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Knowing God

Lesson 12 – Knowing God July 15, 2012. Knowing God. Earmarks of Knowing God. Those who know God are better insulated against idolatry and false worship. Those who know God can see history, circumstances, and people in their proper light.

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Knowing God

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  1. Lesson 12 – Knowing God July 15, 2012 Knowing God

  2. Earmarks of Knowing God • Those who know God are better insulated against idolatry and false worship. • Those who know God can see history, circumstances, and people in their proper light. • Those who know God are capable of being bold and courageous! • Those who know God trust God. • Those who know God enjoy what is of surpassing value. • Those who know God receive answers to prayer.

  3. The Attributes of God - Intro • The “attributes” of God are specific aspects of His character He has chosen to reveal. • These characteristics fall into two basic categories: • Those which are unique to God • Those which are perfectly expressed in God but which we are expected to emulate.

  4. Attributes of God – 2 Groups • Sovereignty • Self-Sufficiency • Omnipresence • Omniscience • Omnipotence • Immutability • Eternality • Holiness • Love • Grace • Justice • Patience • Veracity Incommunicable Communicable Arrow Mirror

  5. Attributes of God – Arrow Points • Trust • Insecure Incommunicable Arrow

  6. Love – Combinations  Trust • Love – God is committed to my best. • Omniscience – God knows what is in my best interest. • Omnipotence – God has the power to do what is in my best interest. • Omnipresence & Eternality – God is “on location” to promote my best interest regardless of where I am in space and time. 

  7. Love - Combinations  Trust • Sovereignty – God is free to do what is in my best interest. • Immutable – God’s commitment to my best is unfailing and consistent. • Holy & Self-Sufficient – God’s love is pure and selfless in its desire for my best. • Grace – God’s love is extended to me even though I don’t deserve it.

  8. Attributes of God – Arrow Points • Trust • Contentment • Joy • Gratitude • Purpose • Insecure • Grumbling • Depressed • Proud • Vanity Incommunicable Arrow

  9. Attributes of God – Mirror Images • Holiness • Love • Grace • Justice • Patience • Veracity Communicable Mirror

  10. Attributes of God – Mirror Images • Holiness • Love • Grace • Justice • Patience • Veracity • “Be holy, for I am holy” (1 Pet. 1:16) • “If God so loved us, we ought to love one another” (1 John 4:11). • Our words should “give grace to those who hear” Eph. 4:29.

  11. Attributes of God – Mirror Images • Holiness • Love • Grace • Justice • Patience • Veracity • “What does the Lord require of you, but to do justice” (Mic. 6:8) • “Be patient with everyone” (1 Thess. 5:14). • “Speak truth each one of you with his neighbor” (Eph. 4:25).

  12. 32Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. 5:1Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children; 2and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma (Eph 4:32-5:2). Mirror

  13. They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, being detestable and disobedient and worthless for any good deed (Titus 1:16). Mirror

  14. 23Thus says the Lord, “Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches; 24but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, (content) that I am the Lord who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things,” declares the Lord (Jer. 9:23-24). Mirror

  15. 15“ . . . Did not your father (Josiah father of Jehoiakim) eat and drink And do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him. 16“He pled the cause of the afflicted and needy; Then it was well. Is not that what it means to know Me?” Declares the Lord. 17“But your eyes and your heart Are intent only upon your own dishonest gain, And on shedding innocent blood And on practicing oppression and extortion” (Jer. 22:15-17). Mirror

  16. Attributes of God – Mirror Images • Holiness • Love • Grace • Justice • Patience • Veracity Communicable Mirror

  17. Attributes of God – 2 Groups • Sovereignty • Self-Sufficiency • Omnipresence • Omniscience • Omnipotence • Immutability • Eternality • Holiness • Love • Grace • Justice • Patience • Veracity Incommunicable Communicable Arrow Mirror

  18. CBC Family Challenges • Wisdom / Direction – 27% • Insecurity & Uncertainty – 16% • Priorities – 13% • Disappointment / Rejection – 9% • Evangelism - 9% • Assurance of Family Salvation – 9%

  19. Is “peace” an attribute of God? • Five times in the NT, God is called “the God of peace.” • In Romans 16:20, “the God of peace” is presented as the one who will deal with the core problem of dissensions. • Elsewhere this name emphasizes God as a reconciler (of men with God) by equipping them for holiness.

  20. Does God endorse lying? 18Micaiah said, “Therefore, hear the word of the Lord. I saw the Lord sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing on His right and on His left. 19The Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab king of Israel to go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said this while another said that. 20Then a spirit came forward and stood before the Lord and said, ‘I will entice him.’ And the Lord said to him, ‘How?’ 21He said, ‘I will go and be a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ Then He said, ‘You are to entice him and prevail also. Go and do so’” (2 Chron. 18:18-21).

  21. Does God endorse lying? • God is not the author of evil. • But God presently allows evil to operate (while His patience gives every man an opportunity to respond). • God’s sovereignty extends over the operation of evil. • This should give us comfort – God is limiting what can be done. • Do not construe the fact that God allows something to happen as His endorsement of men’s relevant decisions.

  22. Can OT Gentiles be saved? • Salvation is always a matter of trusting in God to solve the sin problem. • After the cross, we know how God “pulled it off.” • But the basic core of our belief is the same as it is for men in the OT – we admit the inadequacy of “self-help” to solve the sin problem and throw ourselves (by faith) on the grace of God.

  23. Isn’t it arrogant to say… • “I Know God.” • The NT repeatedly describes believers as those who know God (Gal. 4:9; 1 John 2:14; 4:6 ) and distinguishes us from those who do not know God (1 Cor. 1:21; Gal. 4:8; 1 Thess. 4:5; 2 Thess. 1:8; Titus 1:16 ). • It is possible to know God truly even though we do not know Him completely

  24. Isn’t it arrogant to say… • But those who know God will demonstrate as much by listening to Scripture (1 John 4:6), by a profound life-style change (Gal. 4:8-9; 1 Thess. 4:5; Titus 1:16) and by their love for other believers (1 John 4:7). • We won’t need to convince anyone we “know God” when it’s obvious!

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