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Holiness Unto the LORD

A Devotional for Tuesday November 11, 2025

The Great Issus is

Holiness Unto the LORD

Throughout All of the Scripture

“You shall be holy to me, for I the LORD am holy have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine”

Leviticus 20: 26.

The judgments that sometimes God has executed upon men for their want of godly fear, while they have been in his worship and service, [to] put fear and dread upon his holy appointments.

(1.) Nadab and Abihu were burned to death with fire from heaven because they attempted to offer false fire upon God’s altar. And the reason rendered why they were so served, was, because God will be sanctified in them that come nigh him (Leviticus 10: 1-3). To sanctify his name is to let him be your dread and your fear and to do nothing in his worship but what is well-pleasing to him. But because these men had not grace to do this, therefore they died before the Lord.

(2.) Eli’s sons, for want of this fear, when they ministered in the holy worship of God, were both slain in one day by the sword of the uncircumcised Philistines (see 1 Samuel 2).

(3.) Uzzah was smitten, and died before the Lord for but an unadvised touching of the ark when the men forsook it (1 Chronicles 13: 9-10).

(4.) Ananias and Sapphira his wife, for telling a lie in the church when they were before God, were both stricken dead upon the place before them all. Because they . . . [lacked] the fear and dread of God’s majesty, name, and service, when they came before him (Acts 5).

This . . . should teach us . . . that next to God’s nature and name, his service, his instituted worship, is the most dreadful thing under heaven. His name is upon his ordinances, his eye is upon the worshippers, and his wrath and judgment upon those that worship not in his fear.