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What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
AW Tozer
If you can understand it, it’s not God.
Augustine
When you think about God, what is the picture in your mind?
Three Key Truths about God
You can gain a deeper sense of God’s love for you as a father that causes you to act in new ways by understanding these Three Key Truths about God.
God is Real
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We can see God’s creativity in what He has made.
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2. We see God’s thumbprint in human history.
3. We see God’s actions in our lives.
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Think about what makes God seem the most real to you...
God is revealed.
God is not discovered by us, He Reveals Himself to us.
To understand how God reveals Himself, we need to understand three theological ideas:
1. God’s General Revelation: He reveals himself to us through His creation.
2. God’s Special Revelation: He reveals himself to us through His Word.
3. God’s Personal Revelation: He reveals himself to us through his Son.
Jesus came to give us understanding.
Jesus chose to reveal the Father to us.
God revealed himself through Jesus.
To Explain God, Jesus became a man.
Possible ending
Surveys show that 96% of Americans believe God is real.
For most people the existence of God is not the issue.
The issue is What Kind of God He is.
What does Jesus reveal about God?
God is Relational.
Misconceptions about God
Misconception - God is distant.
Truth: God is near.
Misconception: God watches us from far away.
Truth: God is intimately involved in every detail of our lives.
Misconception: God is anxiously waiting to judge those who do wrong.
Truth: God is waiting to forgive all who ask him.
Misconception: God is either powerless against or doesn’t care about much of the evil in the world.
Truth: God allows an evil world to continue to exist so that more people might be saved out of it.
Which Misconception is potentially the most damaging?
Which Truth is the most difficult to believe?
Four theological Words
God’s Immanence: God is incredibly near to us.
He is with us and in us.
God’s Omnipresence: God is everywhere at the same time.
God’s Omniscience: God know everything.
God’s Omnipotence: God is all powerful.
In a world where people see God as unapproachable, the truth is God is relational.
Jesus taught us to call God our Father.
Our Father is willing to make sacrifices.
(John 3:16, 1 John 4:4)
Our Father has compassion and love for his children.
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103:13, 2 CO 1:3)
Our Father guides his children.
(Pro 3:12)
Our Father knows our needs before we ask.
(Matt 6:8, 7:9-11)
Our Father rewards us.
(Matt 6:20, Heb 11:6)
Our Father encourages us.
(2 Thess 2:16-17)
Our Father shows no favoritism among His children.
(Eph 2:18, Rom 10:12, 1 Peter 1:17)
Jesus told us that anyone who had seen him had seen the Father.
How does the truth of God’s reality fit you in a personal way?
Worship!
Spend time worshipping the Lord this week.
Concentrate on God’s power and what He has done in your life.
When you pray, make sure to relate to God as your father… daddy.
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