Behold Your God
The Adult Sunday School class is about to begin a new series that is based on DVD’s and the name of the series will be at the head of every lesson. It is not easy to transcribe an entire lesson, but I’ll attempt to take notes and let you know the primary topics and main points in every message. From there, you will have to fill in the blanks.
It will generally take two weeks to cover each DVD since there is the message, which is about 45 minutes, and there is a practical application, which will be covered the following week. I will make notes of some of the more memorial quotes and if this sounds interesting to you, you might do some research and find the series online. The primary instructor is John Snyder.
Week One – A Hunger for God
Week one begins with a biography about AW Tozer. Some of the high and low points of his life and a little about what drove him. There was also a story about the occasion that he wrote undoubtedly what turned out to be his most well known book: The Pursuit of God. The question was asked, what captivated Tozer’s heart? The answer provided was the knowledge of God. Not false concepts about God but rather knowing God as He is revealed in the Bible. Accordingly, passion is not enough if you’re wrong about whom God is.
Snyder went on to make five main points in the first video:
- The most significant thing about us is what we think about God. What is our true view of God?
- Knowing God is the great jewel of Christianity. Really knowing God, we believe this is easy but that is most likely because our concept of the character of God is not according to who He really is. Eternal life is based on knowing God – we don’t want to get this wrong.
- We live in a day when the truth about the pursuit of God has been replaced with other lesser things. We must refuse anything that aims to take God’s place.
- Knowing God is costly. You have to lay everything on the table. God will reveal Himself to His child but only if He has full access.
- If we are to know God, we must avoid counterfeits. Counterfeits are cheap, they don’t cost us anything. Counterfeits are manageable; we are in charge of them. Counterfeits are respectable but they leave a person unsatisfied. Some counterfeits are:
- Hearsay – We think we know God through hearsay and second hand knowledge. Counterfeit.
- Textualism – we mistake an allegiance with a text as being equal to knowing God. We think if we can quote a certain author that will give the impression that we truly know God. Counterfeit.
- True Truths – truth no longer impacts our lives, it doesn’t make a difference. We are too familiar with the common truths and because of that, there is no impact. Counterfeit.
I will make more of an effort to capture the biblical texts used in the lesson. I didn’t think about doing this until I had already reviewed it.