Podcast: Bible Brief
When this tent we live in, our body here on earth, is torn down, God will have a house in heaven for us to live in. A home He has built which will last forever.
2 Corinthians 5:1
Season 1 | Episodes 1-4
- We find God in the bible. He uses humans as His instruments here on earth.
- There is a right way to ask questions of the bible..
- God wants you to know Him through the bilbe.
- We come to know God personally through the bible.
- Building a relationship with God
- Ask God questions in faith, not in doubt!
- God is Creator. He is:
- apart from and outside of His creation
- apart from time
- a non-physical spirit outside the bounds of time
- eternal
- creative
- He created the totality of the heavens and the earth. We experience the creativity of God every day in nature.
- He is the eternal creative spirit that created all things.
- God is the all knowing, all powerful, unchanging eternal spirit. The definition and definer of love, mercy, justice, truth and life itself.
- These terms are even defined in terms of who God is.
- He is very very different from everything
- He created, but takes an interest in and love toward His creation. He wants a relationship with His creatiures.
- He enters His creation so people can walk and talk with Him.
Season 1 | Episode 35
- Themes of the bible that began in Genesis:
- Sovereignty of God
- Man’s identity crisis
- Sacrifices in blood
- Sovereignty of God
- Psalm 24 states “The earth and everything in it… belong to the LORD.”
- EVERYTHING is God’s becasue He made it. He has the right and the rule over everything.
- God expressed a purpose in each of His creations.
- Sovereignty is God’s right to do what He wants when He wants
- God gives subordinate sovereignty ot others. He’s allowed it. But these sub sovereigns may not do what brings God’s pleasure which makes God not happy.
- God is King of the world, but the creatures He made He allowed them to express their sub-sovereignty over themselves and whatever else they may be subsovereign of) and sometimes it displeasees God.
- Sometimes God intervenes when He doesn’t like what we’re doing.
- His servants who He gave domains of sovereignty to can rebel against God’s sovereignty and God has the right to choose whether to intervene or not. Sometimes He’s silent. He has a right, not an obligation, to intervene.
- Our God is in heaven, he does whatever He pleases.
- Mankind is in an identity crisis because of rebelling against God. God gave mankind the commission of being fruitful, multiply and fill the earth and subdue it.
- God-man-woman-other creatures
- The knowledge of good and evil that came from Adan and Eve eating the fruit from the tree despite Adam being told not to.
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Notes: Hebrews
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Notes: Romans
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Notes: Proverbs
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Notes: Psalms
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Notes: Old Testament
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Notes: Matthew
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Books: You are Never Alone. Max Lucado
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Books: Purpose Driven Life
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