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the ways of GOD are. SUPREME. “My thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not My ways.” This is the Lord’s Declaration. “For as heaven is higher than earth, so My ways are higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8-9. WEEK 1. the ways of GOD are.
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the ways of GOD are SUPREME “My thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not My ways.” This is the Lord’s Declaration. “For as heaven is higher than earth, so My ways are higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8-9 WEEK 1
the ways of GOD are SUPREME • Scripture Reveals God’s Ways- Isaiah 55:6-11 • God Forgives • God’s Way is Faith • God’s Way is Holy • God’s Way is Truth • God has Kingdom Ways • God’s Way is Life
LOVE WEEK 2 • And we have come to know and to believe • the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him. • 1 John 4:16
LOVE • God is Love -John 15:9 • God So Loved –John 3:16 • No Substitute for Love–1 John 3:16 • Function in Love–1 John 5:2-3 • Transformed by Love–John 15:9-10
SOVEREIGN WEEK 3 • May the name of God • be praised forever and ever, • for wisdom and power belong to Him. • He changes the times and seasons; • He removes kings and establishes kings. • Daniel 2:20-21
SOVEREIGN • God is Sovereign-Psalm 22:28 • Sovereign over Creation-Psalm 33:6-7 • Sovereign over Worry-Matthew 6:31-33 • Sovereign over Circumstances-2 Corinthians 9:8 • Sovereign over All We Have-Psalm 37:25
HOLY WEEK 4 • A road will be there and a way; • it will be called the Holy Way. • The unclean will not travel on it, • But it will be for the one who walks the path. • Even the fool will not go astray. • Isaiah 35:8
HOLY • A Highway of Holiness • God Makes Us Holy-John 15:1-5 • Pursue Holiness-John 14:15 • Return to the Ideal-1 John 1:6-7 • Repentance: Individual and Corporate-2 Peter 3:11-12
TRUE WEEK 5 • Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. • No one comes to the Father except through Me.” • John 14:5-6
TRUE • Truth is a person-John 1:1-2 • God’s Word is True-John 17:17-19 • God Functions in Truth-2Timothy3:16-17 • God Cannot Lie-1 Samuel 15:29 • Truth Sets You Free-John 8:31-32
ETERNAL WEEK 6 • Anyone who hears My word and believes Him • Who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment but has passed from death to life. • John 5:24
ETERNAL • For Eternity, Not Time-Psalm 90:2 • God Controls Time-John 14:2-3; Romans 8:29 • Eternal Life Is a Relationship-John 17:3 • Your Life Choices Affect Eternity-Matthew 16:24-27 • Eternal Consequences-Romans 10:13
My God, I trust in You. Make Your ways known to me, LORD; Teach me Your paths. Guide me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation. Who is the man who fears the LORD? He will show him the way he should choose. The secret counsel of the LORD Is for those who fear Him, And He reveals His covenant to them. --Psalm 25:2,4-5,12,14
For additional information about this study or other discipleship/assimilation needs please check out the Office of Sunday School & Discipleship at www.mobaptist.org/discipleship This book, the ways ofGOD: HOW GOD REVEALS HIMSELF BEFORE A WATCHING WORLD, may be purchased from LifeWay Christian Resources. This presentation made possible by gifts of MissouriBaptists through the Cooperative Program. www.mobaptist.org