EPISODE 26 :: EXODUS 20 THRU 22 :: GOD COMES TO MOUNT SINAI PART II

EXODUS 20:18-20 THE HOLINESS OF GOD

18 All the people perceived the thunder and the lightning flashes and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood at a distance.

19 Then they said to Moses, "Speak to us yourself and we will listen; but let not God speak to us, or we will die."

20 Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid; for God has come in order to test you, and in order that the fear of Him may remain * with you, so that you may not sin."

            There is something in this passage that sits as the central theme of both the Old and New Testaments and that is the holiness of God.  When Mary the mother of Jesus had learned that she had been chosen to bear God’s own Son her song expressed just how holy God is by saying in Luke 1:49 of God, “For the Mighty One has done great things for me;
And holy is His name.”  God is so holy that one of His name’s is Holy.