BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD
[PART 6]
WE NEED TO KNOW GOD
(WE NEED A HEAD KNOWLEDGE, AND A HEART KNOWLEDGE THAT COMES FROM HAVING A RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM).
BRIEF
RECAP.
WE NEED TO KNOW WHO WE ARE WORSHIPPING!
JESUS SAID TO THE SAMARITAN WOMAN
John 4:22.
You Samaritans worship what you do not know;
John 4:22.
We worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
THE JEWISH GOD IS THE GOD OF THE OLD TESTAMENT!
MANY CHRISTIANS DON’T EVEN KNOW THE OLD TESTAMENT.
THE GOD OF THE BIBLE, IS NOT THE INVENTED GOD OF THE LIBERALS
WE NEED TO GET TO KNOW THE TRUE GOD WHO HAS REVEALED HIMSELF THROUGH HIS WORD
THERE IS ONLY ONE BIBLICAL GOD.
HE HAS REVEALED HIMSELF IN THE OLD AND NEW
TESTAMENTS AND IS:
A GOD WHO HATES SIN
A TRIUNE GOD!
A HOLY GOD!
AN INFINITE GOD!
A CONSUMING FIRE!
A PATIENT MERCIFUL GOD!
1 Peter 1:15-17.
But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: Be holy, because I am holy Since you call on a Father who judges each person’s work impartially, live out your time as foreigners here in reverent fear.
GOD WANTS US TO LIVE AS FOREIGNERS, WE SHOULD STAND OUT, BECAUSE WE ARE DIFFERENT
We HAVE SEEN THAT GOD IS HOLY..
2 Corinthians 6:17-18.
Come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.
And I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.
GOD IS HOLY AND WE MUST BE HOLY..
HOLY DOESN'T MEAN SINLESS PERFECTION BUT SEPARATION FROM THE WORLD
Hebrews12:14.
Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.
WE MUST PURSUE HOLINESS..
WHAT EFFORT ARE YOU PUTTING
INTO LIVING A LIFE OF SEPARATION FROM THE WORLD?
Isaiah 40:15.
Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are regarded as dust on the scales; he weighs the islands as though they were fine dust.
GOD IS INFINITE..
GOD doesn’t require us to understand HIM!
Isaiah 55:8-9.
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
AND THE REASON IS THAT WE CANNOT UNDERSTAND HIM.
SIMPLICITY IS EASY IF YOU INVENT YOUR OWN GOD.
If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete, in simplicity, with people who are inventing religions.
CS. LEWIS
Exodus 15:11. (NKJV)
Who is like You, O Lord, among the gods?
Who is like You, glorious in holiness,
Fearful in praises, doing wonders?
LORD HELP ME TO ADEQUATELY TELL YOUR PEOPLE ABOUT WHAT AN AWESOME GOD YOU ARE
MY PRAYER
SOME LOOK AT CALVARY AND ONLY SEE THAT GOD LOVES SINNERS.
BUT WE MUST LOOK AT CALVARY AND REMEMBER THAT GOD HATES SIN.
Hebrews 10:26-28.
If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
Hebrews 10:29-31.
How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know him who said,
“It is mine to avenge; I will repay, ”and again, “The Lord will judge his people.” It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
SINNERS IN THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD.
One church in Enfield, Connecticut, had been largely unaffected during the First Great Awakening of New England. Edwards was invited by the pastor of the church to preach to them. Edwards's aim was to teach his listeners about the horrors of Hell, the dangers of sin, and the terrors of being lost. Edwards described the position of those who do not follow Christ's urgent call to receive forgiveness.
Edwards scholar John E. Smith notes that despite the apparent pessimism of the notion of an angry God, that pessimism is "overcome by the comforting hope of salvation through a triumphant, loving saviour." Whenever Edwards preached terror, it was part of a larger campaign to turn sinners from their disastrous path and to the rightful object of their affections, Jesus.
SINNERS IN THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD.
In the final section of "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," Edwards shows that his theological argument holds throughout scripture and biblical history. He invokes stories and examples throughout the Bible. Edwards ends the sermon with one final appeal: "Therefore let everyone that is out of Christ, now awake and fly from the wrath to come." According to Edwards and the Bible, only by returning to Christ can one escape the stark fate he outlines.
SINNERS IN THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD.
MY REASON FOR STARTING THIS SERIES ABOUT WHO GOD IS WAS A CLIP FROM MINISTRY BY DR DAVID JEREMIAH, WHERE A WOMAN SAID TO HIM” THE GOD I BELIEVE IN DOESN'T SEND PEOPLE TO HELL”:
AND HE REPLIED "YES HE DOESN’T, BECAUSE HE DOESN'T EXIST”
Jesus spoke about hell in many passages of Matthew,
including:
5:21-26,
7:13-14,
13:24–30,
16:13-20,
22:1-14,
and 25:14-30.
Perhaps it would be prudent to focus on the undeniable reality that Jesus indeed discussed hell. Many modern congregations are discomfited by the mere mention of judgment. However, justice is a good thing; it is, in fact, one of God’s attributes. We call God less than good if we regard Him as perfectly loving but not perfectly just. Given the reality of evil, it would be terrible if God had no plan to deal with it justly.
Got questions
When a coin in the coffer rings, a soul from purgatory springs is a famous line associated with Johann Tetzel, a preacher who sold indulgences in the 1500s. The line was used to highlight the controversial practice of selling indulgences
Hebrews 9:27.
Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment,
MAN GOES THERE BY CHOICE.
Mathew 25:41.
Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
Numbers 16:28-30.
Then Moses said, “This is how you will know that the Lord has sent me to do all these things and that it was not my idea: If these men die a natural death and suffer the fate of all mankind, then the Lord has not sent me. But if the Lord brings about something totally new, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them, with everything that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the realm of the dead, then you will know that these men have treated the Lord with contempt.
GOD HATES SIN.
Numbers 16:31-34.
As soon as he finished saying all this, the ground under them split apart and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households, and all those associated with Korah, together with their possessions. They went down alive into the realm of the dead, with everything they owned; the earth closed over them, and they perished and were gone from the community.
GOD HATES SIN.
GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE.
FB ARTICLE.
THEY MOCKED GOD AT
THE GOLDEN GLOBES EVENT AND CALLED HIM THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE BUT HE SCORED A ZERO
THE AUDIENCE LAUGHED AT THAT ENJOYING THE BLASPHEMY TWO DAYS LATER THERE WAS THE LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTIES AS THEIR MANSIONS BURNT TO THE GROUND.
GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE.
GALATIANS 6:7-8.
Do not be deceived GOD is not mocked for whatever a person sows he will also reap.
Matthew11:23-24.
And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades. For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day. But I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.
TO WHOM MUCH IS GIVEN, MUCH WILL BE REQUIRED
LUKE 12:47-48.
SODOM HAD NO BIBLE..
SODOM HAD NO BIBLE, WE HAVE THOUSANDS
WE HAVE CHURCHES TO PICK FROM, WE HAVE CHRISTIAN EXAMPLES AND WITNESSES ALL AROUND US, BUT SOME FOCUS ON THE ODD HYPOCRITE AND TRY TO USE THEM AS AN EXCUSE
WE CAN LOOK BACK TO CALVARY, SODOM DID NOT HAVE THAT REFERENCE POINT.
WHAT EXCUSE DO WE HAVE?
SODOM HAD NO BIBLE..
GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE.
Hebrews 12:18-21.
You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom and storm; to a trumpet blast or to such a voice speaking words that those who heard it begged that no further word be spoken to them, because they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned to death.” The sight was so terrifying that Moses said, “I am trembling with fear.”
Hebrews 12:22-24.
But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant
GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE.
Hebrews 12:15-29.
The words once more indicate the removing of what can be shaken, that is, created things, so that what cannot be shaken may remain.
Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.
GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE..
2 Peter 3:3-7.
Above all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation. But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water. By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE..
2 Peter 3:8-10.
But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead, he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare
GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE..
2 Peter 3:11-15.
Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming. That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat. But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells. So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him. Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation,
GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE..
GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE..
JUDGEMENT TO COME.
PAST JUDGEMENT .
I AM GLAD THAT HE IS NOT OR WE WOULD ALL BE DEAD
Luke 9:51-55.
Now it came to pass, when the time had come for Him to be received up, that He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem and sent messengers before His face. And as they went, they entered a village of the Samaritans, to prepare for Him. But they did not receive Him, because His face was set for the journey to Jerusalem. And when His disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, just as Elijah did?”
GOD IS NOT LIKE US..
JAMES AND JOHN WANTED TO CALL DOWN FIRE FROM HEAVEN ON THE SAMARITAN VILLAGE.
AND I AM GLAD THAT HE IS NOT OR WE WOULD ALL BE DEAD
Luke 9:51-55.
But He turned and rebuked them, and said, “You do not know what manner of spirit you are of. For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives but to save them.”
GOD IS NOT LIKE US..
AS I HAVE LOOKED AT HAMAS STANDING AROUND WITH THEIR MASKED FACES AND SEEN HOSTAGES RELEASED THAT HAVE BEEN ABUSED AND ARE BEEN ABUSED, I HAVE THOUGHT THAT THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN DESTROYED
AM I ANY BETTER THAN JAMES AND JOHN?
JESUS CAME TO SAVE.
WE HAVE BEEN SAVED BY GRACE[THANK GOD!]
GOD IS NOT LIKE US..
Proverbs 9:10.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
Proverbs 10:27.
The fear of the Lord prolongs days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
THE FEAR OF GOD..
MAYBE YOU ARE DISAPPOINTED BECAUSE YOU CAME TO CHURCH TO BE TOLD SOME COMFORTING THINGS, BUT YOU NEED TO KNOW GOD AND ALL HIS ATTRIBUTES.
2 Timothy 4:1-3.
In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage, with great patience and careful instruction. For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
OUR RESPONSIBILITY AS PASTORS..
Hebrews13:17.(NKJV)
Obey those who rule over you, and be submissive, for they watch out for your souls, as those who must give account. Let them do so with joy and not with grief, for that would be unprofitable for you.
WHAT VALUABLE THINGS GOD HAS ENTRUSTED US WITH THE “SOULS OF MEN AND WOMEN”
YOU HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY..