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Nov 24, 2024

Our View of God Shapes our Response to God | Living in His Glory

Our View of God Shapes our Response to God | Living in His Glory

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Our View of God Shapes our Response to God

 

November 24, 2024

Matthew 17:1–5
1 After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. 2 There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light. 3 Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus. 4 Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you wish, I will put up three shelters — one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.” 5 While he was still speaking, a bright cloud covered them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!”
2 Foundational Truths About God’s Nature

1. God is a God.

PRINCIPLE: A right view of the transcendence of God elevates our for God.

Psalm 97:9
For you, Lord, are the Most High over all the earth; you are exalted far above all gods.
Isaiah 55:8–9
8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
Isaiah 6:1
I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up.
Isaiah 40:22
He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
John 8:23
You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

2. God is an God.

“The God of the Bible is no abstract deity removed from and uninterested in His creation. The Bible is the story of God’s involvement with His creation, and particularly the people in it.”
— Wayne Grudem

PRINCIPLE: A right view of the imminence of God elevates our with God.

Luke 12:6
Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God.”
Acts 17:27–28
27 …though he is not far from any one of us. 28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’…
Jeremiah 23:24
…God fills the heavens and the earth.
John 1:14
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.”
Colossians 1:17–18
17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy.
Matthew 17:6
When the disciples heard this, they fell facedown to the ground, terrified.
Matthew 17:6–7
6 When the disciples heard this, they fell facedown to the ground, terrified. 7 But Jesus came and touched them. “Get up,” he said. “Don’t be afraid.”
Matthew 17:8
When they looked up, they saw no one except Jesus.
How Does God Ask Us to Respond?

1. Be astonished and in of God's bigness.

Psalm 33:8
“…Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him.”

2. Live to God's personal and unfailing love.

Psalm 27:4
One thing I have asked from the LORD, that I shall seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the LORD and to meditate in His temple.
John 3:16–17
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. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
Joshua 1:9
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.
Hebrews 13:5
“Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”

3. Continually to God's eternal presence.

Matthew 17:9
As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus instructed them…
Deuteronomy 6:13
Fear the Lord your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name.
Psalm 2:11
Serve the Lord with fear and celebrate his rule with trembling.
Holy and Right Fear of God…
  • gives knowledge. (Proverbs 1:7)
  • makes us wise. (Proverbs 9:10)
  • keeps us from evil. (Proverbs 16:6)
  • is healing to our body. (Proverbs 3:7–8)
  • gives confidence. (Proverbs 14:26)
  • gives divine protection. (Psalm 34:7)
  • leads to life. (Proverbs 19:23)
  • prolongs life. (Proverbs 10:27)
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