Page 14 - The Holiness of God

that even in a home, if one parent is saved and

born again, the children are holy in the sense

that they're set apart and have a greater

opportunity of coming to the Lord in salvation.

And in Deuteronomy 14, verse 2, Israel was

called a holy people. Why? Because they

belonged to God; they were in His presence; He

was in the midst of those people. And think

about Moses when Moses went up on Mount

Horeb in Exodus 3, verse 5. Do you remember

what the Lord told Him? “Pull off your shoes.

This is holy ground.” Now, why was that

mountain called holy ground? — because I

would imagine that the normal, typical day, not

the day that God met with Moses in the burning

bush, but on a typical day there, you probably

had sheep and goats and all other critters

running across that land and whatever, so why

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