I want to welcome you to EBH Ministries Inc bible study online at EBHMINISTRIES.Blogspot.com. I want to meet you here on Wednesday evenings at 8PM. When you log on to this blog you will have study points, and much needed answers to your problems. Every word on this blogspot will be back with scriptural witnesses of two or three- at all times. And I want you to make sure that you are reading your own bible making sure that whatever you repeat from here, you also back it up with scriptural proof of two or three witnesses.
Here is a prayer before we begin. Dear Lord, Creator over all things. It is because of You that we live and breath. Father, we come to you humbling ourselves before You, asking you to forgive us of our sins and transgressions. Anything that we have misstated, or overstated today we ask you for forgiveness. As we learn of You today, we ask that You accompany us on our journey. We make the same declaration as Moses...and that is we will not go unless Your presence is with us. So, we ask of Your presence today Father. We ask for a rekindling of your living word in our hearts today in the name of Jesus. And every word that we will learn and hope to learn, we ask that You write it on our hearts so that we don't sin against you. In the name of our Lord Jesus we say Amen and Amen.
Here is the lesson for today...WHO IS GOD? This is one of the questions that I had very early in life. Who is God? I knew what people said, but I didn't know why they said it or why would they even believe it. Seeing as there has never been anyone who has seen Him before. So, who is God? Please look with me in Genesis 1:1. As you look and read...you can see that it says In the Beginning God. And I want to stop right there. The word of God teaches us that the bible was written by holy men of God who were breathed upon by the Holy Spirit. The bible also teaches us that God inspired every written word compacted into what we call today, as the bible. So, as we look at the text we know that God inspired the writer to write that He is the beginning. As a child I always wondered, well if God created us, then who created Him. And every person I asked said that that question was foolish...no body created God they said. But, what they failed to realize was that them telling me that wasn't solving the question that I had, the question was still there. What they should've done was show me in the word of God, in order to put the thought to death.
Turn with me to the book of Job 38, I mean read that whole thing, and be amazed as I am every time I read this chapter. In this particular chapter God is talking to Job...and telling Job about His accomplishments. God is telling Job... I did this, and I did this....what did you do? As you keep reading, do you see how God is telling Job how he made the clouds, and how He sends lightening out to certain places. He also tells Job that He satisfies the appetites of young lions...WOW!! Reading these chapters in Job makes you want to go and hide, but when you read chapters 39, 40, and 41; you clearly see that God is everywhere and there is no place you can hide. But...for the sake of knowing read Job chapters 40, and 41. These chapters are amazing because it shows us that God will talk to a human about all that He has done, while also revealing who He is....one of the scriptures state all nations are like a drop in a bucket to God. My God...this means that whites, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Indians, and every body else gathered together is nothing but a drop of water to God. I mean I don't know about you...but I don't think that I can turn on my faucet and catch an actual drop of water. I might get two or three drops, and God only said one. So, who is He? He is as He said...He is the beginning.
Before He decided to make anything of earth, He said there was nothing on it. He said the earth was empty, and darkness was on the face of the deep. And His Spirit hovered over the waters. So, why would did God create earth, and why was the earth empty, if He is God? Why would He create something and not do anything with it? Well let me answer these questions as God would give me the wisdom....Everything on earth has a time and a season/There is a time and a place for everything. And everything God does, He does it in order. The bible teaches us that there was a war in heaven, and that Michael the archangel and his angels kicked out the dragon because there wasn't a place for him any longer in heaven. And the bible also teaches us that he, being satan fell down to earth, and the angels in heaven said woe to the inhabitants of the earth. This means that the activity in heaven, had a set time for the inhabitant of earth. This also means that God had to do something with the earth because lucifer had to fall to some place, and that place wasn't heaven. So, the order of events was that he rebelled against God, manipulated a third of heaven's angels to follow him. And so God had a set time to deal with him. And this was when God sent Michael to kick him out, and his fall was to the place that was once empty.
This is why the bible says the angels are but just a little higher than us. But, God being the infinite power is higher than them, and definitely higher then us. The bible says heaven is His throne, and earth is His footstool. So, if you could image yourself sitting in a chair, you can say that God is in heaven watching us down here on earth. So, to rephrase the above point..... time had to lapse which is why the bible states that God created heaven, and the earth. Telling us which one came first, and since He is the beginning, we know what happened in the beginning, and that was that lucifer had went rouge. He went on a spree of destruction in the beginning. And because we are students of the word, we know what happen on earth in the beginning, and that was the Garden of Eden. We know that God was with Adam in the Garden of Eden, and we know what happen to Adam in the beginning...People of the Most High God let me say this...satan knew that falling was possible because he did it. He knew that God's laws applied to every creation, which is why he wanted the human man, Adam to fall as well.
The bible says that he was a murderer from the beginning, and because we are children of God we know and believe this...He manipulated a third of the angels that knew heaven and God was real. And then he came to manipulate us who also knew that God was real. The bible says that earth is the Lord's handiwork...and so there is no reason not to believe that God doesn't exist, but satan comes to us and convinces us otherwise.
So, to wrap things up for this time. Who is God? He is everything that He say He is, and from Genesis 1:1, we clearly know that He is the beginning. And from the chapters in Job from 39,40,41; we see that He clearly is the beginning because He illustrates to us how. See you next week, I declare that the blessings of God through His written word explode in your life. EBH.
NEXT WEEK WEDNESDAY @ 8PM.
