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Why do you talk like this? What a guide through life that is. That skeleton we’ve got buried deep? But, further than being acknowledged as true, it must be confessed. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not to your own understanding. But read a passage from Hosea or Daniel or Isaiah or one of the great prophets who accurately predicts what is coming in human history and people yawn and go to sleep. How could this occur with one who understood so thoroughly the essentials of the Christian message and had come into contact with a living Christ? Do they believe what the apostles have said? We often sing choruses about our God being greater and stronger, but truthfully – God is without comparison. Then, in Verse 5, " they are of the world"; and, in Verse 6, " we are of God." These "many people" were not Christians yet. "Or who has given a gift to him   that he might be repaid?" God is Greater “Whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything” (1 John 3:20). (Isaiah 40:27b RSV), Would that we could get men to hear that today when so many are insisting upon their rights and saying that no one is standing up for them. Our God is greater, our God is stronger. Nor was it because they had been subjected to intense training in the cults. Think of the despair that spreads like the tides of the sea across whole nations today. Imagine that! Though He created everything on this earth, the galaxies, the oxygen for our lungs, you, me, the angels and demons and Satan, God himself is uncreated. But it isn't -- despite all the appearances. Support Option Ultrasound! And just when we start to wrap our minds around God’s limitless power, we’re back where we started -- the incomprehensibility of God. In other words, it was not anything these Christians had that delivered them, it was the One who dwelt within them. We are to come to the Scriptures always and forever as little children, needing to be taught out of the wisdom and greatness and superior intelligence of God. ", Have you not known? God is greater than the power of the enemy. We form a special band of authoritative apostles who were with the Lord Jesus and have been commissioned to the task of declaring authoritatively the full message of Christianity. "They" here are the false teachers of all varieties, including those who rant and rave and those who speak in cultured tones and with apparent logic. When he says things that appear to be utter folly, foolishness in our eyes, remember that if you follow those, they will prove to be wiser than anything that man has ever said. God is good and God does good. What John is writing about here is how to know whom to believe, or what to follow. Eva unearths alarming details about al-Masih's past. All the files in this store comes in 8 different formats: SVG, PNG, EPS, PNG, PSD, PDF, DXF and AI. If not one person ever believed in God it wouldn’t change him in the least. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: I AM has sent me to you. 26 Brothers, consider the time of your calling: Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were powerful; not many were of noble birth.… How we have "come of age" at last. It is the ninth episode of the series overall. He was trained in the same seminary that I attended. Here obviously are Christians whom John declares have overcome the false teachers; that is, they have escaped their blandishments, and have not been deluded by their error. (1 John 4:6a RSV). Truth can be difficult to uncover in this world, but God's promises are always true. If you loved Me, you would rejoice because I said, ‘I am going to the Father,’ for My Father is greater than I.” We have discussed the doctrine of the Trinity in a number of places on this website. Our God is Healer, awesome In power. It always begins the same way. It’s not like we’re on a scale with mankind at one end and God at the other. O love of God… Our Father, how grateful we are for this wonderful word, this word of wisdom, magnified even above thy name. Message transcript and recording © 1967 by Ray Stedman Ministries, owner of sole copyright by assignment from the author. Whoever knows God listens to us, and he who is not of God does not listen to us. But God’s character is constant even when our circumstances aren’t. When the struggles of life come, and oh yes, you'd better believe they will come, the number one focus must be to rely on truth. Psalm 48:1 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, His holy mountain. Two encouragements spring from this passage. RayStedman.org/permissions. We need to get to know them and show them compassion and understanding. There are three distinct groups set forth here and they are not the same at all. Today we come to the conclusion of John’s extended discourse on love as the mark of the believer that has occupied much of 1 John 3. Rebecca steps up at a crucial moment. This I know and depend on. It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,     and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;   who stretches out the heavens like a curtain;     and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;   who brings princes to naught,     and makes the rulers of the earth as nothing. “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever.” Deut. He said they were the Word of God. His truth is fixed regardless of popular opinion and God’s feelings toward us never change. "Why all this gloom and despair? Everything in the book is wrapped up with the authority of the Lord Jesus himself, and that is ultimately where all Christian faith rests. We enjoyed talking with each other about the things of God. By that special word confess he means "he who lives on this principle," he who reflects it in his thinking and has committed himself to it and launched out upon it in his life, that is the one to listen to about the things of God. God doesn’t need our prayer, our obedience or our faith and yet he calls for it because he knows it’s good for us. There is first you -- "you are of God." (COL 2:15) Says that Jesus has spoiled principalities and powers. Into the darkness You shine, out of the ashes we rise there's no one like You, none like You! God is measureless. How was it that they overcame? We have committed ourselves to the fact that this one who appeared among us as a man in history knew more about life than anyone else that has ever lived. He didn’t create us because he was lonely or bored. We can’t keep secrets from him and no one can tattle on us to him. That is the test. Our sin? In fact, we can’t even imagine the ways God will work. The Lord is the everlasting God,     the Creator of the ends of the earth. The Message of the Cross 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. Then he goes on, as we saw last time, to give us the test, the measure, by which we can tell truth from error in this mixed-up, confused, bewildered world in which we live. He governs time. It only hurts us. The first group is addressed as "little children." How we are right on the verge of being able to manipulate every earthly power to our advantage. Remember, that was one of the things which encouraged the Apostle Paul when he came into the Greek city of Corinth. When we think of the violence, the passion, the tears, and the death with which our world is characterized, we can see something of the greatness of the power of the enemy. But she testified that God is greater: The God made known in Jesus Christ shows us that “the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it” (John 1:5). 25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength. "He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world." You'll notice that it says nothing about them being smarter than the teachers. And even in trials, God’s goodness is all around us. For permission to use this content, please review Lift up your eyes on high... (Isaiah 40:25-26a RSV). Have you not heard? (Isaiah 40:29 RSV). He was trained in the same seminary that I attended. Does it follow him, believe him? A corollary is that the Father is God, Jesus is God, and the Spirit is God—one God in three persons. These two factors guarantee deliverance. Then, finally, on the day of Pentecost, all doubt was taken away forever when, in the courts of the temple, as the Lord Jesus had promised, the Holy Spirit was poured out upon them and they were commissioned to be the men to begin the task of heralding out this great message unto the far corners of the earth. (Isaiah 40:10) Behold the God of might, who created the world by his word. God in his grace has sometimes allowed teachers of truth to be very popular; otherwise, how can you explain a man like Billy Graham? Isn't it amazing that man can have such intellectual pride in the face of such appalling failure? As we discussed him, and his popularity among people today, and the fact that he has said some rather startling things, one of the members of the group said a very significant thing. A rising tide of resistance was mounting against him. Whose glory no man can see and who dwells in inapproachable light? They are "of the world." Website © 2021 by Ray Stedman Ministries. That is quite different, isn't it? God said to Moses, ‘I AM WHO I AM. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will direct your path. The guilty pair, bowed down with care, God gave His Son to win; His erring child He reconciled And pardoned from his sin. Copyright © 2021, iBelieve.com. There is no question about that. Because they are saying what the world wants to hear. In my opinion he had evidenced in his life a keen insight into the understanding of Scripture. When you look around at the success of evil in history, and especially in our day, you can see that the enemy has great power. The unlimited, infinite God has chosen to reveal himself to us. It’s not even a thought. He said, "You know, if Bishop Pike would just admit that he isn't an authority in religious matters, if he would just acknowledge his own heart's need, I think he could learn a great deal because behind that facade is probably a very hungry heart.". This way is indicated not so much by observing what he says as what he does not say. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: I AM has sent me to you.’” God revealed himself as uncreated and self-existent. God’s incomprehensibility doesn’t mean God is unknowable; it means He is not completely knowable. He says this awareness came to them all rather gradually: They watched him. "No," John says, "we are of God and those who are of God listen to us.". He understood it from the beginning to the end, and came down, as he said, from heaven, understanding the things of God and the deep things of men. I love that wonderful cry of triumph on the part of the Apostle Paul in Romans 11 after he concludes his great treatise on the providence of God and the free will of man with the cry, O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! 29:29. We know the sun will rise! He himself accepted them. Reply. They heard the things he said, and gradually there dawned on them, as they listened, an increasing awareness which John records in these words -- "We beheld his glory as of the glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth," John 1:14 RSV). Psalm 97:9 They were pagans. How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! Let one of these theologians come out with some startling statement that denies some basic fundamental Christian truth and it is spread across the papers immediately. But they were "of God" in the sense that they were willing to listen. God is greater than any storm and He can calm it or enable us to walk through it. Why? able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us…”, 8 Ways God Speaks to You Today (and Every Day), California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. Article Images Copyright © 2021 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. And Hebrews 13:8 says “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.”. The phrase represents the promises God gives us in every season of our lives. Out in that crowd, though you won't be able to tell them from any others, are some in whom my Spirit is working and they will hear what you have to say. No wonder someone has said: "Our race had a hopeful beginning, But man spoiled his chances by sinning, We hope that the story will end in God's glory, But at present the other side's winning.". He promises it. That is why he says "we are of God"; therefore, those who are of God listen to us. There is none of this. “There is none like You, O LORD; You are great, and great is Your name in might,” the scriptures tell us . He already knows! It is wrong for Christians to get the idea that the first thing we have to convince people of in presenting the Christian faith is that they must accept the Bible as true. Now the point of all this is, as John brings out, that all this incomparable, superior wisdom is available to the humblest Christian believer, so there isn't a chance, not a chance, that he will be swept away by the silken errors of the day, attractive and alluring as they may be, if he combines the two things together that John mentions here. These "little children" who are "of God" overcame the false teachers with all their subtle, pernicious error so beautifully and attractively presented, first, not because they had a superior intelligence. It does look that way, doesn't it? We ask in Thy name, Amen. Now, in the section we take now, beginning with Verse 4, John continues to unfold certain factors at work in this whole matter of truth versus error. We are of God. “For I am the Lord, I change not…” Malachi 3:6. People were worried by this and frightened by it. One of my children came home from school and said that the children in school were troubled by this, terribly disturbed by it, and some of them were afraid the whole (San Francisco) Peninsula was about to sink into the Pacific Ocean. He is greater than sin, sickness, or poverty. He is great beyond anything our mind could imagine. "What is the matter with you people," he is saying. That’s when we need to see God’s goodness more than ever. Now I know that the LORD is greater than all other gods, for He did this when they treated Israel with arrogance." When we’re under the weight of what-if’s and what now’s? The world, in its general outlook, is hostile to the faith of Christians. I cannot tell you how many times as a single mom I’ve cried out for God’s wisdom over my children, decisions and finances. Recently a number of us were having a conversation together, and, as so often seems to be happening these days, the topic turned to Bishop Pike. Em7Our God is greater OuC2r God is stronger GoG5d You are higher than anyD other Em7Our God is healer awC2esome in power Our GoG5d Our God D. INSTRUMENTAL 1. This is where the eye of faith must always turn in hours of darkness, discomfort, or despair; turn to what the Scriptures reveal as the truth about God and how incomparably greater He is than anything that is present among or behind humans. The love of God is greater far Than tongue or pen can ever tell. 1) Insecurity is an age-old problem. The world listens to them. This is the test: Does it acknowledge the historic person of Jesus Christ? God, Majesty Of God's Glory Revealed God, Sovereignty Of God, Uniqueness Of God, Glory Of Headship Yours, O Lord , is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and the earth; Yours is the dominion, O … His Preeminence – We discover that our God is greater. Think of our world and all that it is going through in terms of agony, struggle, evil, violence, and heartache, with confusion abounding on every side and no statesmen able to see any further than the end of his nose. You are filled with the very life of God. Spurgeon says, “God is and has always been perfectly happy and perfectly glorious long before wing of angel moved in space or time existed.”. Over and over, scripture tells us that all things are possible with God. He who in childlike faith trusts the Word to guide him through life, acting upon it, regardless of how widespread are the opinions of men who speak contrary to it, will find that he will be safely kept through all entrapping errors. When they once come to Christ, then they are to accept the Word, and, if they trust it in simple, childlike faith, they will discover that it has a way of taking them safely past all the devious errors of men and all the clever stratagems of the enemy, into living life as God intended life to be lived. Soon they form a "school of thought" and this begins to spread and others jump on the bandwagon. We the finite cannot by nature grasp One who is infinite. When we confess our sin, we’re not informing God; we’re conforming our heart to his through repentance. He lives in the past, present and future all at once. Our Pain Has a Greater Purpose. The reason he gave was that the weakness of God is stronger than men and the foolishness of God is wiser than men. He can sing as we do sometimes sing together, "Thro' many dangers, toils and snares,   I have already come; 'Tis grace hath bro't me safe thus far   And grace will lead me home.". With Michelle Monaghan, Mehdi Dehbi, John Ortiz, Tomer Sisley. And he is bigger than all of our problems. Why this mood of pessimism? He is the God of tenderness, who carries his children home. There is never any examination of that basic premise, though what it is really saying is that the mind of man becomes the ultimate test, the ultimate authority of all life. (Isaiah 40:21b-23 RSV)   To whom then will you compare me,     that I should be like him? God is greater -- incomparably greater -- than the wisdom of the enemy. Our God is greater, our God is stronger God, You are higher than any other Our God is Healer, awesome in power Our God! How to purchase the files: Click “ADD TO CART” on the files you would like to purchase. And what is that? Some months ago I received a letter from a friend of mine, a man with whom I once shared wonderfully deep and precious moments of fellowship together. He says, "he who confesses Jesus Christ," (1 John 4:2). These are the readers of this letter from the Apostle John and they are said to be "of God." “There is none like You, O LORD; You are great, and great is Your name in might,” the scriptures tell us. They were open to the Word of God. This is the test. This is what Jesus meant when he said, "All that my Father has given me shall come unto me," John 6:38-40). Why this wringing of the hands and rending of your clothes? I learned this morning that one out of every four suicides in Sweden is that of a teenager, and the suicide rate is mounting everywhere today. John could say that the apostles were of God because he, with the other twelve, were one with Jesus Christ. Psalm 95:3 For the LORD is a great God, a great King above all gods. The one revealing thing about them is that they say what the world wants to hear; therefore, they are almost invariably popular. Think someone’s too far from God? 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