THE GREATNESS OF GOD-VIDEO-2

Here you can see a continuation(actually the introductory part), of the Greatness of God-video.You know that in Psalm 145, verse3, we read, "Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised;and His greatness is unsearchable".

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This epic video talks about

the GREATNESS OF GOD! In this video you will learn what makes God so different from all other God's.

THE GREATNESS OF GOD-1

Have you ever imagined how big God is? Have you ever thought about His omnipotence and omniscience? What about His omnipresence? We were looking at His goodness the other time and we saw that He is not just good, He is goodness personified. Now let us look at His awesome greatness.

We cannot talk about God without looking into the Bible anytime we want to examine the character or nature of God. In the Book of Psalms chapter 93 and verse3 we read as follows:

3 “For the Lord is a great God and a great king above all gods”.

Again in the book of Deuteronomy chapter 10 and verse 17 we read as follows:

17 “For the Lord your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty and terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:”

This portion goes on to explain that God is great, as well as mighty and terrible.

King David of Israel we all know was one man who saw God do great things. He saw God use a little Sheppard boy whom He (God) had anointed, to slay a lion, then a bear, and then a giant reputed to be the super champion of his own time, when he tried to defy the armies of the living God. God used him to do amazing things. He therefore by the Spirit of God tells us in the book of 1 Chronicles chapter 29 and verses 10 to12 as follows:

10 “Wherefore David blessed the Lord before all the congregations: and David said, Blessed be thou, Lord God of Israel our father, forever and ever.

11 Thine, O Lord  ,  is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in heaven and in earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou is exalted as head above all.

12 Both riches and honor come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great and to give streghnth unto all”.

These verses followed a series of events in the Bible during which David told the congregation of Israel that although he had desired to build God a temple, God had refused him because he-David, was not qualified. God Himself had chosen his son Solomon to build him a temple. The one whom the Lord had chosen was still a child. King David did not want a shabby work to be done because this God is a great God. He therefore decided to gather Israel  together so that they can give towards the building of the temple. When they had finished giving, he was amazed, excited and elated and spoke those beautiful but great and true words above, about the greatness of God.

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Talking about the omnipotence of God, we see His power demonstrated in the creation of the World. The Bible tells us in the book of Genesis, that in the beginning God created the Heavens and the earth. Many of us have not yet understood the concept of the heavens.

 A LIFE OF LOVE IS A LIFE OF DOMINION. 

There is a profound scripture that is totally amazing to me.  It sounds philosophical, it sounds difficult to fathom, but it is very real.  In the book of 1 John Chapter 4 verses 8 and 16 we read a phrase that says, 'God is love', let’s look at the scripture: 1^st John, 4:8 "He who does not love does not know God, for God is love".

1^st John, 4:16 "And we have known and believed the love that God has for us.  God is love, and he who abides in love, abides in God, and God in him".

The Bible tells us that God is love, and this literally means that love is very natural with God.  Love is so much his nature that he cannot help but exude it, just as righteousness, faithfulness and justice are his nature.

THE GREATEST COMMANDMENT

Talking about love again, it is according to our Lord Jesus Christ the greatest commandment.  It ultimately replaced the Law of Moses to become the New and only commandment to the believer.  In Mark Chapter 12 and verse 28-31, we read about a Scribe who asked Jesus a very important question about love, and how Jesus answered him.

28 "And one of the Scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, 'which is the first commandment of all?

29 And Jesus answered him, the first of all the commandments is, "Hear, O Israel; the Lord Our God is one Lord:

30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this the first commandment.

31 And the second is like it, namely this; thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself.  There is none other commandment greater than these". 

The man, who asked Jesus this question, was amazed at this wisdom and tremendous revelation His spirit immediately caught it, and he was totally satisfied.  Look at his response to the answer in verses 32 and 33 of the same chapter.

32 "And the Scribe said unto him, well, Master, thou has said the truth: for there is one God: and there is none other but he:

33 And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding, With all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices".

This is one of those few places, if there are any other where the Pharisees and scribes were satisfied with the ways of Jesus.  It is so easy to understand this because, if you love the Lord, you will obey him, and if you love your neighbor, you will never cheat on him or harm him, or rob him or betray him in any way.

Jesus talked about love again as a new commandment to his followers.

A NEW COMMANDMENT

Thus in the Book of John, Chapter 13 and verse 34, Jesus lends credence to the superiority of the commandment of love, to any other, as he instructs his disciples.  John 13 verse 34 –

34 –"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another."

I had earlier explained why, because it covers all the other commandments relating to our fellow human beings.

Then again, love is called or described as the greatest gift of all.  In 1^st Corinthians chapter 13, the attributes of love are clearly written down and explained.  Love is superior to the gifts of healing, prophecy, speaking in tongues and interpretation, working of miracles, discerning of spirits etc. and yet there are so many today that are moving around, operating these gifts but have no love.  How sad!

THE GREATEST GIFT OF  ALL

Love is the greatest gift of all, because without love; you will not make heaven or you will be cast away from the presence of God at the last day.  I strongly believe that those who will come to the master on the last day and cry out, we worked miracles in your Name, we healed the sick in your name etc. and will be driven away, with the Lord saying to them get thee behind me or away from my presence you workers of iniquity, for I never knew you, are these gifted people who have lost the love of God

Some are callous, extort money from people, curse or stagnate innocent people who refuse to be controlled by them because they are gifted.  They will be shocked on the judgment day, if they don't truly repent.  That you have a gift of the Spirit does not mean that you have made it to the end, otherwise Jesus would not have said this, but many take it lightly, and live anyhow, though gifted.  Remember, to whom much is given, from whom much is required. 

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BABIES ARE THOSE WHO MESS UP NAPKINS ALL THE TIME1

When babies are not yet mentally well developed as earlier mentioned, they  have lots of problems with napkins.It is the same thing with baby christians- they struggle a lot with sin. This video tells you more about how, as a child who is conscious of God's presence, you can honour your father by listening to the voice of the Holy Spirit.

EXCELLING IN THE LIFE OF HOLINESS THROUGH: GOD CONSCIOUSNESS.-1

In life, there are certain things that when we know them or we have the relevant work tools, they make our life and our work easier than would have been without them. This is the simple reason I am going to try to bring to your attention today, to these important work tools, in our daily walk with God, which He has designed to help us to actualize our dreams of fulfilled lives as believers on earth and to make heaven at last. Remember that the Bible tells us that without holiness no man shall see the Lord.

The first work tool I will like us to look at today is what I call – “God consciousness”. The Bible makes us to understand that God is everywhere or is omnipresent. In Psalm 139 verses 7-12, we read as follows:

7 “Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold thou art there.

9 If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;

10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

13 For thou has possessed my reins: thou has covered me in my mother’s womb.”

Here, the Psalmist talks extensively about the Omnipresence of the Creator. One of the things that strikes me about this is the fact that he –David was aware of this presence, and that he was conscious of it to the point of allowing it to guide his actions, although we all acknowledge the fact that at times he slipped and lost this consciousness and sinned against the Lord and was equally punished.

It is therefore established from this and so many other scriptures that we may not go into now, that God is everywhere and that He sees all things and equally knows all things.

However, He does not make this presence noticeable all the time because carnal human beings who are depending on their five senses may not be able to see Him, or hear him, or touch or feel him because the awareness of that presence is beyond the five senses. But this knowledge, of the fact that Jesus said that he will be with us always, added to the fact that he never lied and will never lie, are enough to let us know, that he watches us all the time.

Now let me digress a little- Paul the apostle used commonsense or things that are commonplace at times to teach. In certain places you hear things like-“Does not commonsense even teach you …” or As Paul says in 1 Corinthians chapter 11 and verse 14, “Doth not even nature teach you, that if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?’, well that’s by the way.

 I heard about an experiment, which was performed in the 1940’s, in a company at the outskirts of Chicago, United States of America, in a company- an electrical company known as –‘the Hawthorne works’, company of America.

The company management commissioned some researchers to investigate what would be the effect of improving the lighting condition in the company on the workers’ productivity.

The researchers did their job, the workers were aware that they were being studied, or that what they produced was being monitored. As a result of this, all the while the researchers were in the company, the productivity of the workers remained very high or increased.

However, it was equally observed, that as soon as the experiments were stopped and the workers realized that these external monitors were no longer there, their productivity dropped down to pre-experimental levels. The workers had reacted to the fact that they were being monitored and so tried to their best to impress the investigators/researchers, and when they left they relaxed. In fact some people claim that productivity was even higher when the light was diminished, because they even made a greater effort then to achieve the best. In summary-the Hawthorne effect is a form of reactivity whereby the subjects improve or modify an aspect of their behavior being experimentally measured simply in response to the fact that they know that they are being studied.

Now if you go back to Psalm 139 above, and look at those verses carefully you will know that we are constantly being watched and guided, and studied by God. A consciousness of the presence of God will definitely help us to realize that we ought to be our best at all times.

Somebody reading this will say-well, I know that God might be watching me or definitely watching me, but I am His child and He loves me and should not take my mistakes seriously. After all He is my heavenly father. Oh yes- I know about that too, but would you actually resign to remaining a little baby that defecates on the napkin all the time- is that a wise choice to make?

Let us look at that from another angle- Think about this teenage boy or girl who says, ‘I and my daddy are friends, so he tolerates everything I do’. This boy/girl walks home from school and he sees his father who has already returned from his work relaxing in the sitting room, and instead of greeting his father, he/she starts urinating on the rug in the sitting room right there in the presence of his father, and in his/her mind he says to himself, ‘father will understand, he is my friend, am just feeling pressed’.  Then when the father complains the child will start shouting at him. Common sense tells us that this child deserves to be flogged, because the Bible says that foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction drives it away from him.

Now the things that will prevent this child from carrying out this foolish act are:

 1.The fact that his mind tells him that it is wrong to do that-that is a good conscience.

2. Secondly, the fact that he fears and respects his father, and honors his father-reverential fear.

Yet he knows that his father is his/ her friend and will not be afraid to watch the television and movies in his presence and laugh during a laugh it off show because his/father permits him/her to do that.

Finally in Malachi chapter1 and verse 6, we read as follows:

6 “A son honoureth His father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour, where is mine honour? And if I be a master, where is my fear? Saith the Lord of hosts, O priests, that despise my name, And ye say, wherein have we despised thy name?

Remember that we are priests and kings according to the book of Revelation, some may think that he is just talking to the old covenant priests or the Pastors only-No- he is talking to all of us.

Then if you are a friend of God, the Bible tells us in the book of Proverbs chapter 18 and verse 24 how to conduct good relationships/friendships.

24 “A man that hath friends, must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother”.

These scriptures simply tell us that if God is watching us and is with us all the time, and we say that he is our master or father, then He deserves our reverence, our honour, our respect and our obedience.

Holiness is not only a gift from God, it is a quality that God says that we can constantly improve on hence the call to offer our bodies as a living sacrifice, wholly and acceptable to God (Romans 12 verses1-2). This is what you and I are called to do, though this is not a popular topic for a generation with itching ears.