God and You

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God and You

• But without faith it is impossible to please
  Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He
  is, and that He is a rewarder of those who
  diligently seek Him (Hebrews 116).

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God Cares About You!

• He Created You and Sustains You
• (Acts 1726-28 Gen. 126-28)

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Acts 1726-28

• And He has made from one blood every nation of
  men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and
  has determined their preappointed times and the
  boundaries of their dwellings, 27 so that they
  should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might
  grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far
  from each one of us 28 for in Him we live and
  move and have our being, as also
  some of your own poets have
  said, For we are also
  His offspring.

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Genesis 126-28

• Then God said, Let Us make man in Our image,
  according to Our likeness let them have dominion
  over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the
  air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and
  over every creeping thing that creeps on the
  earth. 27 So God created man in His own image
  in the image of God He created him male and
  female He created them. 28 Then God blessed
  them, and God said to them, Be fruitful and
  multiply fill the earth and
  subdue it have dominion over the fish
  of the sea, over the birds of the
  air, and over every living thing
  that moves on the earth.

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God Cares About You!

• He Created You and Sustains You
• (Acts 1726-28 Gen. 126-28)
• He Wants What is Best for You
• Physical Life (Acts 1417
  Psa. 14515-16)

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Acts 1417

• Nevertheless He did not leave Himself without
  witness, in that He did good, gave us rain from
  heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts
  with food and gladness.

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Psalm 14515-16

• The eyes of all look expectantly to You, And You
  give them their food in due season. 16 You open
  Your hand And satisfy the desire of every living
  thing.

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God Cares About You!

• He Created You and Sustains You
• (Acts 1726-28 Gen. 126-28)
• He Wants What is Best for You
• Physical Life (Acts 1417
  Psa. 14515-16
• Spiritual Life (Gen. 217 315 John
  316 Rom. 58 1 John 410)

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Genesis 217 315

• (217), But of the tree of the knowledge of good
  and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that
  you eat of it you shall surely die.
• (315), And I will put enmity Between you and
  the woman, And between your seed and her Seed He
  shall bruise your head, And you shall
  bruise His heel.

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John 316

• For God so loved the world that He gave His only
  begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should
  not perish but have everlasting life.

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Romans 58

• But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in
  that while we were still sinners, Christ died for
  us.

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1 John 410

• In this is love, not that we loved God, but that
  He loved us and sent His Son to be the
  propitiation for our sins.

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We should care about God!

• Because He rewards faithful living
• Hebrews 116 Acts 1730-31

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Hebrews 116

• But without faith it is impossible to please
  Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He
  is, and that He is a rewarder of those who
  diligently seek Him.

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Acts 1730-31

• Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked,
  but now commands all men everywhere to repent, 31
  because He has appointed a day on which He will
  judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom
  He has ordained. He has given assurance of this
  to all by raising Him from the dead.

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We should care about God!

• Because He rewards faithful living
• Hebrews 116 Acts 1730-31
• Repent, because Judgment is coming!
• Hebrews 1031 1225,29

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Hebrews 1031

• It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of
  the living God.

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Hebrews 1225,29

• (vs. 25), See that you do not refuse Him who
  speaks. For if they did not escape who refused
  Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not
  escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from
  heaven
• (vs. 29), For our God is a consuming fire.

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We should care about God!

• Because He rewards faithful living
• Hebrews 116 Acts 1730-31
• Repent, because Judgment is coming!
• Hebrews 1031 1225,29
• Because God is Good!
• Romans 22-6 1122

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Romans 22-6

• But we know that the judgment of God is
  according to truth against those who practice
  such things. 3 And do you think this, O man, you
  who judge those practicing such things, and doing
  the same, that you will escape the judgment of
  God? 4 Or do you despise the riches of His
  goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not
  knowing that the goodness of God leads you to
  repentance? 5 But in accordance with your
  hardness and your impenitent heart you are
  treasuring up for yourself
  wrath in the day of wrath and revelation
  of the righteous judgment of God,
  6 who will render to each
  one according to his deeds.

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Romans 1122

• Therefore consider the goodness and severity of
  God on those who fell, severity but toward you,
  goodness, if you continue in His goodness.
  Otherwise you also will be cut off.

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Conclusion

• God loves you and cares for you, but your eternal
  destiny is dependent upon your caring for God
• Do you care for God?