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Affidavit of Facts
An Affidavit, what is that? In the world an affidavit is a sworn statement in writing made under oath or an affirmation before an authorized magistrate or officer. It lists the facts as they occurred doing a specific time that a thing was done from beginning to end. It includes the actions, performances, doings, existence of and actuality that the piece of information being presented has objective reality. God’s Holy Word is His Affidavit to the world that He is real.
God deals only in facts. He has set forth facts of truth in His Holy Word. He gave us facts concerning His Ways and His Will. God’s Word is Truth, it is Light, and it leads us to everlasting life. God’s Son is fact. Just as He Created and Made Man and Woman with the assistance of the Word and the Holy Spirit He breathe forth His Spirit and sent Jesus the Word in the likeness of man in the flesh. How can we question these facts?
The facts are true, actual reality, certainty and evidenced. Facts are the result of events that take place that cannot be naturally explained when it comes to God, but spiritually discerned according to the Word of God. Facts are the result of some action, deed, happening, occurrence, manifestation, experience, act, episode, or incident.
The Agent of the facts here is God himself who is very factual, exact, specific, descriptive, and accurate in all accounts of what happened from the beginning of man even until now. The Bible is God’s Word given by His inspiration to man that they would represent God to the people. They served as God’s proxy. They were His constituents showing His cause, part, portion and determinant facts as they exist yet today.
There is nothing new under the sun, what has been is, was, and to come. Man still deal with the turbulence of sin and contention of man. Man is yet hostile to the Word and those that carry the Word of God. They are not opposing man as they suppose but they are opposing God, His Word, and His Spirit.
These are the facts of who God is:
1. God is certainty; He is real although there is no logical definition of God. It is obvious that, strictly speaking God cannot be classified with other like objects, He is in a class by himself, absolutely sui generis (peculiar of its own kind, constituting a class alone).
2. What Scripture reveals about God serves to give us a description of Him adequate to our present powers of conception and to our present needs.
3. The upshot of this description is; that God depends on no one for His existence and has everything else dependent upon Him for its existence.
4. God is the most exalted Being, whom no better being can possibly exist, or be imagined.
5. The existence of God is simply assumed as an indubitable fact throughout the Scriptures from beginning to end (Genesis 1:1, Psalm 90:2, Revelation 22:19), and there is no real attempt to build up a labored philosophical argument for His existence.
6. The personality of God appears from Exodus 3:14, Psalm 90:2, Isaiah 41:2; 48:12, Acts 17:28 where God either speaks of Himself or is addressed, or referred to as a personal being.
7. God declares that He has a name which He will share with no one (Isaiah 42:8). This name does not express some typical feature, nor is it an arbitrary sign chosen for distinguishing Him as human names are, but the name of God Himself, His essence and personality (Exodus 3:14). This text furnished the derivation of the name Jehovah. The original pronunciation of the word is lost because the Jews transferred to it the pronunciation of Adonai. It was probably pronounced Jahveh, or Jahaveh, or briefly Jah. It is derived from hajah, to be, to exist. The Hebrew name El, (plural: Elohim) for God is derived from a noun that denotes strength. The Greek theos is differently derived from tithenai, to place, to set up; or form theein, to run swiftly, or from theasthai, to view, to contemplate. It would denote God as the Creator, the one everywhere Present, the Adorable. Also a derivation from deos, fear, has been attempted; in the Aeolian dialect, the word becomes dzeus=Zeus. It would denote God as the One to be Reverence. The English “God” and the German “Gott”, with similar formations in kindred languages springing from a common stock, has been traced to the Gothic “gods”=good.
The fact still remain we have access to God today.
1. Deuteronomy 4:7 for what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for
2. Psalm 145:18 the Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call him in truth
3. Mathew 6:6 but thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
4. John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life; no man cometh unto the Father but by me
5. Romans 5:2 by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God
The fact is Jesus made is possible for us as Gentiles to have access to God also.
1. Ephesian 2:12-18 that at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world; but now in Christ Jesus, ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one “new man”, so making peace; and that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby; and came and preached peace to you which were afar off and to them that were nigh. For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
2. Ephesian 3:12 in whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
3. Hebrews 7:25 wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them
4. James 4:8 draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you
5. I John 4:16 God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him
The fact is God is the Creator:
1. Genesis 1:1 in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth
2. Proverbs 3:19 the Lord by wisdom that founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens
3. Proverbs 22:2 the rich and poor meet together; the Lord is the maker of them all
4. Isaiah 44:24 I am the Lord that maketh all things
5. Isaiah 45:7, 12 I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil; I the Lord do all these things. I have made the earth, and created man upon it; I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded
6. Jeremiah 10:12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
7. Mark 10:6-9 but from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; and they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder
8. Acts 17:24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands
9. I Corinthians 8:6 to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him, and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him
10. Hebrews 11:3 through faith we understand that eh worlds were framed by the Word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
God is the first and the last and beside Him there is no other god. His righteousness endures forever. Peter said one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. God is faithful to us. He is with us and will keep us wherever we go if we want to be kept by Him. The Lord God is merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in all goodness and truth. Deuteronomy 7:9 Know therefore that the Lord thy God, He is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations. God is faithful. How do we say He is Faithful? We know in all of our hearts and souls that not one thing has God failed to do of all the good things he spoke concerning us. Everything he speaks to us comes to pass and if it doesn’t it’s not of God’s doing but ours. God has declared his faithfulness and his salvation and has not concealed his loving kindness and truth from us.
He will not turn away from us when we are in obedience to God’s Will. We are children of the Lord God and shall not cut ourselves off from Him. God’s mercy is on us when we fear God and keep His Commandments. He gives us knowledge of salvation by the remission of our sins. We are to be merciful one to another just as God is merciful to us. We are to be that living example of God’s holiness in the image we portray to the world. We are to uphold God’s standard and Commandments in how we live each day that the sinner may see and glorify God also. Hebrews 8:12 I will be merciful to their unrighteousness; and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. I John 1:9 if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
How is God able to do this? He is omnipotent, almighty, having virtually unlimited power, authority or influence. Genesis 17:1 I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. Genesis 18:14 is anything too hard for the Lord? Job said in Job 42:2 I know that thou canst do everything. With God all things are possible. For with Him nothing shall be impossible. Revelation 19:6 the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
How do we know God is there when we call, when we don’t call or even in our presence? We know because he is omnipresent; present in all places at all times. God is the radio transmitter that can reach far and beyond our imagination or thoughts. He is in the air, on the ground, over the clouds, and underground also; for He orders our steps and directs man’s footsteps. God is with us when we can’t feel that He is there. When Issac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him to go to Padanaram and take a wife from the house of Bethuel his mother’s father from the daughters of Laban his mother’s brother, Jacob proceeded to go. On the way there he fell asleep and dreamed a dream that a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven and behold the Lord stood above it and made himself known to Jacob. He stated what He would do and for what purpose God had for him. Do we know when the Lord has visited us? Jacob awaked out of sleep in Genesis 28:16 and said surely the Lord is in this place and I knew it not. We cannot contain all of God. We cannot flee His presence. Jeremiah 23:23-24 am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide him-self in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord. It’s time we seek the Lord until we feel after Him and find Him for He is not far from any of us; for in Him we live, and move, and have our being.
We are to walk in the perfection of God; freedom from fault or defect, flawlessness. We are to walk in God’s perfection to maturity, a state of being saintly, an exemplification of supreme excellence and an unsurpassable degree of accuracy or excellence. We are perfect in God through Christ Jesus. We are whole because Christ died for our sins. We are perfect and entire because Christ Crucifixion on the Cross at Calvary put us intact again that we are not lacking or faulty in any particular area of life. Jesus was perfect in the earth and God is perfect in heaven and now we too have a right to be perfect in the earth that we can go to heaven and have life eternally. Every part or element of us can be sound and excellent and of quality. We have been given the opportunity to be whole and can seek God’s perfection. We are to maintain our integrity, soundness and completeness in God. We first must be perfect here in the earth in Christ before we can be perfect in heaven. Matthew 5:48 Jesus said be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. Paul said in Romans 12:2 and be not conformed to this world; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Why do we want to be perfect in Christ? We can only come into the providence of God if we are whole and entire. We come under His divine guidance or care. God have to be conceived as the power sustaining and guiding human destiny. God has made provision for our future in a heavenly realm for eternity if we allow him to be our foresight. It is God that gave us herbs that bear seed, trees that bear fruit, clothes that hardly ever wax worn on us, air to breathe, medicine for sickness, and shelter from the rain. We see God’s promise of further provision here in Genesis 8:22 while the earth remaineth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. God promises that He will give us rain in due season that the land will continue to yield her increase and the trees her fruit. His people went through the wilderness forty years and their clothes didn’t rot nor their shoes. God promises to make our way prosperous and not only that but He desires that we should have good success. All things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. James 4:15 for that ye ought to say, if the Lord will, we shall live, and do this or that.
We must learn how to walk in the righteousness of God. What is righteousness? Righteousness is acting in accord with divine or moral law, freedom from guilt, sin, or shame. We are walking morally right and justifiably so; our decisions are after God’s Word. God qualified himself and operates in a divine proper order that we must submit to that we can obtain his righteousness. His righteousness for man is given through the redemptive work of redemption by Jesus Christ. He came to give his life a ransom for us to purchase us back from the bottomless pit of sin. We are now delivered so we no longer have to walk Sin Boulevard. Righteousness is of necessity and always, the basis of the idea of righteousness is conformity to a standard of perfection. It is an attribute of God and it signifies holiness, justice, and right doing. When righteousness is applied to man it signifies that they are in possession of the Christian virtues, faith, hope, and charity; a life which conforms to the divine law. Matthew 6:33 but seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. For the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith. We must submit to God’s righteousness or be like the Romans talked about by Paul in Romans 10:3-4 for they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God; for Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth. I John 2:1 and if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
God’s righteousness is wrought through His Spirit. God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. How we worship God is important. Numbers 16:22 and they fell upon their faces and said, O God, the god of the spirits of all flesh. Everything in the earth operates off of a spirit. Man was created a spirit, male and female created he them. The earliest sense of the words translated “spirit” in both Hebrew and Greek, is that of “wind” which suggests the comparison used by Jesus in St. John 3:8 the wind bloweth where it listeth and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. Spirit is usually connected with a manifestation of a presence, power, influence, or wisdom. It is also referred to in the Holy Word as the third person of the trinity. It is expressed in such terms as Spirit of God, Spirit of the Lord, Spirit of Jeus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. It’s also used to describe powers of evil.
In the use of soul and spirit the former seems to be an independent separate personality, while spirit partakes more of a dependent relationship. It is through the Spirit that man was united to God in the creation and through Jesus Christ that union which was broken is remade through the New Covenant. The Spirit is in the inner man. Paul says we shall have a spiritual body in I Corinthians 15:44 it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. According to Paul in I Corinthians 15: 45 was speaking what was already written of Adam the first man and Jesus the last Adam. The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. As we have born the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. No flesh and blood shall enter heaven; for it cannot inherit the kingdom of God.
The state of being spiritual, of being a spiritual character; spiritual-mindedness is called spirituality. It consists of spiritual, not of material, but incorporeal things. Thus the spiritual nature of man is distinguished from the physical. To be spiritual is to be refined from evil things; not sensual. It pertains to the spiritual state that brings purity of thought, mind, and heart, controlled and inspired by the divine spirit. Spirituality is the indwelling of the spirit of God. The source of spiritual gifts is God’s grace, and the agency of operation He employs is the Holy Spirit. Spirituality insures one of the strength to overcome the corrupting influences of carnal-mindedness. Carnal-mindedness pertains to the flesh and is fleshly. When carnal-minded we are given to sensual indulgence; as carnal pleasure, lustful acts, and unregenerate conditions of humanity. We have not been reformed or reconstructed but obstinate and stubborn. We perversely adhere to an opinion, purpose, or course in spite of reason arguments, or persuasion of the written Word of God.
Spiritual-mindedness is that disposition and resolution implanted in the mind by the Holy spirit, through which one willingly and gladly inclines to love, delight in, and to atten spiritual things. The spiritual-minded highly appreciate spiritual blessings; to pursue spiritual objectives; to be led by spiritual motives; and in all respects, to allow the temple of the purified heart to control and direct his life. The reward is spiritual joy and a life of good report. Spirituality belongs to the Holy Spirit, is determined or influenced by the Holy Spirit, and is described as the great and enduring good. Spiritual-mindedness means we love and have a great devotion for God. A person of such character is after peace, loves peace and brings peace to whatever situation and circumstance they find themselves in. They are indifferent to worldly good and thirst for heavenly blessings instead. Spirituality is produced by the indwelling of the Holy Ghost.
Paul said in Roman 8:6 to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Carnality is when we serve the flesh. The flesh is that material body, as distinct from the soul or spirit. All beings possesses flesh, therefore mankind is frequently in contrast with God who is Spirit. Human nature, deprived of the Spirit of God is dominated by the appetites of the flesh and obeyed by the mind. We must not follow outside influences. We have to be careful of what we allow to enter our ear. There is a Church of the world and a Church of God in Christ. If we are in Christ, we follow Him. If we follow the Church of the world we have habits that strangles out the Spirit. There is stuff in the earth we need to leave alone, the Church kills itself. Proverbs 14:12 there is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. Ecclesiastes 11:9 we are to let our heart cheer and walk in the ways of thine heart and in the sight of thine eyes but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put always evil from thy flesh.
We are to set our affections on things above, not on things on the earth. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. If we do the will of God we are promised everlasting life. Jude 11 woe unto them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. Jude 12 these are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear; clouds they are without water, carried about of winds, trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots. Jude 13 raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. Jude 16 these are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage. Jude 19 these be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
Psalm 95:6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker. David is saying there is a way that we are to come before God. When we come to worship we show respect to God. When we are at home we lay prostrate before God. Ecclesiastes 5:1-2 keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil. Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter anything before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few. Our worship must be acceptable to God. Worship comes through meditation and that meditation is on the Word of God day and night. When we come in his presence we must have an attitude of praise and thanks. We must bow down before Him, kneel down before Him and lay prostrate before Him. Where two or three are gathered together in His name He will be a God in the midst of them. Luke 4:8 thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve. John 4:23-24 the hour cometh, and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit; and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
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