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We can make it our aim to know God and grow in our knowledge of Him! Learn Five truths about how God is revealed to us.
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John 17:3 NKJV
Your birth certificate is proof that you are not God! We were born, fashioned by God in our mother’s womb. God has no beginning and will have no end. He was not created; He created everything that exists. God is different than we are, even though we have been made in His image. We, the creature are vastly different than our creator.
Here are a few huge differences:
-God is infinite, all-knowing, everywhere present, all-powerful, sovereign, self-sufficient.
Here are some ways we can be “like” God
-We can be loving, kind, just, forgiving. We are commanded to be holy!
But no matter how we try, we are not self-sufficient, or in control. We can’t be in more than one place at the same time, let alone everywhere. We can be loving, but we are hardly perfect at loving others. We can certainly forgive and are commanded to forgive others, but we fail often. When we think we know something or someone, we realize our knowledge is limited. We are finite beings. How can we know an infinite God? The answer is we can’t, fully. But we can make it our aim to know God and grow in our knowledge of Him!
We can make it our aim to know God!
"And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. " John 17:3 (NKJV)
You and I have a problem. What we think about God must be true of Him. If what we think about Him is not true of who He really is, then we are believing in and worshipping the wrong God or worse a God of our own religious making. Jesus said that to a woman who thought she knew who God was.
"You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” John 4:22–24 (NKJV)
During the apostle Paul’s ministry in Greece, he encountered the superstitions of the people represented by their religious objects of worship. Here is part of the story:
"Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious; for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD, Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you." Acts 17:22–23 (NKJV)
What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think about God? Does your idea correspond to what the Bible says about Him? Are you rejecting or accepting something that is not true of Him? Idolatry is not just kneeling down before an object of worship. It can consist of remaking God according to your idea of Him.
So how can we know Him? How can our concept of Him be right? In this new series, we are going to look at the Attributes of God. An attribute is something about God that is true as revealed in the Scriptures, the Bible. My desire is that we would fall in love with God and His Son Jesus Christ. That the things that fascinate us would pale in comparison to knowing God.
Here are some basics we must be aware of as we start this series:
1. Revelation is essential. The only things we know about God is what He reveals to us. God is who He reveals Himself to be.
"The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law." Deuteronomy 29:29 (NKJV)
2. The created universe reveals the invisible God.
"The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork." Psalm 19:1 (NKJV)
For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened." Romans 1:20–21 (NKJV)
3. Jesus is the perfect revelation of God.
"All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him." Matthew 11:27 (NKJV)
"No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known." John 1:18 (NIV)
Jesus is the image of the invisible God. Colossians 1:15
4. The Written Word of God, the Bible is our source of revelation.
"For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account." Hebrews 4:12–13 (NKJV)
5. The Holy Spirit is the revealer of truth.
However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. John 16:13 (NKJV)
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