Speaker’s Name: Rod Wilson  The Character and Nature of God

Date: 10-11/10-15

Speaker’s Key Theme: Knowing the character and nature of God helps a believer do the will of the Father.

 

Ideas, theories, methods of confirmation of what already believed used by the speaker:

• Need the Holy Spirit to help interpret the Word.
• God has brought me here for greater depth in him.  God desires intimacy.
• The most important fact about man, is what God thinks of that man. CS Lewis
• It cost something to Know GOD.
• God is seeking man.  Man is not seeking God.
• Signs and wonders do not convince men. Men must be born again. Do you know God or known of GOD.
• Power must be obtained on my knees.
• God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them.
• Psalm 66:18 Can’t hear God if there is sin in my life.
• Sin of unbelief is why a person can’t hear voice of God.
• God Speaks through: Dreams, visions, angels, in my thoughts, audible, scriptures, through ordain authorities, through others, circumstances ex Jonah, media, nature

 

 

New teaching that was learned:

• God’s looking for eagles, not parrots.
• Repentance – change of mind so as a change of action
• Humility – willingness to be known for your true character
• 1 in 20 people ever lead someone else to Christ.  What are the rest of the people doing?  No theology of missions and warfare make it difficult to approach mankind in boldness so we don’t see the results we want.
• Revelation is progressive.
• What is the greatest commandment? Commandment to listen to hear is first and then loving. To listen is intimacy.
• Pouring out the whole soul in adoration is worship.
• Hold doctrines with an open hand.  Man who has faith in Christ has to think every day. 
• God doesn’t change. Can’t modify God.  A child can know what God is like. 
• 70% of  believers can’t read.
• Without holiness you cannot see the Lord.  It’s about how you finish not how you started.
• Best Scripture for a Reverence of the Trinity.

Isaiah 48:16

    Come closer and listen. I have always told you plainly what would happen so you would have no trouble understanding."

    And now the Sovereign Lord and his Spirit have sent me with this message:

• For love to exist there must be two. For it to be given away there must be three.
• To grieve God is to say no to what God says yes to.
• Jesus existed as spirit before becoming man.  Incarnation brought forth a change in the Trinity.  Philip. 2:6     Though he was God, he did not demand and cling to his rights as God.
• Absolute foreknowledge robs us the ability to learn and God wouldn’t have personality or feelings.
• Anger always covers pain.

 

Practically apply teaching of the week in life how:

• I must have a Theology of War so that I will be affective for fighting for the Kingdom.
• 3 things that God will do in me is: Give greater hunger for God’s word, become more affective in my prayer life, and have a greater revelation of God.
• Hardest lesson in life is to wait on the Lord.
• I need to practice waiting on the Lord.
• I must walk in humility, holiness, obedience.

 

 

Character study:  Anger

Psalm 30:5

    His anger lasts for a moment,

        but his favor lasts a lifetime!

    Weeping may go on all night,

        but joy comes with the morning.

 

30:5 Like a shot given by a doctor, the discomfort of God’s anger lasts only a moment, but the good effects go on for a long time. I need to let God’s anger be a sharp pain that warns me to turn from sin.

 

Romans 1:18

    But God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people who push the truth away from themselves.

Romans 1:25

    Instead of believing what they knew was the truth about God, they deliberately chose to believe lies. So they worshiped the things God made but not the Creator himself, who is to be praised forever. Amen.

 

1:18 God is angry at sinful people because they have substituted the truth about him with a fantasy of their own imagination (Romans 1:25). They have twisted the truth God naturally reveals to all people in order to believe anything that supports their own self-centered life-styles. God cannot tolerate sin because his nature is morally perfect. He cannot ignore or condone such willful rebellion. God wants to remove the sin and restore the sinner—and he is able to, as long as the sinner does not stubbornly distort or reject the truth. But his anger erupts against those who persist in sinning. It’s important not to suppress the truth about God to merely protect an individuals own life-style.

 

Memory Verse:    Hebrews 10:6-7

    No, you were not pleased with animals burned on the altar

        or with other offerings for sin.

    [7] Then I said, 'Look, I have come to do your will, O God—

        just as it is written about me in the Scriptures.' "

 

Meditation: God wants me to pick up my cross and become dead to myself.  He desires for me be broken before Him instead of some animal. He wants me to share with Him the sacrifices of praise. He has provided me giftings to be used to accomplish his will.  I must come to Him and do His will.