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Robert Jeffress - What Every Christian Should Know About God

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - What Every Christian Should Know About God | February 4, 2026

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From the pulpit
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Of the first baptist church of dallas, texas,
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This is "pathway to victory" with dr. robert jeffress.
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Hi, i'm robert jeffress
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And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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The most important relationship we have in life
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Is not with our family or friends, but with our god.
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Yet many christians admit
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To feeling distant or unfamiliar with their heavenly father.
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Well, i believe the key to growing deeper
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In your relationship with god
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Is getting better acquainted with his character,
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And today we're going to see what god has revealed
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To us about himself.
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My message is titled
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What every christian should know about god
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On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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Do you ever feel uncertain about what you believe
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Or struggle to put your faith into words?
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In a world where truth shifts with every cultural trend,
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Christians need solid ground to stand on.
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In "what every christian should know,"
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Dr. robert jeffress equips you
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To understand 10 core doctrines of christianity.
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Build your faith and your family's
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On biblical truth that never changes.
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Request "what every christian should know"
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♪ music ♪
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A first-grade teacher
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Was walking around inspecting her students' work
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On a creative art assignment she had given them.
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She stopped by one desk
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And johnny was fervently working on his project,
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And so she was interested to see what it was.
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"what are you drawing?" the teacher asked.
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Johnny answered, "well, this is a picture of god."
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The teacher said, "well, johnny,
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Nobody knows what god looks like."
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And without lifting up his head,
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Johnny said, "they will in a few minutes." (chuckles)
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(audience laughs)
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A. w. tozer once said,
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"what comes into our minds when we think about god
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Is the most important thing about us."
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One wag said, "in the beginning,
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God created man in his own image,
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And ever since that time,
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Man has tried to return the compliment."
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What are your ideas of god based on?
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Are they based on your speculations
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That in reality have no more authority
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Than a first grader's drawings?
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Or are your beliefs about god grounded in reality?
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Today, as we continue our series,
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What every christian should know,
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We're going to look at what every christian should know
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About god the father.
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In theology, we call it theology proper,
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But it immediately raises a question,
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And you've probably had it before,
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How is it that we talk
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About god, the father, the son, and the holy spirit?
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Do we worship three gods,
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As some people charge against christianity?
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No, our historic belief has been
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That the triune god is one god in three persons,
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Three co-equal, co-eternal persons,
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The father, the son, and the holy spirit.
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Now, let's admit that is a mystery.
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You know what's astounding to me
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Is the first chapter of the bible, genesis 1,
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Tells of how god the father
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Created this entire universe by his word.
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And then the rest of the bible, 1,188 chapters,
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Are a record of how god chose
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To reveal himself to his creation.
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Now, god didn't have to do that.
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He was under no obligation
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To have any relationship with his creation,
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But don't you find it astounding
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That the great god of the universe cares enough about you
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That he wants to have a relationship with you?
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How does god connect with us?
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How does god reveal himself to us?
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Well, today, we're going to look at first of all the how,
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How god reveals himself to us.
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Secondly, the what,
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What does god reveal to us about himself?
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And then the what now,
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What difference should that make to us?
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What is our response to god's revelation?
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Let's first of all talk about how god reveals himself to us.
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If you were trying to introduce yourself
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To somebody who didn't know you,
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How would you inform them about yourself?
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Would you send them a resume
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That listed all of your work experiences and honors?
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Maybe you'd fill out a dating profile
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That showed your likes and your dislikes.
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Maybe you'd send them photographs of yourself
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At significant points in your life
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And people who have influenced you.
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Well, god has gone to great lengths to reveal
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Important information about himself to us,
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And i want us to consider
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Four ways god has revealed himself to us.
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First of all, he reveals himself to us through nature.
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We call that, in theology, natural revelation.
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It's general information that is available
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To everyone about god
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Without ever reading a bible or hearing a sermon.
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Nature reveals some important truths to us about god,
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And david spoke about that in the psalm
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I had you read a few minutes ago, psalm 8:3-4,
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"when i consider your heavens,
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The work of your fingers,
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The moon and the stars which you have ordained,
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What is man that you thought of him
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And the son of man that you care for him?"
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Jesus pointed to nature as a revelation of god.
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Remember in luke 12:27, he said,
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"consider the lilies, how they grow.
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They neither toil nor spin, but i tell you,
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Not even solomon in all of his glory
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Clothed himself like one of these."
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Jesus was talking about why we shouldn't worry.
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He said, "god is involved in our lives.
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That's why you don't worry.:
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Look at what he does for the lilies.
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How does he array them?
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He uses photosynthesis
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And the process of evaporation to be sure
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They have exactly what they need.
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Or look at the birds of the air, how god cares for them.
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If god cares for nature like that,
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How much more is he going to care for you?
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You don't ever have to read a bible
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Or attend a church service to know
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That there's somebody in the universe greater than you.
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Just look at the creation.
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Everybody knows they didn't do that. god did that.
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That is natural revelation.
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Everyone is without excuse
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Because god has made himself known through his creation.
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Now, that information, that revelation of god
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That he's powerful, is not enough to save you.
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Nobody can be saved by believing that there's a god.
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The psalmist said, "the foolish person,"
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Literally in hebrew, "the moron has said in his heart,
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'there is no god.'"
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Belief in god doesn't save you.
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That revelation is not enough to save you,
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But as charles ryrie used to say,
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"it is enough if rejected to condemn you."
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If you don't accept that natural revelation
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That's available to everybody,
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God has no obligation to send you
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Any further revelation about jesus, his son,
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And his death for you.
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That's natural revelation.
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Secondly, god reveals himself through jesus christ.
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Jesus is god's final revelation to man.
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In hebrews 1:1-2,
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"god, after he spoke long ago
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To the fathers and the prophets
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And in many portions and ways, in these last days,
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He has spoken to us in his son,
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Whom he appointed heir of all things."
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In the old testament, god revealed himself
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Through a burning bush,
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Through a stone tablet,
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Through visions, through dreams,
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But god's final revelation
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And complete revelation is in jesus christ.
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Everything you need
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To know about god is found in jesus christ.
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Jesus said himself in john 14:9,
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"he who has seen me has seen the father."
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And people say jesus never claimed to be god.
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There's an example of yes, he claimed to be god.
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"he who has seen me has seen the father."
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God reveals himself through jesus christ.
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Thirdly, god reveals himself through his word, the bible.
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Well, jesus is the living word of god.
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John 1, "in the beginning was the word
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And the word was with god, and the word was god."
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That was jesus, the living word,
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The living expression of god.
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The bible is the written word of god,
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And there is no dichotomy
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Between the living word, jesus,
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And the written word, the bible.
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Fourthly, god reveals himself to us through his holy spirit.
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Now, we'll talk about that more
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In a couple of weeks
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When we look at what every christian should know
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About the holy spirit,
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But the holy spirit reveals god personally to us.
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What is it that god wants us to know about himself?
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Well, first of all, god reveals his attributes.
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Traits is not a good word or characteristics
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Because, well, they're not always true of a person.
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For example, you are intelligent about some things
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And probably ignorant of other things, just like i am.
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We're semi-intelligent, depending on the subject.
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We can say, "well, we're loving."
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Well, not all the time.
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Sometimes we're unloving, sometimes we're vengeful.
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And so a better way to describe god's attributes
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Are his perfections.
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We call them god's perfections.
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These are things that are always true of god
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100% of the time.
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I've listed 10 of them for you.
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Don't panic.
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I'm only going to say a sentence about each one of them,
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But write them down.
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Number one, god is holy.
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He is holy.
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Holy, holy, holy was isaiah's vision of god.
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That means this is important,
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When something's repeated three times,
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What does it mean that god is holy?
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That word means he's separate.
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It's a cut above everyone and everything in his creation,
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And because of that, his holiness,
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He cannot have fellowship with anyone,
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And that's all of us, tainted by sin.
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God is holy.
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Secondly, god is just.
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His just nature demands punishment for sin.
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Thirdly, god is loving.
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It's not a superficial emotion.
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God has a profound love for us
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That manifests itself in instruction,
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Correction, and discipline.
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Fourth, god is eternal.
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He's not bound by time,
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And that's why we can trust his promise,
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"and lo, i'm with you always."
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Or hebrews 13:5, "i will never leave you,
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Nor will i ever forsake you."
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Fifth, god is omnipotent,
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Omni, all, potent, powerful.
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He is all powerful.
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He can suspend the laws of nature to accomplish his purpose.
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That's what we mean. he is omnipotent.
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He can do whatever is in his nature.
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Six, god is omniscient, he's all knowing,
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Which should be a comfort to you.
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He knows the future. he knows your future.
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You know how he knows your future?
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Because he has planned the future.
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That's how god knows, he is omniscient.
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Seventh, god is imminent.
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That means god is always with his creation.
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He's a hands-on manager.
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Now, this is in contrast to, say, deism.
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You know, two of our nation's founding fathers were deists,
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Thomas jefferson, benjamin franklin.
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Most of them were orthodox christians,
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But these two were deists.
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The deists believed that god created the world
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And then he left it alone to run down like an alarm clock.
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You wind it up and the clock runs down
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If no energy is injected to it.
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No, the bible says god is ever present
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And working in his creation.
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Eighth, god is transcendent.
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That mean even though he is in his creation,
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He is distinct from his creation.
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Ninth, god is sovereign.
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You know what sovereign means?
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Means boss. he's the boss.
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What god wants done gets done.
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Job 42:2, "i know that you are god
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And that you can do all things," job said.
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"no man can thwart your purpose."
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And then finally, god is unchanging.
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He is "the same
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Yesterday, today, and forever," hebrews 13:8.
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Those are the things that god reveals
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About himself, his attributes.
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Secondly, god reveals his names.
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Some of the most frequently used names of god,
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Elohim, which is the first name for god.
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It's a general term.
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In the beginning, god created the heavens and the earth.
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Yahweh is the most holy name for god.
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The israelites wouldn't even speak the word, it was so holy.
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It's the name god used
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To reveal himself to moses in the burning bush.
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Exodus 3, "i am who i am."
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And then you see the other names for god used in scripture.
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Jehovah is an especially interesting name.
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It's a variation of yahweh.
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And there are seven names for god
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That all begin with jehovah.
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Jehovah-jireh, meaning the lord, our provider,
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Jehovah-rapha, the lord our healer.
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And thirdly, god reveals his plan to us.
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Now, sometimes we refer to god's plan as god's will,
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And to understand this, you need to understand
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That when we talk about god's plan,
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There are three aspects to god's plan.
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First of all, there's what we call
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God's providential plan or will.
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This is god's plan, master plan,
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That governs everything that happens in the universe.
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It's what's referred to in ephesians 1:11.
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"also, we have obtained an inheritance
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Having been predestined according to god's purpose,
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Who works all things
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After the council of his will."
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And will you notice that word will is singular?
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God does not have multiple plans.
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God has one plan.
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It is the providential plan,
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And most of it is a mystery to us.
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Deuteronomy 29:29 says,
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"the secret things belong to the lord."
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Occasionally he reveals a part of the plan to us.
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Ephesians 1, 1 peter 1,
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"the mystery of redemption
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That he ordained christ to die for our sins,"
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That was a part of his plan.
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Or, "the mystery of the church," ephesians 3.
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But his providential plan is secret.
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The second aspect to his plan is his preceptive plan.
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He reveals to us his precepts, his desires for our life.
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For example, 1 thessalonians 4,
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"for this is the will of god," paul said.
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You want to know what god's will is for your life?
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Here it is, your sanctification
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That you abstain from sexual immorality.
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That's something everybody can know.
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I've listed some other precepts in scripture
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That tell us what god's plan for our life.
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Have no other gods before me.
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Honor your father and your mother.
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You shall love your neighbors, yourself, love your enemies.
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These are all of god's preceptive plans.
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And then thirdly, god's personal plan.
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That's his blueprint for your life.
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Does god have a blueprint for your life? absolutely.
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Psalm 139 says, "in your book,
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They were all written, the days of my life,
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Which were ordained for me before there was one of them."
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Every day of your life,
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Everything on your calendar has been ordained by god.
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He has a plan for your life,
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And a true christian will seek to know that plan.
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Ephesians 5:15-17.
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Now, we've talked about how god reveals himself
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And what god reveals to us about himself.
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Thirdly, what should our response to god's revelation be?
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Let me mention three responses.
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First of all, we should respond to his invitation.
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We should rsvp to his invitation.
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Think about it.
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Think to the lengths which god has gone
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To tell you about himself through nature, through his word,
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Through sending his son, through giving us his holy spirit.
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We need to respond to that invitation.
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We respond to god's invitation, first of all,
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By trusting in christ,
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And then searching the scriptures.
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That's how we get to know god.
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Praying.
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Hebrews 4:16, "approaching god's throne with confidence."
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These are all ways
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We respond to god's initial invitation to know us.
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Secondly, we should tap into god's resources.
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We're going to talk about this more
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In a couple of weeks, but 2 peter 1:3 says
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That god has given us his divine power
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And everything we need pertaining to life and godliness.
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The holy spirit is our resource,
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But even in the attributes of god,
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We find tremendous resources we should tap into
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As a result of god's revelation.
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And then finally, we should submit
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To god's authority over our lives.
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The fact that god is all powerful
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And is sovereign should motivate us to say, "yes, lord."
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You know, one of the things that just bugs me no end
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Is when i hear people say, "well,
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You need to make jesus lord of your life."
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No, we don't make jesus lord of anything.
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He is lord of everything.
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God is sovereign already.
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God is in control already.
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The question is, are we going to submit
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To his rule or resist his rule?
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Psalm 100 in verse 3 says,
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"know that the lord himself is god.
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It is he who made us, and not we ourselves,
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For we are his people
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And we are the sheep of his pasture."
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You know, when i think about god's revelation,
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I'm not quite finished yet.
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When we think about god's revelation,
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I think about that dramatic encounter
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God had with elijah in 1 kings 19.
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Remember, after his experience
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Of offering the sacrifice to god
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And the dramatic miracle that took place,
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Jezebel was trying to kill him, and elijah got depressed.
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He lost his connection with god,
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And so god said, "i'm going to help you out, elijah.
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I'm going to put you over here on mount horeb
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And i'm going to put on a show
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For you like you've never seen before."
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And remember what elijah saw?
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First of all, the mighty wind came and it cracked the rocks.
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It was so powerful.
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But god wasn't in the wind.
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And then god sent an earthquake.
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An earthquake was so powerful that it shook mount horeb,
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And yet god wasn't in the earthquake.
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And then god sent a fire that consumed everything,
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But god wasn't in the fire.
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Instead, god was in the gentle blowing of the wind.
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A whisper.
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1 kings 19:13 says, "when elijah heard it,
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He wrapped his face in his mantle."
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Why?
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Because he had heard the whisper of god.
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In her book, "the whisper test,"
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Mary ann bird tells of an experience
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That happened to her as a little girl
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That marked her life forever.
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She said, "i grew up knowing that i was different
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And i hated it.
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I was born with a cleft palate,
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And when i started school, my classmates made it clear to me
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How i look to others,
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A little girl with a misshapen lip,
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Crooked nose, lopsided teeth, and garbled speech.
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When schoolmates asked, 'what happened to your lip?'
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I'd tell them that i had fallen
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Or cut it on a piece of glass.
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Somehow it seemed more acceptable
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To have suffered an accident
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Than to have been born different.
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I was convinced that no one outside my family could love me.
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There was, however, a teacher in the second grade
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Whom we adored.
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Mrs. leonard was her name.
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She was short, round, happy, a sparkling lady.
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Annually, we had our hearing test."
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Remember those?
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"mrs. leonard gave the test to everyone in the class,
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And finally it was my turn.
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I knew from past years
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That as we stood against the door and covered one ear,
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The teacher sitting at her desk would whisper something
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And we would have to repeat it back,
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Things like, 'the sky is blue,'
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Or, 'do you have new shoes?'
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I waited there for those words
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That god must have put into mrs. leonard's mouth,
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Those seven words that changed my life.
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Mrs. leonard said in her whisper,
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I wish you were my little girl."
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The bible says god whispers to every one of us
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Who has been deformed by sin.
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"i wish you were my son.
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I wish you were my daughter."
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And to those of us who come into the family of god
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Through faith in christ, when we encroach god in prayer,
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When we talk to our daddy, our abba, our papa,
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He says to us, "i'm glad you're my son.
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I'm glad you're my daughter".
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God's presence can be as big and bold and dramatic
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As the most powerful force in the world.
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But it can also be as personal as a whisper.
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The interesting thing is,
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The closer you and i draw to god,
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The louder his whisper becomes.
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♪ music ♪
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Wherever you are today
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And whatever you're going through,
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I hope you hear god's whisper
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Just a little bit louder than before.
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If you are in christ, then you are god's child,
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And he longs to grow closer in relationship with you.
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I want to close today by sharing an incredible note
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From a friend from israel who wrote,
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"growing up a religious jew,
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I would never listen to, talk about,
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Or have anything to do with jesus.
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It was forbidden.
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But that always made me even more curious.
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Finally, i found the answer i was looking for
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During my search while watching a program on tv.
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Dr. jeffress opened the scripture to me in such a new way
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And proved to me that the jesus i was told to hate
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Was indeed the messiah we had been still waiting for.
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My heart felt such a relief
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When i finally accepted this truth in my life.
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I finally found what i was looking for
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In all the synagogues, talmud,
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And years of judaic schooling.
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My life will never be the same."
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Isn't that fantastic?
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When notes like these arrive,
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I thank god for those of you
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Who support "pathway to victory."
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Are made possible thanks to you.
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Now, stay right there.
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I'll be back with "pathway to victory" in just a moment.
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When everything around you is shifting,
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When friends question your beliefs,
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When you hear something that doesn't sound right
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But don't know what to say,
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You need confidence in what you believe
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And why you believe it.
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In what every christian should know,
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You and your family can build your faith upon.
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You'll discover practical truth
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That deepens your relationship with god
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And strengthens your confidence in what you believe.
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If you've ever struggled
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To put your faith into words, you're not alone.
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Many christians find it difficult to do so.
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But when we're uncertain about the basics,
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We can become vulnerable to false teaching.
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In my book, "what every christian should know,"
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I'll walk you through 10 essential truths of christianity,
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Explaining not just what the bible teaches,
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♪ music ♪
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I'm grateful we serve a god
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Who makes himself known to us, aren't you?
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He's not hiding behind his deity,
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And not only that,
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He longs to be in a relationship with you.
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He wants to know you and be known by you.
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And next time, i want to show you
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What the bible teaches about the second member
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Of the godhead, jesus christ,
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And what those truths about him mean for you today.
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Stay tuned for a preview
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Of what's coming up next in our series,
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What every christian should know.
00:25:48.425 --> 00:25:51.428
We're going to divide jesus' time into three parts.
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First of all, we're going to talk about jesus b.c.
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That's before christmas.
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But a lot of people in celebrating christmas
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Make the mistake of thinking
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That's when jesus came into existence at bethlehem.
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That's what we're celebrating.
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Nothing could be further from the truth.
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Robert Jeffress - What Every Christian Should Know About God

February 4, 2026 | 27:29

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