding or folly, so His holiness is the very antithesis of all moral blemish or defilement. Of old God appointed singers in Israel “that they should praise for the beauty of holiness” 2Ch 20:21. “Power is God’s hand or arm, omniscience His eye, mercy His bowels, eternity His duration, but holiness is His beauty” S. Charnock. It is this, supremely, which renders Him lovely to those who are delivered from sin’s dominion.
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A.W. PINK: THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD – CHAPTER 7
This is one of the Divine perfections which is not sufficiently pondered. It is one of the excellencies of the Creator which distinguishes Him from all His creatures. God is perpetually the same: subject to no change in His being, attributes, or determinations. Therefore God is compared to a rock Deu 32:4, etc. which remains immovable, when the entire ocean surrounding it is continually in a fluctuating state; even so, though all creatures are subject to change, God is immutable. Because God has no beginning and no ending, He can know no change. He is everlastingly “the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning” Jam 1:17.
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