Gods Master Plan

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Gods Master Plan

• Session 4Who is the Master Planner?

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Salvation The faith God requires for eternal life
in his Kingdom (John 316-17)
(C) OBEDIENCE 7) How can we participate in the
Master Plan? 8) How should citizens of the
Master Plan live?
(A) KINGDOM OF GOD 1) What is God's Master
Plan 2) How will God's Master Plan be
realised? 3) Why do we need God's Master Plan? 4)
What stops us from participating in God's Master
Plan? (B) NAME OF JESUS CHRIST 5) Who is the key
to the Master Plan? 6) Who is the Master Planner?
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Objective

• To know who is God the Father
• Understand the origin of Jesus and its importance
  to us

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Overview

• Section 6
• Who is the planner?
• What is his name?
• What is the purpose of his name?
• What is the nature of God?
• When did God become a father?
• What is Gods power
• Why is it important to know the Master Planner?

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Who is the planner?

• Numbers 14v21
• The planner is God
• He who created the heaven and the earth

Isaiah 45v12 It is I who made the earth and
created mankind upon it. My own hands stretched
out the heavens I marshalled their starry hosts.
He is called the LORD
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What is His name?

• Name is YHWH
• Means eternal
• Moses and I am
• Ex 3v13-15
• Gods name encapsulates His character and
  purpose
• Ex 34v5-7

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What is the purpose of His name?

• Family name
• Given to saints
• Those who will reflect His glory

Simeon hath declared how God at the first did
visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people
for his name. (Acts 15v14)
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The 3 VITAL things!
God shows his GLORY

• And he said, I beseech thee, show me thy glory.
  (Ex 33v18)
• And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood
  with him there, and proclaimed the name of the
  LORD. And the LORD passed by before him, and
  proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and
  gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness
  and truth.Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving
  iniquity and transgression and sin(Ex 34v5-7)

which is His CHARACTER
which is His NAME
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The 3 VITAL Things
Character
God's
Master
Plan
Glory
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The 3 VITAL Things

• The earth will therefore be full of name bearers

Revelation 3v12 Him who overcomes I will make a
pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will
he leave it. I will write on him the name of my
God and the name of the city of my God, the new
Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven
from my God and I will also write on him my new
name.
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The 3 VITAL Things

• The earth will therefore be full of name bearers

Zechariah 14v9 The LORD will be king over
the whole earth. On that day there will be one
LORD, and his name the only name.
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What is the nature of God?

• God is Eternal

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the
only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever.
Amen. (1 Timothy 1v17)

• God is Spirit

God is spirit, and his worshippers must worship
in spirit and in truth. (John 4v24)
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What is the nature of God?

• God cannot be tempted

When tempted, no-one should say, God is tempting
me. For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does
he tempt anyone. (James 1v13)

• God cannot abide sin

Your eyes are too pure to look on evil you
cannot tolerate wrong. (Habakkuk 1v13)
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What is the nature of God?

• God is also
• Omnipotent
• Omnipresent
• Omniscient

WOW!
Big wordswhat do they mean?
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What is the nature of God?

• Omnipotent
• All powerful
• God Rules in the kingdoms of man

The decision is announced by messengers, the holy
ones declare the verdict, so that the living may
know that the Most High is sovereign over the
kingdoms of men and gives them to anyone he
wishes and sets over them the lowliest of men.
(Daniel 4v17)
He is the one and only power (God) (Isaiah 45v5-7)
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What is the nature of God?

• Omnipresent
• Everywhere present
• Psalm 139v7-13
• Jonah story

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What is the nature of God?

• Omniscient
• All knowing

Remember the former things, those of long ago I
am God, and there is no other I am God, and
there is none like me. I make known the end from
the beginning, from ancient times, what is still
to come. I say My purpose will stand, and I
will do all that I please. (Isaiah 46v9-10)
And even the very hairs of your head are all
numbered. (Matthew 10v30)
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Tea Break
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When did God become a father?

• In OT God revealed as
• YHWH
• God
• Father future tense
• 2 Samuel 7v14

I will be his father, and he shall be my son.
When he does wrong, I will punish him with the
rod of men, with floggings inflicted by men.
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When did God become a father?

• In the NT
• God revealed as Father

Luke 1v35 The angel answered, The Holy Spirit
will come upon you, and the power of the Most
High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be
born will be called the Son of God.
Hebrews 1v5 For to which of the angels did God
ever say, You are my Son today I have become
your Father? Or again, I will be his Father,
and he will be my Son?
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When did God become a father?

• We are now children of God

How great is the love the Father has lavished on
us, that we should be called children of God! And
that is what we are! The reason the world does
not know us is that it did not know him. 1 John
3v1

• Our Father - Romans 8v15

We are his sons, therefore bear his name Lets
pray for itThe Lords prayer - Hallowed be thy
name.
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What is Gods Power?
Spirit of God
and
Holy Spirit
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What is the power of God?

• Spirit of God is His power or energy
• Psalm 104v30

When you send your Spirit, they are created, and
you renew the face of the earth.

• Created earth with his power
• Genesis 1v2

• His Spirit keeps us alive
• Job 34v14-15

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What is the power of God?

• Holy Spirit
• Holy means separate or set apart
• Holy Spirit is set apart or special power
• Power that is used to direct the Master Plan

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What is the power of God?

• Used to write the Master Plan down (the Bible)

For prophecy never had its origin in the will of
man, but men spoke from God as they were
carried along by the Holy Spirit. (2 Peter 1v21)
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What is the power of God?

• Used to to bring about the key to the Master Plan
  - Jesus

The angel answered, The Holy Spirit will come
upon you, and the power of the Most High will
overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will
be called the Son of God. (Luke 1v35)
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Why is it important to know the Master Planner?

• John 17v3 - This is life eternal

Now this is eternal life that they may know
you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom
you have sent.
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Why is it important to know the Master Planner?

• We need to reflect Gods character
• Gods character is revealed to us through the
  life of Jesus
• Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father
  (John 14v9)
• The Son is the radiance of Gods glory and the
  exact representation of his being (Hebrews 1v3)

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Why is it important to know the Master Planner?

• Must understand the
• Goodness and severity of God
• Behold therefore the goodness and severity of
  God (Romans 11v22)

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Why is it important to know the Master Planner?

• Goodness
• God of Love
• John 3v16
• 1 John 4v16

And so we know and rely on the love God has for
us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in
God, and God in him.
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Why is it important to know the Master Planner?

• Severity
• God has a plan
• God overlooked ignorance
• BUT God has appointed a day

In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but
now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
For he has set a day when he will judge the world
with justice by the man he has appointed. He has
given proof of this to all men by raising him
from the dead. (Acts 17v30-31)
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Conclusion

• This week we looked at
• Who is the planner?
• What is His name?
• What is the purpose of His name?
• What is the nature of God?
• When did God become a father?
• What is Gods power?
• Why is it important to know the Master Planner?

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Question and Answer

• Who is the Master Planner?

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Conclusion

• Next week we look at.
• What must we do to share in the Master Plan?
• What is Belief?
• What is Repentance?
• What is Baptism?
• Why be baptised?
• How baptism saves us