School of Ministry 3/6/18
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How Do We Know God ??
The God of the Bible is one who reveals Himself to His creation. God creating man with mental and spiritual faculties indicates His intention that know Him, However since the fall of man , these mental and spiritual faculties have been dulled and he cannot of himself discover God. Thus God, in grace and love, has taken the initiative by giving a progressive revelation of Himself consummating in the Lord Jesus Christ. Man can only personally know God through Christ.
We can know God for one reason only: God has made himself known. If God had not chosen to do this, we could not have known him. That is, God is not accessible through our senses, our reason, our experience, or any other means apart from his willingness to be accessible. Our knowledge of God is absolutely dependent upon divine revelation; and not only is he willing to be known, he desires to be known.
We can know God for one reason only: God has made himself known. If God had not chosen to do this, we could not have known him. That is, God is not accessible through our senses, our reason, our experience, or any other means apart from his willingness to be accessible. Our knowledge of God is absolutely dependent upon divine revelation; and not only is he willing to be known, he desires to be known.
The term revelation comes from the Greek word apocalupsis (also the title of the New Testament’s last book), which means an “uncovering” or “revealing” of something that was previously unknown. The doctrine of revelation, then, means we can know God because he has chosen to make himself and his works known.
There are two kinds of divine revelation: General and Specific.
All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
Matt 16:
these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
“For the Lord God does nothing
without revealing his secret
to his servants the prophets.
1 Cor 2
And the Lord appeared again at Shiloh, for the Lord revealed himself to Samuel at Shiloh by the word of the Lord.
1 Sam
General revelation refers to knowledge of God that is available to all people of all times and all places. Such knowledge comes in three ways.
Understanding Theology in 15 Minutes a Day General Revelation
general revelation comes through nature
General revelation comes through nature
The heavens declare the glory of God,
and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.
Ps 19
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
*Creation itself suggest that there is a creator. The existence of all intelligent design in nature precludes the existence of an intelligent designer. The design, beauty, law and order and numerical stamped upon all created things point to an intelligent being. above beyond and greater than all created things. This being is God
General revelation comes through our conscience
It is awareness of right and wrong , with a compulsion to do right.
For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.
They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them
General revelation comes through history
*There is a revelation of God seen in history of the nations of the world. The Mysterious rise and fall of nations indicates that somewhere behind the scenes is a sovereign hand, guiding governing controlling raising up and casting down the rulers of the nations.
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When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance,
when he divided mankind,
he fixed the borders of the peoples
according to the number of the sons of God.
but it is God who executes judgment,
putting down one and lifting up another.
Ps
and you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. And you shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.”
And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
Special Revelation
General revelation is that which is available to all nations of the earth. All mankind has the general revelation of God in nature conscience and history .
Special Revelation refers to those acts of God whereby He revels Himself and His will to specific persons
The Revelation of God in Miracles
The Revelation of God in Prophecy
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.”
Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.
And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah,
who are too little to be among the clans of Judah,
from you shall come forth for me
one who is to be ruler in Israel,
whose coming forth is from of old,
from ancient days.
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
For to us a child is born,
to us a son is given;
and the government shall be upon his shoulder,
and his name shall be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
The Revelation of Christ Himself
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets,
but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.
He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
The Revelation of personal Experience