A Friend of God

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~