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Apr 13, 2017 · The idea that God is a Person refers to the how He Himself describes Himself in His Word as well. God feels, loves, and relates to His creation. As A.W. Tozer wrote: God is a Person, and in the deep of His mighty nature He thinks, wills, enjoys, feels, loves, desires and suffers as any other person may.
Do we really need to be believers in God to be considered good people? In a world where, sadly, some Christians are not good people, while some non-Christians can be very good people, and vice ...
May 29, 2016 · Romans 12:2 tells us the key: "Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will." Choose to conform to God's standards. Paul exhorts all believers not to conform to, or take the shape of, the world.
- JB Cachila
We might best describe humans as “priestly kings.”. Like kings, all humans were meant to rule and reign on God’s behalf. We were called to submit to God’s vision and definition of good and evil–something that humanity fails at rather quickly in Genesis 3 . Our ruling and reigning is a call to advance the creation.
- God Is Immanent Because He Is Transcendent.
- The Bible Emphasizes God’s Manifest Presence, Not only His Omnipresence.
- The Story of Scripture Begins and Ends with The Presence of God.
- Humanity’S Mission and The Presence of God Are inseparable.
- Sin Undermines Humanity’S Mission and The Experience of God’s presence.
- God Covenants to Bring His Presence Back to His people.
- The Presence of God Is The Means and End of Redemption.
- The Presence of God Finds Its Greatest Expression in Immanuel, God with us.
- The Purposes of The Church Are Tied to The Presence of God.
- To Be A Joyful Christian Is to Know God’s presence.
The Lord is “God in the heavens above (transcendent) and on the earth beneath (immanent)” (Josh 2:11). But to understand God in full we must recognize that his drawing near to creation stems from his being distinct fromcreation. In other words, there is no deficiency in God that creation satisfies. The Lord doesn’t relate to this world because he l...
There is a difference between saying “God is everywhere,” and saying “God is here.” The former is the default category for most Christians. We talk about God’s presence being inescapable and that he is “everywhere present” (Ps 139:5-12; 1 Kings 8:27). But it seems Scripture is more concerned with his presence manifest in relationship and redemption...
In the book of Genesis, Eden is the first couple’s home but, more importantly, it is God’s sanctuary—the garden temple where the Creator and his image-bearers relate (Gen 3:8). Fast forward to the end of our Bibles and we see a very similar picture but on a much larger scale. All of heaven has collided with the whole earth to make a perfect sanctua...
God gave man and woman purpose. They are to “be fruitful and multiply” in order to “fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion” (Gen 1:28). Adam and Eve are to do this in Eden, the epicenter of God’s relational presence in creation. As the first couple’s family expands, so too will the garden’s borders and, with it, God’s presence. Likewise, Go...
But there is a problem, isn’t there? Adam and Eve replace blessings for curses when they eat the forbidden fruit. These curses cut right to the heart of who they are and what they were made to do. For Eve, pain overwhelms the promise of a people. For Adam, perspiration and thorns will impede the promise of place. Sin hinders everything now, especia...
But in grace, God steps in to pay the price. To overcome man’s sin and ensure his purposes, the Creator becomes covenant Redeemer. Through his covenant promises, the Lord restores what Adam failed to do. God makes a people and a place through the covenant all the while keeping his promises to humanity. God does all of this so that he can be our God...
As evangelicals, we talk a lot about the presence of God but seldom look to the Bible to see what it is. When we do, we find that it is first and foremost a theme on which the story of Scripture hinges. If we read our Bibles though we begin to see a two-fold pattern. First, the Bible makes clear that the presence of God is a central goal in God’s r...
God himself comes to save. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, entered human history to give his life as a ransom for many (Matt 20:28; Mark 10:45). In his grace, God buys us back in the most unimaginable way possible: God in Christ became a man, walked among humanity, and died for his people. In this merciful act, Christ reconciles us to himself and re-...
The presence of God has massive implications for the way we understand the church (1 Cor 3:16-17; 2 Cor 6:14-7:1; Eph 2:13-22). The New Testament calls the church a temple for a reason. Through this image, we see that the community of Christ is—in this time of waiting on Christ’s return—the instrument the Lord uses to disseminate his presence to a ...
If we are honest, many of us can think of God as our “magic genie” from time to time. We keep him on the shelf until troubles arise or there is something our neighbor has that we really want. The problem is, real relationships don’t work this way—especially with the triune God. The Lord over all will not be left on the shelf of anyone’s life. Inste...
Jan 25, 2021 · This is important because the biblical picture of God is that he is complete and sufficient and flawless, and without any defect or deficiency in and of himself. That means, before there was any creation, and apart from any creation, and independent of any creation, God was completely and flawlessly God. “Creation did not make God more God or ...
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The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.” (1 John 3:1, NIV) In Christ, you are loved. Your identity is a child of God. This Bible verse comes from a chapter that warns against the temptation to stray from God into sin. You can resist sin by remembering that God has the best for His children.
