6) We Believe In One Perfect God! Series

THINGS MOST SURELY BELIEVED AMONG US

We Believe In One Perfect God

Text: Luke 1:1 (Isa 44:8 / Isaiah 45:22)

INTRODUCTION

"Forasmuch as many have taken in hand, - to set forth in order a declaration…

of those things which are most surely believed among us."

Here Luke says many people have shared the truth before us,

He says they have “set forth in order”...

That means they placed the Word of God within its proper context,

And made a declaration – he continues - “of those things most surely believed among us”

Guys this is that declaration of “those things most surely believed among us” = The Bible

This is what we are called to share...

This is what we reach out to others with – because this is what we believe.

Now there is a lot in the Bible... I mean God’s Word covers a lot of topics

And so this entire series of lessons is geared towards us becoming

Not just vaguely familiar – but actually confident of the many truths we find here.

You see, God wants us to be “sure” about what we believe,

And one of the first core truths we should all be absolutely sure about – is that God is real.

Remember we believe in God – And not just in a loose notion and some vague idea about God,

But we believe some very specific things about God – based on what the Scriptures teach.

For example, in our last lesson we looked at how the Lord is a Personal God

That is to say - God has, and openly displays to us the characteristics of a Person.

Now last week we looked at four Personal attributes God openly displays to us in the Scriptures.

Firstly, God is Living – this makes Him different from Idols and inanimate objects.

Secondly, God Is Thinking – He is a highly intelligent intellectual being.

Thirdly, God Is Acting – and not only is He actively involved in all of our lives...

But He is able to make personal decisions according to His own free will

And all of this then led us to our final point – which is the fact

That God is also Feeling – God feels everything that we feel.

Anger, grief, Joy, compassion, and love – God feels it all.

Now, knowing and understanding this, is just so fundamental to our faith

Because if we know and understand that we serve a Personal God...

Then we can have a Personal Relationship with Him.

And remember friends -this is the very essence to true Christianity,

It is all about having a personal relationship with God – first and foremost,

Because everything else is born out of that.

We Believe In One Perfect God!

Ok, so today our study in the Word continues...

And the truth is - we still have a great deal to learn about God.

There is still a whole lot more we believe concerning Him.

Now today we are going to touch another core truth which we believe, and that is this:

“We Believe In One - Perfect God”

Now there are effectively there are two core aspects to this belief.

1) There is only One true God ...and... 2) The One True God is Perfect.

So lets talk about this, and see first how - there is only One God.

Let’s all turn to Isaiah 45:5-6

Ok let’s start our reading together in verse 5:

5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:

6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.

This verse definitively tells us that there is only one true God.

Lets turn to Deuteronomy 5:6-9

6 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

I love the way that God just continues to declare to us – who He is

I am the Lord He declares – and now notice with me what He says next:

7 Thou shalt have none other gods before me.

That term before means: “to be in ones presence”, “in ones sight”, or in “front of ones face”

I don’t want you to flaunt the notion of other God’s before me God says. Verse 8:

8 Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:

9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,