TEXT: ‘Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God’ (Matthew 5:8). What’s God like? That’s a question people often ask whether they are a Christian or not. All we really have is how God is described in the bible. Pictures of Jesus usually portray a Western white skin colour when He was a Jew. Isaiah prophesied about the coming Messiah, ‘There is no beauty that we should desire Him’ (Isaiah 53:2), so it wasn’t good looks that made Jesus attractive while on earth, but what He said and did. Jesus told His disciples, ‘He that has seen Me has seen the Father also’ (John 14:9). So, by studying Jesus, we’ll have a good idea of the Father’s attributes, because God is a spirit. 1. The restriction on seeing God Sin robbed us of God’s presence. Adam and Eve walked and talked with God face to face in the Garden of Eden, but when they disobeyed His command, God had to withdraw. They never saw God’s face again and man has lived with that restriction ever since. Moses asked God, ‘Show me Your way …. Show me Your glory’ (Exodus 33:13, 18). Although he had seen the manifestation of God on Sinai and heard Him talking to him, he...
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TEXT: ‘Go home to your friends and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how He has had compassion on you’ (Mark 5:19). Psalm 40 has some key pointers that can help us to share our faith anywhere, anytime. When the demoniac wanted to stay with the Jesus who had delivered him, he was denied. Instead, Jesus told him to go home and tell them what great things God had done for him. Go to your home, could also read: go to your place of work; go to the golf course; go to your gym; go to your neighbour etc. Literally, wherever you go, take your story with you! Today’s Teaching highlights five things that remind us to do just that. 1. Don’t undervalue your testimony v1-3, 13-15 David said, ‘He also brought me up out of a horrible pit’. Many feel their conversion is not as dramatic as David’s and certainly not like the demoniac’s transformation, but it is still just as miraculous because it took a revelation from God for you to believe in Jesus and be saved. It can be just as powerful to share how God kept you from the horrible pit as for those He rescued out of it....
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