Tuesday is sermon preview and input day. I appreciate the several comments that were made last week, and still come in on the topic, “What do we most need to know about God?” I will again be speaking on that question this week.
I began by saying that the first thing we needed to know about God is that God can be known, and that the greatest purpose of our life is to know God. Yet, it is so easy to pursue every sort of thing other than actually that of knwoing God. Even religious things. A. W. Tozer wrote a book, The Pursuit of God, and he issues a challenge to a busy, religious life that has plenty of God-activity in it, but little God. Yikes! We get great at building the altar, but has anyone noticed that there’s no fire, he asks.
May we be hungry for God.
This week I will consider a second thing to know about God: God is a Redeemer. Now, ‘redeemer’ is a religious word that doesn’t instantly connect, but it still becomes a helpful handle to explain a ton about God, and about our relationship with God. It’s actually the first thing that Moses learns about God, before he even knows who God is. It’s the truth about God that sent Jesus Christ here. It’s the truth about God that got Jesus in so much trouble with the religious leaders. It’s the truth about God that made the apostle Paul welcome suffering. It’s the truth that explains why you and I are here.
It’s the truth that make it clear that God cares about us, I mean, really cares about us.
Questions:
What Bible passages or stories stress the fact that God is a redeemer?
How is it most clear to us that we need a redeemer?
What in our lives needs redemption?
Why is God a redeemer?
What are the implications to our lives that God is a redeemer?
What in our world needs redemption?
Share your thoughts, questions, comments.