Prayer Service 3-29-23

Adoration

Knowability

Lexham Survey of Theology (God’s Knowability)

God’s knowability refers to the extent and the means by which mankind can know God.

Remember the dilemma from last week:

Since the finite cannot grasp the infinite, how can we, as finite human beings, learn anything about God or have any significant or meaningful knowledge of who He is? — R.C. Sproul

Only if He condescends to make Himself known!

Another Commentary says:

Lexham Survey of Theology (God’s Knowability)

The entirety of Scripture proclaims that the Triune God has made himself known—that he is knowable—and that the means and the end of salvation is in fact to know him — LST

General Revelation:

Psalm 19:1–4 (ESV)

1 The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.

2 Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.

3 There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard.

4 Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world...

Romans 1:18–20 (ESV)

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.

19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.

20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

Special Revelation:

Hebrews 1:1–2 (ESV)

1 Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets,

2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son...

John 1:18 (ESV)

18 No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.

John 1:1 (ESV)

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 1:4–5 (ESV)

4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

John 1:9 (ESV)

9 The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.

2 Corinthians 4:6 (ESV)

6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

John 17:3 (ESV)

3 And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

Prayer of Adoration

Confession

-The Knowledge of God doesn’t leave you the same!

Galatians 4:8–9 (ESV)

8 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods.

9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?

1 John 2:3–6 (ESV)

3 And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.

4 Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,

5 but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him:

6 whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.

Prayer of Confession

Supplication

Matthew 11:27 (ESV)

27 All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

Needs:

Families of Covenant Presbyterian Church/School in Nasheville

The suppression of evil in our land

Repentance for our Nation/Society

The Establishment of Righteousness in the US

The faithfulness of Christ’s Church in being salt and light

Persecuted believers in Myanmar (Burma)

Global advancement of the Gospel

Dan Larsen: Upcoming Heart Surgery

Mark Hill: Liver Issues

Lou Jones: Breast Cancer

Makenna Cook: Recovery from Brain Aneurysm

Hope, Ty, Tony, Allen, Martha, and Randy.

Thanksgiving

1 John 3:2 (ESV)

2 Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.

We await the fulness of the knowledge of God

But it is certain!