Sunday Sermon
PERCEIVING THE HOLINESS OF GOD
Date: February 25, 2007
Speaker: Ptr. Gerry Gregoire
Scriptural Reference: Hebrews 12:14
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HEBREWS 12:14 STRIVE TO LIVE IN PEACE WITH EVERYBODY AND PURSUE THAT CONSECRATION AND HOLINESS WITHOUT WHICH NO ONE WILL {EVER} SEE THE LORD.AMPLIFIED BIBLE.

HOLINESS : DICTIONARY CHARACTERIZED BY DIVINE POWER AS SACRED, SET APART.

WITH US (MAN) IT COULD MEAN SANCTIFIED OR MADE PURE. DESIGNATED TO BE MADE CLEAN. WE ARE IN THE PROCESS.

WITH GOD IT MEANS A CUT ABOVE.. HIS HOLINESS CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD UNLESS YOU CATCH IT IN A DEVINE MOMENT. HE IS INHERENTLY HOLY, SACRED AND SET APART, AS BEING FREE FROM THE ATTRIBUTES OF FALLEN HUMANITY. HIS HOLINESS IS REALLY A CUT ABOVE ANYTHING WE HAVE OR UNDERSTAND. TO HAVE THIS TYPE OF HOLINESS UNDERSTOOD, MAN CANNOT BE TAUGHT, IT MUST BE CAUGHT.

WE CAN SEE HIS GLORY AND MAJESTY IN THE WORKS THAT HE HAS DONE AND IS DOING IN THE EARTH. THESE TWO ADJECTIVES ARE NOT HIS HOLINESS.
IF YOU COULD CATCH A GLIMPSE OF HIS HOLINESS YOU WOULD NOT WANT TO LEAVE THE SANCTUARY EVER. WHEN THIS IS IMPARTED TO YOU, THERE WILL BE NO TURNING BACK. MY PRAYER IS THAT YOU GET THAT GLIMPSE OF FATHERS HOLINESS TODAY AS WE MINISTER. I CANNOT TEACH THIS, THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS TO REVEAL THIS TO YOU BY IMPARTATION.

2 CHRONICLES 7:1-4 READ FROM OVERHEAD THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF GODS GLORY FALLING. BUT HIS HOLINESS IS NOT THAT... THE GLORY IS HIS SPLENDOR AND A SHOW OF HIS LARGENESS. MAKING EVERYTHING ELSE INSIGNIFICANT. I LIKE TO THINK THAT GLORY IS ONLY A SMALL MANIFESTATION OF HIS HOLINESS.. IT CONSUMED THE SACRIFICE.

SOMETHING HAPPENED ON HIS WAY TO CALVARY, THAT WE COULD SAY GAVE SOME THE GLIMPSE OF HIS HOLINESS. WHEN THAT TORN AND BROKEN BODY CARRIED THAT CROSS HE MAY HAVE LOOKED LIKE HE WAS DEFEATED AND BROKEN.. IT SCARRED THE APOSTLES AND THEY RAN. THEY HAD WALKED WITH HIM FOR THREE YEARS AND SAW THE GLORY, THEY SAW THE MAJESTY AND YET MOST NEVER SAW THE CUT ABOVE HOLINESS..

WHO CAN FORGET THAT SCENE IN THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST WHEN JESUS LAYS HIMSELF DOWN ON THE CROSS. AND YOU COULD ALMOST FEEL THE PAIN WHEN THE NAILS WERE DRIVEN. BUT WHEN HE WAS ON THAT CROSS. LETS SEE ....

TAKE POSITION O F CHRIST ON THE CROSS
LOOKS DOWN AND SEES SOLDIERS GAMBLING FOR HIS GARMENTS AND SAYS FATHER FORGIVE THEM FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO.

SEES HIS MOTHER AND SAYS: MOTHER BEHOLD YOUR SON.
AND TO JOHN HE SAYS, JOHN BEHOLD YOUR MOTHER.

THE THIEF SAY, REMEMBER ME IN PARADISE. JESUS REPLIES, TODAY YOU WILL BE WITH ME IN PARADISE.
THAT THIEF HAD TO CATCH A GLIMPSE OF JESUS HOLINESS THAT HUNG BESIDES HIM.

I THIRST. IN HIS HUMANNESS .

HOLY FATHER, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME

IT IS FINISHED!

BROTHERS AND SISTERS, IF YOU CAN REALLY UNDERSTAND THE MIRACLE OF THE CROSS AND CATCH THAT SAME GLIMPSE THAT THAT THIEF GOT OF GODS HOLINESS YOU COULD NEVER DO ENOUGH FOR HIM . YOU WOULD BECOME A GREASE SPOT ON THE RUG.
MANKIND IS UNLOVING, UNKIND, SELFISH, BENT TOWARDS THE FLESH WITHOUT AN INKLING OF GODS EXISTENCE LET ALONE HIS HOLINESS. I BELIEVE IT IS WHAT DRAWS IN SINNERS THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT.

GALATIANS 2:20 I AM CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST: NEVERTHELESS I LIVE; YET NOT I, BUT CHRIST LIVETH IN ME: AND THE LIFE WHICH I NOW LIVE IN THE FLESH I LIVE BY THE FAITH OF THE SON OF GOD, WHO LOVED ME AND GAVE HIMSELF FOR ME.

BROTHERS AND SISTERS, PAUL NEW SOMETHING ! HE HAD BEEN EXPOSED TO SOMETHING, SOMETHING THAT MOST OF US HAVE YET TO CATCH. I BELI EVE WHEN PAUL WAS TAKEN UP INTO THE THIRD HEAVEN HE CAUGHT A GLIMPSE OF GODS HOLINESS THAT SUSTAINED HIM THROUGH ALL THE THINGS HE WAS TO GO THROUGH.
A THORN WAS GIVEN TO PAUL TO KEEP HIM HUMBLE AND THE LORD TOLD HIM THAT HIS STRENGTH IN HIM WAS SUFFICIENT WHEN HE ASKED GOD TO REMOVE IT.

MY PRAYER TODAY IS THAT YOU GET THAT GLIMPSE OF GODS HOLINESS THE WAY PAUL DID !!

MOST TIMES PEOPLE COME TO SEE THE PASTORS AND LOOK AT THE THINGS THEY CAN SEE ONLY. BUT TO BE SURROUNDED BY HIS HOLINESS, TO COMPREHEND WHAT THAT HOLINESS IS, IS WHEN CHURCHES OPERATE IN THE ORDER OF GOD.

TURN TO 2 CHRONICLES 9:1-9 READ FROM OVERHEAD AND COMMENT AS HOLY SPIRIT LEADS. I BRING TO YOU THIS DATE, WHEN THE HOLINESS OF GOD DWELLS IN GODS HOUSE THERE IS ORDER, AND WHEN THESE THINGS ARE THERE THERE ARE BLESSINGS IN ABUNDANCE. HE GAVE THE QUEEN MORE THAN SHE BROUGHT AND WAS BLESSED WITH 3.3 BILLION EVERY YEAR. VERSE 13: 692,2000,000

SHE DID NOT SEE GOLD, SILVER PRECIOUS STONES, SHE SAW THE ORDER OF GOD. WHICH CAME ABOUT BECAUSE THE PEOPLE RESPECTED THE HOLINESS OF GOD THAT SOLOMON REPRESENTED.

WE HAVE COME HERE TO SATISFY THE GOD THAT WE RESPECT BECAUSE OF HIS HOLINESS.

WHAT HAPPENS IN YOUR LIFE BETWEEN TODAY AND THE 6 DAYS THAT COME BEFORE NEXT SUNDAY

THERE WAS NO DISORDER IN SOLOMONS TEMPLE.. YET WHAT TYPE OF ORDER IS IN YOUR TEMPLE WHEN YOU COMPREHEND GODS HOLINESS ALL YOU WANT TO DO IS SERVE THE HOLY GOD.

GOD IS CALLING US TODAY JUST LIKE HE CALLED THE PROPHETS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND WHEN THEY SPOKE INCORRECTLY THEY ENDED UP DEAD.

WE ARE HERE TO DO OUR BEST. GLIMPSING GODS HOLINESS WILL PROPEL YOU FROM BEING NOMINAL TO SUPER.

DO WE UNDERSTAND THE HOLY SPIRIT AND WHY HE IS CALLED HOLY HE BRINGS THE CHARACTER OF GOD !!!!
HE IS NOT JUST A BIRD, OR A BALL OF FIRE OR A GIVER OF STRANGE TONGUES. HE IS THE HOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLYYY SPIRIT.

THE APOSTLES WALKED WITH JESUS FOR THREE YEARS AND SAW HIS GLORY AND MAJESTY BUT DID NOT PICK UP ON HIS HOLINESS. AND WHEN HE WENT TO THE CROSS THEY WENT BACK TO FISHING.(HEALING, DELIVERENCES, MIRACLES, RAISING FROM THE DEAD.)

WHEN THINGS GO BAD FOR YOU DO YOU GO BACK TO FISHING

ISAIAH WAS CALLED TO BE A PROPHET. HE PROPHESIED TO THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM OF JUDAH. HIS BOOK HAS BEEN CALLED THE 6TH GOSPEL. HIS BOOK HAS 66 CHAPTERS. THE OLD TESTAMENT HAS 39 BOOKS AND THE NEW TESTAMENT HAS 27.IN ISAIAHS BOOK THE FIRST 39 CHAPTERS TALKS ABOUT THE HAPPENINGS IN THE O.T. THE LAST 27 TALKS ABOUT N.T. HAPPENINGS. HIS BOOK TALKS ABOUT REBELLION(1), BIRTH OF JESUS(9), JESUS FAMILY AND ANOINTING (11), HIS DEATH (53), HIS SIMPLICITY (7), REPENTANCE (1), GLORIOUS REIGN (11,3,5,11)
ISAIAH KNEW SOMETHING ABOUT GODS HOLINESS AND ILL SHOW YOU WHY I SAY THIS. LOOK NAT CHAPTER 6:1-9.
READ FROM OVERHEAD AND COMMENT AS LED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT
1. CONVICTION V5 (WOE AM I)
2. CONFESSION V5 (UNCLEAN LIPS)
3. CLEANING V7 (INEQUITY TAKEN AWAY)
4. CONSECRATION V8 HERE AM I (PRESENTING HIMSELF)
5. COMMISSION V9 (GO)

LUKE5: 1-10; FISH STORY HE SAW GLORY AND MAJESTY OF JESUS
LUKE 22:31-34 DENIAL PREDICTED READY TO GO TO THE DEATH
LUKE 22:54-62 PETER SEES THE HOLINESS OF GOD WHEN JESUS TURNS TO HIM.
1 PETER 1:15 PETER REMINDS FELLOW CHRISTIANS ABOUT GODS HOLINESS.

ARE YOU READY TO CATCH GODS HOLINESS AND RESPECT THAT CUT ABOVE HOLINESS TO BE SPECIAL ITS NECESSARY FOR US TO FEEL IT AND WORK IT INO OUR LIVES.

ALTAR CALL AND LET HOLY SPIRIT GIFTS MANIFEST AS HE DESIRES.