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What The Bible Teaches Us About God (2)

7). God is Faithful and True.

The Bible tells us that God is plenteous in __________________________ (Exodus 34.6). He is not a man that ________________________ (Numbers 23.19). Rather He is a God of ____ ___________ and without ______________ (Deuteronomy 32.4). He is ___________ (Deuteronomy 32.4). His paths are the paths of lovingkindness and _________ (Psalm 25.10). Indeed He is the God of _________ (Psalm 31.5). Thus He is the _______ God, He is the ______ God, and an ____________ King (Jeremiah 10.10). He is the One Who cannot _________ (Titus 1.2). His counsel is ____________ (which means unchangeable) (Hebrews 6.17). So He is the One Who is _________ (1 John 5.20). He is the _________ God (1 John 5.20).

Because He is totally true He is called the ___________ God and observes His __________ with those who love Him and obey His commands (Deuteronomy 7.10). So He will not take away from us ____________ or allow His _________________ to fail (Psalm 89.33). For the Lord is ____________ (Isaiah 49.7). His _______________ is in the Heavens, and he will not allow His _______________ to fail (Psalm 36.5). Indeed we can be confident of our future hope because God is ____________ (1 Corinthians 1.9). If we are ____________ yet He remains _____________ because He cannot _________________ (2 Timothy 2.13). We can hold forth the confession of our faith without hesitation because He is _____________ Who _____________ (Hebrews 10.23).

So God is totally true and reliable.

8). God is Uniquely Good.

Jesus said to the rich young ruler, ‘no one is _____________ except God’ (Mark 10.18). This did not rule out the fact that He Himself was so, it required the ruler to face up to the reality of Who Jesus was. So the Psalmist can say ‘The Lord is _______________, and His __________ ________ are over all His works (Psalm 145.9), so that men will ‘utter the memory of ________ _________ (Psalm 145.7). This is revealed in that He makes His _________________ on the evil and the good and causes His _________________________ on the just and the unjust (Matthew 5.45), and we are to follow His example. He is ___________ towards _____________ ________ (Luke 6.35) and is (Luke 6.36). He witnesses to the nations in that He __________ and gave them ________________, filling their hearts with _______________ (Acts 14.17) even though they did not know Him and walked in their own ways.

9). God is Holy.

The idea behind His holiness is that He is ‘set apart’ from His creation by the distinctiveness of what He is, by His purity, by His righteousness, by His awe-inspiring nature, and because He is Spirit. He is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. This is why He is unapproachable, and in some ways unknowable except as He reveals Himself. So Moses states ‘Who is like you, Oh Lord, __________ in ____________ (Exodus 15.11), Hannah declares ‘there is none ______________’ (1 Samuel 2.2). Isaiah remembers the vision He had of God (Isaiah 6.1) and declares ‘Thus says the _____________________ Whose name is _________. I dwell in the _______________ place’ (Isaiah 57.15). But He can only dwell with those who are of a ______________________because He is holy. Thus He is _________ and not man, the ______________ in the midst of us (Hosea 11.9). And Habakkuk says, ‘You are __________________ than to ______________, and cannot look upon __________________’ (Habbakuk 1.13). For He Who called us is ______ so that we should be __________ (1 Peter 1.15-16), and the living creatures in Heaven cry out unceasingly, ________________________ is the Lord God, the ____________’ (Revelation 4.8)

When Isaiah saw God’s holiness he cried out ‘ _________________ for I am undone, for I am a man of ___________________’ (Isaiah 6.5), and when Job saw a vision of God he could only cry, ‘I ____________________ and repent ___________________ (Job 42.5-6). When Ezekiel saw the appearance of _____________________________ he _________ ________ (Ezekiel 1.28), and when John saw His vision of Christ he fell ___________________ ____________ (Revelation 1.17). So great was God’s holiness that when Moses had spoken with Him in the mountain of Sinai, the skin of His face ____________ (Exodus 34.29), and the people were _____________________ (Exodus 34.30), so that he had to put ______________________ ____ (Exodus 34.33) to hide what was only the faint reflection of the glory of God.

Thus John can say ‘He is _______________ and in Him there is ______________________ (1 John 1.5). In the coming of Jesus He could say ‘_________ has come into the world’ (John 3.19). This was why He was rejected, because ‘men ______________________ rather than ____ because their deeds were evil’ (John 3.19).

So God is ‘wholly other’ than man because of His awesome purity which, when revealed even partially, makes man cringe before Him, aware of his own inadequacy and sinfulness.

10). God is Righteous and Just

Righteous means to be in accordance with what is morally right. For man it means to be behaving fully in accordance with God’s revealed righteousness, revealed in the law, in the teaching of the prophets, and supremely inthe teaching of Jesus. God’s righteousness is further revealed in His acts and in His judgment against wrongdoing.

Ezra declares, ‘Oh Lord, the God of Israel, you are _____________’ (Ezra 9.15), and Nehemiah says, ‘you have performed _____________ for you are _____________’ (Nehemiah 9.8). The Psalmist also says, ‘______________ are you, Oh Lord, and ____________ are your judgments. You have appointed your testimonies _______________________ and in all ______ ______________’ (Psalm 119.137-138). And again, ‘the Lord is ____________ in all His _____ and _______________ in all His works’ (Psalm 145.17). When the people of Judah were taken into exile they admitted it was their desert and said, ‘ the Lord is _______________ for we have rebelled against His commandment’ (Lamentations 1.18) and Daniel prayed and said, ‘the Lord our God is ____________ in all His ________ which He ________, and we have not obeyed His voice’ (Daniel 9.14).

Jesus prays and says to Him ‘ Oh _____________________’ (John 17.25), and Paul can say ‘and henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the ________________, shall give me in that day’ (2 Timothy 4.8). John reminds his readers, ‘if you know that He is _____________ , you know that everyone who _____________ ____ is born of Him’ (1 John 2.29) for ‘he who does righteousness is ______________ as He is _________________ (1 john 3.7). And in Revelation the angel says, ‘ ____________ are you, Oh Lord, Who is and was, because you _____________ ‘ (Revelation 16.5).

11). God is the Judge of all Men

James informs us ‘there is one ______________ and _____________, He Who is able to save and to destroy’ (James 4.12), and Isaiah confirms ‘ the Lord is our _________ , the Lord is our _______________, the Lord is our __________, and He will save us’ (Isaiah 33.22). Abraham also argues, ‘shall not the __________ of all the _________, do right?’ (Genesis 18.25), while Job insists ‘shall any teach God knowledge, seeing He ___________ those who are high’ (Job 21.22) The Psalmists regularly mention the judgments of God. For example ‘The Lord __________ _____ the people. Judge me, Oh Lord, according to my righteousness’ (Psalm 7.8). Indeed ‘the Heavens will declare His ___________ , for God is __________ Himself’ (Psalm 50.6). The writer in Ecclesiastes says, ‘and I said in my heart, God ______________ the ___________ and the __________ , for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work (Ecclesiastes 3.17).

Yet it is not God the Father Who judges, for ‘neither does the Father judge any man, for He has ___________ all ____________ to His Son’ (John 5.22). Judgment is in the hands of God the Son, for ‘He has appointed a day in which He will _______________________ by that man Whom He has ordained’ (Acts 17.31), ‘in the day when God shall ______________________ by Christ Jesus’ (Romans 2.16). So Paul says to Timothy, ‘I charge you before God and the Lord Jesus who shall __________ the ___________ and the _______ at His appearing’ (2 Timothy 4.1). So when we read ‘ and I saw a great white throne, and Him Who sat upon it from Whose face _____________________________, and there was found no place for them and I saw the dead, both small and great, standing _________________________ , -- --- and the dead ___________________________ according to _________________’ (Revelation 20.11-12) we are to recognise that the Judge is our Lord Jesus Christ Himself.

So God will one day call all men to judgment, when they will be called on to give account before the Lord Jesus Christ.