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Introduction:
Today is the last session of our Explore God series and we want to answer the question “Can I know God personally?”
This isn’t a theoretical questions.
It’s a practical question.
Can I know God personally?
Theologians and philosophers have a fancy word they use when they talk about knowing something.
It is the word epistemology, “the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope.”
Google definition.
Today is the last session of our Explore God series and we want to answer the question “Can I know God personally?”
This isn’t a theoretical questions.
It’s a practical question.
We could go around the room and have each of us give an answer, add up the “Yes, No, or I don’t know” votes and come to a conclusion.
That wouldn’t satisfy any of us.
I am going to give my answer that question as “Yes” but in doing so I’m going to answer four questions.
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What does it mean to know God?
2. Why do we want to know God?
The reasons to know God.
3. What prevents us from knowing God?
The obstacles to knowing God.
4. How can we know God?
4. How can we know God?
The steps to know God.
If you don’t know something and you want to know it, where do you start?
It depends upon what you want to know.
If you want to know a person, you have to go to that person.
Why do we want to know someone?
We are attracted to the person.
That person has something we want.
We think we can benefit from knowing that person.
He or she can teach us, help us, guide us, assist us, make us a better person.
What does it mean to know God?
1. Knowing God means we have a relationship with Him. ,
We are born of God.
We are part of God’s family.
2. Knowing God changes us.
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Knowing God means knowing what He is like.
2. Knowing God means knowing what He is like.
3.
Not everyone knows God.
Knowing God means having a relationship with him.
Why do we want to know God?
1.
We sense there is more to life than what we see.
Ecclessiastes 3:11
more to life than what we see around us.
Eternity in our hearts.
Go has placed eternity in our hearts.
2. We don’t want to make a mistake.
There are lots of views of God and heaven.
We’d like to know which is right.
We don’t want to miss out.
We don’t want to miss out on heaven.
There are lots of views of God and heaven.
We’d like to know which is right!
What ifWe don’t want to make mistake about eternity.
Lot’s of views.
We’d like to know which is right!
What prevents us from knowing God?
1. God is different from us.
Pride - I don’t need God.
2. Pride , , ,
I don’t need God.
Shame - God doesn’t want me.
Nicodemus is the picture of pride.
He and the pharisees were afraid of what others would think of him going to this young Rabbi!
b.
He was “the” teacher of Israel.
He knew a lot.
But it wasn’t enough.
c.
He needed life he didn’t have, life from above.
He needed to believe and accept the love of God as offered by Jesus.
a.
He came to Jesus at night.
He and the pharisees were afraid of what others would think of him going to this young Rabbi!
b.
He was “the” teacher of Israel.
He knew a lot.
But it wasn’t enough.
c.
He needed life he didn’t have, life from above.
He needed to believe and accept the love of God as offered by Jesus.
3. Shame
God doesn’t want me.
The woman at the well is a sketch of shame.
John 4:1-26
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She came to Jesus in the heat of the day.
John 4:6-7
She was a social outcast and didn’t come at the normal time, early in the day before the heat.
b.
She was a troubled woman.
John 4:16-18
She was ashamed of her broken life and marriages.
c.
She needed life she didn’t have, from the living water of God. , 25-26
She was spiritually dead and needed the water of life.
4. Spiritual blindness ,
If you just can’t see it, ask yourself why?
What is preventing you from seeing what others see?
None of us can see our blind spots.
We need someone else to point them out to us.
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