"The Kingdom and the Power, Part II"
What God's Promise of Power Is and Isn't
I THE CHRISTIAN TO BE A WITNESS
NOT A PROPHET vv.7-8
A. THE VIRTUE OF SELECTIVE AGNOSTICISM v.7
B. THE CHRONOS AND KAIROS V.7
CHRONOS AND KAIROS ARE THE ORIGINAL GREEK
WORDS TRANSLATED TIMES AND SEASONS
CHRONOS = THE QUANITY OF TIME TO PASS UNTIL
THE KINGDOM IS ESTABLISHED
KAIROS=THE QUALITY (CHARACTER) OF THE TIME
IN WHICH THE KINGDOM WILL BE ESTABLISHED
II THE PROMISE OF POWER v.8
A. ANTECEDENTS TO THE PROMISE
B. WHAT THE POWER IS NOT
C. THE POWER IS SPIRITUAL
D. THE POWER IS HOLY
E. THE POWER IS FOR THE SAKE OF WITNESS
"There is no idea so positive as that of holiness; it is the very pinnacle of the positive.
But it is an idea hard to be definitely expressed because of the poverty of its synonyms.
It is more than sinlessness. It is more than righteousness. It is more than wholeness, soundness, and integrity. It is more than purity. Holiness includes all these and more.
Holiness is God's whole, absolute, inconceivable, and inexpressible perfection expressed in separation, opposition and revulsion from anything evil in any degree however small. Holiness is God's crown as mercy is His treasure. As grace is His riches, this is His glory.
The holiness of God is a conception peculiar to the religion of the Bible.
None of the gods of the nations was like unto our God in this. But it is just this perfection which He calls us to imitate. God exhibits His glory to us for our imitation and expects the sight of the beauty of holiness in Him to beget in us an inextinguishable longing to be like Him. Holiness is a dread attribute. Reverence and awe attend its exhibition."
- Benjamin Breckenridge Warfield
(1851-1921)