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Being a Man of God – Part 2 1 Timothy 6:13-16. A Doxology to Motivate God’s Power God’s Plan God’s Blessedness God’s Sovereignty God’s Eternality God’s Holiness. A.W. Tozer:
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Being a Man of God – Part 21 Timothy 6:13-16 A Doxology to Motivate God’s Power God’s Plan God’s Blessedness God’s Sovereignty God’s Eternality God’s Holiness
A.W. Tozer: • The history of mankind will probably show that no people has ever risen above its religion, and man’s spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God…. For this reason the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most portentous fact about any man is not what he at a given
A.W. Tozer (contd): • time may say or do, but what he in his deep heart conceives God to be like…. Were we able to extract from any man a complete answer to the question, “What comes into your mind when you think about God?” we might predict with certainty the spiritual future of that man. (The Knowledge of the Holy [1961; reprint, New York: Harper & Row, 1975], 9).
Being a Man of God – Part 21 Timothy 6:13-16 God’s Power Seen in the ability to give life to all things: God created all life – Genesis 1:1 God sustains all life – Acts 17:28 God protects His own – Psalm 37:28 God has power to raise the dead to live eternally – Philippians 1:21ff
Being a Man of God – Part 21 Timothy 6:13-16 God’s Plan Keep the commandment To flee sin To follow after God To fight the good fight Appearing of our Lord Jesus - eternal perspective
Being a Man of God – Part 21 Timothy 6:13-16 God’s Blessedness Content Satisfied At peace Fulfilled Perfect joy
Being a Man of God – Part 21 Timothy 6:13-16 God’s Sovereignty Absolute authority - complete The ruling one – potentate The royal one The reigning one Isaiah 43:13 Isaiah 40:25-31
Being a Man of God – Part 21 Timothy 6:13-16 God’s Eternality God is above or outside of history God is beyond time Our comfort comes only from having an eternal perspective
Being a Man of God – Part 21 Timothy 6:13-16 God’s Holiness Psalm 104:1,2 Exodus 33:19,20 Hebrews 12:29 1 Samuel 2:2
Being a Man of God – Part 21 Timothy 6:13-16 Application Hebrews 13:6 “The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid. What shall man do to me?” Are you motivated as a man or woman of God by who He is, what He has done for us, and the eternal perspective on life that gives to us?