=== GOD INVISIBLE === The invisibility of GOD was a great problem. It was already a problem to GODS people in Old Testament days. Their pagan neighbors would taunt them, saying, Where is now your GOD? Their gods were visible and tangible, but Israels GOD was neither. Today in our scientific culture young people are taught not to believe in anything which is not open to empirical investigation. QUESTION : How then has GOD solved the problem of HIS own invisibility? The first answer is of course IN CHRIST. JESUS CHRIST is the visible image of the invisible GOD. John 1:18: NO ONE HAS SEEN GOD AT ANY TIME. THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, WHO IS IN THE BOSOM OF THE FATHER, HE HAS DECLARED HIM. . . Thats Wonderful, People say, but it was 2,000 years ago. Is there no way by which the invisible GOD makes HIMSELF visible today? . . There is. We return to 1John 4:12: NO ONE HAS SEEN GOD AT ANY TIME. It is precisely the same introductory statement. But instead of continuing with reference to the SON of GOD, it continues: IF WE LOVE ONE ANOTHER, GOD ABIDES IN US. In other words, the invisible GOD, who once made HIMSELF visible in CHRIST, now makes HIMSELF visible in Christians, if we love one another. It is a breathtaking claim. The local Church cannot evangelize, proclaiming the Gospel of love, if it is not itself a community of love. NO ONE HAS SEEN GOD AT ANY TIME. IF WE LOVE ONE ANOTHER, GOD ABIDES IN US, AND HIS LOVE HAS BEEN PERFECTED IN US. BY THIS WE KNOW THAT WE ABIDE IN HIM, AND HE IN US, BECAUSE HE HAS GIVEN US OF HIS SPIRIT. -- 1John 4:12-13 --
Posted on: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 14:11:58 +0000
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