September 13, 2017

You Can’t Know Yourself Apart From Knowing God

Brothers and Sisters grace and peace to you in the name of God our Father and His Son and the Holy Spirit. May God lavish you with His goodness, and kindness out of His vast treasures of wealth and supply all that you need, and delight your heart with what you really want. God is Good and He does wonderful things for those that love Him, and those that He love. Lord thank you for this time and opportunity to share with your people in which I am one.  Bless them with the knowledge of the importance of knowing who they are to you. Lord lead me and guide me , in Jesus name Amen.

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Just about every human being at one time or another in our  life ask the questions. Who am I ?  Where did I come from ? Was I somehow here before?  Somehow you knew that there was something obscured from our vision, from our mind’s eye. We had a strong sense of something, a point in our minds that we cannot seem to penetrate. and the answers we seek is yet beyond this continuum. So once we convince ourselves that we can’t solve the mystery. We come back to the questions at the age of adolescence when we began to become more independent and when we become a young adult we become active in seeking the answer. That when the idea surface I have to find out who I am. You can’t know yourself apart from God.

The first thing we need to know about God is that He created the Heavens and the Earth. In this statement located in Genesis 1:1 it is revealed that God is powerful and that He is a creator. If creating the earth is not powerful enough for us to see that God is awesome, then look up into the heavens, or in other words the universe. God created all that you see and can’t see. If you read the creation account you will see that God created the day and the night, and the plants and the animals and the days of the week, the sun and the moon and the last of His Creation is Man, the crown of God’s creation.  If you want to know who you are, whose better to ask then your creator. Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; ( Gen 1: 26a).  In this verse of scripture, God revealed two very important things for us to pay attention to. The first thing for us to see is that God is talking to someone else. First Only God can create so the other persons that He is talking to are not angels because angels can.t create. He is not talking to Himself as though He is some kind of schizophrenic. God was speaking to the Son and the Holy Spirit. All three persons in the Godhead participated in the creation.

God said let us make man in our own image. If  we look at each other neither of us look like. God is Spirit so we can’t see God with our eyes. But the image that God is speaking of is,  Intellect, Emotion, and will. God created us to be the same kind of being that He is. God has a intellect and He gave us one, we have the ability to think independent of God and each other and most importantly we are able to communicate with God. God created man to worship Him. God Has a emotion and He gave us one. God has the ability to love to get angry, to be sad, to be sorry, in fact God is Love. God has a will and is able to do whatever He wills to do. God gave us a will and asked us to do his will and a choice to choose between His will or our  will .  This is where the problem comes in, in the exercise of free will man sinned. Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned—(Ro. 5:12)

v¹⁵But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many( Ro. 5:15). God gave Adam warning that the cost of his disobedience is death Gen 2:16’17. God created us from the dirt of the ground. Our bodies are made of the same ingredients that are found in the earth. When we die our bodies are going to return to the elements of which we were made. But that’s not all, its not over. We still have to be concerned about our soul. Where will it go? If you read the Gospel of Luke  16:19-23, you will see that the rich man died and went to Hell immediately to endure an eternity of suffering.

God’s word said,¹⁶For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. (John 3:16). that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation. ( Rom 10:9,10).  God cares about you and who you are, He knew you in eternity past before you were born.  Before He created the earth. God knows you better than you know your self, and He loves you more then you love your self. God says that all you have to do is believe in His Son and you will be saved. Amen  Thank you for my brothers and Sisters and friends, I hope this is a blessing to you and If you don’t know Jesus and you now believe, let me know to blog my post, if not blog my post. Thank you, Lord, in Jesus name Amen.

God Bless You

Rev. Reginald Stevens

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