Abba Father #5: God is Holy
June 5, 2025

Abba Father #5: God is Holy
Exodus 3, Isaiah 6, Ezekiel 47

1 – What does the Bible say about God the Father being holy?

1 Samuel 2:2
There is none holy like the LORD: for there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God.

Psalm 5:7
But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love, will enter your house. I will bow down toward your holy temple in the fear of you.

Revelation 4:9
“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”

Hebrews 12:29
Our God is a consuming fire.

Exodus 3:5
5 Then he said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”

Exodus 3:7-8
“I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings, 8 and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey

Leviticus 19:1-2
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.

Isaiah 6:3-4
“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
the whole earth is full of his glory!”
And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.

Isaiah 6:5-6
“Woe is me!
For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!”

Isaiah 6:6-7
Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 And he touched my mouth and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for.”

2 – What do people think about the holiness of God?

3 – What did Jesus reveal about God the Father being holy?

John 7:37-38
“If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”

Matthew 12:36-37
36 I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak, 37 for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

4 – How does Jesus instruct us to relate to a holy Abba?
• Repent
• Trust in the work of Jesus on the cross
• Receive transformation