XVDHMAK@VCUVM1 (Michael Kline) (01/17/90)
Part 4. How do the three persons of God reveal themselves to us?
GOD IS A ROCK =======================================================>
God - Isaiah 17:10 - "Because you have forgotten the God of your
salvation (O Judah) and have not been mindful of the Rock of your Strength,
and your Stronghold; therefore you have planted pleasant nursery grounds
and plantings (to Adonis, pots of quickly withered flowers used to set at
their doors or in the courts of temples), and you have set the grounds with
vine-slips of a strange god."
II Samuel 22:32 - "For who is God, but the Lord? And who is a rock,
except our God?"
Deuteronomy 32:4 - "He is the Rock, His work is perfect; for all His
ways are law and justice, a God of faithfulness, without breach or
deviation, just and right is He."
Jesus Christ, the Son -I Corinthians 10:4 - "And they all drank the
same supernaturally given drink. For they drank from a spiritual Rock which
followed them - produced by the soul power of God Himself without natural
instrumentality - and the Rock was Christ."
I Peter 2:6-8 - "For thus it stands in Scripture: Behold, I am laying
in Zion a chosen, (honored,) precious chief Cornerstone; and he who
believes in Him - who adheres to, trusts in and relies on Him - shall never
be disappointed or put to shame. (7)To you then who believe - who adhere
to, trust in and rely on Him - is the preciousness; but for those who
disbelieve (it is true), The (very) Stone which the builders rejected has
become the main Cornerstone, (8)And a Stone that will cause stumbling, and
a Rock that will give (men) offense; they stumble because they disobey and
disbelieve (God's) Word, as those (who reject Him) were destined
(appointed) to do."
GOD, THE FIRST AND THE LAST, THE ALPHA AND OMEGA ===================>
God - Isaiah 48:12 - "Listen to me, O Jacob and Israel, My called; I am
He. I am the first, I also am the last."
Isaiah 44:6 - "Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer,
the Lord of Host: I am the first, and I am the last; besides Me there is no
God."
Isaiah 43:10 - "You are My witnesses, says the Lord, and My servant
whom I have chosen, that you may know Me, believe Me, and remain steadfast
to Me, and understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed,
neither shall there be after me."
Isaiah 41:4 - "Who has prepared and done this, calling and guiding the
destinies of the generations of the nations from the beginning? I, the
Lord, the first (existing before history began) and with the last (and ever
present, unchanging God); I am He."
Jesus Christ, the Son - Revelation 1:17 - "When I saw Him I fell at His
feet as if dead. But He laid His right hand on me and said, Do not be
afraid! I am the First and the Last."
Revelation 2:8 - "And to the angel (messenger) of the assembly (church)
in Smyrna write, These are the words of the First and the Last, Who died
and came to life again:"
Revelation 22:13 - "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the
Last (the Before all and at the End of all)."
GOD THE CREATOR ====================================================>
God - Job 33:4 - "(It is) the Spirit of God that made me (which has
stirred me up), and the breath of the Almighty that gives me the life
(which inspires me)."
Isaiah 40:28 - "Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting
God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, does not faint or grow
weary; there is no searching of His understanding."
Genesis 1:1 - "In the beginning God (prepared, formed , fashioned.) and
created the heavens and the earth."
Jesus Christ, the Son - John 1:3 - "All things were made and came into
existence through Him, and without Him was not even one thing made that has
come into being."
Colossians 1:16:17 - "For it was in Him that all things were created,
in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, whether thrones,
dominions, rulers or authorities; all things were created and exist through
Him (by His service, intervention) and in and for him. (17)and He Himself
existed before all things and in Him all things consist - cohere, are held
together."
Hebrews 1:10 - "And (further), You Lord, did lay the foundation of the
earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the works of Your hands."
GOD IS OUR SAVIOR ==================================================>
God - Psalms 106:21 - "They forgot God, their Savior, Who had done such
great things in Egypt,"
Isaiah 43:3 - "For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your
Savior, I give Egypt (to the Babylonians) for your ransom, Ethiopia and
Seba (a province of Ethiopia) in exchange for your release."
Jesus Christ, the Son - John 4:22 - "You (Samaritans) do you know what
you are worshipping - you worship what you do not comprehend. We do know
what we are worshipping - we worship what we have knowledge of and
understand; for (after all) salvation comes from (among) the Jews."
I John 4:14 - "And (besides) we ourselves have seen (have deliberately
and steadfastly contemplated), and bear witness that the Father has sent
the Son (as the) Savior of the world."
Acts 4:12 - "And there is salvation in and through no one else, for
there is no other name under heaven given among men by and in which we must
be saved."
In His Love,
Michael A. Kline, Sr. SSE
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