The God Who Is Known
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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.
God has made Himself known in two ways:
General Revelation & Special Revelation
Special Revelation is how God has revealed Himself through supernatural means.
Ex. Appearances of God, dreams, visions, the Word of God, & Jesus Christ.
It is only through the Word of God that the Son of God is revealed.
14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? 15 And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”
17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
General Revelation is what can be known about God through creation and our conscience.
Ex. Observable evidence of God in creation, the moral nature of our own conscience.
The Fingerprint of God is on everything that He has made.
It is on us who have been so uniquely fashioned in His own image.
It is on the animal kingdom in all of it’s unity and diversity.
It is on the trees and plants with so many beautiful variations that we continue to find things that were previously unknown.
It is on the sun, moon, and stars that cause us to gaze in amazement at the power that brought these things forth.
Our own planet being a little miracle among the trillions of planets in the universe, uniquely designed to support and sustain life.
The more we learn about creation the more evidence there is that these things could not have come into being by mere chance or accident.
ALL of the evidence points to a powerful, purposeful, and personal Creator.
To reject the abundance of evidence that supports the existence of God is to suppress the clear truth and therefore place ourselves under God’s wrath.
So through general revelation we know enough about God so that we are without excuse for our rejection of Him, but it is only through special revelation, particularly, the gospel of Jesus Christ, that we can be saved from our rebellion.
This is the bad news and the good news.
Outside of Christ we can not understand or appreciate the world that God created.
In Him, God gives us the Spirit of truth, to guide us into the truth.
13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.