Simple Faith Nature of God

Simple Faith

Nature of God

The word “Nature” in the broadest sense

Is the natural, physical, or material world or universe

It is easy to believe the earth exists

It is also easy to believe that seeking or understanding

The “Nature” of the world we will be rewarded

We call this science

Look at the rewards we have because we have come

To understand the nature of the world

The word nature is derived from the Latin word natura,

Or, "essential qualities, innate disposition"

Many have spent their lives studying the essential qualities

And innate disposition of the created work but missed its Creator

One word can describe our complex God

That word is LOVE

Those who don’t believe this will spend their lives fighting to destroy God

Those who embrace the nature of God as Love

Will enjoy all His "essential qualities, innate disposition"

Nature of God

Simple faith starts with Hebrews 11:6.

Believing God exists.

And He rewards those who seek Him.

This is the foundation of pleasing God.

Without faith it is impossible to please God.

The next step to simple faith is

discovering the Nature of God.

The word “Nature” in the broadest sense,

is the natural, physical,

or material world or universe.

It is easy to believe the earth exists.

It is also easy to believe that seeking

or understanding the “Nature” of

the world we will be rewarded.

We call this science.

Look at the rewards we have because we have

come to understand the nature of the world.

The word nature is derived from

the Latin word natura, or

"essential qualities, innate disposition".

Many have spent their lives studying

the essential qualities and innate disposition

of the created work but missed its Creator.

Romans 1:20 NLT tells us…

From the time the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky and all that God made. They can clearly see his invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse whatsoever for not knowing God.

Many have seen the earth and the universe

as the end and fail to see the clear evidence of

science that it all came into being by a Creator.

We have worshiped the discoveries

and pleasures the world has to offer

and missed the One who created it all.

We have learned how to survive off the land

through understanding the nature of the earth.

But if we do not understand the nature

of God, we will not have the power

to survive beyond life on this earth.

  Look at 2 Peter 1:3 NIV…

His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.

Just like the nature of this
world is overwhelming.

After almost 7000 years of exploration,

we still have so much to learn.

So is the Creator of the world.

The nature of God is overwhelming.

 All our exploration of knowing God

still leaves us with more to learn.

It would seem the nature of God,

like the nature of earth, is not simple.

With God all things about His

nature points to one thing.

The very core of who God is.

Everything about Him comes from one thing.

One word can describe our complex God.

That word is…LOVE

God is love

1 John 4:8 & 6

So keep it simple…God is LOVE!

That is His Nature…

The "essential qualities, innate disposition"

When we discover the simple truths,

we than have the foundation to understanding

the mysteries of God and all He has created.

Scripture Reading

Romans 1:19-20 NIV

 20 For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

2 Peter 1:3-4 NIV

3 His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 4 Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

1 John 4:7-16 NIV

7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love . 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

13 We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.

God is love . Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.