Summary:
God loves us and wants a simple relationship with us. This relationship is not based on what we are or what we have done, but is based on His love and the salvation He has provided through Jesus Christ. Will you open us to His love for you today?
Show Notes:
God loves us and we must have a revelation of this.
God is in us and in all of His creation.
We open up to a walk with Him because He loves us and we receive His love.
Men and women walked with God before there was a bible, they just had a relationship with Him.
Abraham & David had a deep relationship with the Lord even though they weren't perfect.
God wants a living relationship with you too!
Quotes:
The first thing we understand is God loves us.
...we come to realize that God is in everything, in everybody, He is everywhere.
You open up to the Lord because someone's told you that He loves you, that He'll accept you, that Jesus Christ died for your sins. He's the one that's going to do the enabling and the creating in your heart.
Enoch walked with God to a point where he was translated, and he didn't have a Bible or scriptures, he just had a relationship.
God wants that kind of a relationship with us.
References:
“For Your sake we are killed all day long;
We were regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
“Am I only a God nearby,” declares the Lord, “and not a God far away? Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?” declares the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth?” declares the Lord.
( Adam's fall from the garden)
To Seth also a son was born; and he named him Enosh. Then people began to call upon the name of the Lord.
By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God. And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
(Penitent Psalm)
Now as he was traveling, it happened that he was approaching Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him; and he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?” And he said, “Who are You, Lord?” And He said, “I am Jesus whom you are persecuting, but get up and enter the city, and it will be told to you what you must do.”
Takeaway:
Enoch walked with God without a bible it was all about a relationship. Today God is bringing a people to a pure relationship with Him through the guidance of the Holy Spirit and a Living Word spoken by a many membered Body. God is drawing you to have this type of intimate relationship with Himself. Will you open your heart to Him today?