The Soft Side of Sanctification

The dilemma is this:

How to know the unknowable object

How can unholy man know a holy God!

Without some provision, God's wall of holiness is impenetrable.

Can we find the soft side, (the way in) of holiness?

Exo 19:12 Put limits for the people around the mountain and tell them, 'Be careful that you do not go up the mountain or touch the foot of it. Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death.

Exo 19:21 and the LORD said to him, "Go down and warn the people so they do not force their way through to see the LORD and many of them perish.

Exo 19:23 Moses said to the LORD, "The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, because you yourself warned us, 'Put limits around the mountain and set it apart as holy.'"

know the perfect God.

Lev 20:26 You are to be holy to me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own.

Lev 19:2 "Speak to the entire assembly of Israel and say to them: 'Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.

Predicts/Explains

• Complex Structure of Redemption
• Israel / Church
• Israel's Exile (setting aside)
• Church's Journey (Non conformity)
• Church's Reconformity (Restoration)
• Great Commission (Day of salvation)
• End of the Great Commission
• Two Modes of the Spirit (birthing, perfecting)
• Need for Messiah (Jewish salvation)
• Tension between Salvation & Sanctification, Israel & Church
• Division of humanity
• The end of lukewarmness