Unknown God

God has become unknown to our world. Human beings are supposed to get their first glimpse of God and authority from their father. Unfortunately, many children grow up in homes where either their father was absent or he abandon them. Worst yet, many children had fathers, who abused them. This is why their concept of a heavenly father has been distorted.

Therefore, many people see God as the Force that be with us.
in other words, God is a simple sovereign and all-powerful God, who isn't interested in human beings. Then we see another distorted view of God that sees Him like a sovereign Santa Claus, who is only good at bestowing gifts on human beings once a year.

The wonder of Christmas is that God gave us a sign"....Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel." (Isaiah 7:14) Immanuel means that God is with us. Other words, God has come to dwell with us. He has come to give us a full revelation of Himself.

In Isaiah 9:6: "For unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder, and the His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."

We are blessed in knowing that the Son of God has experience how a baby feels...He has been a baby. He knows how a child feels...He has been a child. He knows how an adolescent feels...He has lived as a teenager. He has experience what it is to be the head of a family...He lead his mother and brothers and sisters.

We have a God who can empathize with every developmental
stages of human beings. In the book of Jeremiah 9:23-24, we learn that God delights in exercising loving kindness, justice, and righteousness on the earth.

In John 14:8-9: "Phillip said to Him, Lord, show us the Father, and it will be sufficient for us. Jesus said to him, Have I been here with you so long and yet you have not known me, Phillip?
He who has seen Me has seen the Father....I and my Father are one. (John 10:30). Jesus claimed to be God.

In John 5:18: "The Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also He said that
God was His Father, making Himself equal with God."

In the book of Colossians it says: "He is the image of the invisible God, he firstborn over all creation. For by Him were all thing created that are in heaven and earth....all things were created through Him and for Him."

In the book of Hebrews : "God...has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through also He made the worlds; who being the brightness
of His glory and he express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had
by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high. (Hebrews 1:1-3).

Development of Sanctication-First Step

Questions with Answers found in this section of Scripture:

1. What is the most important quality that we need to add FIRST to our faith?

2. What is the will of God according to this section of Scripture

3. What is virtue?

3. What is the gravest sin in the Church

4. What two qualities will sexual immorality destroy inside of us?

5. What relationships will sexual immorality destroy?

2 Peter 1: 5 “…giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue-which is moral excellence (2 Peter 1:5a). It doesn’t say, add, church involvement, or soul winning, or separation. To our precious faith add moral excellence. Does that sound a little odd? In I Thessalians 4: 3-the Word of God says; “For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each of should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles, who don’t know God…For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness.

Therefore, he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit. (I Thessalonians 4:3-5, 7-8). In I Corinthians 6:18-20 the Word of God declares: Flee sexual immorality, as every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immortality sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Sex is sacred and marriage is a picture of the intimacy, oneness, and purity that the Lord wants in His relationship with a believer. “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

Sexual immorality is one of the gravest sin in the church. It destroys relationships and families. Satan has used sexual immortality to destroy the ministry of pastors, who gnvolved in an illicit relationship.
Many men in the church have an insatiable appetite for pornography that destroys their relationship with both their wife and the Lord.
Too many women in the church love their soap operas and they often have romance thoughts about being involved in an affair.
Adding moral excellence to our precious faith will create much stability and strength in our character in addition to gaining God’s favor and many blessings from the Lord.
Sexual immorality is one of Satan’s favorite tool for enslaving those who are involved in it.Sexual immorality will destroy a person’s character and conscience. Therefore, ADDmoral excellence to your precious faith
To illustrate character I would use cement that is wet and mix with gravel, when it is first laid down on the ground. When it is settle it will become hard and sturdy. Moral excellence is the beginning of a foundation that will soon become hard and sturdy.

(Abstain from sexual immortality)

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