THE PROOF OF GOD

MINISTER

From Sam-Best Ewruje, an able minister of the New Testament, not of man nor by man, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but by the will of God through the Grace and Mercy of Christ given unto me. Abundance of Grace and Gift of righteousness by Grace be unto you in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Please be patient to read. It will set you free for life!

Introduction

When you mention the proof of God, theologians and Bible scholars flex their muscles for a long drawn eternal debate and write volumes trying to prove or disprove the existence of God. I have very good news for you so be patient to read and it will set you free for life.  There are some things in life like achievement, success, fulfilment, progress, which we call testimonies or proof of the works of God in our lives which are sometimes tainted by our old mindset of modern world eg happy marriage, job, career, big house, the car, money, children, happy family etc. These are the things we experience in life that we sometimes give as proof of God in our lives. That may be true that the Lord gives these things to us and to even those who do not believe but those are the very things the Lord said are additions to seeking the Kingdom. The old trick that Satan used on Jesus which is to paraphrase “if you are the Son of God, prove yourself” is still the same today. Even ministers try to prove that there is God in their lives and further make their followers to follow suite always trying to prove God in their lives everyday rather than rest by believing Him absolutely and trusting Him.

Matthew 4

¹Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

²And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

³And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.

What about Doubters and Sceptics

This is the truth. When the devil try to tempt the Lord Jesus saying “if you are……..”, Jesus simply referred the devil back to God who said in the first place “you are my beloved Son”. He said man does not LIVE by BREAD alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God!!!!! In other words I live by what God has spoken about me not what I can prove by some show. God does things for His glory and for the salvation of the soul of man rather than any proving game. It is an eternal declaration which cannot be changed not just one momentary gratification of the flesh just to turn stone to bread because of hunger in the flesh let alone as a proof that He is the Son of God. God has said, and it is so. I am not showing that I am the Son of God! No! I AM!!! I am not a wanna be, or going to be, I AM the Son of God. My daddy told me so. I rely, depend, breathe and live in that realisation. I do things in the Kingdom not because I am the Son of God. I do things because that is what my Father wants done, not to prove my self.   Moreover, even many try to hold God responsible especially when there are disasters, or suffering or acts of evil that is beyond human explanation often saying “if there is God why did so and so happen”. In some context, some even refer to disasters as “Acts of God”. There it is. The word “if” shows outright that you do not believe He is. As you will see later, a major pre-requisite to walking with God is that you must believe that He exists. That is one major aspect of faith – Believe whether you see or do not see Him with your natural eyes!! This is exactly what Jesus told the man we call doubting Thomas today! He told Thomas, you believe because you have seen, and He concluded that “BLESSED are they who have not seen but yet believe”. Amazing! So we who believe and did not see Jesus in the flesh like the apostles are more blessed than the apostles who saw Him in the flesh. Trust Him. Jesus knows what He is seeing because He knows that the trich the devil used on Him and on Thomas can be used on anyone.

God does not need to prove Himself. He is God. God says Men already can discern that He exist just from the works of His hands around us and in the heavens. He says though men already know, they have refused to believe, acknowledge or accept Him. They cook up philosophy, psychology, theories, some aspect of science and vain jangling to explain Him away and follow other convenient ways instead of accepting what He, the only true God has done in Christ Jesus for all mankind. Rather, the Lord says people preferred to respect men’s opinion than the Almighty God, so He left them to their own depraved minds.

Romans 1

¹⁶For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

¹⁷For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

¹⁸For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

¹⁹Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.

²⁰For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

²¹Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

²²Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

²³And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

²⁴Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

²⁵Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

So you did not need to prove God to any man, not even a Christian. God says all His children will eventually know Him. What we need to do is to seek God together to know Him for personal and corporate relationship and be privileged to be a part of what He is doing in our lives and on earth today Halleluya! Jesus concluded that this is eternal life – that they may know you the only true God and Jesus Christ you have sent.

Hebrews 8

¹⁰For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

¹¹And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

¹²For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

Please read part 2 of this series.

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