Grace Fellowship Church www.GraceDoctrine.org

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Grace Fellowship Church
www.GraceDoctrine.org

• Pastor/Teacher
• Jim Rickard
• Sunday,
• September 28, 2008

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• 1 John Series Love is Perfected1 John 412-21

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No one has ever seen GodNo one will ever
literally see God while here on earth,
emphasizing His Deity.
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In Ex 3318-20, Moses was given a glimpse at the
deity of God but could not look directly upon it.
Ultimately what Moses witnessed was God's glory.
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3 Categories of Preincarnate Theophanies of Jesus
Christ.
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3 Categories of Preincarnate Theophanies of Jesus
Christ. 1) As a man, Gen 18 3224-32 Ex
249-11.
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3 Categories of Preincarnate Theophanies of Jesus
Christ. 2) As a phenomenon of nature, Ex 32
2522 339-23 Lev 162, 13.
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3 Categories of Preincarnate Theophanies of Jesus
Christ. 3) As the angel of the Lord, Gen
167-13 2211-18.
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There also were Christophanies (manifestations
post resurrection). Mark 169-13 John
2011-16,
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The transfiguration was another revelation of the
glory of God but not a revelation of His full
deity. Mat 1627-1713 Mark 91-13 Luke
927-362 Peter 116-18
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A thing transfigured is the outshining of a light
or vitality which is resident within. Christs
transfiguration was His intrinsic Shekinah glory
allowed to be seen.
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He was not merely assuming a glory or standing in
the radiance of an outward glory that fell upon
Him. The glory was His own, and originated in Him
and emanated from Him.
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John 118, No one has seen God at any time the
only begotten God (Jesus Christ) who is in the
bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.
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We too can be transfigured and not merely
transformed. Made possible by the divine presence
within us, (GPS), as the light of God. Rom 122
2 Cor. 318
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Rom 122, And do not be conformed to this world,
but be transfigured by the renewing of your mind,
so that you may prove what the will of God is,
that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
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2 Cor 318, But we all, with unveiled face,
beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord,
are being transfigured into the same image from
glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the
Spirit.
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John 646,Not that anyone has seen the Father,
except the One who is from God He has seen the
Father.
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1 Tim 616,Who alone possesses immortality and
dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has
seen or can see. To Him be honor and eternal
dominion! Amen.
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The divine essence of each member of the Trinity
is invisible to the human eye. 1 Cor 29-13 2
Cor 418 Heb 111
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2 Cor 418, While we look not at the things
which are seen, but at the things which are not
seen for the things which are seen are temporal,
but the things which are not seen are eternal.
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Heb 111,Now faith is the assurance of things
hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
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Why this out of place comment?
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1) Because of the False Teachers. They were
claiming to have had mystical visions of God,
misrepresenting 1 John 32-3.
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2) For the believer's understanding. The way in
which we can envision God is purely by His
character of love as demonstrated and made
manifest in the Cross, verse 9.
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3) For the believer's service. In Christians
sacrificial love, our passages.
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We cannot become acquainted with Him by sight,
but we may by the application of love.
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There are 3 statements of Perfected and 3 of
knowledge. 3 represents Divine Perfection and 6
is the number of man. Man's knowledge of God
demonstrated through the application of divine
love equals the Divine Perfection of God in you.
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The contingency depends on whether you reside in
God's Power System (GPS) or whether you live out
your life in great misery inside Satan's Cosmic
System.
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There are 3 statements of Perfected and 3 of
knowledge. 3 represents Divine Perfection and 6
is the number of man. Man's knowledge of God
demonstrated through the application of divine
love equals the Divine Perfection of God in you.
Transfigured
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Offering
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Grace Fellowship Church

• Sunday, September 28, 2008
• Tape 08S-037