“So That You May Know Him Better”

“So That You May Know Him Better”

Pastor Vincent - 10 October 2013

Follow The Lord's Instruction Closely In Spiritual Battle

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It is human nature to worry about tomorrow. What if I can't do this, what if things don't work well tomorrow.. what if we often let what has yet to happen to rob away our present happiness in Lord. Before Jericho, the Lord said to Joshua, " See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men.." God is always there, He is always present in your sadness, your current helplessness, your current family problem, relationship problems and even your insufficiency. But we often forget, we are often being frightened by what have yet to comeÉ the what if's in your mind - Satan is always instilling the fear, the deceptions and confuse our spirits so that we cannot look at the truth of God and draw strength from it. Behind the problem we are seeing everyday is actually the deeper spiritual battles that we need to fight against Satan - who is attacking us in every possible way just to divert us away from God's truth so that we feel the gospel irrelevant. But God has a precise instruction to our problems now, so that we can stand against the devil's scheme. Be in sync with God, hear what the Lord says and follow it carefully. As we wait upon the Lord and see what He is doing right now in our lives, we will then not be distracted by Satan into following our own desires and emotions. The Lord is not slow in fulfilling His promise and He has time for everything, therefore, go into prayer and ask God to reveal the very next thing we can do while waiting for His timetable. As we develop the instinct to hear Him through prayers, our faithful God will not hide from you and when the perfect time comes, your Jericho will be conquered, as you become more intimate with God.

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<Eph 1:15-17>: 15 For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God’s people, 16 I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. 17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit[a] of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.

 

Theology

1) Meaning:

* Suffix: logy (Thought, Word, Study, or Logic)

* Theo: God

* Theology: Thought/Word/Study/Logic of GOD

 

2) Theology is needed because there is NO WAY to use our common understanding to comprehend God.

 

3) The knowledge of God, also encompasses all the knowledges that is in Him.

* Theology (i.e. the study of God) is the Queen of all sciences. ~ Thomas Aquinas

* Theology must be studied with the lens where the God of the Bible is the creator of all sciences.

 

Systematic Theology

* Generally, people dislike the word: “Systematic”.

* Post-modern Era and liberal culture work against systematic study of things.

* Legitimate concern: Forcing and squeezing the Bible into a preconceived system?

 

* 3 important assumptions of Systematic Theology

1) God has revealed Himself through the writings of the Prophets and the Apostles (i.e. the Bible).

2) God is not confused, but reveal Himself in intelligible way to the human mind.

3) God reveal Himself with the following qualities:

* Unity

* Coherency

* Consistency

* Systematic Theology brings together all parts of the bible, and fits them together in unity, coherency and consistency.

* Equip us with the know-how to draw from all sources, and esp credible ones.

* Train us to make good discernment of what are the erroneous and credible teachings.

 

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Pastor Vincent Choo
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Vincent serves as the President of The Blessed Run Church. He is also the Senior Pastor of The Life Church and Missions (Singapore) and is an ardent missionary to the Chinese World. He currently lives in Singapore with his wife, Qiufen, and has three kids, Mary, David, and Caleb.

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