Title: The Holiness of God (5)
Series: The Attributes of God
Text: Hebrews 1:1-4
Author: Dr David Davis
It is a wonderful thing that we should be gathered to attempt to better know God.
Think of the most extreme thing that your mind can conceive concerning this matter of knowing who God is.
Think about a grain of sand (Sahara Desert) in which there are billions of microscopic organisms, and you are trying to communicate with just one of them.
Compare this life to eternity as that of a bird who could fly to the farthest star, trillions of light years away, and taking one grain of sand from the earth, this would only be the beginning of eternity.
All the things that God has to give to us if we would just accept and expect by faith, would blow our minds. The attributes of God are just like that.
Considering all this, we couldn't approach the greatness of God and the insignificance of you and me.
But it is God who has taken the first step in trying to reveal himself to us. It is a marvelous thing that we even have the opportunity, the capacity to try and know God better. God desires our fellowship.
It is really simple though when you understand this: "That God, through history has tried to reveal himself through conscience, revelation, prophets, heavens, which declare the glory of God, scripture writings, that the ultimate revelation of God to man is in Jesus Christ.
That's something I can comprehend. There's a starting point for me.
Hebrews 1:1-4 - "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, (2) Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds: (3) Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; (4) Being made so much better tha ...
Series: The Attributes of God
Text: Hebrews 1:1-4
Author: Dr David Davis
It is a wonderful thing that we should be gathered to attempt to better know God.
Think of the most extreme thing that your mind can conceive concerning this matter of knowing who God is.
Think about a grain of sand (Sahara Desert) in which there are billions of microscopic organisms, and you are trying to communicate with just one of them.
Compare this life to eternity as that of a bird who could fly to the farthest star, trillions of light years away, and taking one grain of sand from the earth, this would only be the beginning of eternity.
All the things that God has to give to us if we would just accept and expect by faith, would blow our minds. The attributes of God are just like that.
Considering all this, we couldn't approach the greatness of God and the insignificance of you and me.
But it is God who has taken the first step in trying to reveal himself to us. It is a marvelous thing that we even have the opportunity, the capacity to try and know God better. God desires our fellowship.
It is really simple though when you understand this: "That God, through history has tried to reveal himself through conscience, revelation, prophets, heavens, which declare the glory of God, scripture writings, that the ultimate revelation of God to man is in Jesus Christ.
That's something I can comprehend. There's a starting point for me.
Hebrews 1:1-4 - "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, (2) Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds: (3) Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; (4) Being made so much better tha ...
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