welcome to the Believers Bible assembly welcome to the Believers Bible assembly today we will

begin a new study the truth about God as we continue in our teaching sound Doctrine series

listen and be blessed good morning and welcome to the Believers Bible seminar this is the

day that the Lord has made and we're gonna rejoice and be glad in it today we're going to talk

about the truth about God we've been on a teaching series about teaching sound Doctrine and we just completed

the truth about the Bible and today we're going to focus on the truth about God so let's open

our Bibles to Titus Chapter 2 Verse 1 but as for you Titus speak teach the things that are

consistent with sound it sound Doctrine like we said in the previous study from the beginning Satan's strategy

has been to distort the truth about the word and especially about God and who he is in the world

and in the church there are many disagreements about who God is many false doctrines distortions about God exists in

the world today are there in our schools our institutions of Higher Learning they're being indoctrinated about atheistic

views agnostic views about who God is and these views have also crept into the churches we can't even

come to Common agreement about who God is and what his will plans and purposes are in

the church and these false documents and distortions come from the modern culture and their reinterpretation of

scripture and their reinterpretation of who God is it comes from religion the various views about God

and who he is that's being taught in the seminaries some of these false doctrines

and Distortion come from personal pain things that are happen in a person's life and the only person

they can blame is God and the lies of the false teachers today were inundated

with lies from false teachers about who God is but God has revealed himself clearly in the

scriptures so that's what we're going to do in these series of studies we're going to go to the scriptures

to learn about who God is and to to debunk the lies about God there's so many lives

out here about God so we're going to contrast the lies with the truth as found in God's word

so that we may understand God and strengthen our relationship with him so let's deal

with the first life God is distant from us he's distant and he's uninvolved many people believe that

God created the world and then abandon it see this is one of those agnostic

views that God just created the world and just abandon it and he's too busy he's too

far away to care about us personally he's too busy or too far away to care about anything that's

going on in the world today but what is the truth the truth is God is near God

is personal and God is involved God is near God is personal and he is involved God knows

us intimately and he desires a relationship with us Psalm 145 18 says that the Lord is near

to all who call upon him so if you think the Lord is distant if you think the Lord

is not involved could it be because because of your relationship with him because the

Bible says that the Lord is near to all who call upon him and we know that if you

call on the name of the Lord he will answer so the Lord is not distant from

us he desires to have a relationship with us but you have to call upon it and how can

you call upon someone that you do not know that's why it's important that we get

in the word and we learn about God we learn about the sovereignty of God he's all-powerful he's

everywhere present he's all knowing he's our Creator God is good God God is love

God is faithful we go to the scriptures to learn about who God is so we can't call

upon him and be in relation ship with him and when we do this James 4:8 promises

this it says draw near to God and He will draw near to you we have to draw near

to God and the promise of the scripture is He will draw near to you Psalm 145 18

says we have to call upon him and he will hear us so you see

who has to initiate the relationship that he is already established with us the reason why God Appears distant and

far from us because we're not calling on him we're not Drawing Near to him we're drawing as far away

from God as we possibly can like God can't see us that God don't know where we are that

goes back to the Garden Adam and Eve once they send they tried to hide from

God but how many y'all know you can't hide from God so there's no need of hiding from

him draw near to him and when you draw near to Him He will draw

near to you that's a promise in the word Hebrews 13:5 are very familiar verse of scripture

for God said I will never leave you nor forsake I say Q God said this I will never leave

you nor forsake you another translation says I will never leave you or abandon you this

is God this is a promise that God made to those that have faith and trust in

him I will never leave you I will never forsake nor abandon you so no God does not distant

from us he was reported by life he wants to be in relationship with us

we are the ones who have separated ourselves from God through sin we are the ones they're

trying to hide from God because of our sin but God said I will never leave

you nor forsake you so know God is Not distant from us he's loving he's attentive and

he's relational in a Bible Doctrine teaching about God we talked about why God created man

because God wanted to be in relationship with his creation because he's a god of love and he's not

absent from your life he is ever present Psalm 46:1 says this God is our refuge and strength a

very ever present help in time of trouble so in times of trouble what do we do we call on

him in times of trouble what do we do we draw near to him and we

have the Assurance because he said he'll never leave us nor forsake us and the

scripture says that he is our refuge he is our strength and he is a ever present

help in time of trouble and time of need so the lie that God is distant from

us it's just that LOL I want to Satan strategies is to get you on an

island to get you the Fate that you'll know how to that you're all by yourself that you

got to deal with this situation you got to deal with this problem you got to deal with the

circumstance all by yourself there is no help for you there is no hope for you that's his

lies that's a strategies but the Bible says that God is an ever-present help in times of trouble so who

you going to believe you're going to believe the lies of the devil or you going to put your trust

and faith in The ever-present God Who said that he will never leave you nor forsake you

line number one that we going to just bunk this morning is that God is distant from you he's a

very present help in time of trouble in time of need second lie and you

hear this all the time God is angry he's mad with you and he wants to

punish you we are people say that all the time God will strike you down what does

this come from this come from a place of ignorance can I say that this morning English in a

sense of being devoid of understanding of the scripture now what the devil does especially in this

area like to twist scripture because one of the things we do see in scripture

is a god of wrath but understand the context of God's Wrath the context of God's Wrath is toward

the ungodly those who have rejected him and have rejected his son and that's the

only God they talk about the guy does angry to God just mad to God that wants to punish

people all of this is true but it is toward the ungodly those who have rejected him but if

the scriptures not rightly divided people only see God as being angry harsh he condemns

and there's no way that you can please God because the standards are so high but what is the truth

that comes from scripture God is Holy he is merciful and he's full of love God is

holding meaning God has a holy standard and he's not going to waver from that standard he

said holy as I am Holy and we know and understand from previous teaching that

our Holiness only comes through our relationship with Jesus Christ apart from Christ we're like

filthy rags there's nothing good in us there's nothing redeeming in us that's why we had to be redeemed but

God is Holy and he has a holy standard that's set forth in his word

but he's also merciful he's a god of Mercy thank god he's a god of mercy

and he's full of love God hates sin because he's holy God hates said because

it destroys people and their relationship with him but God's desire for his creation is to save to

restore and to forgive let's get into the scriptures first John four Nate says that God is love God is

love the essence of God is love love is who he is that's an attribute

of God he is love now to the uninformed to the one who's divorced of knowledge of the

scripture the confused right now how can God be all these things at the same

time because he's God but the nature of God the essence of God is love God didn't

create us to be angry at us to be mad at us to condemn us to send

us to hell God created us because he loves us because love is who he is

we're the one that severed and broke the relationship that caused the wrath of God to be upon us

but the essence of God the nature of God is love Psalm 103 8 says the Lord is

compassionate and he's gracious slow to anger abounding in love that's the god of the Bible

but the devil wants to distort this God so you will not be in a

right relationship with him he wants you to think every time you mess up God

Is Gonna Get You God Is Gonna Get You he go he gonna strike you down

I don't know about some of you all that's why I heard knocks coming up so until I had a

Biblical understanding of who God is I was afraid of God I was afraid of him

because I didn't know him but oh when I got to know about God and his compassion in his grace

and his love and his Mercy that's why we've been Inseparable ever since it doesn't mean that you won't

stumble it won't mean that you won't fall but you know if you do God is compassionate he's

gracious he's slow to anger and he abounds in love second Peter chapter 3 verse 9 and it

says the Lord is not slow in keeping his promises as some understand slowness but he is patient with you

not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance the Amplified Bible says God does not delay as

though he were unable to act and is not slow about his promise as some count slowness

but is extraordinarily patient toward you not wishing for any to perish but for all to come

to repentance this is the god of the Bible he's patient with You O Lord I know he's

patient with me because he's loving he's compassion he's gracious he's merciful he's full of love he

was patient with me he was patient with you why because he doesn't want anyone to perish God

is not angry and wants to punish people he's patient with you and he doesn't

want anyone to perish he doesn't want anybody to go to hell but you know

what God is so full of love so full of grace and mercy that if you want to

go to hell he's going to allow you because he done everything in his power to reveal his

will plans and purposes for your life so that you would have have all the

knowledge that you need to make a decision to follow him to follow his son

John 3:16 for God so loved the world that he gave his only son what kind of love is this

now as you break that word love down you understand it's the Greek word Agape which is a sacrificial giving

kind of love because God is patient and not want anyone to perish God so loved

the world that he gave sacrifice his only son his one and only son that whosoever

believeth in him shall not perish but have everlasting eternal life because love is who

God is and he has demonstrated his love towards us by sacrificially giving of his son his

one and only son for his the condition that whosoever believes in him the son and

his sacrificial death on the cross and the power of his resurrection whose I believe in him

shall not perish Eternal separation Eternal damnation from God he doesn't want that but he wants them to have everlasting

eternal life with him God is just God is loving he's holy he's merciful and is full of love

listen we can't even ask the depth of God's love that he has for us God does not angry God

does not want to punish people but he wants us to experience his love now let

me go ahead and put a pin in this right now before we move to the third point because

this is how the devil has distorted the word love he has confused the word love and he got

people thinking in and out the church that loves means tolerance that love means ignoring and turning a blind eye

to sin and perversion that's in the world today no no no as Believers we

love people enough to tell them the truth that's why he commissioned us to go and to proclaim

the word to All Nations to all people need to make disciples the first thing in

disciple-making you have to know the god of the Bible and you have to know that God is love and

then when you start from that point everything else just falling Lakes now you won't

be fearful of God now you can put your trust and faith in God now you can depend on

lean on and rely on God and His word because the Angry God is gone

the guy that wants to punish people just for fun you understand that's not the god of the Bible I'm

keep stressing this over and over again you got to go to the word to understand who God is and

so many people have been hoodwinked Bamboozled them strand run amok because they're getting their information about

God from the world the world is never ever going to paint the picture of God

that's true that's why we have to know the god of the Bible who was holy merciful and full of

love Point number three the third lie does out there and there's many of them you must

earn God's love how many of y'all heard that one you have to earn God's love you have

to be perfect in order for God to accept you that's why the doctrine of works the gain

salvation is so prominent you have to work your way into heaven I'm just trying to

get in brother I'm just trying to make it to the Pearly Gates sister I'm just trying to

earn God's love and acceptance so he'll let me into the kingdom but what does the

Bible say the Bible says that salvation is a gift of Grace you cannot earn

God's favor through works you cannot earn God's love through Works Jesus has already paid the

price through his death and his resurrection you still got people out here thinking that they got to

work to get to heaven do you know what you're saying when you say that that what

Jesus did on the cross wasn't sufficient what Jesus did on the cross wasn't good enough he didn't

pay the price for our sins or some say yeah Jesus Christ paid the price for our

sins through his death and his resurrection but I know no ain't no but I but I

implies that you're trying to add to the finished work of Jesus Christ on pulse ain't no but I

you cannot earn God's love you cannot earn God's favor do Works Ephesians 2:8 verse 9

says it's by grace that you've been saved past tense through faith not by works lest any man should

boast and what is Grace Grace is God's unmerited favor you can't work for it you can't be good

enough for it there's nothing that you can do except except the the free gift of

Grace is free to you and I because Jesus Paid the price and if Jesus

paid a price you don't have to pay the price the price has already been paid

it's like you're going to the grocery store and somebody said ma'am I'm take care of your being here

I'm going to pay for it and they paid it and you turn around and said no I want

to pay for it again how can you pay for it again when it's already been

paid actually got people in the church the steel trying to work try to earn God's favor

you know why they don't understand Grace they don't understand the cost of Salvation if they only understood they would

abuse Grace see they think Grace is the license of sin oh I'm safe now so I can

live how I want to live do what I want to do and ask how I want

to act no no no no that's not Bible grace if you fully understood the cost of Grace it

cost God everything but it was freely given to you and I how through faith faith and what the

finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross that's how we receive Grace that's how we receive God's unmerited favor

so you just walking it you live it out but what if I Stumble get back up what am

I do something that I should have done confess it and made it critic forget it get up and keep

walking in the grace that you have received when you believe Grace is God's unmerited

favor again you can't work for it you can't be good enough for it so

you got these work folks out here thinking they're going to work their way into heaven and they going to

be sadly disappointed because works not most on get you to heaven Grace will Romans 5:8 says that while we

were still sinners Christ died for us we don't understand the magnitude dude of this verse we can't we

just accept it and believe it the fact that while we were still Sinners when we were still out there

running streets when we still like they're hauling and drinking and clubbing and you mean to tell

me what I was out there doing all that Christ steel die for me you can't wrap

your hand around that you just embrace it you accept it who would do something like that

a god of love o God of Mercy a god of Grace a god of Holiness see that's why

I don't give up on nobody because I know if God can save somebody like me with my past with

my background with my baggage there's no one that's beyond not being able to be saved but listen listen listen

they got to desire it to gotta want it they got their bleed just like you're not believe that

Jesus Christ died for the sins then they'll be able to receive that Grace when you think about it

while we were still sinners Christ died for you he died for me well we talked about this

morning we talked about the God of the Bible and how you cannot earn his love but the

devil got you out there thinking that you have to earn God's love that if you don't dot every

i and cross every T God's condemnation will be upon your life we Romans 8:1 says just the

opposite it says there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus couple

key words in this verse there is now right now right this very moment there

is no condemnation the word condemnation means no guilty verdict no punishment now right now there is

no condemnation no guilty verdict no punishment for those who are in Christ Jesus nigga what the verse says

in Christ Jesus it doesn't say in church it doesn't say in religion it doesn't say in a denomination what

does it say for those who are in Christ Jesus mean that you're born again and you have a right

relationship with him for those people there is now no condemnation guilty verdict or punishment but

the devil got you thinking if I mess up I'm gonna lose my salvation if I

mess up God's grace is no longer part of my life if I messed up I'm going to be condemned

I'm going to be found guilty and I'll be punished that's the LIE of the

devil that you must earn God's love and if you don't his condemnation will be upon the life we got

to debunk these lies of Satan and the only way you can do that is by knowing

and understanding who God is from the scripture and know that God is Not only love he is the originator

of love love is a fruit of the spirit we can love God we can love others because

he first loved us first John 4:19 and it says we love because he first loved us

we have the capacity as Believers to love others to love the loveliest the people who Society has thrown

away in turn their back on we have that ability to love because God first loved

us we have experienced and are experiencing God's love on a daily basis and because of that we

can love other people Now understand the word love don't mean put up with foolishness don't

mean tolerating sin in but we can be patient with them we can love them through

it because God is patient and again a fruit of the spirit is What patients we love

and have the capacity to love others because he first loved us Jesus instructed his disciples to love

one another as he has loved them and this kind of love defines the character of a

True Believer what kind of believer are True Believer because the god kind of love

that God paid love the giving self-sacrificing love is what separates us from the world and

we can love like God loved because he is love and he demonstrated his love to

us first now we have the capacity to love other people receiving God's love is not

based on human effort off performance or ability but by his grace his unmerited favor we

debunked three lies about God today number one God is Not distant and uninvolved but he is a

very present help and he will never abandon us the second line we debunked today is that God is not

angry and God does not want to punish people but his desire is for for

everyone to be saved and number three the third lie we debunked is that you must learn God's love

no no no it is a free gift given to us by grace for all those who have put their

faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross amen thank you for

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