{"id":675,"date":"2016-08-15T22:59:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T03:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/god-nature-of\/"},"modified":"2016-08-15T22:59:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T03:59:55","slug":"god-nature-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/god-nature-of\/","title":{"rendered":"God, nature of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>Where Is God?<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>While my young son Doug was looking at a full moon, he asked, \u201cMom, is God in the moon?\u201d I explained that God is everywhere. \u201cIs he in my tummy?\u201d Doug wanted to know. \u201cWell, sort of,\u201d I responded, not sure where these questions wee leading. Then Doug declared, \u201cGod wants a banana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:right; line-height:normal'>Buff Spies, in 11\u201391, Reader\u2019s Digest<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>They Say \u2026<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;line-height:normal'>They say that God has infinite patience,  And that is a great comfort. They say God is always there,  And that is a deep satisfaction.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;line-height:normal'>They say that God will always take you back,  And I get lazy in that certitude. They say that God never gives up,  And I count on that.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;line-height:normal'>They say you can go away for years and years,  And He\u2019ll be there, waiting, when you come back. They say you can make mistake after mistake,  And God will always forgive and forget.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;line-height:normal'>They say lots of things,  These people who never read the Old Testament.  There comes a time, A definite, for sure time,  When God turns around.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;line-height:normal'>I don\u2019t believe God shed his skin  When Christ brought in the New Testament;  Christ showed us a new side of God,  And it is truly wonderful.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;line-height:normal'>But he didn\u2019t change God. God remains forever and ever  And that God is no fool.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:right; line-height:normal'>Lois Cheney, God Is No Fool, pp. 55-6<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>Augustine<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>The early church leader Augustine was once accosted by a heathen who showed him his idol and said, \u201cHere is my god; where is thine?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>Augustine replied, \u201cI cannot show you my God; not because there is no God to show, but because you have no eyes to see Him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:right; line-height:normal'>Source unknown<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>Watermelon<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>I have observed the power of the watermelon seed. It has the power of drawing from the ground and through itself 200,000 times its weight. When you can tell me how it takes this material and out of it colors an outside surface beyond the imitation of art, and then forms inside of it a white rind and within that again a red heart, thickly inlaid with black seeds, each one of which in turn is capable of drawing through itself 200,000 times its weight\u2014when you can explain to me the mystery of a watermelon, you can ask me to explain the mystery of God. &#8211; William Jennings Bryan<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:right; line-height:normal'>Source unknown<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>God Never \u2026<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Breaks his covenants (Judges 2:1, II Sam. 23:5, Isa. 55:3, Matt. 26:28)<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Suffers the righteous to be moved (Ps. 55:22, 121:3, 125:1, 2; II Tim. 2:19)<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Leaves nor forsakes His own (Heb. 13:5, Matt. 28:20, Deut. 31:6)<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Permits them to be overcome (Prov. 10:30, Isa. 26:3, 4; Rom. 8:37)<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lets them be ashamed (Joel 2:26\u20137, Ps. 71:1, II Tim. 1:12)<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Allows them to perish (John 10:28, 6:35, 11:26; 3:16; Jude 24\u20135)<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Will let His kingdom be destroyed (Dan. 2:44, II Peter 1:10\u201311, Heb. 12:28)<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:right; line-height:normal'>Source unknown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where Is God? While my young son Doug was looking at a full moon, he asked, \u201cMom, is God in the moon?\u201d I explained that God is everywhere. \u201cIs he in my tummy?\u201d Doug wanted to know. \u201cWell, sort of,\u201d I responded, not sure where these questions wee leading. 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