WHO IS GOD?
What is the overall theme?
God is supreme.
What is the Big Idea for this lesson?
God is Perfect
What is the Big Idea from this lesson?
God Defeated Death!
What is the Big Idea for this lesson?
God Transforms Life
What does Supreme mean?
Ruler, number 1, reigns over everything
(For every group) The Bible teaches God is perfect! How does that compare to you and others you look up to?
How did Jesus (God) defeat death?
He came to earth, died for our sins, and came back to life.
What is one of the four ways God transforms believers (or makes them more like Jesus)?
Sustains
Purifies
Empowers
Guides
What are the three parts of the Trinity?
God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit
Name one of the four ways God is perfect.
Perfect in Majesty, Perfect in Uprightness, Perfect in Forgiveness, God is infinite
The Bible teaches that sin ______________ you from the Lord.
separates
This is bad news! Good thing Jesus came to earth to seek and save sinners like you and me because He loves us so much!
For all Groups.
Locate 2 Timothy 2:22 and memorize it. You have 5 minutes.
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a PURE heart.
What does Trinity mean?
Tri - three Unity - united as one
It is the idea that God is one God, existing eternally as Three Persons.
Many people wonder about who God is and try to find answers from all over. However, the Bible is the only _______________ source to learn about God's character.
RELIABLE
The Bible is the only place we can truly learn about God because it comes from God.
God invites all to respond to the Good News He offers in Jesus. What is that "Good News?"
He saves!
The Bible teaches that God transforms believers from the inside out, but we learned that God doesn't force this change on us. This means we have to do what with God in order to see His transforming power?
cooperate
Since God is supreme (over all things), what should we do?
Follow and obey Him
Find 1 Chronicles 29:11. You have 5 minutes to find the passage and memorize it for 500 points. (This is for every group).
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 the earth is Thine; Thine is the Kingdom, O LORD, and Thou art exalted as head above all.
We learned that God seals all who trust in Jesus to save them. What does it mean that God seals us?
We belong to God.
The Lord confirms believers as His treasured possession.
Go to Ephesians 6:10-12. What does the Bible say we are waring against, and what has God provided us that we may stand against it?
We war against Satan and the demonic rulers of darkness!
God has provided every believer with the armor of God to stand strong, not in our own power, but in God's power!