Knowing God - Part 2
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knowing god
What does it mean to
lAST tIME:
Know God?
Objective or
Subjective ?
Objective Subjective
Based on feelings or experience
Based on facts or reality
Facts
Feelings
Feelings
Facts
Objective Subjective
Facts
Feelings
Objective Our feelings and experience center around the truth
and reality of God, not the other way
around.
knOWING goD:
is having an interactive covenant relationship
with the God of the Universe.
“Knowing God”
Requires action, not just teachingInteractive
Covenant
Relationship
Involves our heart, mind, soul, body
Based on what God has revealed to us about Himself in His Word
Personal and transformational. Knowing God changes who we are
How do these relate
to each other?
Feelings
Facts
is having aninteractivecovenant
relationship with the God of
the universe.
knOWING goD
knOWING goD is having aninteractivecovenant
relationship with the God of
the universe.
Covenant
always begins with knowing: 1. who God is
and 2. what He has
done.
knOWING goD
changes who we are, how we
think, how we feel and how we view the world.
Covenant
knOWING goD Relationship
Covenant
knOWING goD Relationship
Interactive
changes what we do
and how we
live our lives.
Relationship
Covenant
Interactive
is having aninteractivecovenant
relationship with the God of
the universe.
knOWING goD
Feelings
Truth
Actions
is having aninteractivecovenant
relationship with the God of
the universe.
knOWING goD
How can we come toknow God Better?
Today:
We need to grow in eachof these three areas
Simple Answer:
Feelings
Truth
ActionsHow well we know
what we believe
TruthKnowing God Better:
Feelings
Truth
Actions
FeelingsKnowing God Better:
How open we are to the Spirit of God in
our lives.
Feelings
Truth
Actions
ActionsKnowing God Better:
How we prioritize our time, attention and
behavior.
iNTERACTIVE cOVENANT rELATIONSHIP
Actions Truth Feelings
How prioritize our time, attention
and behavior.
How well we know what we
believe
How open we are to the Spirit of
God in our lives.
How can we come toknow God Better?
Today:
How guilty can I make you feel About all the the things
The Question is not:
you should be doing, but aren’t?
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things
have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
2 Corinthians 5:17
But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were
held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the
oldness of the letter.
Romans 7:6
Open to
Psalm 63
We are interested in
Growthnot
guilt
We can only truly
Growfrom where we honestly
are
iNTERACTIVE cOVENANT rELATIONSHIP
Actions Truth Feelings
How prioritize our time, attention
and behavior.
How well we know what we
believe
How open we are to the Spirit of
God in our lives.
cOVENANT
Truth
How well we know what we
believe
How do we grow?
1. Read your Bible
Do we actually
Read our Bibles?
If not,
why not?
Why don’t we
Read our Bibles?1. We don’t have a structure to follow
2. We don’t have a defined time or place
4. We don’t understand what we are reading
3. We try and tackle too much
Type
For Every Book:AuthorDate
Context Recipients
1. Overview
2. Specific Advice
3. A Walk Through the Book
wRITING sTYLES
How the writing style affects our understanding
of the book’s meaning.
cOVENANT
Truth
How well we know what we
believe
How do we grow?
1. Read your Bible2. Study theology
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cOVENANT
Truth
How well we know what we
believe
How do we grow?
1. Read your Bible2. Study theology3. Learn critical thinking
Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does
not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
2Timothy 2:15
iNTERACTIVE cOVENANT rELATIONSHIP
Actions Truth Feelings
How prioritize our time, attention
and behavior.
How well we know what we
believe
How open we are to the Spirit of
God in our lives.
rELATIONSHIP
Feelings
How open we are to the Spirit of
God in our lives.
How do we grow?1. Do theology for richer
doxology.
rELATIONSHIP
Feelings
How open we are to the Spirit of
God in our lives.
How do we grow?
2. Develop a more honest and rawprayer life with God.
1. Do theology for richerdoxology (worship)
How comfortable are you
to openly discussyour sin with God?
The best way to ensure a boring prayer life is to try and be a good little boy or
girl in prayer.
- John Coe, Director of Spiritual Formation, Biola
How comfortable are you
to openly discussyour sin with God?
If you are not comfortable
discussing your sinwith God, why not?
If you are not comfortable
discussing your sinwith God, why not?
1. We do not like facing it ourselves
2. We feel that God is disappointed with us
3. If we acknowledge it, then we have to own it
We can only truly
Growfrom where we honestly
are
For I acknowledge my transgressions, And my sin is always before me.
Against You, You only, have I sinned, And done this evil in Your sight—
Psalm 51:3
For I was envious of the boastful, When I saw the prosperity of the
wicked.
Psalm 73:3
Do I not hate them, O LORD, who hate You?
And do I not loathe those who rise up against You?
Psalm 139:21
I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them my enemies.
Psalm 139:22
Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me, and know my anxieties;
Psalm 139:23
And see if there is any wicked way in me,
And lead me in the way everlasting.
Psalm 139:24
rELATIONSHIP
Feelings
How open we are to the Spirit of
God in our lives.
How do we grow?1. Do theology for richer
doxology (worship)
2. Develop a more honest and rawprayer life with God.
iNTERACTIVE cOVENANT rELATIONSHIP
Actions Truth Feelings
How prioritize our time, attention
and behavior.
How well we know what we
believe
How open we are to the Spirit of
God in our lives.
iNTERACTIVE
Actions
How prioritize our time, attention
and behavior.
How do we grow?
1. Find a biblical need inworld that you connect to
2. Invest yourself deeplyto its long-term growthand success.
What does it mean to
lAST tIME:
Know God?
Feelings
Truth
Actions
is having aninteractivecovenant
relationship with the God of
the universe.
knOWING goD
How can we come toknow God Better?
Today:
iNTERACTIVE cOVENANT rELATIONSHIP
Find a biblical need in the world that we connect
to and pour ourselves into it.
Study the Bible, Theology and
critical thinking that we might have a solid foundation.
Develop a real and honest
relationship with God where we are truly open
with Him
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in
believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Romans 15:13