Bible Studies

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Author Joseph Vella 31/08/2010

Character of God
10 points on the Character of God
Or the Character of Deity.


“2 Tim 2:15 Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”

The Character of God.
Or the Character of Deity.

This includes all the GodHead, The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit.

I find it necessary to speak on this wonderful subject as I feel sadness in the heart of God because many people don’t know Him, or His eagerness to love, bless and to nurture all those who come to Him.
There is urgency in my heart for people to get to know God, Hosea 4:6 says, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:”

So Study, In “2 Tim 2:15 Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”

Be careful what you hear, In “Mark 4:24 Then He said to them, "Take heed what you hear. With the same measure you use, it will be measured to you; and to you who hear, more will be given.”

It seems God is getting blamed for the sadness and destruction that is on the Earth.
By learning and knowing about the Character of God, you will know that God will only give good things, and the devil can only give bad things.

God is not double minded, He will not say one thing and do another, He will never, never use the devil to teach you something. He will not use sickness to punish or teach you something; and He is not out to get you.
He loves you so very much, and He has given you a free will so you can choose to follow Jesus, or do your own thing.

God the Father, gave God the Son, the Spotless Lamb to become Sin for the whole world.
John 3:16 Says "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son…,”

This Has to be the greatest sacrifice of Love and Salvation, the World has ever known.

You can see the great, great love that God has for His Creation; fallen Mankind, lost and without hope in the World, sinful, sick, and dying, all because Adam gave the Earth away to the devil, and the devil became the god of this World system, 2 Cor 4:4.

Imagine the sadness the Father must have felt, He created the Earth for Mankind, so He can have fellowship with us, He created us in His image and in His Likeness, and now an evil and wicked fallen angel, called lucifer who became the devil, ruled this World system, in place of Adam.

May I suggest that the next time you look in the mirror, look closer, the face you see is yours, but the shape of your image is of the Father in Heaven. You beloved is wonderfully made in the Image and likeness of your Father in Heaven.

Please understand, that the nature of God, is opposite to the nature of the devil, or the character of God is opposite to the character of the devil.
What is the nature of the devil? Sin, sickness and premature death.
What is the Nature of God? Righteousness, Health and Eternal life.

John says it this way.

John 10:10 Says "The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.


I want to give you 10 points on the Character of God.

No 1. SOVEREIGNTY ------------------- (Supremacy.)
No 2. ABSOLUTE RIGHTEOUSNESS --- (Always Righteous.)
No 3. JUSTICE. -----------------------------(God is perfect in Justice.)
No 4. LOVE. ---------------------------------(God is love. )
No 5. ETERNAL LIFE. -------------------(Self-Existence.)
No 6. OMNIPRESENCE. -----------------(Means everywhere present.)
No 7. OMNISCIENCE. --------------------(Means knows all. )
No 8. OMNIPOTENCE. -------------------(Means all powerful.)
No 9. IMMUTABILITY. ------------------(Means unchangeable.)
No 10. VERACITY. -------------------------(Means Truthfulness or cannot lie.)


No 1. Sovereignty, we all know that God is Sovereign, or is Supreme.

It is very important we understand the Sovereignty of God, and how He works as a Supreme Being.
I am not trying to be unkind, but People use the Sovereignty of God as an excuse not to do anything, like, if God wants me to be healed, well, He will heal me, or if God wants to give me the Holy Spirit, He can, or if God wants to save me, He will.
If you think that God can do everything and anything, it gives you an excuse to say,,, I don’t have to do anything then.

Remember that Salvation is a Free Gift to the World. Eph 2:8 “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:”
The Holy Spirit is a Free Gift to God’s Children … Acts 2:38 “..ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.”
Healing is a Free Gift, to all… 1 Cor 12:9 gifts of healing by the same Spirit;

Remember, God gives all kinds of gifts to mankind, how do we get them..?? They are received by faith.. You have to reach out by faith to receive.

As a Sovereign Creator, --- God is ultimately responsible for everything that happens in Creation.
So in Isaiah 45:7 God says .. “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.”

Isaiah is talking from the point of view that God is a Sovereign God, so ultimately He is responsible.


EXPLAIN?
God made the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil, but it was man’s choice, and man’s will, weather to take of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,.. That choice is man’s free will.
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Amos 3:6 … “shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?”
Gen 20:17-18 “… and they bare children…. For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs…”

God is accused of closing up the womb of these women. These women sinned, and they unleashed the curse of the Law upon them. God said in Deu 30:19 you can have the blessings or the curse.

The curse came when Adam and Eve sinned. The blessings and the Law came to protect God’s people.
But the choice to obey or not to obey was theirs. We can walk in the Blessings of God.
Just because you do something wrong doe’s not mean that God is about to do something bad to you.
God gives good things. But often because of transgression something happens.


People seem to want to accuse God of destruction, and the Bible translators Brought forth the same thinking.

1 John 4:8 “…for God is love”.
1 John 4:16 “..God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God,”
Mat 7:11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

Remember, That Good and evil is always a Choice, You Chose.
God will never use the Devil to teach His children something, would You??
God Chastises His Children through His Word… EXPLAIN How?

God speaking from His Sovereignty, As a Sovereign God.

Exodus 15:26 “..I will put (Allow) none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.
Deut 7:15 “..And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put (Allow) none of the evil diseases of Egypt,”

As a Sovereign God, He allows things to happen, -- We call that His Permissive will. ---- WHY? .... Because God gave Mankind a free will..

God’s permissive will is not the same as His Perfect will ???

When Adam sinned, and the devil became the god of this world system. God in His Righteousness had to permit it to happen WHY?
Because God gave the Earth to Adam freely (Gen 1:26,) and Adam gave it away to the devil.

When the Children of Israel obeyed God, He was able to protect them..
When they disobeyed God, He Could not protect them --Why not??
Because they choose to do their own thing, and God will not violate their free will.

There are certain things, which limit God; His Word (the Bible) limits Him.
He cannot make you get saved. (But He has provided for you to get saved.)
He cannot make the world get saved. (But it’s God’s will for the world to be saved)
He can’t make you get healed. (But, He has provided for you to get healed)
God has always operated on the basis of free will.
God is always bound by His Word. He cannot Lie
Heb 6:18 “.. impossible for God to lie,”

Some times Judgment Falls: But God always gives written details; Example;
Sodom & Gomorrah. Gen 18:17….. Noah and the flood, Gen 6:12.

No 2. ABSOLUTE RIGHTEOUSNESS --- (Always Righteous.)

God is always Righteous in every thing He does, He will always do what He says He will do, He is a Covenant Keeping God. Beloved, We have a Covenant with the Almighty…. Signed by the Precious blood of the Lamb.
We are a Covenant people.

Not Finished.

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