BEHOLD THE HOLY GOD

A person can spend years inside Christianity and never have been born again.Attend church faithfully. Learn Christian doctrine. Speak the language. Live a respectable life.And still never have passed from death to life.The difference is not small. It is the difference between eternal life and eternal ruin.Have I truly been born again?The issue is not how much theology a person knows. A sinner may hear the gospel for the first time and, at that very moment, truly come to Christ in repentance and faith and receive eternal life-without years of biblical or doctrinal instruction. The danger is something different: mistaking familiarity with Christianity for faith in Christ.BEHOLD THE HOLY GOD therefore refuses to rest assurance on church attendance, moral improvement, theological knowledge, emotional experience, or a decision made years ago and never seriously examined. Instead, it begins where Scripture begins:With God Himself.Sin cannot be understood rightly until we have seen the holiness of the One against whom we have sinned. The cross cannot be understood rightly until we grasp why Christ’s saving work was necessary. And the new birth will never seem necessary until we understand our spiritual condition before the holy God.From there, the book follows one connected biblical argument: God’s holiness exposes the reality of sin and spiritual death; the gospel reveals the finished saving work of Jesus Christ; the Holy Spirit gives life in regeneration; and Scripture shows how genuine assurance, perseverance, judgment, and glorification fit within God’s work of salvation.This book offers no false comfort to the unconverted.Neither does it drive genuine believers into endless fear and self-examination.Its purpose is to expose assumption where assumption is all there is, to establish genuine assurance on the only foundation that can bear its weight, and ultimately to turn the reader away from self and toward Jesus Christ and His finished work.Written in clear, accessible language rather than academic prose, BEHOLD THE HOLY GOD is suited to personal reading, careful Bible study, or small groups working through the book together.Inside you will find:The question of the new birth is too important to settle by assumption.