Lesson 4 - Who is God?

 

Does God exist? Many people ask this question. Some people say that they just cannot believe in God. Who is God? Who is this unseen and intangible God, who is surely alive and ruling over the universe and all things?

 

 

1. God decided to destroy the sin, curses, and the authority of hell and Satan that destroys humankind. God can do this.

1) Therefore, God decided to send the Christ. And He is Jesus Christ.

2) The God of love spoke of this wonderful mystery through prophesy.

The Old Testament is His Word that says if you look towards and believe in even the shadow of the coming Messiah, you will be saved.

   (1) The Gosple that God gave to Adam who sinned

   Genesis 3:15 - "I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; 

   he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel."

   (2) The Word that God gave to the Israelites who became slaves

   Exodus 3:18 - "And they will listen to your voice, and you and the elders of Israel shall go to the king of Egypt and say to him,

   'The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us; and now, please let us go a three days' journey into the wilderness,

   that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.'"

   (3) The Word that God gave to the Israelites who became captives

   Isaiah 7:14 - "Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, 

   and shall call his name Immanuel."

3) God fulfilled these works.

   (1) Matthew 1:19-23 - "Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name  Immanuel."

   (2) Matthew 16:16 - "Simon Peter replied, 'You are the Christ, the Son fo the living God."

   (3) Romans 10:13 - "For everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved."

   (4) Romans 10: 9-10 - "because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart 

   that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believers and is justified, and  with the mouth one cofesses and is saved."

   (5) John 1:12 - "But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become  children of God,"

   (6) 1Corinthians 12:3 - "Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says

   'Jesus is accursed!' and no one can say 'Jesus is Lord' except in the Holy Spirit." 

   (7) 1Corinthians 3:16 - "Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?"

   (8) Romans 8:2 - "For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and  death."

   (9) Romans 8:32 - "He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with  him graciously give us all things?"

   (10) Acts 10:38 - "how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about 

   doing and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him."

 

2. The incident of the cross was the fulfillment of God's covenant.