SHOW US GOD
John 14:8 (King James Version)
8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
INTRODUCTION:
¨ This world has always refused to believe anything they couldn't see, feel or figure out.
¨ The reason the Gospel is rejected by the majority of this world is because it is by faith and not by sight.
¨ Like Thomas, the world is saying, "show us God, then we will believe."
¨ Let me show you God.
I. GOD IN CREATION
¨ Genesis 1:1 (King James Version)
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
A. God spoke this world into existence,
¨ molded the mountains,
¨ carved out the valley,
¨ set the boundaries of the waters and divided the night from day
II. GOD IN PRESERVATION
¨ Genesis 2:1-3 (King James Version)
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
¨ If this world is the results of something that just happened,
¨ common sense would teach us that the thousands of years it has existed would have changed it or it would have gotten out of order.
¨ I want to show you God in preservation.
¨ God has kept His hand on this; His creation from the beginning.
¨ Psalms 19:1-2 (King James Version)
1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
III. GOD IN REVELATION
¨ Hebrews 1:1-2 (King James Version)
1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
A. We can see God in every page of the blessed Book.
B. Every page reveals the work of God, the power of God and the love of God.
IV. GOD IN SALVATION
¨ 2 Corinthians 3:18 (King James Version)
18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
A. Every born again child of God is a walking, living evidence of God in salvation.
B. Jesus could have reminded Philip of the change that had taken place in the lives of those disciples.
C. It had to be something beyond the ability of man.
1. Only God could take a person that is unclean, cruel, sinful, heartless and make them clean, pure and holy.