–Christopher, priest, Connecticut. Just put it back in the cover. Secondly, God is in three persons. The Day the Priests Dropped Dead - Leviticus, Hebrews, 1 Peter Scriptures: Psalm 145:1-3Connection to Unit Theme: God is omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent, and we must remember that He made in His image to reflect and glorify Him. And we get this idea that God is a namby-pamby kind of tolerance, sort of senile individual. May there be none who would rival You and thus feel Your judgment. Look at verse 3 in the middle, “The Lord hath His way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of His feet.” Is that majestic? Our God is a consuming fire. Share. And there must be as many diverse answers to that question as any other person who ever walked on this planet. Stay updated on what's happening, what's new, and what's next at The Grove. You ought to read some of these minor prophets if you want to get some fascinating things. His power is irresistible. A verse list showing who God is. God’s going to judge men for their failure to see Him in the heavens, and they’re going to fall apart. The father did not exist and then say: I think I shall bring into being a Son. Remember the beloved apostle John who entitled himself “the one that Jesus loved?” He loves those who trust in Him. Have you ever asked yourself how many times you are photographed in a day? He says this, “The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of Judgment to be punished.” God knows what He’s doing. Just you listen to this, “If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema.” That means accursed. We sent you an email. God moves through the atmospheric heavens. God. Who is Jesus? The third fact about God is an indication in Scripture that God is a spirit. Because we don’t want you to incur expenditure for which you are not prepared, could you please confirm whether you are willing to pay this charge, if necessary? – “knew you.” Does He mean He doesn’t know who they are?” No. Psalm 90:2 mentions His eternal existence, saying, “Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.” He is unchangeable. He is the Father streaming out in glory, standing forth in another person whose essence is the same divine essence. He is God representing God. He’s saying that God has such control that He can rebuke the sea, that He can dry up the rivers. Let me give you, in closing, four ways that the Son streams out or is radiating the glory of the Father. And you know something? Secondly, God is not only a God of inflexible justice, but a God of irresistible power. The point being that you beget light. We who know and love Him experience His goodness. He says, “I’ve got a book, and I know who it is that belongs to Me.” And over in chapter 4, verse 1, “‘For behold, the day cometh that shall burn like an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up,’ sayeth the Lord of Hosts.” Verse 2, “‘But unto you that fear My name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.’” See, God always remembers the remnant, the faithful. As you may be aware, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into full effect on 25th May 2018. Now what that means is that when the sun or the light in my dining room shines on this little window, a little black number appears. Is that just?”. – “love God and are called according to His purpose.”. Don’t ever confuse patience with impotence. And He demands it from every creature. Over in chapter 16, verse 8, “He poured out his bowl upon the sun; His power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. He says: It is a solar calculator. God is one Being in three Persons. We’re continuing a brief series in our morning hour on “God: Is He? Madalyn Murray O’Hair says, “Nobody.” She will tell the little lives that kneel by their beds in simple faith to pray, she’ll tell the sick who call on divine power for healing, the needy who cry out to the One who has promised to supply, the lost soul that cries for God’s saving grace, “Forget it; there’s nobody home up there.” And you will ask her where everything came from, and she will tell you, “The equation on which the universe is built is nobody times nothing equals everything.” That doesn’t seem to satisfy the longing of man’s heart. And that is just a little reflection of God. Voltaire said, “God made man in His own image, and man has returned the favor.”. Who is God? Jesus said: If you have seen me, you have seen the Father (see John 14:9). © 2021 Grace to You. If you've been in a Growth Group, how has God used your group to be His voice in your life? We have today an abundance of sermons and articles and books that are on man – how to be a happy Christian, how to be a Spirit-filled Christian, how to be happily married, how to get along with your kids, how to discipline your children, how to have a happy home, how to build the church, how to know your own mind, self kind of examination, Christ and personal psychoanalysis type things. Submit. No. And He gives us the feeling that He ought to be there, but He’s not.”, And others come along and say, “No, God is a glorified grandfather type, a heavenly Santa: naive, senile, indulgent, syrupy, with no convictions, who pats everybody on the head and says, ‘It’s all right.’” My little boy came in the other day, and he says, “Does God have a white mustache?”, The pantheist comes along and says, “No, God is the essence of everything,” which is the same as saying, “God is nothing.”. We confess one revolutionary truth-that Jesus of Nazareth is the Son of the living God. The whole concept of a Jesus movement bothers me, because since when is Jesus isolated from the Father and the Holy Spirit? Who is God? In fact, in verse 5, it says, “The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt. Listen to this, “He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy.” Nehemiah 8 talks about how God is gracious and merciful against the stiff necked, but finally he that oft being reproved hardens his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. There was a lot we didn't know entering 2020, to say the least, but the word God gave us was [...] 0. God is the ultimate vision. Second Thessalonians 1:8, “In flaming fire Christ is coming, taking vengeance on them that know not God and obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord.” God is jealous over His Son. But rather than extend ourselves endlessly to all these various passages, let’s just come to one passage, Nahum chapter 1, verses 2 to 7. He is eternally begotten, eternally streaming out. Some said he was brilliant, and others labeled him insane. And the Bible says, in the New Testament, “My God shall supply” – what? How to Witness to Anyone - John 16 3. Secondly, God is a stronghold in trouble. Oh God is a God of mercy. And we won’t begin to exhaust this or end it, but we can see a little bit. And I said: Now, you know what? Father, we just ask that Your Spirit will speak tonight – not a human voice, but Your voice – that our hearts might be enriched and blessed and thrilled as we study from Thy Word concerning Thee. The Son is the light shining on the world and making the world. “But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, 15 and … ” I. Let’s Ask Humanity II. Watch. Jesus Christ. Even though it’s a kind of a Christian man centered, it’s nevertheless man centered. Once in a while we see a book on the Holy Spirit. God, above all things, loves His Son, and to mistreat the Son brings down the wrath of God. You’re not supposed to. The heavens are going to collapse. God has you on his heart at this very moment. God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. And for a man to reject Jesus Christ is to bring upon himself the anathema of God, for He’s a jealous God. Maybe it something financial, maybe it’s something in your marriage, maybe it’s a problem at your work, or a spiritual problem that is hindering your closeness with God. He is begotten, not made, the old creeds say. He created everything at His own pleasure; He didn’t have to. In Revelation 16, verse 20, talking, as we just read, about the tremendous judgment that’s going to come upon the land, and in Revelation chapter 8 – I think it’s verse 7 – it gives us the same kind of an indication. You better believe it. Steven Furtick - The Grace Space. The supreme jealousy of God is on those men who mistreat His Son. Praise God for earthquakes. And then the next verse says, “Well, they’re willingly ignorant; they just don’t remember the flood.” And then he says this in verse 9, “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. God is such – has such power over the heavens, that because men have refused to recognize Him in the heavens. God knew we would doubt this promise, so he wrapped it in five negatives. Wherefore, receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear for our God is a consuming fire.” God’s going to shake everything. # 3: Joshua the Fearful. And you see, to violate that, to worship a false God, or to rebel against God – and if you rebel against the true God, you’re worshiping a false God, maybe in the person of yourself, but anything but true worship to the true God incites the jealousy of God. He will turn again; He will have compassion upon us; He will subdue our iniquities. I absolutely know that God loves me. About eight minutes ago while I was preaching it left the sun. And I will enter into judgment against him with pestilence and blood, and I will rain upon him and upon his hordes, and upon as many people that are with him, an overflowing rain of great hailstones, fire and brimstone. “Bashan languisheth and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.” There you have the northern, western, and eastern boundaries – or the eastern, western, and northern boundaries – get them in the right order – of Israel. And when you look at Jesus Christ, you are seeing God. In Deuteronomy chapter 4, verse 24, it says, “For the Lord thy God” – listen to this – “is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.” Ezekiel says – in chapter 39 I think it is – that God is jealous for His holy name. Forgiveness is my anchor and my understanding of Jesus is my guide for finding, receiving, and giving forgiveness. Over in chapter 8, it says, in verse 12, “The fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and a third part of the moon and a third part of the stars so that the third part of them was darkness and the day shone not for a third part of it; and the night likewise.”. Somehow we’ve gotten ourselves a little out of perspective. And the more I think about God’s answer, the more it amazes me. Please respond to confirm your registration. Someone said, “Thou art inapproachable, whose great grace enabled Thee to stoop, whose holiness is undefiled, yet handles hearts that droop. Now as to specific attributes and specific characteristics, many of them are revealed in Scripture. And that the ministry of Jesus Christ was to point to whom? The goodness of God is not only revealed in these areas, but it’s experienced by believers. Radiance coming out from a light streaming down from the sun is not another thing. For all of God’s standards – watch this – all of God’s standards are obeyed by one act, faith in the perfect, finished work of Jesus Christ. He represents the glory of God the way radiance represents glory. And in the Old Testament, God has appeared in the wind and the whirlwind. The completed registration allows us to send order and donation receipts to the email address you provided. There is only one good; that is God. If you are here and a Christian, but maybe you are struggling with something in your life that is causing you to be depressed or worried. If you come out of your solitude with the aroma of Christ lingering in your life, your wife and children will sense intuitively that you are at the helm of the ship with God’s hand on your shoulder. And you would be wrong. In Revelation chapter 8, verse 8, we talked about, “The great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea; and the third part of the sea became blood; the third part of the creatures which were in the sea and had life died; the third part of the ships were destroyed.”. And the reason we know that would be utterly inadequate to talk that way is because the first phrase tells us how he is a representation and it isn’t any of those. Who is it that went to the cross? And you would be wrong. And a Jesus movement, without a basis of solid theology, winds up in humanism. The Bible tells us that someday – Revelation 6, Revelation 11, Revelation 16 – God’s going to shake the earth with a shaking from which the earth will never recover. They are coeternal. Now, let me show you this in just a few brief terms. Well, let’s bow together in prayer as we come to our Scripture study for tonight. 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Nahum chapter 1, and in this particular section we’re going to look at, verses 2 to 7, we find some tremendous truths regarding the character and the person of God. As the prophecy was being given, they were shaking and rattling in their shoes, to put it mildly. And we have a Holy Spirit movement. There is no time when the sun exists that its radiant light does not exist. We must understand, to begin with, that God has the right to do what He wants to do. The Trinity. God resents the insults and the indignities of men who rebel against Him. And so, the testimony of the heavens, the testimony of the waters. Sermon. May there be no rebels in this place. All this hell fire and damnation preaching that’s been going on, I don’t see any hell fire and damnation going on. Editor's note: Look for a sermon … So who is this Jesus? The subject tonight, as I mentioned this morning, is one which I feel very keenly about and which I feel is very urgent. One of my favorite passages in all of Scriptures, one page back at the end of Micah, verse 18 – listen to this – Micah 7:18, “Who is a God like unto Thee, who pardoneth iniquity and passes by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? Jan. 7, 2017 Updated: Jan. 7, 2017 3:41 p.m. Facebook Twitter Email. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. Did you get that? “And He will not at all acquit the wicked.” Nobody gets off the hook who’s violated God’s laws and remains in that situation. You are watching How Is The Law Of God Relevant To You? You’re only supposed to believe it. Even when preaching on Jesus Christ, we must constantly emphasize not so much what He did, but who He was. What we are seeing is a ball that is eight minutes old being mediated to us by light streaming over 93 million miles from the sun. And there’s a constant concentration on men. We know that it is love that prompts mercy. You know something? Justice is inflexible, inevitable for those who violate. And so, God’s jealousy is not only the jealousy of honor, but it’s the jealousy of love. To begin with, four truths are abundantly clear in Scripture. Because there’s joy in the variety of color. And they said, “Even the winds and the waves obey His voice.” “He rebuketh the sea and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers.”, What’s he saying this for? A Theology that Always Leads to Mission - Ephesians 4 2. 16 For this is what you asked of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the Lord our God nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die.” When we preach on the Holy Spirit, it must be in terms of His attributes as God, not some floating fog that gives people mystical experiences. Psalm 18:2 The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. No wonder he said, “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” God is a God of irresistible power, and there is no hope for escape from that power apart from Christ. It’s as simple as that. And clouds are always in the Scripture – not always, but clouds are often, in the Scripture, connected with judgment. It is serious. Thus will I magnify Myself, and sanctify Myself, and I will be known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am the Lord.’” God tolerates no rivals. Men should be able to look at the heavens and know God, shouldn’t they? It is fearful. I want to start a new movement: the God movement. You have to have a mediator. And any creature in His universe that refuses to give Him glory He places apart from His presence. You have to have a means to see God. That is not the way it happened. Those that love Jesus Christ will never be anathema. Jesus is the Son of God, who came to earth to show people how to follow God and how to love and care for others. I think of this because I was using one the other night getting my tax stuff ready. Where is that mercy available? If you have your Bible, I’d like you to turn to Nahum chapter 1. Even during his life on earth, Christ’s very presence was a point of remarkable debate. Sermon series: Open Your Trauma Toolbox. Psalm 62:2 He alone is my rock and my salvation. And God resents the indignities of those who rebel against Him, because His is the glory. He is jealous for the Son. Pin. You can probably recognize me because you’ve seen me before. That in one short sentence is what Christians believe about Jesus. Bless our time, we pray, in Christ’s name, amen. So, for the rebel, God is a God of inflexible justice. And the earth is burned at His presence, yea, the world and all that dwell in it. Registered User Forgiveness. It’s, number one, revealed in His Word. The Lord will take vengeance on His adversaries, and He reserveth wrath for His enemies. God would have you to feel this great fact, that if Jesus Christ dwells in you by the Holy Spirit, He makes you strong to overcome Satan, as He Himself was strong to overcome Satan in the desert and in the Garden of Gethsemane, and that is the secret of your triumph over evil. In other words, the motive for everything is the identity of God. First of all, God is a God of inflexible justice. When you grow up, you may become a fireman, a policeman, a doctor, a farmer, a teacher, a mechanic or one of the many other jobs we talk about. And Revelation chapter 16, verse 20, “Every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. And thus it is evident that when a man reaches his highest destiny, it is when he stops resisting his Creator and starts conforming to His will. God stays His anger in mercy. And the book of Revelation says He’s going to do it. God the Father, in the power of God the Holy Spirit and through the agency of God the Son Jesus Christ, created everything that exists. He existed before the beginning of time and is the Creator of heaven and earth (Gen. 1:1). You were made for a destiny. The Bible simply tells us, in Romans chapter 1, that the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all unrighteousness and ungodliness of men. Perfect love casts out that fear. Do you fear God? The deist comes along and says, “Oh, yes, there is a cosmic force, but He could care less about us. 75 Shares. Some people believe that God is the universal party-pooper, a kind of a cosmic killjoy who reigns on everybody’s parade. “But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise. That is the basic identity of God. That is not so. He reckons with men who rebel. Now if you look at those rays you can actually see — if you put on the right glasses — you see a ball, or at sunrise and sundown when it is safe, you can see a ball. Why? And, God, we’ve seen You in inflexible justice, irresistible power, and then we’ve seen You in that sweetness of infinite mercy. And the reason we know that would be utterly inadequate to talk that way is because the first phrase tells us how he is a representation and it isn’t any of those. Hold … Because He’s God. And the emphasis today is man centered. Tonight I want to speak to you on the subject the character of God.