REVEALER

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REVEALER

• Pembury Baptist Church
• 8th November 2009

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Gods creation speaks

• Psalm 191 The heavens declare the glory of God
  the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day
  after day they pour forth speech

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• Elizabeth Browning. Earths crammed with heaven,
  and every common bush is afire with God but only
  he who sees takes off his shoes the rest sit
  round and pluck blackberries.

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Gods creation a word for all?

• Psalm 193 There is no speech or language where
  their voice is not heard.
• Romans 120,25 since the creation of the world
  Gods invisible qualitieshis eternal power and
  divine naturehave been clearly seen, being
  understood from what has been made..they
  exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and
  worshipped and served created things rather than
  the Creator.

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The nature of revelation

• General revelation, creation, conscience, inner
  awareness of God..
• Special revelation for those God chooses to
  address
• Karl Barth and special revelation
• the revealed word of God Jesus,
• the written word of God the Bible
• the proclaimed word of God - preaching
• Gods word of prophecy

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Jesus the revealed word of God

• John 11,4 In the beginning was the Word, and
  the Word was with God, and the Word was God..In
  him was life, and that life was the light of
  men..
• John 149 anyone who has seen me has seen the
  Father
• Luke 1022 no one knows who the Father is except
  the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to
  reveal him.

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Scripture the written word of God

• 2 Timothy 316 All Scripture is God-breathed
• 1 Peter 120 Above all, you must understand that
  no prophecy of Scripture came about by the
  prophets own interpretation.men spoke from God
  as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
• 1 Corinthians 214 the man without the Spirit
  does not accept the things that come from the
  Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him,
  and he cannot understand them, because they are
  spiritually discerned.
• Psalm 11918 Open my eyes that I may see
  wonderful things in your law.

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Preaching the proclaimed word of God

• Romans 1013-14 Everyone who calls on the name
  of the Lord will be saved. How, then, can they
  call on the one they have not believed in? And
  how can they believe in the one of whom they have
  not heard? And how can they hear without someone
  preaching to them?
• 2 Timothy 316 Scripture is useful for
  teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in
  righteousness, so that the man of God may be
  thoroughly equipped for every good work.
• 2 Corinthians 519-20 he has committed to us the
  message of reconciliation. We are therefore
  Christs ambassadors, as though God were making
  his appeal through us

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The prophetic word of God

• Hebrews 11 In the past God spoke to our
  forefathers through the prophets at many times
  and in various ways, but in these last days he
  has spoken to us by his Son.
• 1 Corinthians 141 Follow the way of love and
  eagerly desire spiritual gifts, especially the
  gift of prophecy
• 1 Thessalonians 520-21 do not treat prophecies
  with contempt. Test everything. Hold on to the
  good.

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The mystery of Gods revelation

• Job 1222 He reveals the deep things of darkness
  and brings deep shadows into the light.
• Deuteronomy 2929 The secret things belong to
  the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong
  to us and to our children forever, that we may
  follow all the words of this law.

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Revelation of Gods attributes

• Goodness
• Love
• Mercy
• Holiness
• Peace
• Justice
• Jealousy
• Wrath
• Will
• Freedom
• Omnipotence

• Independence
• Unchangeableness
• Timeless in his own being
• Omnipresence
• Unity
• Spirituality
• Invisibility
• Knowledge
• Wisdom
• Truthfulness

• Perfection
• Blessedness
• Beauty
• Glory
• the world
• through its
• wisdom did not
• know him
• 1 Corinthians 121

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Revelation of Gods attributes

• Eternity I am the Alpha and the Omega, says
  the Lord God, who is, and who was, and who is to
  come, the Almighty. (Revelation 118)
• Presence everywhere Where can I go from your
  Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I
  go up to the heavens, you are there if I make my
  bed in the depths, you are there (Psalm
  1397-8).
• Spirituality God is spirit, and his worshipers
  must worship in spirit and in truth. (John 424)
• All powerful nature him who is able to do
  immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine,
  (Ephesians 320)
• Love God demonstrates his own love for us in
  this While we were still sinners, Christ died
  for us. (Romans 58)

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Revelation of Gods plan for humanity

• Luke 2425-26 How foolish you are, and how slow
  of heart to believe all that the prophets have
  spoken! Did not the Christ have to suffer these
  things and then enter his glory? And beginning
  with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to
  them what was said in all the Scriptures
  concerning himself.

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Revelation of Gods desire for a personal
relationship with us

• 1 John 213 I write to you, dear children,
  because you have known the Father.
• John 1423 If anyone loves me, he will obey my
  teaching. My Father will love him, and we will
  come to him and make our home with him.

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A troubled mother and a wayward son
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God reveals will we listen?

• 1 Peter 57 cast all our anxiety on him because
  he cares for us
• Ephesians 117 I keep asking that the God of our
  Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give
  you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that
  you may know him better.