Christ, Out Life Ministries’ Scriptural Basis pt-2 by Sylvia Pearce Programs 2 & |עוד

Christ, Out Life Ministries’ Scriptural Basis pt-2 by Sylvia Pearce Programs 2 & 3 ONE PERSON IN THE UNIVERSE Our God is an awesome God! He is the One person in the universe Isa. 44:8; 45:5-6; 46:9 He is only Self-Existent Person He is the Creator Col. 1:16; John 1:3; Heb. 12:9 He is the All Powerful Gen 17:1; Jere. 32:13; John 19:10-11; Dan 4:30;34;37; Lu. 1:37 He is All Knowing-- Isa. 46:10 I Corinthians 2:11; He is the only Independent One—Does not depend on any God is full of Glory and Truth—John 1:17 He is Holy—Rev. 4:8 He is the only Self-Sufficient Person in the whole Universe-I Cor. 2:16 He inhabits Eternity—Isa. 57:16 All have their being in Him—Acts 17:28 All men are his offsprings—Act 17:28 He invades time-His presence is everywhere at all times Psa. 139:7-12; Ecc. 3:11 He holds all things together by the power of His Word—Heb. 1:3 By Him all things consist—Col. 1:17 God is spirit--John 4:24 Immortal, Invisible—I Tim 1:17 God is Love--I John 4:8; John 3:16; Heb God is all Wise—Rom. 11:33; Pro. 8:22-30; Col.2:2-3; I Cor. 1:24&30 He is Unchanging James 1:17; Mal. 3:6; Heb. 13:8 He is All Sovereign Psalms 139; Dan. 4:35; Matt. 20:15; Isaiah. 45:9; I Chr. 29:11 God is both Justice-Rom. 2:16; Acts 17:31; I Cor. 4:1-5 and Mercy-Titus 3:5; Lam. 3:22-23 God is: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, yet all three in perfect Oneness and Unity—Heb. 1:2-3; II Cor. 3:17; John 17:21 God the Father expresses Himself exclusively as His Son, Jesus Christ, and then by a mystical union with redeemed humanity, He further expresses Himself as us.—Heb.1:2-3; John 14:9; John 14:20; John 17:23 There is only one power in the universe, and it is God Almighty, Himself. “I am the Lord, and there is none else” (Isaiah 45:6) (49:9-19); (49:12). Pretty exclusive isn’t it? There is only one independent life source in the whole universe, and it is God Himself. Then it must be a lie if Satan or man falsely think that they independently have their own life source. Since the Creator is the one independent person in the universe then what is creation, and what is its purpose? Man, the heavenly host, as well as all created things whether animal, vegetable, or mineral are only a container/vessel of the life of God and do not contain their own life. “Oh no,” you say, “this is pantheism.” “Are you saying that the rock is God?” No, no, God forbid that I should say that. If that were true we would worship the created form and not the Creator, God. The creation only exist to express its Creator, but not be the Creator. Then, of course it is only man who contains the very personhood of God, and not inanimate things. Things have their existence in God, but not his personhood, that He has reserved for mankind who are created in His image. So then, all creation was created to contain and express the glory and majesty of Almighty God, but it was not created to independently be that glory. Then what about Satan’s “power of death”, and how does it fit into the one power in the universe? Satan’s evil power is only the misuse, the no, the not side of the one power in the universe and therefore a servant and a slave to God Almighty. Think of a coin, one side being light and the other side dark. Only one coin, yet two sides. God who is the only all good, is forever not Satan, and Satan, the all evil, is forever not God. Wholly distinct, yet wholly one in source. Since God is the whole coin as it were, for even darkness and the devil is but the no side of God, then God, and God alone has total authority, total power, and dictates and controls everything that is, as well as controls everything that poses itself as something when it is not (“no gods”). Either God reigns sovereign and is Lord of heaven, earth, as well as hell and all that is there in, or He is Lord of nothing. Since God is in total control then it must mean that “God means evil” as well as good, and therefore does not mean that he just permits it. The fact that He means good is a given, but what about meaning evil? That is a radical statement, yet Isaiah 45: 7 says, “I make peace and create evil, I the Lord do all these things.” How can God create evil, or calamity, as some translations say? He created free beings with the capacity to choose, and God risks misuse when he created freedom. Freedom has in it the possible to choose good as well as evil, and of course Satan choose evil. So it is from God’s created freedom that Satan chose to be the evil being that he is. Therefore God created the possible of evil by creating freedom. And in that since “God creates evil.” This verse does not mean that God creates and therefore is the misuse-er Himself. No, Satan is the author of that. But God did create Lucifer, a light bearer, and God knew that out of his God given freedom, Satan would fall into his own hellish trap and bring into being the false kingdom of wrath. And therefore “God means evil.” He does not mean it f

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