(Packer, p.26) One can know a great deal about godliness without much knowledge of God it possible to learn a great deal secondhand about the practice of Christianity yet one can have all this and hardly know God at all. Packer, pġ2 The People Who Know Their God Knowing Versus Knowing About One can know a great deal about God without much knowledge of him yet interest in theology and knowledge about God, and the capacity to think clearly and talk well on Christian themes, is not at all the same thing as knowing him. The words imply a definiteness and matter-of-factness of experience to which most us have to admit that we are still strangers. Not many of us, I think, would ever naturally say that we have known God. 23 9ġ0 Knowing God: Chapter 2 The People Who Know Their God Knowing Versus Knowing About Evidence of Knowing God First Steps 10ġ1 Knowing God: Chapter 2 The People Who Know Their God A scholar who had effectively forfeited his prospects of academic advancement by clashing with church dignitaries over the gospel of grace But it doesn t matter for I ve known God and they haven t.
It is an activity of holy thought, consciously performed in the presence of God Its purpose is to clear one s mental and spiritual vision of God, and to let his truth make its full and proper impact on one s mind and heart. Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God. Luke 8:14b 8ĩ Meditating on the Truth How can we turn our knowledge about God into knowledge of God? we turn each truth that we learn about God into matter for meditating before God, leading to prayer and praise to God.
James 4:17 For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.
8:1-2 God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know. 7Ĩ Knowledge Applied - What is Our Objective? Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. The very greatness of the subject matter will intoxicate us, and we shall come to think of ourselves as a cut above other Christians Packer, p.21. How we interact with God: What pleases him, what offends him, what makes him angry, what gives him satisfaction and joy 6ħ Knowledge Applied (What is Our Objective?) What is my ultimate aim and object in occupying my mind with these things? What do I intend to do with my knowledge about God, once I have it? For the fact that we have to face is this: If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it is bound to go bad on us. The Perfections of God: Moral character (holiness, love and mercy, truthfulness, faithfulness, goodness, patience, justice) 4. The Powers of God: Almightiness, omniscience (knowledge of everything), omnipresence (present everywhere) 3. The Godhead of God : qualities which set God apart from humans: Self-existence (He was not created), infinite, eternity, unchangeableness 2. Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God this is your true and proper worship. Godliness means responding to God s revelation in trust and obedience, faith and worship, prayer and praise, submission and service. God is triune: Father, Son and Spirit Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit Mt. Anyone who believes in him will not die but will have eternal life. God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son.
32:17 4ĥ Who Needs Theology? Five Basic Truths 3. 17 LORD and King, you have reached out your great and powerful arm. 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. God has spoken to man the Bible is his Word. He Shall Testify Part Two: Behold Your God! Part Three: If God Be For Us 2ģ Chapter 1 The Study of God Who Needs Theology? The Basic Themes Knowledge Applied Meditating on the Truth 3Ĥ Who Needs Theology? Five Basic Truths 1. 3:10-11 Paul Dorosh Friends and Fellowship McLean Bible Church September 1, 2019Ģ Knowing God Table of Contents Part I: Know the Lord 1. 2) 10 I want to know Christ yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.