God, Who are You? (Chantilly)

Daniel 11:32 CSB – the people who know their God will be strong and take action.

“God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it, you cannot look at anything else.” – G.K. Chesterton

Romans 1:18-20 CSB – For God’s wrath is revealed from heaven against all godlessness and unrighteousness of people who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth, ¹⁹ since what can be known about God is evident among them, because God has shown it to them. ²⁰ For his invisible attributes, that is, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen since the creation of the world, being understood through what he has made. As a result, people are without excuse.

Not Knowing God is a Personal Choice To Reject God’s Truth

Romans 1:18 CSB –  For God’s wrath is revealed from heaven against all godlessness and unrighteousness of people who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth

Jesus said, “I am the way, the Truth..” John 14:6

Jesus prayed, Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. John 17:17

There is only one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative. If this belief is put to the test, one can count on the student’s reaction: they will be uncomprehending. That anyone should regard the proposition as not self-evident astonishes them, as though he were calling into question 2+2=4. These are things you don’t think about…

That it is a moral issue for students is revealed by the character of their response when challenged — a combination of disbelief and indignation: “Are you an absolutist?,” the only alternative they know, uttered in the same tone as… “Do you really believe in witches?” – Alan Bloom, Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students

Holy Spirit is called, The Spirit of Truth

1 John 4:6 CSB – We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error. 

The Bible: “The word of truth” (2 Timothy 2:15)

Jesus says, “I am the Truth” (John 14:6)

Jesus says that Genuine Disciples worship God in Spirit and in Truth (John 4:23)

Jesus prayed, Sanctify them by the Truth. Your Word is Truth” (John 17:17)

Romans 1:18 CSB – The wrath of God is being revealed… b/c people suppress the Truth….

Not Knowing God is a Personal Choice To Reject God’s Morality

Romans 1:18-20 CSB – For God’s wrath is revealed from heaven against all godlessness and unrighteousness of people who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth,

John 3:19 CSB – Jesus said, This is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.  

Romans 1:19-20 CSB – what can be known about God is evident among them, because God has shown it to them. ²⁰ For his invisible attributes, that is, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen since the creation of the world, being understood through what he has made. As a result, people are without excuse.

John 10:27 CSB – My sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me. 

Watch Warning Signs: What Happens When People Suppress God’s Truth

Romans 1:21ff CSB – For though they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became worthless, and their senseless hearts were darkened.

Mind and Heart Diseased

Psalm 108:1 CSB – My heart is confident, God;
I will sing; I will sing praises
with the whole of my being

A Bad Trade

Romans 1:22-23 CSB – Claiming to be wise, they became fools²³ and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles.

Romans 1:24-25 CSB – Therefore God delivered them over in the desires of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves. ²⁵ They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served what has been created instead of the Creator, who is praised forever. Amen.

Destructive Action

Romans 1:24-27 CSB – Therefore, God delivered them over in the desires of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves. ²⁵ They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served what has been created instead of the Creator, who is praised forever. Amen.

²⁶ For this reason God delivered them over to disgraceful passions. Their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. ²⁷ The men in the same way also left natural relations with women and were inflamed in their lust for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the appropriate penalty of their error.

Romans 1:28-32 CSB – And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a corrupt mind so that they do what is not right. ²⁹ They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,³⁰ slanderers, God-haters, arrogant, proud, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, ³¹ senseless, untrustworthy, unloving,  and unmerciful. ³² Although they know God’s just sentence—that those who practice such things deserve to die—they not only do them, but even applaudothers who practice them.

Application: How Can We Draw Near To God Daily?

Commit Yourself to Discovering God Daily

You are as close to God as you want to be.

James 4:8,10 CSB –  Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Matthew 13:11 CSB – “Because the secrets of the kingdom of heaven have been given for you to know, but it has not been given to them.

Romans 1:21 CSB – For though they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became worthless, and their senseless hearts were darkened.

Jeremiah 29:13 CSB – You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart.

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Remember: Jesus Wants you to Know Him.

Purge everything that is in the way!

Revelation 3:20 CSB – See! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

Jeremiah 29:13 – “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart”.

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