sermon: Accessing the Invisible God
Charles Whitaker
Given 21-Jan-12; Sermon #1084b; 34 minutes
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Charles Whitaker, reflecting on a childhood desire of becoming invisible as well as porous, enabling him to get away with all kinds of things without consequences, explains how he was dispossessed of this notion by a wise grandmother. God’s invisibility is quite a different matter. People cannot see God in a physical sense, but they have a sense of His attributes and power through the things that are made. Ultimately, God’s called-out ones will be able to see both Jesus Christ and God the Father. Currently, God the Father has purposely sidelined Himself, but has revealed Himself through Jesus Christ. God closely controls history, enabling the world to have a certain measure of access to Him. The apostles, through their preaching, further closed the gap on God’s remoteness. Scripture reveals that Christ sustains everything in His creation. Because of the testimony of the creation, people are without excuse for not knowing that God exists and sustains His creation. God is not very far away from us. He is as close as the breath of life He has given. God’s called-out ones indeed are the apple of His eye.
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Accessibility Acts 7:55; 14:14-17; 17:26-29 Colossians 1:16-23 I John 1:1 I Timothy 1:17; 6:16 Gazed at God’s invisibility God’s glory Hebrews 10:19-22;11:27 Immortality Inaccessible Initiation Invisible Invisibility Isaiah 14:13-15; 37:24 Isolation Jeremiah 6:22; 25:32 John 1:18 Maintain Maintenance Matthew 26:64 Porosity Psalm 19:1-4; 139:1-10 Remoteness of God Romans 1:20 Satan Sidelined Sustain Unregenerate
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