The Nature of God

VIDEO;
The Nature of God Video

OUTLINE FOR VIDEO:
I. How people refer to God.
II. We worship without understanding.
III. Importance of understanding who God is.
     A. False gods
     B. Yourself as god
IV. Four gospels
     A. Synopic Gospels (3D Vew of Jesus)
     B. Book of John (4D)
          1. John 1:1   The Word with God in the beginning
          2. John 1:14 The Word made flesh
V. Mystery of Christ - Colossians 1:26-28
     A. What was not revealed before is now
     C. What is the mystery:
          1: The only hope of salvation is only through Jesus Christ (never the Law)
          2. Salvation was not only for the Jews, but for all mankind (Gentiles too)
          3. The "hope of salvation" was always through Jesus
          4. Salvation was never by works, but was always by grace (even in OT times)
VI.  Nature of God in the OT
     A. God "the Father" who created with The Word at his side
     B. Jesus "The Word"
          1. Voice in the Garden
          2. Tree of Life
          3.. Saving Adam and Eve by shed blood
          4. Wrestling with Jacob
          5. Speaking from the burning bush
     C. Holy Ghost was with David and the prophets
     D. And God the Father, The Word and Holy Spirit all appeared to Moses together!
               a. God whose glory cannot be looked at
               b. The Word was the voice from the bush (pre-incanate Jesus)
               c. The fire was the Holy Ghost
VII. The Godhead
     A, Shortest distance between two points (The Way)
     B. Can't get from Point H to Point P by other two ways: Father/Spirit
     C. Explain the triangle
          1. OT God the Father is the focus; Jesus and the Holy Spirit there
               a. Symbolically (The Tree of Life)
               b. As a picture (Abraham and Isaac)
               c. In the shadows (The Angel of the Lord)
          2. Gospels: Jesus is the focus
               a. Holy Spirit conceiving and baptizing John and Jesus (shadows)
               b. Jesus's birth, ministry, death and resurrection and ascension (focus)
               c. God sacrificing his Son (God's grace)
          3. Acts and Letters of the Apostles: Holy Spirit the focus
               a. Ghost of Jesus
               b. Lives in temple of Jesus
               c. Comforts for Jesus

SCRIPTURE IN VIDEO:

Colossians 1:26 "Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: 27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: 28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:"


Acts 7:55 'But he (Stephen), being full of the (Holy Ghost), looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the (glory of God), and (Jesus) standing on the right hand of God..."