Isaiah 6:1 - In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphim, each one had six wings, with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of his glory….
Holy, our Lord is Holy, the Holy one of Israel…God commanded us to be holy as he is holy.
What does that mean? Is it possible to be holy, live holy? According to God it is, for he told us to be holy, but we can only be holy, if we are filled with the Holy Spirit.
That’s why Jesus said in St. John 3, that we MUST be born again of the Spirit. Except a man be born again, (from above) he cannot see the kingdom of God.
1 John 3:9 - Whosoever is born of God, does not commit sin, for his seed remains in him, and he cannot sin because he is born of God.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 - Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?
Be not deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
And such were some of you, but you are washed, but you are sanctified (holy), but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
Isaiah said “Woe is me, for I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips,” then a seraphim took a coal from the altar, and laid it on Isaiah’s lips, and said “this has touched your lips, your iniquity is taken away, and your sin is purged.”
2 Corinthians 7:1 - Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse our self from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
1 Peter 1:15 - But as he which has called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation. Because it is written, Be ye Holy, for I am Holy.
It might be hard sometimes, but it is possible to live a holy life in Christ Jesus.
Hundreds of years after Isaiah, John also saw the Lord, saw the seraphim, and heard them still proclaiming, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come….God bless!