Holy and Good — But Never Safe
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If you fall in love with the holiness of God, it’s a dangerous place to be. Your attitude towards the nations, the unreached peoples of the world will undergo a profound change.
In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one called to another and said:
“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!” (Isaiah 6:1–3)
The missionary phrase is “the whole earth is full of his glory.” Do you see the connection between the intrinsic, holy, holy, holy and then the public fulness of glory?
If you become a generation — and I pray that this number will be the tide of the 200,000 — you will lay down your lives, unlike radical Islam that takes lives to spread their religion. You will not kill to spread Christianity; you will die to spread Christianity.
