09/03/23 - Pastor Bryan Roberts - A Holy God

A Holy God

 

1 Samuel 2:1-2 NLT

2 Then Hannah prayed: “My heart rejoices in the Lord! The Lord has made me strong.Now I have an answer for my enemies; I rejoice because you rescued me. ² No one is holy like the Lord! There is no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God.

A Holy God

Look what the Lord has done!

“No one is holy like the Lord”!

Psalm 113:4-6 NIV: ⁴ The Lord is exalted over all the nations,
his glory above the heavens. ⁵ Who is like the Lord our God,
the One who sits enthroned on high, ⁶ who stoops down to look
on the heavens and the earth?

God calls us to be holy

1 Samuel 2:11-12 NLT ¹¹ Then Elkanah returned home to Ramah without Samuel. And the boy served the Lord by assisting Eli the priest.¹² Now the sons of Eli were scoundrels who had no respect for the Lord.

1 Samuel 2:18-21 NLT ¹⁸ But Samuel, though he was only a boy, served the Lord. He wore a linen garment like that of a priest.¹⁹ Each year his mother made a small coat for him and brought it to him when she came with her husband for the sacrifice. ²⁰ Before they returned home, Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife and say, “May the Lord give you other children to take the place of this one she gave to the Lord.” ²¹ And the LORD blessed Hannah, and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters.

You can’t outgive the Lord!

God is in control