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[FONT="] Key verse: Gen 6:8[/FONT][FONT="] But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.[/FONT]
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[FONT="]Meany babe believers ask “what dos God look like”? Have you ever had a child ask you what Jesus looks like? If so for most people you might think well his mom was a Jew so he must look Jewish right!? Or maybe you’re just like me and say it does not matter so much as to what Jesus looked like in the flesh, but who he was as a man on earth. Jesus said “If you have seen me you have seen the Father”. (John14:9) [/FONT]
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[FONT="]The bible says in Gen 17:3 Abram falls on his face. He could not look upon God! Do we really want to look upon His true face?? Exodus 24:17 “The sight of the glory of the Lord was like a consuming fire” The only thing close, is to look in to the sun. But I see a deeper meaning here if I compare Ex. 24:17, John 16:12, and John 14:9. Jesus says “He is the light of the world” that’s kind of like the sun, it dos light up the world we live on. [/FONT]
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[FONT="]The bible says in John 16:12 I still have many things to say to you but you cannot bear them now. God dos show us a side of him and that’s the side we can bear. God does not give us more than we can handle in life. God dos not just throw his beloved in to a world alone. At the very start Adam was made and behold God seen the need in man to have Eve. (Gen 2:18) God was always there with him though from the start. God adds to our life He never takes away from us. Mat 7:11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? How much more he asks! James 1:17 says “ever good and every perfect gift is from above…!” If we want to see the Lord we just have to ask Him. He will give as much of Himself as we can bear but under one condition James 1:6 “but let him ask in faith, with no doubting...”[/FONT]
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[FONT="]You have seen God but has God seen you?[/FONT]
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[FONT="]Now in the first part I said “The only thing close, is to look in to the sun” In context of beholding the Son of God. Here we see in PS 33:18 the eye of the lord is upon them that “fear” the lord. “Fear” the Lord. I don’t know about you but I do not fear the sun. That is in the sense that I do not run from the sun when it rises each and every morning. “I will rejoice and be glad in it” So when I studied this word fear in context of the rest of the bible you find even Moses says something very interesting in Ex. 20:20 Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not. In my own words that says fear God but don’t fear God. So yes there has to be a deeper meaning than Fearing God in the sense that you’re fearful of spiders. We need to be fearful in the sense that we respect God because he is merciful. So we start seeing who God really is, not what he looks like in the flesh but His divine nature rather. He is mercy. He wants us to become more like him every day but He will not give us more than we can bear of him. 1Jn 3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
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