Sunday school

1. August 10,
2014

2. Psalm 113:1-5

3. what God
is like

4. who God
is

5. it is the
foundation
to an
intimate
walk with

6. only a fool
denies
God's
existence.

7. Psalm
14:1
The fool hath said in his
heart, There is no God. They
are corrupt, they have done
abominable works, there is
none that doeth good.

8. we need to
consider not
only the
existence of
God

9. but the
Character of
God

10. Exodus 3:13-
14And Moses said unto God, Behold,
when I come unto the children of
Israel, and shall say unto them,
The God of your fathers hath sent
me unto you; and they shall say to
me, What is his name? what shall
I say unto them?

11. Exodus 3:13-
14And 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."

12. complete
definition of
Him is
fundamentally
impossible.

13. definition of
God cannot
explain Him.

14. There are three primary
names of God
1. Elohim (God)
2. Jehovah or Yahweh
3. Adonai ( Lord)
The name ELOHIM occurs 31 times in Genesis 1,
where it emphasizes His strength and creative power.
The name Yahweh is most often used to express
God's self existence, particularly in relation to
humanity.
Adonai means "master" and underscores the
authority of God.

15. Isaiah 55:8-9
"For my thoughts are not your
thoughts, neither are your ways
my ways, saith the LORD.
For as the heavens are higher
than the earth, so are my ways
higher than your ways, and my
thoughts than your thoughts."

16. He has revealed
Himself

17. may truly know
him

18. THE ESSENCE OF
GOD
1. HE IS SPIRIT
2. HE IS THE LIVING GOD
3. HE IS A PERSON
4. HE IS THE ETERNAL,
SELF EXISTING ONE.

19. I. HE IS SPIRIT
If God is spirit, He
has no physical
body, one that
visible to the human
eye.

20. I. HE IS SPIRIT
John 4:24
God is a Spirit: and they
that worship him must
worship him in spirit and
in truth.

21. But what about the
expressions that
represent God as
having bodily
parts.

22. Heb
1:10
And, Thou, Lord, in the
beginning hast laid the
foundation of the earth;
and the heavens are the
works of thine hands:

23. 1Kings 8:29
That thine eyes may be open
toward this house night and
day, even toward the place of
which thou hast said, My
name shall be there: that
thou mayest hearken unto the
prayer which thy servant shall
make toward this place.

24. Nehemiah
1:6Let thine ear now be attentive, and
thine eyes open, that thou mayest
hear the prayer of thy servant,
which I pray before thee now, day
and night, for the children of Israel
thy servants, and confess the sins of
the children of Israel, which we have
sinned against thee: both I and my
father's house have sinned.

25. symbolic
representation
s

26. no human
has seen
God at
anytime

27. John 1:18
No man hath seen God at any time;
the only begotten Son, which is in the
bosom of the Father, he hath
declared him.

28. Paul calls him
the invisible
God

29. Col. 1:15
Who is the image of the
invisible God, the firstborn
of every creature:

30. 1 Tim. 1:17
Now unto the King eternal,
immortal, invisible, the
only wise God, be honour
and glory for ever and
ever. Amen.

31. spirit
beings can
manifest
themselves
in visible

32. Genesis
32:30
And Jacob called the
name of the place Peniel:
for I have seen God face
to face, and my life is
preserved.

33. The angel of
the Lord was a
visible
manifestation
of Deity or
divine being

34. Scripture
teaches that
the
redeemed
will one day

35. Psalm 17:15
As for me, I will behold thy
face in righteousness: I shall
be satisfied, when I awake,
with thy likeness.

36. Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the pure in
heart: for they shall see
God.

37. Rev 22:3-4
And there shall be no
more curse: but the throne
of God and of the Lamb
shall be in it; and his
servants shall serve him:

38. Rev 22:3-4
And they shall see his
face; and his name shall
be in their foreheads.

39. In our
glorified
bodies

40. we will be
able at last
to actually
see God

41. II. HE IS THE LIVING
GOD
Biblical descriptions
of God is that He is
living

42. II. HE IS THE LIVING
GOD
At least twenty eight
times in the Bible God
is said to be the living
God

43. 1Samuel 17:26,
36
And David spake to the men that stood
by him, saying, What shall be done to
the man that killeth this Philistine, and
taketh away the reproach from Israel?
for who is this uncircumcised Philistine,
that he should defy the armies of the
living God?

44. 1Samuel 17:26,
36
Thy servant slew both the lion
and the bear: and this
uncircumcised Philistine shall be
as one of them, seeing he hath
defied the armies of the living
God."

45. Matt. 16:16
And Simon Peter
answered and said,
Thou art the Christ, the
Son of the living God.

46. Romans 9:26
And it shall come to pass,
that in the place where it
was said unto them, Ye
are not my people; there
shall they be called the
children of the living God.

47. III. HE IS A
PERSON
God as possessing
the characteristics of
personality

48. III. HE IS A
PERSON
1. self consciousness
Exodus 3:14
"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."

49. III. HE IS A
PERSON1. self
consciousness
1 Cor. 2:10
"But God hath revealed them
unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit
searcheth all things, yea, the
deep things of God."

50. III. HE IS A
PERSON
2.Intellec
t Gen. 18:19
For I know him, that he will
command his children and his
household after him, and they shall
keep the way of the LORD, to do
justice and judgment; that the LORD
may bring upon Abraham that which
he hath spoken of him.

51. III. HE IS A
PERSON2.Intellec
t Acts 15:18
Known unto God are all
his works from the
beginning of the world.

52. III. HE IS A
PERSON
3.
VolitionGen 3:15
"And I will put enmity
between thee and the
woman, and between thy
seed and her seed; it shall
bruise thy head, and thou
shalt bruise his heel."

53. III. HE IS A
PERSON
3.
VolitionJohn 6:38
For I came down from
heaven, not to do mine own
will, but the will of him that
sent me.

54. III. HE IS A
PERSON
4.
SpeakingGen 1:3
And God said, Let there be
light: and there was light.

55. III. HE IS A
PERSON
5. Seeing
Gen.
11:5
And the LORD came down to
see the city and the tower,
which the children of men
builded.

56. III. HE IS A
PERSON
6. Hearing
Ps. 94:9
He that planted the ear,
shall he not hear? he that
formed the eye, shall he not
see?

57. III. HE IS A
PERSON
7. Grieving
Gen. 6:6
And it repented the LORD that
he had made man on the
earth, and it grieved him at his
heart.

58. III. HE IS A
PERSON
8. Angry
Deut 1:37
Also the LORD was angry
with me for your sakes,
saying, Thou also shalt not go
in thither.

59. III. HE IS A
PERSON
9. Jealous
Exodus 20:5
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to
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;

60. III. HE IS A
PERSON
10.
CompassionatePsalm 111:4
He hath made his wonderful works
to be remembered: the LORD is
gracious and full of compassion.

61. IV. HE IS THE ETERNAL,
SELF EXISTING ONE.
Like a
circleGod has no
beginning and no
endHe is called the
Eternal GOD

62. IV. HE IS THE ETERNAL,
SELF EXISTING ONE.
Gen. 21:33
And Abraham planted a
grove in Beersheba, and
called there on the name of
the LORD, the everlasting
God.

63. IV. HE IS THE ETERNAL,
SELF EXISTING ONE.
He is not limited by time
He was before time began
and is the cause of time.

64. IV. HE IS THE ETERNAL,
SELF EXISTING ONE.
He was
He is
He will be

65. IV. 4. HE IS THE ETERNAL,
SELF EXISTING ONE.
His eternal
existence and
infinite power

66. IV. 4. HE IS THE ETERNAL,
SELF EXISTING ONE.
Psalm 90:2
Before the mountains were
brought forth, or ever thou hadst
formed the earth and the world,
even from everlasting to
everlasting, thou art God.

67. THE ATTRIBUTES OF
GOD
1. He is Omnipotent - Genesis 18:14
2. He is Omniscient - Ps 139:2-4, Ps. 147:5,
1 John 3:20
3. He is Omnipresent - Acts 17:28

68. THE MORAL ATTRIBUTES OF
GOD
1. He is Holy - Joshua 24:19, Ps 22:3
2. He is Love - 1 John 4:8, 16, John 3:16
3. He is Just - Deut 32:4, Rev. 15:3

69. God bless us
all.