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The Beginning
Introduction:
To everything there is a beginning. This is the beginning of our study in Church life.
It is our Lords expressed desire that we have a new beginning in our spiritual birth
and then continue to grow up in Him. In order to do that, we must understand Him.
The Masters plan is a systematic study of His plan for our lives. This study will take
time, and a commitment to the search of Gods word. In this lesson, we will
discover who God is, who the Angels are, and who man is.
B. What is God?
1. God is a SPIRIT.
God is a spirit: and they that worshipped Him must worship him in spirit
and in truth. (John 4:24)
Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto
them, Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy. (Leviticus 19:2)
7. God is JUST (fair and impartial)
He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all His ways are judgements: a
God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he. (Deuteronomy
32:4)
8. God is FAITHFUL (keeping his promises)
If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself. (2
Timothy 2:13)
9. God is BENEVOLENT (good, kind, desiring our welfare)
The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
(Psalm 145:9)
10. God is MERCIFUL (full of pity)
And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, the Lord God,
merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin,
and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers
upon the children, and upon the childrens children, unto the third and to the
fourth generation. (Exodus 34:6,7)
and the bush was not consumed. And Moses said, I will now turn aside,
and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. And when the Lord
saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of
the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. He said, Here am I. (Exodus 3:2-4)
5. JESUS CHRIST
6. HOLY SPIRIT
As God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them: and I will
be their God, and they shall be my people. (2 Corinthians 6:16b)
II.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,
against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world,
against spiritual wickedness in high places. (Ephesians 6:12)
And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
(2 Cor.11:14)
E. Do we worship angels?
NO! We should not even become angel conscious. We are only to worship
God. Thou shalt have no other gods before thee! (Exodus 20:3)
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto
you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
(Gal1:8)
Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and
worshipping of angels, intruding into those things wich he hath seen,
vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind. (Col.2:18)
F. Who is Lucifer?
1. Lucifer was the HIGHEST angelic form in Heaven.
2. He was the ANNOINTED cherub of God that had access to the throne
of God.
3. He was the CHIEF among angels and was perfect in BEAUTY and
WISDOM.
4. His job was to:
a. COLLECT praise from all the universe.
b. GIVE it to God totally.
Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was
thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx,
and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold:
the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee
in the day that thou wast created. Thou art the anointed cherub that
covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of
God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till
iniquity was found in thee. (Ezk.28:13-15)
How art thou fallen form heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning how art
thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou
hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne
above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the
congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights
of the clouds; I will be like the most High. (Is.14:12-14)
III.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and
multiply, replenish the earth and subdue it: (Gen.1:28)
4. To be the KEEPER of the Garden of Eden.
And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden
to dress it and to keep it. (Gen.2:15)
G. What is enmity?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
HATRED
SEPARATION
DIFFERENCES
ATTITUDE
HOSTILITY
Enmity was placed into both man and woman at the time they broke
fellowship with God.
IV.
A. God is the Supreme Being and has total charge and authority over all
Heavens and Earth. He displays himself in many ways to man and is fully
alive.
B. Angels have a definite purpose for being created. Through the fall of
Lucifer, we learned that we have an adversary. He is Satan and his
demons.
C. Man and Woman were created in the image of God. Man lost his place in
the garden and now God is teaching us that we have the ability through
Christ to regain our place.
Memory verse:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word
was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by
Him; and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was
life; and the life was the light of men. (John 1:1-4)