In search of God

Hi guys and welcome to today’s inaugural show of ‘In Search of God’ that is all about finding and knowing our God. God loves us so much but sadly for most of us we are not aware or do not really appreciate the extent and depth of this love. We are told of this love in John 3:16 that says, ‘For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son…’. Can you just imagine that for a minute, God sending His Divine Son to live like a man, a creature lower than angels ,and not only live but to experience a shameful death of a at the cross that He did not deserve at all and worse still to bear the sins of mankind, heaped upon Him at the cross and suffer separation from the Father, something that had not happened since the beginning of time. Now why does God do that, why does He put His Son through all this, ‘… so that whoever believes in Him, the Son, should not perish but have eternal life.’ In other words, to redeem the fallen and oppressed, that is us and free us from the consequen

Exodus 33:12, 13, ‘Moses said to the LORD, “You have been telling me, ‘Lead these people,’ but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. You have said, ‘I know you by name and you have found favor with me.’ If you are pleased with me, teach me your ways so I may know you and continue to find favor with you. Remember that this nation is your people.”’ As members of the church, we are called upon to be leaders to those that are weaker than us, we are called upon to be a refreshing for others. Often when God has placed us in such positions where He is using us to refresh and nourish others, to lead others in the faith, we tend to forget about Him and think it is all about us, we forget that all that we are, all that we have is from Him. Moses found great favor with God. God met with Him face to face! Yet in all humility, Moses still knew that without God, he could not make it. He asked God to teach Him His ways so as to continue to be in right standing before God. How many t

Exodus 33:3, ‘…But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people and I might destroy you on the way.’ On my own I am nothing but a wretched sinner not worthy to be in the presence of the Lord. I try to live a right life but I do what I do not want to do and do not do what I want to do. Left to myself, to my own devises, I face certain death and am doomed to destruction for the Lord is not with me. I am arrogant, selfish, all alone. I deserve death, my full pay for my scorn is eternal shame. I thought I had nothing to look forward to but doomed to burn in the lake of fire, that is until I was told about Jesus, how He set aside His divinity and came to live like a lowly creature He had created, how He faced scorn and God’s righteous judgment at the cross for all my sins, how He had redeemed me, how He had interceded on my behalf finding a ransom for me, how he had lifted me out of my death pit and lifted me to heaven and how now I have a received a gift, something that

Exodus 32:26, ‘So he stood at the entrance to the camp and said, “Whoever is for the LORD, come to me.”…’ The call has been made and you have to make a choice, who are you for? You can no longer sit at the fence, hoping not to be noticed. There are only two sides to choose from, either you are of God the Most High or you are His enemy. Atheism and Agnosticism beliefs that posit the non existence or the lack of knowledge of the existence of God are all forms of rebelliousness against God. They are a form of self exaltation where the there is no higher being than the self. They only bring hopelessness, despair and selfishness. So where are you? Have you made your choice, are you aware of the consequences of your choice, are you willing to live with the consequences of your choice. If you decide not to choose whether to do something or not is the same as choosing not to do it. Dear brothers and sisters, I hope you have made your choice well. If you feel convicted in your heart enough

Exodus 32:9-14, ‘“I have seen these people,” the LORD said to Moses, “and they are a stiff-necked people. Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.” But Moses sought the favor of the Lord his God. “O LORD,” he said, “why should your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand? Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that He brought them out, to kill them in the mountains, and to wipe them off the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce anger; relent and do not bring disaster on your people. Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self: ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will give your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will give your descendants all this land I promised them, and it will be their inheritance for ever.’” Then the LORD

Exodus 32:1-4, ‘When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered round Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what happened to him.” Aaron answered them, “Take off the gold earrings that your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing and bring them to me.” So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron. He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”’ How easy and soon we forget us sons of men. When we are afflicted and We call unto God in prayer then He answers us, we rejoice and give praise to Him, but as soon as we are delivered, as soon as we are enjoying God’s blessings, we cast off our God, we put Him aside and devote our time, body and soul to the pursuit of our carnal needs and

Job 34:31-33, ‘Suppose a man says to God, “I am guilty but will offend no more. Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do so again.” Should God reward you then on your terms, when you refuse to repent? You must decide, not I; so tell me what you know.’ Most of us are ignorant of our sins and arrogant in our repentance of our sins. We see ourselves as being ‘good’ but by God’s holy standards we are all sinners, having fallen short. Even when we acknowledge of our sins we still think so highly of ourselves and feel that we can dictate to God how He should forgive us. We dictate to him how He should ‘save’ us from the pit, how He should show us His mercy, how He should redeem us. How cynical is that, that even when we should humble ourselves, we are still haughty, standing in pride before Him? Since when does a convict dictate to the judge the sentence He should receive? God tell us that He opposes the proud but He will exalt the humble according to His will and p

Job 34:17-30, ‘Can he who hates justice govern? Will you condemn the just and mighty One? Is He not the One who says to Kings, “You are worthless,” and to nobles, “You are wicked,” who shows no partiality to princes and does not favor the rich over the poor, for they are all the works of his hands? They die in an instant in the middle of the night; the people are shaken and they pass away; the mighty are removed without human hand. His eyes are on the ways of men; He sees their every step. There is no dark place, no deep shadows, where evil doers can hide. God has no need to examine men further, that they should come before Him for judgment. Without enquiry He shatters the mighty and sets up others in their place. Because He takes note of their deeds, He overthrows them in the night and they are crushed. He punishes them for their wickedness where everyone can see them, because they turned from following Him and had no regard for any of His ways. They caused the cry of the poor to com

Job 34:10-15, ‘So listen to me, you men of understanding. Far be it from God to do evil, from the Almighty to do wrong. He repays a man for what he has done; He brings upon him what his conduct deserves. It is unthinkable that God would do wrong, that the Almighty would pervert justice. Who appointed Him over the earth? Who put Him in charge of the whole world? If it were His intention and He withdrew His spirit and breath, all mankind would perish together and man would return to dust.’ God is a holy God and His standard for holiness is not like man’s. All men have fallen short of the glory of God and we stand condemned by our rebelliousness and disobedient nature that leads us to sin. By the sin of Adam, all men are born spiritually dead, ruled by their rebelliousness and disobedient nature that is self seeking, incapable of loving any other than self. God hates sin, and any sinful man that comes to His holy presence will die. But by His grace through Jesus Christ we are born again

Mathew 6:32,33, ‘For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows you need them. But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.’ These are dangerous times for the fellowship of believers’ whose faith and trust in God is like what Jesus warned us of as the seed that fell on good soil but was choked by the weeds – the cares and concerns of this world. We have steered away from the path of salvation, seeking first the desires of our hearts instead of seeking God and His kingdom. Our God is a holy God and all of us that are called to Him must live holy lives in Christ. Salvation We need to re ask ourselves if we know why we are saved. Why did Christ die for you and me? Did He do so for us to have wealth and health only, for us to have big cars, for us to be important or did He shed His blood at the cross, facing its scorn to redeem our relationship with God, to restore our relationship with Him, to experience