MAN’S RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD

MEETING AT MENGO HOSPITAL

MAN’S RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD
(A Sacred Romance)
25th May 2012

Bible study: Hosea (Hosea and Gomer)  

Understanding Relationship
 Definition:  Webster's New World College Dictionary defines it as "the quality or state of being
related, a continuing attachment or association between persons.“

 Which came first? Man's need for a relationship with God or
God's desire for a relationship with man?
  (the chicken or the egg?)

1John 4: 19
  We love because he first loved us.  John 3:16
  For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life. 

God instituted this relationship with man.
He made man in His own likeness. (Gen 1:27). Man was created to be like God,
think, speak and act like Him.   Man was to have total dominion on earth
while God rules in heaven. (Psalm 115:16) 
He created man to fellowship with him.
God would come and fellowship with
Adam in the garden in the cool of the day.
(Gen 3:8)

WHAT WENT WRONG?
God Creates man in his image for fellowship
Man sins and is cast out of the Garden of Eden
Man becomes so wicked and God Contemplates destroying
all his creation 
( And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.  And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the
earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. Gen 6:6-7 )
Noah finds favor in eyes of God for he was a righteous man (But Noah found favor in the eyes of Jehovah. These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, and perfect in his generations: Noah walked with God. Gen 6:8-9)
Man still forgets to keep the laws of God,  God sends Jesus to reconcile man to himself once again

NO ONE IS RIGHTEOUS 

  (Romans 3:9-20)
  “None is righteous, no, not one;
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    no one understands;
    no one seeks for God.
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All have turned aside; together they have become
worthless;
    no one does good,
    not even one.”
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 “Their throat is an open grave;
    they use their tongues to deceive.”
“The venom of asps is under their lips.”
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     “Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”
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 “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
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    in their paths are ruin and misery,
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and the way of peace they have not known.”
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     “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
  …..20
For by works of the law no human being will be justified
in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

Because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart
that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved,  for with the heart man
believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Romans 10:9-10 (ASV)

But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, even
to them that believe on his name: John 1:12(ASV)

"I will walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people" (Leviticus
26:12)

The LORD your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. 
He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, 
but will rejoice over you with singing.” (Zephaniah 3:17)

I have seen servants upon horses, and
princes walking like servants upon the
earth Eccl 10:7 (ASV)

Wake up and take your place

God Bless You.

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