Thursday, September 8, 2005

First Bible Club Lesson for Glasgow Bible Club


Who is God?

Who is God? (Listen for answers)

Is there one God or many gods? – There is only one God.

Does God have a body that you can see? – God is a Spirit, but God dwells in the body of Jesus. Jesus is God in a body.

God is one God in three persons, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. They are all one God, but they are three persons. (Persons are not bodies, a person can still be a person with no body. The Holy Spirit does not have any body, but the Holy Spirit is God and He is a person in the Trinity.) God is called “The TRINITY” Trinity means three in one.

Do the persons in the trinity love one another? Yes, they do. They love each other very much. GOD is LOVE.

The three persons are one God (Not three GODS, ONE God in THREE persons!) Jesus said Jesus is God.

The first thing you must know about God is this:

God is your creator! God made the whole world and everything in it. He made the sun, moon and stars. He made the fruit trees and the flowers. He made the birds and the dogs and the cows. And God made people. That means God made you. God the Father made the universe through God the Son by God the Holy Spirit.

Colossians 1:16 is a verse about Jesus. It says: The world was made through Jesus. And everything was made for Jesus.

The trees were made for Jesus, the animals were made for Jesus. You were made for Jesus. But do you know what? You don’t live for Jesus. You were made for Jesus but you don’t love Jesus. And that is because we are sinful.

We are so sinful, we cannot even love and worship this wonderful God. God is so wonderful. He is three persons in one. He is love and He made this beautiful world. But we don’t love and worship him because we are sinners. Our sins separate us from this wonderful God.

Jesus, the Son of God came to this world in a body so that he could save us from our sins. He never sinned, because He is God. He died to take the punishment for our sins. If we trust in Him to save us from our sins and bring us to God, He will take away our sins and bring us to God.


Thursday, September 1, 2005

American Amnesia

We are a people who have amnesia toward God. He is the end and goal of the entire universe. How can it be that he is so absent from our lives? The answer is of course, sin. But we don't call it that. Murder is sin. But forgetting God?...

American commercialism emphasizes the enhancement of our enjoyment of God's gifts - "Indulge your senses and satisfy your cravings; though it cost all you have, get comfort!" Advertisements don't call their goods God's gifts. He is simply ignored, and we are quickly and quietly led to completely forget Him, though he is the Giver. This is so wrong.

This departure from the divine is extremely subtle. To the Christian, the silence toward God ought to sound louder than every perky voice and trite tune that surrounds and fruitlessly endeavors to fill that silent space. But more often we are drawn by American commercialism into a world filled with pleasant things we don't possess and health we don't have (unless we would use that brand of laxative...) namely we are presented with a heaven on earth without God! In such a God-less paradise may we ever hear the hollow, howling void that whispers "hell."

In television programs and advertisements about healthy, care-free, luxurious, comfortable lives, may we ever see what lies beyond them - namely eternity - and remember. Remember eternity. Remember God. Television causes you to forget what is important.

Therefore, let us turn from the hollow world, choosing not to fill our God-given minds with the God-less American dream. In practical English: Turn of the television, get your Bible and start praying that God would make you a person who loves Him and lives for eternity.

Let us then, turning from the world, turn to our Lord Jesus who is himself heaven on earth, even in impoverishment. He is in a cold and lonely house our dearest friend; in crawling, crowded tenements our joy and peace. His love is better than life! Let us not love this world and forget God, but let us hate our lives in this world that we may keep them for eternal life!