The Church # 2 - A Holy Nation
The Church # 2 - A Holy Nation When God created man in His Image, (possessing His character), one of the many attributes (apart from many others), that God expected man to reflect was His attribute of holiness. But we know what happened in the Garden of Eden - man lost it and began to display anything but holiness from that day forward. The consequences were so disastrous that the Lord eventually decided to destroy the world completely with a flood and save just one righteous man (Noah) and his family from which the world once again began to multiply. Have things changed since then? Yes, only for the worse. God then called Abraham, with the intent to found the nation of Israel - a nation that God would refer to later as a 'holy nation,' (Ex.19:6) - a nation that would be God's chosen instrument to eventually reach all the nations of the world. God knew that merely destroying people was not going to change man's heart, which had become desperately evil... a