Bedrock #2: The One True God
January 22, 2025 / Pastor Tom Van KempenTip: Click the “Reveal Blanks” button at the top, right corner of this note to reveal all of the blanks in this outline.
Series: Bedrock #2
Sermon: The One True God
Scripture: Various
Date: January 22, 2025
How do we know that God is ?
1. God
Genesis 1:3 (NKJV) Then God Said . . .
2. God
Genesis 12:1 (NKJV) Now the Lord had said to Abram:
3. God
Deuteronomy 6:4 (NKJV) Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one!
God speaks through
Psalm 19:1-3 (NKJV) The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork. Day unto day utters speech, And night unto night reveals knowledge. There is no speech nor language Where their voice is not heard.
1. The or argument
Romans 1:25 (AMP) because [by choice] they exchanged the truth of God for a lie,
2. The argument – The design argument
Genesis 1:12 (NKJV) And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind.
God speaks through
Romans 2:14-15 (NKJV) when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves, 15 who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them)
1. The argument – innate sense of right and wrong
2. The argument – first cause
God speaks through the
Genesis 1:1 (NKJV) “In the beginning God”
Psalm 14:1 “The fool says in his heart, there is no God”
1. God is
Genesis 1:1 (NKJV) In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2. God is a
Matthew 28:19 (NIV) Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit
2 Corinthians 13:14 (NIV) May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all
3. God is
Ephesians 1:19-21 (NKJV) and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power 20 which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all principality and [b]power and [c]might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.
4. God is
1 John 4:16 (NKJV) And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.