Hanover Baptist Church

Knowing Your God – Part 1: God as Creator

Adult Sunday School – Hanover Baptist Church

Outline/Notes (1)

1. God Is (Heb. 11:6)

A. Existence (Gen. 1:1)

B. Uniqueness (Deut. 6:4)

C. Trinity

2. God Has Revealed Himself

A. Nature (Rom. 1:20)

B. Scripture (2 Tim. 3:16)

C. Christ (John 14:9)

3. God Has Made All Things

A. Creation (Gen. 1:1)

B. Government (Rom. 13:1)

4. God Cares

A. Knows His People (Ps. 139:1, 7)

B. Has a Purpose for His People (Rom. 8:28)

C. Meets the Needs of His People (Phil. 4:19)

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Key Verse/Memory Verse

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1)

Background Scriptures

Isaiah 44:1-20

False -isms

1. Atheism - Denies the very existence of God

2. Evolutionism - Attempts to account for creation apart from God

3. Existentialism - Teaches that life has no meaning, and there is no real purpose for man’s existence

4. Fatalism - Teaches that all things are controlled by a blind, uncaring fate, which leads man inevitably toward destruction

5. Humanism - Makes man his own god

6. Pantheism - Makes all things god

Doctrine of the Trinity

1. There is one God (Deut. 6:4)

2. God is manifested in three distinct Persons (Matt. 28:19)

a. God the Father

b. God the Son

c. God the Holy Spirit

3. Each person is God

a. The Father is God

b. Jesus is God (John 1:1)

c. The Holy Spirit is God (Acts 5:3-4)

Theological Terms

Extramundane: A true belief that God is distinct from His creation (as opposed to Pantheism.)

(1) Based on “Insights and Issues, Book Four - Knowing Your God,” by James Frederick Creason, Jr., Ph.D., C 1990 BJU Press