What the Bible Teaches Us about God Part 1

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• What the Bible Teaches Us about God Part 1

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• The Nature of God
• 1. God is Spirit
• John 424
• 24 "God is spirit, and those who worship Him
  must worship in spirit and truth." NASB

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• God is not a material being
• He doesnt have a body.
• He is invisible.
• He is not composed of matter

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• 1. This distinguishes the God of the Bible
  the one true God, from all the other gods
  worshiped in biblical times and anything
  substituted for God or worshiped in place of God
  past or present.

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• This is part of the basis for the first two of
  the Ten Commandments

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• Ex 202-5
• 2 "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of
  the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
• 3 "You shall have no other gods before Me.
• 4 "You shall not make for yourself an idol, or
  any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the
  earth beneath or in the water under the earth.
• 5 You shall not worship them or serve them NASB

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• 2. It has important implications for worship
• John 419-20
• 19 The woman said to Him, "Sir, I perceive that
  You are a prophet.
• 20 "Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and
  you people say that in Jerusalem is the place
  where men ought to worship."
• John 423
• 23 "But an hour is coming, and now is, when the
  true worshipers shall worship the Father in
  spirit and truth for such people the Father
  seeks to be His worshipers. NASB

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• The Nature of God
• 1. God is Spirit
• 2. God is Person

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• We commonly define someone as a person because
  they have a physical body
• Scientifically or philosophically a person is
  defined as a being who has the powers of
  self-consciousness and self determination
• moral consciousness.

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• God is the only being who has perfect and
  complete self-consciousness, self-determination
  and moral consciousness. Therefore in reality
  God is the only being with true perfect personhood

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• 1. God is spoken of in what are called
  anthropomorphic terms - terms that define Him
  with human characteristics

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• 1. God is spoken of in what are called
  anthropomorphic terms - terms that define Him
  with human characteristics
• 2 He is given personality attributes

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• 1. God is spoken of in what are called
  anthropomorphic terms - terms that define Him
  with human characteristics
• 2 He is given personality attributes
• 3. We see His personality in the fact He has a
  name

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• Ex 313-14
• 13 Then Moses said to God, "Behold, I am going to
  the sons of Israel, and I shall say to them, 'The
  God of your fathers has sent me to you.' Now they
  may say to me, 'What is His name?' What shall I
  say to them?"
• 14 And God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM" and He
  said, "Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel,
  'I AM has sent me to you.'" NASB

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• "Yahweh" is the closest equivalent to the
  original pronunciation of I AM.
• It literally means the self-existent one

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• JEHOVAH-JIREH "The Lord will Provide." Gen.
  2214.
• JEHOVAH-ROPHE "The Lord Who Heals"
• Ex. 1522-26.
• JEHOVAH-NISSI "The Lord Our Banner." Ex. 1715.
• JEHOVAH-M'KADDESH "The Lord Who Sanctifies"
• Lev. 208. "
• JEHOVAH-SHALOM "The Lord Our Peace" Judges 624.
• JEHOVAH ELOHIM "LORD God" Gen. 24 Jud 53
  Isa. 176 Zeph. 29 Psa. 595,
• JEHOVAH-TSIDKENU "The Lord Our Righteousness"
• Jer. 235, 6, 3316.
• JEHOVAH-ROHI "The Lord Our Shepherd" Ps. 23,
• JEHOVAH-SHAMMAH "The Lord is There" (Ezek.
  4835).
• JEHOVAH-SABAOTH "The Lord of Hosts" The
  commander of the angelic host and the armies of
  God. Isa. 124 Psa. 467, 11 2 Kings 39-12
  Jer. 1120 (NT Rom. 929 James 54, Rev. 19
  11-16).

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• 1. Personhood balances His spiritual nature.

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• 1. Personhood balances His spiritual nature.
• 2. Because He is a person we can have a
  personal intimate relationship with Him.

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• The Nature of God
• 1. God is Spirit
• 2. God is Person
• 3. God is Unity
• Deut 64 "Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God,
  the Lord is one! NASB

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• This is one of the most essential doctrines of
  the Bible.

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• Isa 4310-12
• 10 "You are My witnesses," declares the Lord,
  "And My servant whom I have chosen, In order that
  you may know and believe Me, And understand that
  I am He. Before Me there was no God formed, And
  there will be none after Me.
• 11 "I, even I, am the Lord And there is no
  savior besides Me.
• 12 "It is I who have declared and saved and
  proclaimed, And there was no strange god among
  you So you are My witnesses," declares the Lord,
  "And I am God. NASB

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• Mark 1229-30
• 29 Jesus answered, "The foremost is, 'Hear, O
  Israel! The Lord our God is one Lord
• 30 and you shall love the Lord your God with all
  your heart, and with all your soul, and with all
  your mind, and with all your strength.' NASB

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• Eph 44-6
• 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as also
  you were called in one hope of your calling
• 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
• 6 one God and Father of all who is over all and
  through all and in all. NASB

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• 1. It establishes the fact there is only one
  God - no pantheon of gods
• 2. In the matter of worship. God, Yahweh, the
  one and only God, is to be the absolute object of
  worship.

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• The Nature of God
• 1. God is Spirit
• 2. God is Person
• 3. God is Unity
• 4. God is Trinity
• He reveals Himself as Father, Son and Spirit