Knowing God

WELCOME TO

DOCTRINE 1

What is Doctrine?…the explanation of the truth about God as he has revealed it to us

Biblical Theology: Bible Overview, OT1.1, P2F

Systematic Theology: Doc 1 – The God we Know Doc 2 – Mankind

Doc 3 – The Church

How does it approach scripture?

Part 1: How can we know God? (Ch 1-4)

Part 2: What can we know about God? (Ch 5-10)

The Big Picture of the Course

1. Understanding the Gospel

2. Knowing God through the Gospel

3. Sources for the Knowledge of God

4. The Bible as the Word of God

How we can know God?

5. The God we know: His Attributes

6. The God we know: Trinity

7. The God who creates• The doctrine of creation

8. The God who saves• A biblical theology of salvation (Bible Overview super

condensed!)

9. The God who rules history• The last days

10. The God who renews • The resurrection & judgment & new creation

What we can know about God?

It helps us to be better handlers of God’s truth: (2 Tim 2:15)

Why is that important? Ephesians 4:11-16

It keeps us from wrong thinking and guards us from false doctrine

When received rightly it grows us in maturity – into likeness of Jesus

It is a great mercy and an incredible privilege!

Why should we study this way?

Biblical Theology

Systematic Theology

Exegesis

Break

- The Truth about God- Important! Purpose, Meaning, Security

- Varied???- Common approach of our world – Relativism- Choose the religion that best suits you…

- No Problem….Unless….the true God has revealed himself

Knowing God in the Gospel

Why start with The Gospel in our study of knowing God

truly as He has revealed himself to us?

- Claiming to know God

- We as Christians claim to know the Truth about God- One God in Three Persons…not- Eternal Creator of All…not - Who alone draws people into fellowship with Him

- Makes himself known- Overcomes that which prevents us from knowing

Him- Central to this revealing and reconciling work is Jesus

Christ- John 14:6

Knowing God in the Gospel

KEY CONCEPT

Knowing God in the Gospel

The living God has made himself known to people in the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this reason the proper starting place for Christian doctrine is an explanation of the gospel…

The Problem with our knowing God

John 1:5, 9-11

Romans 1:21-23, John 3:19-20

Romans 7:7-13, Ephesians 2:1-3

Romans 1:18, John 5:28-29

Knowing God through the Gospel

The Problem the Gospel Addresses

CORRUPTION

IGNORANCE

SIN SATAN

The Problem the Gospel Addresses

The Rescue

Knowing God through the Gospel

What?

1:1-3, 41, 45, 49

5:17-18, 8:57-58

How?1:29, 14:6

10:11, 11:49-52

The Prophet who deals with our ignorance

The Priest who deals with our sin and guilt

The King who liberates us, conquers our enemies and brings

us into his kingdom

Knowing God through the Gospel

Jesus is:

1 Timothy 1:15

Responding to the Gospel:

Knowing God through the Gospel

John 6:37, 3:3, 3:7

John 11:25-26, 6:35, Ephesians 2:8-

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Acts 8:22, 17:30, John 20:28

John 15:8-11, Ephesians 2:10

WE are sinful and deserve nothing but God’s judgment

GOD in his great love has made Himself known to us through his Son, and brought us back into relationship with Him

Therefore we can know God only because of:

How are we able to know God truly?

GRACE

but..

Is the gospel our sole means for our knowledge of God?

What is the relationship between the gospel and the Bible as a whole?

What enables us to know the gospel is really true?

Come back next week!

Mini Essay:

Why is the Gospel fundamental to knowing God?(Max 1000 words)

Read Chapter 2: Knowing God

Extra Mile:

Digest Extra Paper 1: True Theology, Knowing and Loving God

Home Study