It is overwhelming for the human mind to try to contemplate God.\u00a0 \u201cFor who hath known the mind of the Lord?\u00a0 Or who hath been his counselor?\u201d (Rom. 11:34).\u00a0 \u201cShall any teach God knowledge?\u00a0 Seeing he judgeth those that are high\u201d (Job 21:22).\u00a0 Yet Solomon advised his son to seek the knowledge of God:<\/p>\n
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; <\/i>So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding.\u00a0\u00a0<\/i>Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;\u00a0<\/i>If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;\u00a0<\/i>Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God\u00a0 <\/i>(Prov. 2:1-5).<\/p>\n
Of those first patriarchs that lived long lives before the flood, Adam, Enoch and Noah were said to have\u00a0 walked with God (Gen. 3:8, 5:22, 6:9).\u00a0 Matthew Henry beautifully wrote of them,<\/p>\n
To walk with God is to set God always before us, and to act as those that are always under his eye.\u00a0 It is to live a life of communion with God both in ordinances and providences.\u00a0 It is to make God\u2019s word our rule and his glory our end in all our actions.\u00a0 It is to make it our constant care and endeavor in every thing to please God, and in nothing to offend him.\u00a0 It is to comply with his will, to concur with his designs, and to be workers together with him.1<\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Our problem in our walk with God is that we as fallen humans are self-centered and forget what we know about God.\u00a0 Like Adam and Eve who disobeyed God, we begin to think that we know better than God and begin to make decisions apart from His approval.\u00a0 Since God is invisible to us, and does not even appear physically to us in discipline, we go on as if He has approved of our action or does not care so much what we have done.\u00a0 But of course God does see us every moment, and He does know everything we do and think, and He is working with us both in chastisement and blessing.\u00a0 Paul\u2019s reminder that we walk by faith, not by sight (2 Cor. 5:7) is written for this very reason.<\/p>\n
Before we can see ourselves as God\u2019s servants we must first see Him as our Lord and Master.\u00a0 To do this we must remind ourselves of Who God is and what that means when it comes to having a relationship with Him, especially as believers in Jesus Christ.\u00a0 True, we cannot understand all about God but we can understand what He has revealed to us.\u00a0 \u201cThe secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law\u201d (Deut. 29:29).<\/p>\n
God the Father<\/span><\/p>\n
Sometimes when we say \u201ctheology\u201d we mean a study of all that the Bible has to say.\u00a0 Theology is usually broken into ten general areas or \u201cologies<\/i>\u201d such as Bibliology and Ecclesiology.\u00a0 Theology proper, however, is the study of God Himself.\u00a0 Millard Erickson says, \u201cThe doctrine of God is the central point for much of the rest of theology.\u00a0 One\u2019s view of God might be thought of as supplying the whole framework within which one\u2019s theology is constructed and life is lived.\u00a0 It lends a particular coloration to one\u2019s style of ministry and philosophy of life.\u201d2<\/sup> The study of the doctrine of God can be, and should be, an inexhaustible study.\u00a0 Yet as Erickson points out, it ought to encourage us to a proper relationship with God and cause us to want to walk with Him and have fellowship with Him.<\/p>\n
Since our narrow focus is to draw closer to God in our daily walk and to see Him as our Lord and Master, a few reminders of the attributes of God our Father are helpful in this regard.\u00a0 They will help us make that \u201ccoloration\u201d of our Christian life that is so vitally important.<\/p>\n
God is sovereign.\u00a0 By this term we mean that God is in complete control of everything that exists.\u00a0 Ryrie says, \u201cThe word means principal, chief, supreme.\u00a0 It speaks first of position (God is the chief Being in the universe), then of power (God is supreme in power in the universe).\u201d3<\/sup><\/p>\n
The Bible says God has a plan for all things that happen in the world, \u201cKnown unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world\u201d (Acts 15:18); God has a purpose in what He does, \u201caccording to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will\u201d (Eph. 1:11); God does whatever He pleases with His creation, \u201cWhatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places\u201d (Psa. 135:6).\u00a0 We should understand that God is the only One Who can truly be our Lord and Master.<\/p>\n
God is holy.\u00a0 The primary meaning of God\u2019s holiness is that He is set apart or separate from everything else.\u00a0 John Feinberg calls this \u201cmajestic-holiness. . . As the majestic God whose qualities know no boundary, God\u2019s being is infinitely above his creatures.\u201d4<\/sup>\u00a0 Moses sang and gave thanks to God for His deliverance in the Red Sea, \u201cWho is like unto thee O LORD, among the gods?\u00a0 Who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?\u201d (Exod. 15:11).\u00a0 In her song of praise, Hannah said, \u201cThere is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God\u201d (1 Sam. 2:2).\u00a0 Mary also, at her conception sang, \u201cFor he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name\u201d (Luke 1:49).<\/p>\n
Around the throne of God as John was privileged to see it, is a crystal sea that separates God from all else.\u00a0 Henry Alford writes that \u201cthe intent of setting this space in front of the throne will be, to betoken its separation and insulation from the place where the Seer stood, and indeed from all else about it.\u201d5<\/sup>\u00a0 From beginning to end, the Scriptures portray God as holy and separate because He alone is eternal and all else is created and infinitely less in comparison.<\/p>\n
God is transcendent and yet immanent.\u00a0 There have been many abuses of both of these concepts of God, but there is also a wonderful picture of God as our Lord and Master in them as well.\u00a0 God is transcendent in that He is above and separate in His holy perfections from all that is created.\u00a0 He is not out of touch with His creation or beyond our possibility of knowing Him, yet He remains on a plane far above His creation in His person and attributes.\u00a0 It is described this way, \u201cFor my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.\u00a0 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts\u201d (Isa. 55:8-9).<\/p>\n
At the same time God is immanent in that He is accessible to His creation and within the reach of those who will seek Him.\u00a0 \u201cWhither shall I go from thy spirit?\u00a0 Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?\u00a0 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there\u201d (Psa. 139:7-8).<\/p>\n
God is loving.\u00a0 The good news for the sinner as well as the saint is that God loves us.\u00a0 He did not have to, and when sin entered into His creation, He did not have to redeem us, but \u201cGod so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son\u201d (John 3:16).\u00a0 \u201cSo\u201d is from the adverb hout<\/i>\u014d<\/i>s<\/i>, so much, in such a way, like this.\u00a0 God loved us enough to give Himself in the person of His only Son that we might be redeemed from our sinful condition through Him.\u00a0 This love brings us into a relationship with God that could not otherwise be.\u00a0 We will find that making Him our Lord and Master is an easy yoke and a light burden.<\/p>\n
God is a triunity.\u00a0 This description of God is important to our walk with Him, in fact, it is essential.\u00a0 Though the Old Testament emphasizes the one true God, the New Testament further explains the trinity of God, making Him a tri-unity.\u00a0 Ryrie says, \u201cTo emphasize the oneness while disregarding the threeness ends in Unitarianism.\u00a0 To emphasize the threeness while disregarding the oneness leads to tritheism (as in Mormonism).\u00a0 To accept both leads to the doctrine of the triunity of God.\u201d6<\/sup>\u00a0 The fact is that not only is God the Father said to be God, but so is God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 The only biblical and logical conclusion is that we believe in the trinity in its traditional understanding.\u00a0 As we will see in the following sections, our walk with God the Father is also vitally involved both with the Son, and with the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n
God the Son<\/span><\/p>\n
The fact that God is a trinity reveals the fact that God exists of, by, and for Himself.\u00a0 He did not need the world in any way that affects His glory and existence.\u00a0 Yet He created us and extended His love toward us so that we might enjoy His own fellowship that He has within His very Godhead.\u00a0 The apostle John admitted that when he wrote, \u201cthat ye also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ\u201d (1 John 1:3).<\/p>\n
To walk with God, therefore, is to walk with His Son Jesus Christ.\u00a0 There is no other avenue into that fellowship.\u00a0 It must be remembered that since Jesus Christ is God, the second Person of the Trinity, all attributes that belong to the Father also belong to the Son.\u00a0 Paul wrote, \u201cFor in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily\u201d (Col. 2:9).\u00a0 John finished his first epistle saying, \u201cand we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ.\u00a0 This is the true God, and eternal life\u201d (1 John 5:20).<\/p>\n
Jesus is not just another man with whom we can selectively follow or with whom we may or may not choose to have fellowship.\u00a0 Rather, it is in Him that we live, move, and have our being.\u00a0 It is Christ alone Who qualifies to be our Lord and Master.\u00a0 Our submission to Him must be complete and absolute.\u00a0 It will require a total dedication, denial of self, and a taking up our cross and following Him.\u00a0 That process will be explored in the next article.<\/p>\n
There are many New Testament texts that speak of the deity and Lordship of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 There are many descriptions, metaphors, similes, and various ways He is described.\u00a0 Everyone knows the idea of His being the Door, the Good Shepherd, and the Word.\u00a0 Consider briefly how many descriptions one book alone, the book of Hebrews, gives to our Savior.\u00a0 These are given to encourage the readers to make Him their only object of worship.<\/p>\n
God and Lord (1:8, 10).\u00a0 The first chapter of Hebrews is taken up with proving that Jesus is greater than the angels who were created to worship God and minister to believers.\u00a0 The Old Testament described them as \u201ca flame of fire\u201d (1:7, from Psa. 104:4) but, in contrast, Jesus is called \u201cGod\u201d (1:8, from Psa. 45:6) and also \u201cLord\u201d (1:10, from Psa. 102:25).\u00a0 Believers do not worship angels but they do worship God in the person of His Son.<\/p>\n
Captain of salvation (2:10).\u00a0 \u201cCaptain\u201d is the word archechon<\/i>, which is also translated \u201cAuthor\u201d in 12:1.\u00a0 Yet it is right to see Jesus Christ as the One who leads us into the battles of life and initiates the victories over the world, the flesh, and the devil.<\/p>\n
Apostle and High Priest (3:1).\u00a0 Jesus is uniquely our Apostle in that He is the Sent One from God Who speaks to us the Word of God (see 1:1-2).\u00a0 The whole book of Hebrews is given to the idea of Jesus Christ being our High Priest.\u00a0 In fact, He is also the sacrifice, the veil of the temple, the mercy seat, and the Priest Who initiates the blood sprinkled in the holy of holies before God.<\/p>\n
Author and Finisher (12:2).\u00a0 Jesus is again said to be the \u201cauthor\u201d of our salvation (see 5:9), and also the \u201cfinisher\u201d (lit. \u201cPerfecter\u201d from tele<\/i>\u014d<\/i>ten<\/i>) of our faith.\u00a0 I like to think of this picture as the starting line and finishing line of our race.\u00a0 These are often the same line but mark vastly different points in the race.\u00a0 Jesus is the One with Whom we begin our race and the One with Whom we will one day end our race.<\/p>\n
Mediator (8:6, 12:24).\u00a0 Jesus is the Mediator of the new covenant which He initiated with His own blood.\u00a0 Paul told Timothy that Jesus is the only Mediator between the sinner and a holy God (1 Tim. 2:5).<\/p>\n
Helper (13:6).\u00a0 Since He is our Helper, we do not fear what mere mortal men may do to us.\u00a0 The believer always has a Helper Who can deliver him out of every difficulty.<\/p>\n
End (13:7-8).\u00a0 Jesus is the end, the \u201cresult\u201d of our lives.\u00a0 This gives us purpose because He is \u201cthe same yesterday, today, and forever.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shepherd of the sheep (13:20).\u00a0 God brought Jesus Christ from the dead to be our Shepherd Who will also lead us out of death into eternal life.\u00a0 No wonder when He is our Shepherd, we have no other want.<\/p>\n
It is through Jesus Christ that we fellowship with God because He is Himself God in the flesh.\u00a0 Though possessing all of the attributes of deity, He also is a sympathetic Priest Who knows us and is touched with the feelings of our infirmities.\u00a0 This is the only One can truly be our Lord and Master.<\/p>\n
God the Holy Spirit<\/span><\/p>\n
The Holy Spirit is that person of the Godhead Who lives within us.\u00a0 Every description of Him in Scripture speaks of names, attributes, and actions of deity.\u00a0 It is the Spirit Who regenerates us (Tit. 3:5) and then dwells within us (1 Cor. 6:19-20).\u00a0 Our bodies become His temple and we are obligated to His leading and conviction.\u00a0 After all, His voice is God\u2019s voice.\u00a0 Someone said that Jesus dwelt in a sinless body during His earthly ministry, but the Holy Spirit has to dwell in our sinful bodies, which is much more frustrating to Him.\u00a0 Nevertheless, He never leaves us nor fails in His divine mission of keeping us until the day of redemption.<\/p>\n
Understanding the ministry of the Holy Spirit within us will help us yield to His leading in a greater way.\u00a0 The apostle Paul showed that He seals the believer until the day of our redemption (Eph. 1:13; 4:30) and is the earnest of our coming inheritance (2 Cor. 1:22; 5:5).\u00a0 This shows that God owns us and we are His purchase by the blood of Jesus for eternity.\u00a0 The Spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are God\u2019s child (Rom. 8:16) and continually brings assurance of our standing in God\u2019s presence.\u00a0 The Spirit participates in our prayers by interceding at the throne of grace and making groanings for us which we cannot speak as He interprets our prayers before God (Rom. 8:26-27).<\/p>\n
In a wider way, the Holy Spirit convicts the world of sin (John 16:8) and also restrains the sin of the world on behalf of the church in this age (2 Thes. 2:6-7).\u00a0\u00a0 Yet the Spirit can also be grieved (Eph. 4:30) and quenched (1 Thes. 5:19) by believers even as He continues to dwell within us.\u00a0 Our sin grieves Him and keeps Him from having full sway in our lives.\u00a0 We should rather seek to be filled by the Spirit (Eph. 5:18) which will then produce the fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 6:22-23) which combats the lusts of the flesh, and allows the love of Christ to be shed abroad in our hearts (Rom. 5:5) by the Spirit.\u00a0 All of these provide great benefits to the believer and allow us to walk with the Lord.<\/p>\n
And So . . .<\/b><\/p>\n
The purpose for this article is to help us to see our need for making Jesus Christ the Lord and Master of our lives.\u00a0 We will not make that surrender to Him unless we first realize that we as believers are living and walking with the God of all eternity Who powerfully lives and works within us.\u00a0 Our yielding to Him ought to be motivated by this fact.\u00a0 How could we who are sinful and rebellious refuse the working of the sovereign, holy God Who gave Himself for us and lives within us?\u00a0 Our very bodies are His temple and our talents and abilities are weapons to be used for or against Him.\u00a0 That surrender begins with David\u2019s words, \u201cBe still and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth\u201d (Psa. 46:10).<\/p>\n
In his book on being holy in this world, Erwin Lutzer said it this way,<\/p>\n
Our only hope is obedience to the teachings of the New Testament; our fate depends on whether we are willing to become one of Christ\u2019s disciples in the fullest sense.\u00a0 Then we will search our hearts, motives, and affections.\u00a0 Anything that mars our fellowship with God will be recognized as sin.\u00a0 We will discipline and restrict ourselves in matters that can never be included in an official statement on worldliness.\u00a0 Like Christ, we will not please ourselves but will want to please God alone.\u201d7<\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Notes:<\/p>\n
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- Matthew Henry, An Exposition of the Old and New Testaments<\/i>, vol. I (New York: Fleming H. Revell Co., nd) Gen. 5:24.<\/li>\n
- Millard Erickson, Christian Theology<\/i> (Chicago: Baker Books, 1991) 263.<\/li>\n
- Charles Ryrie, Basic Theology<\/i> (Wheaton: Victor Books, 1987) 43.<\/li>\n
- John Feinberg, No One Like Him<\/i> (Wheaton: Crossway Books, 2001) 340.<\/li>\n
- Henry Alford, The Greek New Testament, <\/i>vol. IV (Chicago: Moody Press, 1958) 598.<\/li>\n
- Ryrie, p. 52.<\/li>\n
- Erwin Lutzer, How in this World Can I be Holy?<\/i> (Chicago: Moody Press, 1985) 108.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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