The Big Story of God: Week One

The Big Story of God
Week One: God’s Purpose/Man’s Responsibility
Today’s Verse to Memorize- Genesis 1:27

How to read the Bible to best understand HIStory…

Isaiah 43:25- Why does God forgive and forget?

Hebrews 6:17- What does the “eternal nature of His purpose mean?”

Genesis 1:27- What do you think it means that mankind was created “with the image of God?”

Ezekiel 20:5-14- What was God’s offer to Israel? What was Israel’s response?

Life, existence, everything is for God’s glory. Now the question is, what can we do to glorify Him?

“GLORY. Throughout the ages books have been written to declare its meaning. It seems so transcendent to me that I cower from trying to understand it. Consider the following: It is the splendor, majesty, honor, and reputation of God. Glory (noun) is used to describe the power of God. The Hebrew word most often translated glory in the Old Testament is ‘kabad,’ to be heavy, weighty, honored. It is the weightiness of the presence of the holy and majestic God. God’s glory is the self –manifestation of God’s character, attributes, and actions as he invades human reality. Also, we glorify (verb) God as God manifests Himself in us, through our words and actions.” –Jeff Lewis

What kind of actions glorify Him?
1 Corinthians 6:20

1 Corinthians 10:31

1 Peter 4:11

1 Peter 4:16

Matthew 5:14-16

How can God use this information for our transformation?

“The presence of God became unutterably real and blessed, and I remember… stretching myself on the ground and lying there before Him with unspeakable awe and unspeakable joy. For what service I was accepted I knew not, but a deep consciousness that I was not my own took possession of me which has never since been effaced.” – J. Hudson Taylor