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By Pastor Glenn Pease
Most speeches and sermons have three parts to them.
There is the introduction, the body, and the conclusion.
Often they have three points in the body as well.
Then there is another three fold factor involved.
There is the message as written; then the message as delivered, and third what the speaker wishes he had said after it is all over.
Winston Churchill was one of histories greatest speakers, and he had this advice involving still another threeness in speech.
If you have an important point to make, he advised, don't try to be subtle and be clever about it.
He said use the pile driver.
Hit the point once, and then come back and hit it again, and then hit it the third time a tremendous whack!
We do not know who the author of Psalm 99 was, but many centuries before Churchill he was already applying this wisdom in communication.
This is called the holy, holy, holy Psalm because the word holy is used to conclude each of the main divisions of it.
He says of God, he is holy, and then a second time, he is holy, and then third time he gives it a tremendous whack, and concludes, "The Lord our God is holy."
The attributes of God are numerous, but the only one that is given a threefold emphasis is his holiness.
The seraphs above God's throne in Is. 6:3 are saying, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty."
In Rev. 4:8 the wondrous four living creatures around the throne of God are saying ceaselessly, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty."
Repetition is used in the Bible to convey degree.
If you repeat something you raise the degree of it's importance.
Verily verily or truly truly I say unto you, was the way Jesus called attention to a very important message.
R.C. Sproul tells of the battle of the kings in the Valley of Siddim in Gen. 14 where some of them fell into tar pits.
The Hebrew says they were pit pits.
In other words, there are pits, and there are pit pits.
The pit pits are pittier than the pits.
When you fall into these pits it is not just your typical pit fall.
You are in deep deep trouble.
If the bottomless pit was to be described by the use of repetition, it would be called the pit pit pit.
The three fold repetition is the ultimate beyond which you cannot go.
You can't get any pitter than a pit pit pit, for that says it all.
So when the Bible goes from holy is the Lord, to holy holy is the Lord, to holy holy holy is the Lord, it has reached the level of the ultimate in holiness.
There is no other degree of holiness beyond holy, holy, holy.
God is absolutely holy, infinitely holy, eternally holy.
Of course, He is also love, love, love, and mercy, mercy, mercy, and justice, justice, justice, and we could go on through all of His attributes.
But the fact is God's holiness is the only one of His attributes which is put into this Trinitarian form.
It is the only one elevated to the third degree in it's verbal communication.
Other beings are called holy, and other things, and even one place is called holy of holies.
It is raised to the second degree, but no where is there anyone or anything raised to the third degree, except God.
He, and he alone, is holy, holy, holy.
Hannah in her prayer in I Sam.
2:2 says, "There is no one holy like the Lord;...."
The holy can cease to be holy and become unholy.
Even holy angels fell.
The holy of holies can be destroyed, as it was several times, and ceased to be a holy place, but became rather a common place where God is no more present than anywhere else.
But the holy holy holy can never cease to be holy or in anyway whatsoever deviate and do what is unholy.
God's holiness, like His love, puts limitations on His power.
The tyrant does not need to worry about whether or not his actions are right, just, morally pure, and ethically fair.
He does anything he has to do to accomplish His will.
If it takes lies, thievery, and immorally, then so be it.
Anything goes for the cause.
God cannot do that to get His will done.
If He could He would not have sent His son into the world to die.
A tyrant does not sacrifice for you, they sacrifice you for themselves.
God sacrificed for you.
If God could do anything to get His will done, would Jesus have bothered to teach us to pray, "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."
What a strange prayer that is if God can do His will without limitations.
If God was not limited by His love and holiness, this prayer would be as meaningless as asking the sun to shine, and the earth to revolve.
But God is no vast machine cranking out His will automatically without any hindrance.
The history of Israel is the history of God's limitations because of His holiness.
If God was not holy He could have said to Adam and Eve, "We will just overlook your transgression and pretend it never happened."
If God was not holy He could have let Israel profane His name and desecrate His law, and still have blessed them, and made them rulers of the world.
All of history could have been different if God was not holy.
There would have been no flood and no judgments; no fall of Jerusalem and destruction of the temple.
Evil is so powerful and effective just because it does not have the limitations of holiness.
The power of the Mafia, and the whole underworld system, is due to the capacity of evil men to ignore all that is holy.
God cannot do that.
He cannot lie, steal, cheat, and treat persons like things.
God can only do what is holy without deviation, for as John says, "God is light and in Him in no darkness at all."
That means God cannot cut any corners, and be unholy, even now and then, to speed up the process of getting His will done on earth.
Holiness and love have this in common: They both impose limitations on the power of God.
God can do anything, we say, but forget that we are, in saying that, only referring to His potential power.
If we refer to God's love and holiness, we can come up with an enormous list of things God cannot do, for He cannot do anything that is non-loving, and unholy, and that covers a multitude of possibilities.
He cannot deny His essence, and be what He is not.
This explains a lot as to why the will of God is often so slow in being fulfilled.
It would be even slower if God's holiness did not give balance to His love.
Love controls God's power so that it is not the sheer power of the tyrant doing His will whatever the cost to other wills, and without respect to their freedom.
Love is why God is long suffering, and why the sinner has time to repent.
But if love was the only attribute of God, evil could go on endlessly abusing the will of God, and there would never be judgment.
Holiness is that attribute of God that gives balance to His love.
Holiness puts a limit on God's love, just as love puts a limit on God's power.
God never ceases to love, for He is love, but He is holy love, which means, there comes a point where judgment is the most loving thing that can be done.
God loves the sinner, and forgives, forgives, and forgives.
But God, being holy, can never love sin.
By His nature He cannot love evil of any kind.
He must condemn evil and judge sin.
God never forgives sin, only the sinner of his sin.
If the sinner does not at some point remove himself from his sin by means of repentance and forgiveness, there comes a point where God's holiness demands judgment.
This is why the holiness of God is not as appealing to man as the love of God.
It is sort of the dark side of God from man's perspective.
It is that side of God that produces His anger and judgment.
It seems so opposite of love that many refuse to accept God's holiness, for it seems to contradict His love.
How can God love sinners and yet still at some point let His wrath fall on sinners.
It seems so contradictory that many have chosen to go with love, and reject holiness.
Beside being a clear rejection of God's revelation, this is also a clear rejection of common sense.
The principle of the holy balancing the loving is built right into reality.
Every power you can think of is the same as God's power.
All power illustrates God's power, for all power has the same capacity to bless or blast.
All power is both loving and holy.
That is, it will be loving when you relate to it properly, but it will be holy, or judgmental, when you refuse to abide by it's laws.
Take electricity for an example.
It is one of the greatest sources of blessings known to man.
We don't have to list its blessings to prove the point.
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