Speaker: David Asscherick
Date: 2010.7.15
Place: Soquel Camp Meeting
Systematic Theology
Genesis 1 - God is creating
“Let there be light and there was light.”
Ex nihilo out of nothing
Gen 1 - God is speaking things into existence
Ps 36:
Sequential treatment of creation – rapid account
distant
Gen 2 – God is sculpting man
relational
different perspective
Gen 2:7 then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils
the breath of life; and man became a living being.
God was in the dirt, forming
Proximity. Intimate – closeness
Two become one
He is with man
Intimacy was lost…
Matt 1:23 "Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and his name shall be called
Emmanuel" (which means, God with us).Is 7:14
Rev 21: 3 and I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Behold, the dwelling of God is with
men. He will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself will be with them;
Revelation - climax of scriptures
Movie, drama
Rev 22:4 they shall see his face
Edenic relationship
It is done~
Central motif of the scriptures – God wants to be with us
People we spend time with – friends
World view – bible believing
Islam – surrender submit (posture kneeling) God is sovereign we are subject
Hinduism – all is one. We only perceive distinctions brama
Christianity
2Chr 20: 5 And Jehosh'aphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of
the LORD, before the new court,
20:6 and said, "O LORD, God of our fathers, art thou not God in heaven? Dost thou not rule
over all the kingdoms of the nations? In thy hand are power and might, so that none is able to
withstand thee.
20:7 Didst thou not, O our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel,
and give it for ever to the descendants of Abraham thy friend?
Jehosh'aphat prayed
Abraham – your friend forever
God of scripture – infinite
Is 48:
Ex 33:11 Thus the LORD used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend.
John 15:15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is
doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known
to you.
What makes you so special?
You are product of your free choices you have made in the process of your life
Sanctified settling
In time our choices make us
Not even God can make another me.
I am the only me possible
Perfectly irreplaceable
God love you. God likes you.
What is so valuable about you? You are the only you available to God.
My salvation could not make up for your lostness.
Beloved you’re special to God.
“Are there any two leaves on a tree alike? You can find no two precisely alike? So it is with
us. None of us have exactly the same experience, and yet each one of us may have a very
precious experience. Let each worker remember that he has an individuality of his own, and
that this individuality is not to be submerged in any other human being. That individuality is to
be sanctified, purified, refined, but it is not to be lost in the individuality of some one else.” GCB
1901.4.25
You are a friend of God.
God I wanna be your friend~
