Join us on an enlightening journey as we tackle one of the biggest questions in religious thought: what does God look like? Inspired by letters from listeners around the world, we reflect on God’s essence as a spirit, unbound by physical attributes yet profoundly personal. Dr. McGee discusses the limitations of humanity’s perception and the role of Jesus in manifesting God’s presence. Explore the unique blend of spirituality and personality that defines our Creator and discover how to connect with Him beyond the material. This episode challenges us to see beyond the physical and find God’s presence in every
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When people talk about God, it’s not always easy to know what they mean. With so many different cultures and faiths in the world, the concept of who God is has really gotten a little blurry, even in Bible-believing churches. So if you’re wondering who God is, and maybe even what he looks like, then you’ve come to the right place. Welcome to the Sunday Sermon on Through the Bible. Our message, What Does God Look Like?, is the first in the series that Dr. J. Verna McGee taught on the person and character of God. Before we begin, though, here are three letters from the far corners of the globe. All of them touch on our theme of who is God and how we can know Him. The first note comes from a listener in Brazil. She writes, After hearing your program on who God is, I now believe and will be baptized this month. Thank you for showing me the beginning steps of faith in my journey with Jesus Christ. And then here’s a letter from a listener of our check program who wants to know Jesus. I have a strong desire to know the Lord Jesus and live in truth, he says. I don’t want to understand the Bible by my own way. Thank you for your teaching that changes my view of the world and my life. And then finally, a Farsi listener, which means he’s probably in Iran, asks some really important questions. From childhood, I have had many questions about Christianity, but did not find any answers. One day, by accident, I listened to your program. By listening to Through the Bible, I have realized that Jesus was crucified. Can you please explain more to me? Why did God allow Jesus to die? How can Jesus’ death pay the penalty for my sin? It’s still hard to accept that Jesus died for my sin. Well, what are you learning about who God is as we study his word together? You know we’d love to hear your story, so why don’t you write and tell us about it today? Maybe we’ll even be able to share your note here on the Sunday Sermon. Now, just send your thoughts via the feedback section of our app. That’s the quickest. Or you can email us over at biblebus at ttb.org or send your letter to Box 7100. Pasadena, California, 91109. Or in Canada, Box 25325, London, Ontario, N6C 6B1. You can even leave us a voicemail over at 1-800-65-BIBLE. Let’s pray for these listeners and others who are hearing about grace and truth, maybe for the first time. Heavenly Father, as we study, would you reveal yourself to each one of us and to listeners who are seeking to know and trust you? Give them new understanding, Lord, of who you are and how very much you love us. Thank you for your word that always points us to your Son. It’s in his name we pray. Amen. Now here’s Dr. J. Vernon McGee’s Sunday sermon, What Does God Look Like on Through the Bible?
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It was Laplace, the French astronomer, who years ago said, I have searched the heavens with a telescope and I did not see God. Dr. Sawyer, equally great astronomer and also a very wonderful Christian, he said he might as well have swept the kitchen with a broom. May I say that you and I are not going to be able to see him sticking his head around one of the planets or one of the stars or out yonder in one of the galactic systems. Therefore, this morning, my beloved, I am confident that I shall not be able to answer the question to the satisfaction of every person here, what does God look like? A little girl upstairs one night began to fret and cry, and her mother went up to her and said, What’s the matter, honey? She said, I’m afraid up here by myself. And her mother wanted to encourage her and said, Well, God’s up here with you. And she said, Yes, I know, but I want somebody with a faith. May I say to you, you and I today want somebody with a faith. But why is this inability today to see God Why is it that today we have not seen him? For there is an axiom of scripture that says no man hath seen God at any time. That’s true in the Old Testament. That’s true in the New Testament. And that’s true up to this morning. No man hath seen God at any time. I may be wrong, but as I studied the book of Revelation this time, I’ve come to the conclusion that we may not see him throughout the endless ages of eternity. I believe that we shall see the Lord Jesus Christ, we shall be with him, and the Father is there. But whether you and I are going to see him, I’m not too sure. Why is that inability to see God? The scripture, I think, gives the answer to that. God is a spirit, our Lord said, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. And the Greek is, God is spirit. Or even better still, it’s pneuma ho theos. Spirit is God. God is essential, and in essence, God is spirit. Therefore, God is not material, and there’s nothing material connected with him. There’s no such thing as matter or the physical that’s connected with God. God does not need any connection with the physical whatsoever. He is not disturbed about his noon meal today, and he will not worry whether it’s a little late or not. He will… not have to bring in supplies tomorrow for the week. God is not dependent on anything that’s material in his universe. He doesn’t have to have air to breathe. He does not have to have any kind of a nourishment. He doesn’t watch his diet. He does not take vitamins to keep up his energy. He has no connection whatsoever with the physical. Somebody says, wait just a minute. I do know that it says in the Old Testament that certain man did see God. What about that? Well, I’m sure you’re referring to Jacob, first of all. It does say it, and may I say Jacob said it, and you ought to always examine what Jacob says, regardless of any period in his life, too well to check up anything he says. He was mistaken so many times. And yonder at the Brook Jabba, Peniel, he was left alone. And we’re told that they wrestled a man with him. He never wrestled with anybody. After all, he didn’t want to wrestle. He’s not out for any crown. He’s not trying to win a purse. But to begin with, he has his father-in-law back of him. And he’s after him. He has his brother ahead of him, and his brother is after him also. Do you think he wants to take on a third person that night? You don’t know Jacob if you thought he wanted to wrestle. They wrestled a man with Jacob. But Jacob did say this. And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. Who did Jacob see? The record is clear. There wrestled a man with Jacob. Who was the man? I personally believe it was the pre-incarnate Christ. That’s not my thesis this morning. I’m not concerned about sustaining that argument at all, but I personally believe that that was the pre-incarnate Christ who wrestled with Jacob. But be that as it may, he did not see God. He saw the man, the angel that wrestled with him. That’s all he saw. He did not see God. Somebody said, well, all right. What about Moses? Did Moses see God? All right. Will you notice the 33rd chapter of Exodus, verse 18? And he said, I beseech thee, show me thy glory. And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee, and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I’ll show mercy on whom I will show mercy. Paul makes that clear in Romans, the 10th chapter, that God had to make it clear to Moses what he was doing for Moses wasn’t because Moses was the leader, or Moses had done something conspicuous or outstanding, but that when God does anything, he does it because of the fact there’s no respect of persons with him. And he’s not doing it because Moses is Moses. He’ll have mercy on whom he will have mercy. And he will show grace to whom he will show grace. God is sovereign. If God wants to be gracious, he’ll be gracious. If God wants to show mercy, he’ll show mercy. And don’t you question him. You have no right to question him. You’re an unbeliever if you question our God. This business today of trying to blame God and somehow or another say he’s wrong in what he’s doing. Our God is doing things right, my beloved, and it’s time believers are defending him instead of questioning him. He said to Moses, Moses, I’m going to give you an unusual experience. I’ll let you see something no man has ever seen. But I want you to know this. It’s not because you’re Moses. It’s because I’m extending mercy to you. And I’m being gracious to you. Now, will you notice? He said, thou canst not see my face, for there shall no man see me and live. He made his glory to pass by. That’s all really Moses asked for. He made his glory to pass by, and he hid Moses in the cleft of the rock. But Moses did not see God. Still in axiom of both the Old Testament and New Testament, no man hath seen God. Why? Why this inability to see God? Well, it’s because God’s a spirit, my friends. God’s not material. God’s not matter. And he can see, but he doesn’t have an eye. He can hear, but he doesn’t have an ear. The poet put it like this. There is an eye that never sleeps beneath the wing of night. There is an ear that never shuts when sink the beams of light. There is an arm that never tires when human strength gives way. There is a love that never fails when earthly loves decay. That eye unseen or watcheth all. That arm upholds the sky. That ear doth hear the sparrow’s call. That love is ever nigh. Now I recognize that I’ve created a problem. And you and I are dealing with an infinite God, and we’re just finite creatures. And it’s very difficult for us to think of God being spirit. Now, man is only partially physical. We need the material and we need the physical to establish a conscious existence. You and I have contact with this world that we live in. through the physical. We have certain senses. Every one of them is a physical sense. We have an eye gate. We have an ear gate. We have taste buds. We have our hands that feel. We can feel cold and heat. We come in contact with the physical universe through these bodies of ours. And there’s a mingling and blending of the physical and spiritual in man. The psalmist was right. We’re fearful and wonderfully made. We’re also spiritual. Now, we need an eye to see. God does not need eyes to see. He made the eye, and the one who made the eye can see. He doesn’t need an ear to hear, but he made the ear, and the one who made the ear, he can hear. God is spirit. Well, somebody says, but I read in the Bible that the eyes of God, what does it mean? It says the eyes of God run to and fro in the earth. What does it mean the eyes of God run to and fro in the earth if he doesn’t have eyes? It speaks to whom is the bared arm of the Lord revealed. What does it mean when it says bared arm of the Lord if he doesn’t have a bared arm? I’m going to slay you now. That is what is known as an anthropomorphic term. You knew I’d get out of it some way, didn’t you? That’s a 75-cent word. And it only means this. It’s a very, really very simple word. Anthropos means man. Morphic means shape or form. It means that terms that apply to man are used to apply to God so you and I can understand it. I cannot understand how a spirit can see. And you can sit here and talk to me the rest of the day and I won’t understand it. I’m sorry, but I don’t get it. But when you say the eyes of the Lord run to and fro in the earth, he sees everything. I get that. I understand what you mean. He’s able to do without eyes what I’m able to do without. Only he sees better. I have to have bifocal. God has never yet put on bifocal. And yet he’s the ancient of day. He doesn’t need eyes to see. But the scripture uses terminology like this in order that he might get over to us exactly the fact God sees. When he says, to whom is the bared arm of the Lord revealed? He’s making a contrast. Isaiah wanted you to understand something because the psalmist had already said, the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth his finger work. Crocheting. That’s just a little tatting he did up there. Someone said, God created the universe. Didn’t even half try. This tremendous universe It did not take all of the strength and power and ability of God to do it. When he rested the seventh day, he wasn’t tired. He just finished the job and there was nothing else to do. It was a rest of completeness and perfection, the kind of rest he wants you and me to enter into when we come to Christ. The Christ did it all, and we enter into the Sabbath rest. And my friend, do you keep the Sabbath day? I do, every day and every moment of the day. It’s the Sabbath rest of redemption. Forget about Saturday. But remember, there is a rest of redemption. He did it all, and we enter into that rest, completeness. And when God finished creation, he didn’t do what I do so many times. When I got away from here last Sunday night to catch the train, I left everything. Two of the fellas came running after me to give me this I’d left. And then I got up on top of the hill, and here came another one. He says, you forgot something else. Sure glad my head was screwed on. I’d have left it here. Sure as the world. I never complete anything. Do you ever complete anything? Are you ever able to sit down and say, well, I’m through. I finished this job. But when God finished, it was complete. It was just finger work, though. But when God was ready to redeem man, it wasn’t finger work. To whom is the bared arm of the Lord revealed? Now, that’s the only way I can understand that it costs God more to redeem man than it did to create a universe. And you are more important to him than the universe. A universe, he can use his fingers, but when he had to redeem you, a sinner, it was his bad arm. But wait a minute, he doesn’t have fingers, and he doesn’t have an arm. But that’s the only way I’ll understand it. That’s the only way you can get over to me. Now, God is therefore non-material. And material is his creation. He made it all. It’s beneath him. It’s not part of him at all. And this is the reason that God from the very beginning forbade man to make any image or any likeness of him at all. God from the very word go said, there’s one thing that you want to be sure that you do not do. He gave two commandments in that connection. Thou shall have no other gods before me. Thou shall not make unto thee any graven image or any likeness of me. And he asked the question, to whom would you liken me? What do you think I look like? You’d never be able to. You would never be able. Thou shall not make unto thee any graven image. And the warning he gave to Israel, and it was the thing that sent them into captivity, was his constant, repeated warning to them to stay away from idolatry. Because the story of the human family is not a story of evolution up to God, but it’s a devolution from a knowledge of God. When they knew God, they glorified him not as God. They became vain in their imaginations. Their foolish heart would darken. And down and down they came, and they began to make likenesses of four-footed creatures. of the sun and the moon and the stars and began to worship them. Have you ever seen a heathen idol that was beautiful? Not one of them are beautiful. The Greeks came nearer to it, of course, when they attempted to depict the gods on Mount Olympus and even then the gods on Mount Olympus were just great big men and women and all of their faults were manifested. The gods on Mount Olympus got jealous. They had envy. They got angry. They did many things. But they did things that human beings do. And that’s what Paul meant when he went into the city of Athens. He said, you have worshipped everything and now you’ve even put up an image to an unknown God. You recognize the fact that there’s a God you do not know. And I want to tell you about him. You can’t make an image of him. How would you make an image of him? You’re forbidden to make an image of him. Now, will you listen as he speaks to the nation Israel in the fourth chapter of Deuteronomy, beginning at verse 15. Let me read two verses. Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves. Listen to this. For ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb, out of the midst of the fire, lest ye corrupt yourselves and make you a graven image of The similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, the likeness of any beast that’s on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flyeth in the air, the likeness of anything that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that’s in the waters beneath the earth. And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the hosts of heaven, should be driven to worship them and serve them, which the Lord by God hath divided unto all nations under the sun. May I say to you, God’s warning is repeated again and again to his own people. And he forbids us today to make an image That is the thing that Paul said to the Athenians. God’s not like these things made of silver and gold. He doesn’t look like that at all. God is spirit. God is spirit. And any likeness or representation of him is wrong. Whether it be a totem pole, an idol of Baal, or a statue of Zeus, or a sitting Buddha, or icons, or a plaster parish saint. Those things are wrong. I just make nothing represents God. 1900 years ago, God broke through into human history. He took upon himself human flesh. He that hath seen me hath seen the Father. Have you noticed? I cannot find in any one of the Gospels that there was born to Mary a nine-pound baby boy with blue eyes and light hair, brown eyes and dark hair. I can’t find it. Pictures of Christ are not accurate. Oh, I know Solomon’s head of Christ is a beautiful thing. The only thing is Christ didn’t look like that. Thomas Carline. That Scottish philosopher said, when men lose the image of Christ on their hearts, they start painting his picture. I’m sorry today. I’m not really being ugly. Now, I know that this won’t go over with a great many people, especially if you run a gospel bookstore. You won’t like me now. I think it’s wrong to use pictures of Christ today. Oh, somebody said, but… You know, I have a little altar, and I put a picture of Jesus up there, and I like to go and buy down before it. You’re nothing in the world but an idolater. Oh, yeah, but I need that to help me. If you know him as Savior, you do not need that to help you. Now, I know that’s not popular today. I was interested back at Wine on a Lake. I watched the bookstore there. I watched them because they were selling my books. And I watch people, when they came in, you think they bought my books? Well, they bought them. They bought all they had there. But the thing was that they bought twice as many of these little plaster Paris pictures of Christ. Some of them had mottos on them. Some didn’t. But, oh, you just got to have a picture of Jesus. How’d they look? Would you tell me? Isn’t it interesting that nothing that was physical, that was connected with him, has survived? God thought of that. I just will get it all off my chest this morning. Let me say something else. Somebody told me, said, you know, said I went to Palestine and I went down there to the garden too. And it was so wonderful. I just got out on my knees and had a wonderful prayer. You mean you had to make a trip to Palestine to have a wonderful prayer? Now, how do you know that’s the spot? I’m not willing to take the word of another church that here’s where he’s crucified and here’s where he was buried. I don’t think they know. The Lord got rid of all of that stuff. And I’m waiting today for a personally conducted tour. And my Lord’s going to take me over there someday. And he says, here, McGee, is where I was crucified. And here is where I was buried. I’m waiting for that tour. I’ve lost your friendship now, haven’t I? But somebody needs to say these things today. We’re developing a group of Protestants today that are running around looking for sacred spots and pictures and that sort of thing. Have you lost the Savior? Why do you have to have these things today? God, the Spirit, and even our Lord when he became a man, nothing connected with him. Now, God is not very tangible or real, somebody says. Yes, he is. I want to mention two things now about God. And these are the two things that are all important. It’s not how he looks, but these two are important. The first thing that God has, two characteristics of God as spirit. He has personality. Now, because God is a spirit does not mean that he’s not a person. Actually, he’s the only true person in the final analysis. You don’t have to possess a physical body to be a person. For instance, the scripture makes it very clear that what you and I live in today, this physical house, it’s passing away. It’s temporary. Paul says, we know that if the earthly house of this tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building with God. This thing that I’m living in today is what you see. And honestly, you’ve never seen me. Someone asked if John Quincy Adams, Life Magazine’s been running some of his papers. He was a great man and a wonderful Christian, by the way. He started to study for the ministry and did not. He said, when somebody met him one day as an old man in Boston, they said, how are you, Mr. Adams? He said, I’m very well. But this house I live in is sure becoming feeble. I’m all right, but this house I live in is becoming feeble. We today associate a person with the body that they live in. And sometimes a person does come to the surface. And you can see love in the eyes. Sometimes you can see hate in the eyes. You can see stubbornness around the mouth. I was interested yesterday driving down, watching the people who will not move over. You know, that hog the left lane and won’t move over. Now, I may be wrong, but you make a test, will you? I made this test yesterday of at least a dozen. They all have the same kind of a stubborn mouth. Every one of them did. You see, the personality does come out. And there are people today that say they can interpret the lines in your hand. They can feel the bumps on your head. If there are any up there, they can tell what kind of person you are. What is a person? I don’t want to get too technical this morning in a Sunday morning service, but listen to this. One capable of self-consciousness and self-determination. Self-consciousness. Man is self-conscious. Animal is conscious, but not self-conscious. You see a man and a dog going down the street? The man is self-conscious. The dog is just conscious. And again, may I say, Disney has made us believe that Donald Duck really has little nephews. And that these nephews really have certain feelings about certain things. Honestly, they don’t. And I don’t think that a duck knows whether he’s got a cousin or not and doesn’t care. And Mickey Mouse? Well, I don’t think Mickey Mouse has had any thoughts on anything. The only thinking he has is to get something to eat, to stay away from the cat. That’s all. Now, even a baby in a crib is not self-conscious. And that’s no inhibitions whatsoever. And you know, friends, the unusual thing is we’re not always self-conscious people. Sometimes we come to ourselves like the prodigal son did. You notice what he said? He came to himself. One day he waked up. He said, I’m a son of my father. What am I doing down in this big vent? I’m going home. He became self-conscious. And every now and then a man, and you’ve got to be an intelligent man to this, to do this. Who am I? Where am I going? What am I doing in this life? Where am I going? Have you settled that question yet? Do you have the answer to that question? Who are you? Have you found out you’re a sinner, lost, held to him, and on the way to hell? Have you discovered that? And have you found out that a Savior died for you? And as an intelligent being, you can come to him. Do you know who you are today? Do you know where you’re going? As an individual, God said for Moses at the very beginning, I am who I am. That’s Jehovah. God recognizes himself and he acts rationally because he knows who he is. He doesn’t have anyone to compare himself to as we do. He has no means of identification, but he says, I am who I am. I’m God. And every now and then, We come to ourselves, oh, how many men and women need to wake up and get a little sense up here and ask the question, who am I? Where am I going? The second thing that determines a personality is self-determination. A person determines and decides. That’s the thing that makes man a personality. The inanimate world, it’s governed by laws. You take this book here. This book has no sense whatsoever. A lot of sense in it, but has none of itself. It’s not saying to me, don’t drop me. Don’t you treat them that way, will you not? I intended to get it over far enough that it’d fall all the way to the floor and wouldn’t break like that. That book has no control whatsoever. It’s inanimate. The brute world outside is governed by instinct. And before long, the ducks that are up in Canada right now will be flying south and all the geese. This old gander won’t be walking around and saying to the geese, have you packed your suitcase? We’ll be leaving now in two weeks. Our vacation is about over. And is little Gosling ready to fly? Do you think he’ll be able to make it? Not on your life, my friend. Just one of these days, old Gander, he starts out. And even if one of those little Goslings who’s never been south, he can get lost and he’ll find his way down there. You tell me how he does it. I don’t know. And in the wintertime, they all leave the north and come south. A lot of preachers up north do the same thing. May I say to you, my beloved, man is given the power to choose. And he comes to a crossroads and he has to make a decision. You decided this morning to come to church. Maybe your wife decided it, but somebody did. You had to make a decision to come to church. The power of choice is limited to man. He’s self-conscious. And he makes a choice. Now, I recognize that’s limited, but he does that. Dr. Palmer said, that which has its cause outside itself is a thing. That which has its cause within itself is a person. You see a car coming down the street, no one in it, it’s a thing. You put somebody at the wheel, it’s altogether different. Somebody to determine where to go. God is a person and we are persons. And that’s the reason back in the Old Testament it says, And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face. Why face to face? God’s a person. Moses is a person. God spoke as an intelligent creator to this intelligent creature that he had made. Now, I must conclude God’s life. God is life. And that doesn’t mean that God has life. God is life. I’m not quibbling now about terms, but he does not possess life. He is life. He breathes out life. And everything that has life must draw it from him. And his personality is never diminished or decreased because he gives out life. That is the thing that’s said concerning him in the Old Testament. I wish I had time to point out how the Old Testament makes clear he’s a living God and everything else is a dead God. Jeremiah said to his people in his day who turned to idolatry, Jeremiah 10.10, but the Lord is the true God. He’s the living God. And old Elijah chided the prophets of Baal, where’s your God? Must be asleep. He’s taking a vacation. He doesn’t hear you. Of course he doesn’t hear you. He’s an idol. Only the living God hears. Paul said to the Thessalonians, how ye turn to God from idols to serve the living and true God and wait for his son from heaven. The Lord Jesus Christ, when he was here, said, I’m the way, the truth, and the life. Christ is the life giver today. Adam was a life receiver. And our life today is subject to time. We’re creatures of time. God lives eternally. Time is a creation of God. When Paul speaks about things separating us from God, he says things present, things to come, or any other created thing. Time is a creation. It writes no wrinkle on his brow. It plows no furrow in his cheek. It puts no gray in his hair. He is the ancient of days, but he’s ever young, for he lives in eternity. We are frail creatures of time. It affects us like a disease today. And Father Time with an hourglass and a sickle. What a picture as he moves in and out among us. But may I say to you, God is not subject to time. He says, well, a thousand years a day in my sight. If I want to reverse it, a day is a thousand years. Then Clare Lewis, the novelist, walked to the edge of Grand Canyon. took his wrist watch, and he says, if there be a God, he was an agnostic, let him strike me dead in five minutes. And everybody that worshiped St. Clair Lewis stood around breathless. And you know, nothing happened in five minutes. And St. Clair Lewis turned around to God and said, see, there’s no God. I can’t think of anything more absurd than that. And as some wag said, he’s looking at the wrong watch. He’s dead this morning. He died in five minutes, according to God’s clock, where a thousand years is a day and a day is a thousand years. He died in five minutes. He was just looking at the wrong watch. And a great many of you are looking at the wrong watch. You say, I got plenty of time. You look at the calendar and you say, I’m young. I got plenty of time. No, you haven’t. Only God has plenty of time today. Only he has time on his hands, if you please. Man’s like the grass. God is the ancient of day. He’s ever young. The dew of youth is on his brow. Man lives only a moment at a time. God lives eternity, all of time pressed into one moment, and he lives that out through eternity. That’s the reason he knows the end from the beginning. This morning for you and me, it’s like the dropping of water from a bucket. God doesn’t pay any attention to that. It’ll affect him, not affect him one whit. Our God today is a spirit. I want to make an application and close. I don’t often make two applications, but I must this morning. May I say that around and about us today, there are a great many people who are saying, show us God. The Lord Jesus said, he that hath seen me hath seen the Father. He said something else, as I am in the world, You are in the world. There are multitudes of people around us today that would like to know God. They can’t see you. They’re rather skeptical. But if they could only see Christ in you and me, they’d know him. That’s the real problem today. If they could only see Christ in us. I’m listening to Terry there. That’s personal. That hits too many of us. Let me move to something else this morning. My friend today, if you are without Christ and without God in the world, if you are waiting for him to meet you when you turn the corner, you’re wrong. You won’t see him. God is a spirit. They that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. You and I are finite. He’s infinite. But 1900 years ago, he left heaven’s glory to come down here to become a man. He that hath seen me hath seen the Father. I don’t know how God feels this morning. I don’t know what God thinks this morning about certain things. But I turn the pages of scripture and I read about my lovely Lord. And I see him weeping at the tomb of Lazarus. And I know that’s the way God feels about death. I see him going into a home where a little girl has been taken and restoring her. Because he wants the family to be intact. To come into his presence someday. I see 5,000 hungry men besides women and children. And I know how God feels today about the multitudes in India that are hungry today. The Lord Jesus said, the disciples said, send them away. No, he said, I won’t send them away. God this morning can be known. This is life eternal. that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. You won’t see God, and you won’t know much about him. Paul, at the end of his life, could say that I might know him, the power of his resurrection, but you can know him today as the one who died on the cross for your sin. You can know him as your Savior. You have been given enough information about God that you can make a decision and an intelligent decision. You can know him as saved. You have to make the decision.
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To know God is first to know Jesus Christ as Savior and the one who provides you with eternal life. If you’d like to know more about God’s offer of salvation, I want to direct you to some very helpful free resources by Dr. McGee that are available on our website, ttb.org, or in our app. All you need to do is click on How Can I Know God? If you’d prefer, we’ll send you a few of these resources by mail. Just give us a call at 1-800-65-BIBLE or write to us at Box 7100, Pasadena, California, 91109. In Canada, Box 25325, London, Ontario, N6C, 6B1. This week, The Bible Bus continues its journey through the Old Testament book of Micah. If you want to get the most out of each study, you’re going to want to get Dr. McGee’s free notes and outlines. And if you listen on our app, well, you already got them on your phone. Just check the menu section. And if not, the quickest and easiest way to get them is to go to ttb.org, look for Briefing the Bible, And with this one download, you’re going to have access to all of Dr. McGee’s notes and outlines for our entire five-year journey. It really is a great resource. Or if you prefer to get them just for Micah, you can select one book at a time as well. Or finally, you can just call us and we’ll send you an abridged print copy of Briefing the Bible by Mail when you request it. Our number again, 1-800-65-BIBLE. And when you’re in touch, let us know. how or where you listen, whether it’s a radio station, our app, Alexa, or some other way. Not only do we want to know so that we can make wise use of ministry resources, but if you listen on a local station, that’s info that is so hugely important for us. So please let us know. Now, as we go, I want to leave you with Psalm 910, which says, and those who know your name will put their trust in you. For you, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.
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Jesus paid it all, all to him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain, he washed it white as snow.
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Well, ride the Bible bus for five years and you’ll be amazed at what God teaches you from his word about what it means to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved. It’s a blessing that keeps on going. That’s what we believe at Through the Bible.
