1. Grace Fellowship Church Pastor/Teacher Jim Rickard Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011 www.GraceDoctrine.org

2. Doxology Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise Him, all creatures here below; Praise Him above, ye heavenly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.— Amen.

3. John 17 The Great High Priestly Prayer of our Lord!

4. John 17:6-19 Christ Prays for His Disciples.

5. John 17:11 - “Holy Father.” The Holiness of God. Part 6

6. Doctrine of the Essence of God: His Holiness

7. Father SonHoly Spirit Co-Equal Co-Infinite Co-Eternal

8. Sovereignty Righteous Justice Love Eternal Life Omniscience Omnipotent Omnipresence Immutable Veracity Major Attributes of the Essence of God

9. III. The Holiness of God: Ex 15:11, “Who is like You among the gods, O LORD? Who is like You, majestic in holiness, awesome in praises, working wonders?”

10. God’s divine, moral sensibility includes the attributes of: 1. Holiness 2. Love 3. Justice/Righteousness 4. Goodness 5. Truth

11. 5. Truth, (Veracity): John 18:37-38

12. Psa 89:14, “Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; Lovingkindness and truth go before You.”

13. Truth: “Conformity to knowledge, fact, actuality, or logic; fidelity to an original or standard; reality and actuality. It is a statement proven to be or accepted as true. It is sincerity; integrity; honesty.”

14. Veracity: “Habitual adherence to the truth; conformity to truth or fact; accuracy; precision. It implies factual accuracy and honesty, with respect to spoken or written expression.”

15. These are the character and nature of the person of God in His being, thoughts, will and acts. “The God of truth” Psa 31:5; Isa 65:16

16. Isa 65:16, “Because he who is blessed in the earth will be blessed by the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth will swear by the God of truth.”

17. Psa 31:5, “Into Your hand I commit my spirit; You have ransomed me, O LORD, God of truth.”

18. It is impossible for God to lie. He not only advances and confirms that which is true, but in faithfulness abides by His promises, and executes every threat or warning He has made.

19. God can only reveal Himself in terms of truth. Therefore, Bible doctrine is absolute truth and perfectly reveals the holiness of God.

20. Apart from the element of truth in God there would be no certainty at all in this life.

21. Though men deceive, the veracity of God can never be questioned in the slightest degree.

22. Truth in God is surety that what He has disclosed is according to the nature of things and may be depended upon with complete certainty.

23. The setting forth of God’s truth is in the Bible and is true in all its parts.

24. Psa 12:6, “The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace on the earth, refined seven times.”

25. Num 23:19, “God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent; has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?”

26. Heb 10:23, “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.”

27. The faithfulness of God is the unfailing source of comfort and assurance to those who are right with Him, or partakers of His covenants of promise.

28. John 14:6, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life.”

29. Truth is what will judge the believer at the Bema Seat Judgment. Truth is what will judge the unbeliever at the Great White Throne Judgment.

30. Ps 96:13, “For the Lord is coming to judge the earth; He shall judge the world with righteousness and the people with His Truth.”

31. John 12:48, “He who rejects Me and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day.”

32. Heb 4:12, “For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.”

33. Grace Fellowship Church Tuesday, November 29, 2011 Tape # 11-134 Jesus Prays for His Disciples The Holiness of God – The Veracity of God Great High Priestly Prayer, Part 41 John 17:11; John 18:37-38; Psa 31:5; 89:14; Isa 65:16 James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2011