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The man who walks with God, always gets to his destination

The man who walks with God, always gets to his destination.

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The man who walks with God, always gets to his destination

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  1. The man who walks with God, always gets to his destination • **“We guard the habitation of God’s glory in our lives by making the right choices. We choose what conversations we listen to, what words we speak, what attitudes we have toward others, what thoughts we meditate on, what people we hang around, what we look at, and what we tolerate in our hearts of the spirit of the world. • We make the choice to have an attitude of worship, to resist temptation and to pray in the Spirit at all times. And most of all, we choose what boundaries we establish in our lives.” • **From Emerging Voices by Matt Sorger**

  2. *Fundamentals of the Apostolic Faith • Getting to know God: • “There are some subjects that are inexhaustible. Man in a lifetime cannot exhaust the subject of God. Students of theological schools spend years in studying the subject, yet they do not come away with a fully comprehensive knowledge of God. The best we can do is learn as much as we can from what has already been learned and continue to add as much as we can during our lifetime.”

  3. *Fundamentals of the Apostolic Faith • Four avenues of learning about God: • The Avenue of FAITH: • Genesis 1 / verse 1: • “In the beginning GOD created the heaven and the earth.” • “Faith is spoken of as the mental assent to a concept. It does not wait on proof, but rejoices when proof comes. But without faith no matter how many proofs are presented, they will never convince. This faith will under gird every other experience with God.” • Hebrews Chapter 11, verse 6: • “But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must first believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.” • “Faith paves the way for all of the other avenues of knowing God. Without faith that there is a God to know, man is prone to discount any evidence that may come from any source to prove the existence of God.”

  4. *Fundamentals of the Apostolic Faith • The Four Avenues of learning about God: • The Avenue of Observation: • “If the earliest avenue to the knowledge of God was man’s simple belief, surely the second avenue was his OBSERVATION.” • Psalms 19, verse 1: • “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth His handiwork.” • “The psalmist was knowing God by his observation. By observing our surroundings in all of their intricacies and marvels, we are led to know God. The marvels of growing things, the ingenious plans of reproduction, the development of interlocking systems in natural things, all are observed and interpreted as pointing to a Supreme Being of incomprehensible intelligence. It is not just a matter of things we cannot explain. The more we can explain about nature, science, and the phenomena of the universe, the more the believing child of God is convinced there is a God. We also observe the changes wrought when God enters the life of an individual and transforms them. This observation is most satisfying and convincing.”

  5. *Fundamentals of the Apostolic Faith • The Four Avenues of Knowing God” • The Avenue of Revelation: • Amos 3, verse 7: • “Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but He revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.” • John 15, verse 15:, Romans 1, verses 15 to 20: • 1 Corinthians 2, verses 9 and 10: • “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him. But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.” • Romans 1, verse 20 tells us that He used “Things that are made..”, material things to reveal the invisible things. Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians chapter 2, verses 9 and 10”, that things which are hidden from others are revealed by God through the Spirit to the church.”

  6. *Fundamentals of the Apostolic Faith • The Four Avenues of Knowing God: • The Avenue of EXPERIENCE: • “When we believe in Him, we are admitted into a field of experiences which come directly from the hand of God, things which no man could possibly do. The baptism of the Holy Ghost is only one thing, but it will suffice to illustrate. When it enters the human life, there is no experience on earth like it. It stamps an indelible proof of God on the mind of man. Many have reported experiencing new spiritual strength, understanding, and insight into the Bible as a result of this experience of God.” • Psalms 116: • “Throughout the 116th Psalm the psalmist speaks of the experiences of knowing God. It should be read carefully. • Notice such phrases as “He helped me, thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears and my feet from falling.” • The answers to prayers are also part of experiencing God. Whether the answers are YES or NO, the fact that we experience a communication with an invisible force satisfies our faith that He exists.”

  7. Getting to Know God*The Fundamentals of the Apostolic Faith • *“The Bibleshows us our condition of ignoranceconcerning God. The serpent suggested to Eve that God was unfair in denying that which looked so pleasant and good. He said that man would not die if he ate the forbidden fruit, but would become as one of us, knowing good and evil (Genesis 3:22). • As a result of believing this lie, Adam and Eve realized their nakedness and hid from God, covering their bodies with fig leaves and hiding their disobedience with excuses. But God sought for man with a call and a promise. The call is still going forth, asking man where he is and why he is not walking with his God (Genesis 3:9). The promise was for salvation and deliverance from his fallen state (Genesis 3:15). • Even though the initial fall happened thousands of years ago, it reoccurs every day as the old man in us repeats Adam’s error. Men believe the lie, try to hide from God, and make excuses to cover their shame.”

  8. Getting to Know God*The Fundamentals of the Apostolic Faith • Continued: • Many people attempt to live and die without God. They view God only as a restrictor and punisher, one who gets pleasure out of sending masses of people to hell. The serpent’s lie has hidden God from us. What is the solution? The solution is in KNOWING OUR GOD and understanding who He is and what His relationship is to His creation. It is God’s revealing or unveiling of Himself to us. God showing Himself to us is the way He changes us into His own image. • We become like Him in proportion to the degree that we see Him as He is and remain in His presence.” • To really know God is to love Him, and to love Him is to worship Him. • Our journey in developing our worship lifestyle begins with obtaining knowledge of who God is.

  9. *Fundamentals of the Apostolic Faith • The Nature of God: • John 4, verse 24: • “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” • “The spiritual world transcends the material world and is by no means to be considered inferior to the material. A spirit can be defined as a motivating force, God is such a motivating force, but more than this, He is the source of all other forces in the experience of the world. God is the Spirit by which all other things exist. • Although God cannot be said to be material in the usual sense of material things, yet God is capable of inhabiting bodies of human flesh.” • 2 Corinthians 5, verse 19: • “To wit , that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.”

  10. *Fundamentals of the Apostolic Faith • The Nature of God: • God is a Living Being! • Exodus 3, verse 14: • “And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.” • “God is a LIVING BEING with consciousness, personality, will, and all other characteristics we attribute to living beings of the human species, only they are perfected beyond the comprehension of the human mind. When Moses met God in the burning bush in Exodus 3, verse 14, He introduced Himself as the “I AM”, the self-existing one.”

  11. *Fundamentals of the Apostolic Faith • The Nature of God: • God is Eternal: • Deuteronomy 33, verse 27: • “The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and He shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and say Destroy them.” • Psalms 90, verse 2: • “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.” • It is incompatible with any concept of God as the source of all things to think of Him as less than eternal. His existence is not tied to time nor space. It is limitless, infinite.

  12. *Fundamentals of the Apostolic Faith • The Nature of God: • God is a Person: • Throughout the scriptures personal pronouns are used in speaking of God. Man’s earliest ideas of a divine being involved the concept of PERSONALITY. • Personality indicates the possession of characteristics. Outstanding among God’s other characteristics are OMNISCIENCE, OMNIPOTENCE, and OMNIPRESENCE. • OMNISCIENCE; Means that it is characteristic of God to know all things. There is no knowledge that is not accessible to Him. There are no thoughts conceived that He is not aware of. There are thing He knows that no one else knows.” • Psalms 139, verses 1 to 4: • “O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord thou knowest it altogether.”

  13. *Fundamentals of the Apostolic Faith • The Nature of God: • OMNIPRESENCE; Means that God is not limited by space or time. • Psalms 139, verses 7 to 12: • “Whither shall I go from thy spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: If I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me, Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.” • God should not be thought of as occupying space, yet there is no space we occupy where He cannot be found by the usual means of finding and experiencing Him.

  14. *Fundamentals of the Apostolic Faith • The Nature of God: • OMNIPOTENCE; Means that God is all powerful. With God all things are possible • Matthew 19, verse 26: • “But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.” • Far beyond the comprehension of man is the power of God. It is characteristic of Him.

  15. *Fundamentals of the Apostolic Faith • The Nature of God: • God is a Person: • UNCHANGABLE; Means that God cannot change or be changed. • Malachi 3, verse 6: • “For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.” • There are no forces outside Him that can change Him. It is incompatible with His nature to change Himself. • There are scriptures that speak of Him repenting (Deuteronomy 32, verse36:, Jeremiah 18, verse : 10:); • However, in none of the cases where the scriptures so speak does it indicate any change in the nature, will, or personality of God. First, we must remember that in the Old Testament the revelation of God was not nearly so complete as in the New Testament. • If man does good, he shall receive blessings, but if he does evil after doing good, He will change the blessings to curses.

  16. *Fundamentals of the Apostolic Faith • The Nature of God: • God is a Person: • GOD IS HOLY: • (Leviticus 19, verse 2:, Joshua 24, verse 19:) • HOLINESS is a quality of spirit. GOD IS THE HOLY SPIRIT. He is separate, sacred, and peculiar. He is not holy by comparison with something else. He is th e author of holiness. Nothing can be holy except by comparison with Him. • Righteousness is the outward expression of the holiness of His personality. Any outward expression of holiness is righteousness. Therefore since He is a HOLY GOD, HE is also a RIGHTEOUS GOD.

  17. *Fundamentals of the Apostolic Faith • The Nature of God: • God is a Person: • GOD IS LOVING: • In keeping with His personality, He is loving. • 1 John 4, verse 16: • “Beloved let us love one another, foe love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.” • GOD IS JUST: • Zephaniah 3, verse 5: • “The just Lord is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he falleth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.” • GOD IS MERCIFUL: • Psalms 103, verse 17: • “But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children.”

  18. *Fundamentals of the Apostolic Faith • The Nature of God: • God is a Person: • GOD IS PATIENT: • 2 Peter 3, verse 9: • “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” • GOD IS TRUTHFUL: • Deuteronomy 32, verse 4: • “He is the Rock; his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.” • John 14, verse 6: • “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”

  19. *Fundamentals of the Apostolic Faith • The Nature of God: • God is a Person: • GOD IS FAITHFUL: • Deuteronomy 7, verse 9: • “Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;” • 1 Corinthians 1, verse 9: • “God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.”

  20. *Fundamentals of the Apostolic Faith • The Nature of God: • God is a Person: • GOD IS A UNIT: In keeping with the other characteristics of God we must recognize that GOD is a UNIT. • In the days of heathendom men thought of a world of supreme beings, each with a particular function in the affairs of men. As time moved on, they began to realize that there must be some head or authority over these other gods to direct them. From this point in the experiences of Abraham, God revealed Himself to Israel as One. He is all and in all. • Isaiah 43, verses 3 and 14:, Isaiah 44, verses 6 and 8:, Isaiah 45, verses 5 and 6:, Isaiah 48, verse 17: • It would be unreasonable to think of God as more than one and at the same time think of Him as having all knowledge, power, and presence. There is no difficulty in understanding His unity when we remember that He is a Spirit. He need not be divided to satisfy the needs of time and space. • However, though God is a unit, He can and does manifest Himself in a number of ways. This in no way limits Him nor divides Him.

  21. Getting to Know God*The Fundamentals of the Apostolic Faith

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