The Holiness of God

R.C. Sproul's book, The Holiness of God, is a classic. Written in 1985 and revised in 1998, this book explores the doctrine of God and focuses on the aspect of God that most Christians quickly recognize as one of the most important and central characteristics of God, namely, His holiness. Without giving you anything approaching a book review, I want to give you a sample of Sproul's writing. In a chapter entitled "God In the Hands of Angry Sinners," Sproul notes that

"Our thinking goes like this: If there is a God at all, He is certainly not holy. If He is perchance holy, He is not just. Even if He is both holy and just, we need not fear because His love and mercy override His holy justice. If we can stomach His holy and just character, we can rest in one thing: He cannot possess wrath. 

"If we think soberly for five seconds, we must see our error. If God is holy at all, if God has an ounce of justice in His character, indeed if God exists as God, how could He possibly be anything else but angry with us? We violate His holiness; we insult His justice; we make light of His grace. These things can hardly please Him."

I'd highly recommend the book, which you can purchase here or here. 

Ligonier recently sponsored a national conference and took as it's theme The Holiness of God. They have, for a limited time, made the lectures available online for free, which you can access here. 

If you have time for only one, I would encourage you to listen to either R.C. Sproul's lecture on Thursday, Sinclair Ferguson's lecture on Friday, or Thabiti Anyabwile's lecture on Friday.