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Week #2: The only True God is the God who is Incarnate

Presupposed Truths (Week #1)


1. God has specifically revealed Himself through His Word (Hebrews 1:1).
2. The Lordship of God over all – “He rules everything” (I Cor. 5:18)
3. God is a redeeming God, actively seeking to save through Christ.
4. God is Triune, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, redemptively active.
5. Man is sinful and must respond to God’s salvation in faith, obedience, worship, praise and service.

“God-speak” in America
When people say “God”, what do they mean?
When people talk about God, are your God and their God the same?

Idolatry
What does the word “idolatry” suggest to your mind?
Exodus 20:1-6

Packer (Knowing God, pg 44) suggests “Idolatry consists not only in the worship of false gods, but
also in the worship of the true God by images”

What is wrong with images?


Isaiah 40:18
Images dishonor God, for they obscure His glory.
Images mislead us, for they convey false ideas (incomplete ideas) about God.
But, the Bible is loaded with images.
Psalm 18:1-3
What is the difference between describing God with images (metaphors) and
worshipping God with images (idols)?

Metaphors are figures of speech that imply comparisons between two unlike entities…every
metaphor both reveals and conceals, because every metaphor focuses on one aspect of a thing,
which means the other aspects can be neglected or overlooked. (Putnam, The Deceit of Metaphor)

The Deceit of Metaphor


Exodus 33:18-19 & 34:4-7
How can you fashion an image of this God?
Exodus 3:11-14

Packer (Knowing God, pg 48) says, “In light of this, the positive force of the 2nd Commandment
becomes plain. Negatively, it is a warning against ways and religious practice that lead us to
dishonor God and to falsify his truth. Positively, it is a summons to us to recognize that God the
Creator is transcendent, mysterious, and inscrutable, beyond the range of imagining or philosophical
guesswork of which we are capable – and hence a summons to us to humble ourselves, to listen and
learn of him, and to let him teach us what he is like and how we should think of him.”

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Who is the only, true God?
Hebrews 1:1-2
Two major stumbling blocks to Christianity: Jesus & Judgment
Why would Jesus be a stumbling block?
Can you explain the Incarnation?

Jesus is both God & Man, the Son of God & the Son of Man
John 1:1-14
Eternal, v1 – in the beginning
Personal, v1 – with God
Deity, v1 – was God
Creating, v3 – through him all things were made
Animating, v4 – in him was life
Revealing, v4 – the light of men
Incarnate, v14 – the Word became flesh
Hebrews 2:17-18 & 4:15-16
John 10:22-33
What does this passage say about God?
What does this passage say about people?
What does this passage say about the relationship between God and men?
Colossians 1:15-23
Who is Jesus?
What is his motivation?

CS Lewis (Mere Christianity, pages 40-41) says, “I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that
people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.'
That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be
a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic -- on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg -- or else
he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman
or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His
feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human
teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”

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