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Knowing God. What is Doctrine? …the explanation of the truth about God as he has revealed it to us Biblical Theology: Bible Overview, OT1.1, P2F Systematic.

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1 Knowing God

2 What is Doctrine? …the explanation of the truth about God as he has revealed it to us Biblical Theology: Bible Overview, OT1.1, P2F Systematic Theology: Doc 1 – The God we Know Doc 2 – Mankind Doc 3 – The Church How does it approach scripture?

3 Part 1: How can we know God? (Ch 1-4) Part 2: What can we know about God? (Ch 5-10) The Big Picture of the Course

4 1. Understanding the Gospel 2. Knowing God through the Gospel 3. Sources for the Knowledge of God 4. The Bible as the Word of God How we can know God?

5 5. The God we know: His Attributes 6. The God we know: Trinity 7. The God who creates The doctrine of creation 8. The God who saves A biblical theology of salvation (Bible Overview super condensed!) 9. The God who rules history The last days 10. The God who renews The resurrection & judgment & new creation What we can know about God?

6 It helps us to be better handlers of God’s truth: (2 Tim 2:15) Why is that important? Ephesians 4:11-16 It keeps us from wrong thinking and guards us from false doctrine When received rightly it grows us in maturity – into likeness of Jesus It is a great mercy and an incredible privilege! Why should we study this way? Biblical Theology Systematic Theology Exegesis

7 Break

8 -The Truth about God -Important! Purpose, Meaning, Security -Varied??? -Common approach of our world – Relativism -Choose the religion that best suits you… -No Problem….Unless….the true God has revealed himself Knowing God in the Gospel

9 Why start with The Gospel in our study of knowing God truly as He has revealed himself to us?

10 -Claiming to know God -We as Christians claim to know the Truth about God -One God in Three Persons…not -Eternal Creator of All…not -Who alone draws people into fellowship with Him -Makes himself known -Overcomes that which prevents us from knowing Him -Central to this revealing and reconciling work is Jesus Christ -John 14:6 Knowing God in the Gospel

11 KEY CONCEPT Knowing God in the Gospel The living God has made himself known to people in the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this reason the proper starting place for Christian doctrine is an explanation of the gospel…

12 The Problem with our knowing God John 1:5, 9-11 Romans 1:21-23, John 3:19-20 Romans 7:7-13, Ephesians 2:1-3 Romans 1:18, John 5:28-29 Knowing God through the Gospel

13 The Problem the Gospel Addresses CORRUPTION IGNORANCE SINSATAN

14 The Problem the Gospel Addresses

15 The Rescue Knowing God through the Gospel What? 1:1-3, 41, 45, 49 5:17-18, 8:57-58 How? 1:29, 14:6 10:11, 11:49-52

16 The Prophet who deals with our ignorance The Priest who deals with our sin and guilt The King who liberates us, conquers our enemies and brings us into his kingdom Knowing God through the Gospel Jesus is: 1 Timothy 1:15

17 Responding to the Gospel : Knowing God through the Gospel John 6:37, 3:3, 3:7 John 11:25-26, 6:35, Ephesians 2:8-9 Acts 8:22, 17:30, John 20:28 John 15:8-11, Ephesians 2:10

18 WE are sinful and deserve nothing but God’s judgment GOD in his great love has made Himself known to us through his Son, and brought us back into relationship with Him Therefore we can know God only because of: How are we able to know God truly? GRACE

19 but..

20 Is the gospel our sole means for our knowledge of God? What is the relationship between the gospel and the Bible as a whole? What enables us to know the gospel is really true? Come back next week!

21 Mini Essay: Why is the Gospel fundamental to knowing God? (Max 1000 words) Read Chapter 2: Knowing God Extra Mile: Digest Extra Paper 1: True Theology, Knowing and Loving God Home Study


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