Internet Church Service a October 3, 2021; Faith is the one system that man must use to get to know God.

EMBEDDED VIDEO SERMON in HD – WITH NOTES

Faith is the one system that man must use to get to know God.

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from - Romans 8:38-39

Hymn #1

Hymn #2

Preparing yourself for the study of God’s Word

Before we begin, only if you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ (that is; you have believed [trusted] in Him for His promised gift of eternal life) John 3:16, John 6:47 as a few examples; it is very important to prepare yourself to learn God's Word so the Holy Spirit can teach you as to what your reading or hearing is true or false. To be taught by the Holy Spirit you must be filled with the Holy Spirit which means abiding in Christ. To place yourself in fellowship with God the Holy Spirit [also called abiding in the Christ], take a moment to simply name, cite or acknowledge [confess] your known unconfessed sins privately to God (i.e.; with your thoughts directed only to God the Father). Why? Because you cannot grow spiritually if you’re not abiding in Christ [in fellowship with Him] when you take in bible truth.

1 John 1:9, says: “If we confess [meaning to simply name, cite or acknowledge to God the Father] our sins [known unconfessed sins], He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins [known sins] and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness [all unknown and forgotten sins];” NKJV (New King James Version); we call this REBOUND; read the full doctrine as to “why” we need to use 1 John 1:9 to grow spiritually. Left click the following link to learn more and fully understand the doctrine of Rebound; which answers the question, why do I need to keep confessing my sins all the time? REBOUND

If you have never personally believed in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior (that is, believed in Him for eternal life), the issue for you is not to name your sins to God; the issue for you is to believe by faith alone in Jesus, The Christ alone for eternal life [salvation] and you will be saved [receive Eternal Life] the very second you believe in Him:

John 6:47 says: “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me [Jesus Christ] has everlasting life.” NKJV

Notice again what John 6:47 says, “he who believes in Me [Jesus Christ] has everlasting life.” It doesn’t say, “will have”; it says, “has.” Therefore, the very moment you believe Jesus Christ’s promise of everlasting life, you have it (it’s really just that simple), and it can never be lost or taken away from you (John 10:28-29). Furthermore, the gift of everlasting life (also called eternal life in scripture) is available to every human being; there are absolutely no exceptions.

John 3:14-18 says: “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness [Num 21:4-9], even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” NKJV

Let us now bow our hearts and take a moment to prepare for learning God’s Word, if there is any known sin in your life, this is the time to just cite it privately to God the Father with your thoughts directed towards Him. With your head bowed and your eyes closed, you have total privacy in your mind and soul:

Our Pastor-Teacher is:

Robert McLaughlin - Grace Bible Church and Robert McLaughlin Bible Ministries

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NOTES

Unlike the bible study, these notes are not just for reading without watching the video. These notes are more designed to follow along during the sermon and to bring up the “hover pop-up scripture references;” if just hover doesn’t work, do a “control-left-click,” if that doesn’t work then look them up in your Bible) when the Pastor asks everyone to turn to that passage in their bibles.

Faith is the one system that man must use to get to know God.

Jn 15:1 — a reference to the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ as undiminished deity and true humanity in one person forever = “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.”

Three systems of perception whereby mankind can use one or more of those systems of perception to learn things.

Three Systems of Perception

1. Empiricism

2. Rationalization

3. Faith

Here is the wisdom of God once again revealing His perfection with His omniscience, His omnipresence, and His omnipotence, which all reveal the glory of God.

If man could get to know God through empiricism then getting to know God would be based upon the resources that man has from his experiences which are ever equal.

Man cannot know God by His experiences because his experiences are based upon his privileges or lack of them.

If women could get to know God through rationalism, then getting to know God would be based upon one’s intellect, or one’s I.Q., or one’s education, etc.

There is still no equality to those individuals who think they are a lot smarter than others and think that their ability and their knowledge and their experiences make them unique.

Only one system that man can get to know God, and that is the non-meritorious system of perception that we call faith.

Three Systems of Perception

4. Empiricism

5. Rationalization

6. Faith

Jn 15:1 – ‎Vinedresser;

Jn 15:2 – Divine Pruning;

Jn 15:4 – Abiding in the Vine

Jn 15:9-10, Agape or impersonal love.

All of these mystery doctrines of the Church-age reveal the tremendous wisdom of God as He motivates those disciples to be prepared for any spiritual warfare that comes their way.

If the Christian soldier is prepared for battle as stated in Eph 6:10, where our Lord has given to us divine instructions concerning spiritual warfare, both in the angelic realm and in the human realm.

In Eph 6:10, the Christian soldier is commanded to be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might.

Pr 24:5 A wise man is strong, And a man of knowledge increases power.

There are a lot of the doctrinal principles in this chapter, which were given to us by God because in doing so it gives us power and ability to fulfill the PPOG=predesigned plan of God & PSD=personal sense of destine.

Eph 6:10, Paul says to be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might.

Eph 6:16 in addition to all, taking up the shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming missiles of the evil {one.}