Lesson 4: Understanding Further the Nature of God Lesson 4: Understanding Further the Nature of God.
Lesson 4: God
Transcript of Lesson 4: God
WHO IS
GOD?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkH9cbk0R4o
GOD IS A
LOVING GOD,
BUT HE IS
ALSO A JUST
GOD.Jeremiah 17:10 I the Lord search the heart and examine the
mind, to reward each person according to their
conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.
THERE IS ONLY ONE
GOD, BUT THE
WORLD (SATAN) TELLS
US THERE IS MORE
THAN ONE. HOW DO
WE KNOW WHO TO
LISTEN TO?
SIMPLE.
GOD, WHO WROTE THE BIBLE
SO THAT WE WOULD KNOW
HOW TO WORSHIP HIM AND GET
TO HEAVEN, OFFERS A WAY TO
SAVE ANYONE WHO CHOOSES
TO FOLLOW HIM.
THE PLAN OF SALVATION!
SATAN TRIES TO CONFUSE US
BY SAYING THERE ARE MANY
GODS. WE KNOW THAT THERE
IS ONLY ONE TRUE GOD.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEftDn-OOUY
GOD LOVES
WHEN WE
FOLLOW
HIM!Micah 6:8
He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD
require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with
your God.
GOD
DESERVES
RESPECT.Proverbs 28:14 Happy is the man who is always reverent, But
he who hardens his heart will fall into calamity.
WHAT MOST HUMANS THINK…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M6UYwaYRqw
WHAT IF “WHAT YOU ARE” IS
NOT GOOD ? IS IT STILL OK TO
THINK THAT YOU ARE FINE AND
NOTHING ABOUT YOU NEEDS
TO CHANGE FOR THE BETTER?
WE ARE NOT
PERFECT. WE
REPEATEDLY
SIN AND FALL
AWAY. Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and
fallen short of the glory of God
GOD GIVES US
THE PROMISE
OF ETERNAL
LIFE, IF WE
FOLLOW HIM!John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only
Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
GOD LOVES US!
Romans 8:37-39 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him
who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor
demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor
depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of
God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
GOD IS:
LOVING, GENEROUS, FORGIVING,
JUST, MERCIFUL, RIGHTEOUS, MI
GHTY, LIGHT, PURE, ETERNAL, UNC
HANGING, ALL-POWERFUL, ALL-
KNOWING, EVERYWHERE, SOVEREIGN,
FREEDOM, WAS,
IS, ALWAYS WILL
BE, FATHER, SON, AND HOLY SPIRIT
WE HAVE SPIRITS, WE CAN
BE CREATIVE, WE CAN
CHOOSE, WE CAN REASON,
WE CAN HAVE
RELATIONSHIPS, WE CAN
LOVE, WE CAN FORGIVE
WE SIN, WE CAN NOT MAKE
SOMETHING OUT OF
NOTHING, WE ARE NOT
PURE, WE ARE NOT ALL-
KNOWING, WE ARE NOT ALL-
POWERFUL, WE DO NOT
DESERVE WORSHIP
QUESTION:
CAN WE LEARN TO NEVER SIN
AGAIN?
ANSWER:
JESUS WAS AND IS THE ONLY
HUMAN WHO WILL EVER BE
“SINLESS”. WE MUST ALWAYS
TRY NOT TO SIN, WHICH MEANS
NEVER GIVE UP!
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN:
TRYING FOR PERFECTION
Franklin was an extremely smart man.
He thought he could teach himself not
to sin. He made a list of 13 “virtues”.
Every week he tried to perfect one of
the virtues on his list. However, he
Failed, concluding that it is is impossible to
be morally perfect as a human being.
IN A WORLD WITHOUT GOD
THERE IS NO POINT TO
BEING ALIVE AND PEOPLE
COULD DO ANY WRONG OR
HORRIBLE THING THEY
WANT WITH NO
CONSEQUENCE. THIS IS
TERRIFYING!
GOD WANTS US TO LOVE
AND FOLLOW HIM SO THAT
WE CAN HAVE THE
PROMISES HE MADE FOR US!
HE ALONE KNOWS THE TRUE
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
RIGHT AND WRONG AT ALL
TIMES!
I was certain that I knew you at the tender age
of twelve
You'd so often been described by those who
said they knew you well
Dark and rugged in your thirties with a smile as
bright as your robe
Every teacher, every preacher with the very best
intent
Found new ways to hide the mystery replaced
by common sense
And to know you was to keep you in my pocket
so easy to hold
I know I can't explain you, I would not even try to
And yet it's clear that you are here beside me
I marvel and I wonder so near and somehow still
so far
What makes you who you are? Who you are?
“WHO YOU ARE”
Nicole Nordeman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWWNLJPzQFQ
It is easy to insist on what is packaged
and precise
And dismiss the clear suspicion that
you're bigger than we'd like
It is tempting to regard you as familiar in
so many ways
I know I can't explain you, I would not
even try to
And still it's clear that you are here
beside me
I marvel and I wonder so near and
somehow still so far
What makes you who you are?
I've tried to draw these lines around you
A definition or an absolute
But I could not be satisfied with black or
white
There is so much more there is so much
you
I know I can't explain you, I would not
even try to. And still it's clear that you
are here beside me
I marvel and I wonder so near and
somehow still so far
What makes you who you are?
I marvel and I wonder so near and
somehow still so far
What makes you who you are?
It's a mystery
It's a mystery
BECAUSE HE IS GOD
AND HE LOVES US!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CBKrcgZ9-c
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