Knowing Him - Making Him Known

Gen 1:1-5

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

3 Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.

Form.  Tohuw:  be in waste; chaos: confusion

Void.  Bohuw: emptiness

Darkness on the deep – deepest parts of the earth

          POTENTIAL & PURPOSE

Chaos over potential

The Spirit of God begins to move on the Waters

          Every living things comes out of water – fluid of birth

Something is about to come forth

…and God said.    Deep calls to Deep  

A Word over your Chaos

…and there was light

The entrance of Your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.  Ps 119:130

          Light = Knowledge          Darkness = ignorance

So, what do we need to avoid Darkness?  Knowledge

• ·       Hos 4:6.  My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.

There is a great Tension

Not between good and evil

Not even between knowing and not knowing

          Tension between chaos and a Word

          Tension between darkness and knowledge

What is it we should know?  3 Things

Hos 4:1.  Knowledge of God

Our advantage:  We come to know God by getting to know Jesus

John 14, Philip asked “Show us the Father”

Jesus replied, “If you have seen me, you have seen the Father.”

1 Cor 1:24.  Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

Transcends a head knowledge:  Having a Relationship with Jesus

          Not just church, not just the Bible

                    Ex.  I know football, stats… but I don’t know any players

2.  Know How to Live

Hos 4:1-2

Hear the word of the Lord, you children of Israel,

For the Lord brings a charge against the inhabitants of the land:

"There is no truth or mercy or knowledge of God in the land.

2 By swearing and lying, killing and stealing and committing adultery,

They break all restraint, with bloodshed upon bloodshed.

Titus 2:11-12

For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, 12 teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age.

If we live by the standard of the world – It is a testimony that we don’t know Him

3.  Know His Will for Your Life

Col 1:9.  Be filled with a knowledge of His will

Tension between your darkness & your deep – knowing your purpose

This is why we minister to you the way we do

          This is why we bring in the Prophetic

Rom 12:2, the key to knowing His perfect will is what happens in our mind

We talk about confirming prophesy

There must be application of what you already know

Results:  Make Him known

“The earth was in darkness”

There are people in darkness – chaos and confusion

Waiting for the Light to lead them out of darkness – answers

          Open your mouth

Hos 4:3.  Therefore the land will mourn; and everyone who dwells there will waste away

          “Waiting for the revealing of the sons of God”  (Rom 8:17)

Main way to make Him know is by how you live

Cooperate with His Spirit, because His Spirit is hovering

Allow God to use you to speak a Word in their chaos

Don’t let anyone else be destroyed

Because you wouldn’t shine light in their darkness