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• Advocate - 1 John 2:1
• Almighty - Revelation 1:18
• Alpha and Omega - Revelation 1:8; 22:13
• Amen - Revelation 3:14
• Angel - Genesis 48:16; Exodus 23:20,21
• Angel of God's presence - Isaiah 63:9
• Angel of the Lord - Exodus 3:2; Judges 13:15-18

• Apostle - Hebrews 3:1
• Arm of the Lord - Isaiah 51:9; 53:1
• Author and Finisher or our faith - Hebrews 12:2
• Beginning of the creation of God - Revelation 3:14
• Blessed and only Potentate - 1 Timothy 6:15
• Branch - Jeremiah 23:5; Zechariah 3:8; 6:12
• Bread of Life - John 6:35,48

• Emmanuel - Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:23
• Eternal life - 1 John 1:2; 5:20
• Everlasting Father - Isaiah 9:6
• Faithful witness - Revelation 1:5; 3:14
• First and Last - Revelation 1:17; 2:8
• Firstborn from the dead - Revelation 1:5; Colossians 1:18
• First-born of every creature - Colossians 1:15

• King - Zechariah 9:9; Matthew 21:5
• King of Israel - John 1:49
• King of Kings - 1 Timothy 6:15; Revelation 17:14; 19:16
• King of Saints - Revelation 15:3
• King of the Jews - Matthew 2:2
• Lamb - Revelation 5:6,12; 13:8; 21:22; 22:3
• Lamb of God - John 1:29,36

• Law giver - Isaiah 33:22
• Leader - Isaiah 55:4
• Life - John 14:6; Colossians 3:4; 1 John 1:2
• Light of the world - John 8:12, 9:5
• Lion of the tribe of Judah - Re 5:5
• Lord God Almighty - Revelation 15:3
• Lord God of the holy prophets - Revelation 22:6

• Lord of all - Acts 10:36
• Lord of glory - 1 Corinthians 2:8
• Lord of Lords - Revelation 19:16
• Lord Our Righteouss - Jeremiah 23:6
• Mediator between God and men - 1 Timothy 2:5
• Messenger of the covenant - Malachi 3:1
• Messiah - Daniel 9:25; John 1:41

• Mighty God - Isaiah 9:6
• Mighty One of Jacob - Isaiah 60:16
• Morning-star - Revelation 22:16
• Nazarene - Matthew 2:23
• Offspring of David - Revelation 22:16
• Only Begotten of the Father - John 1:14
• Our Passover - 1 Corinthians 5:7

• Plant of renown - Ezekiel 34:29
• Prince of life - Acts 3:15
• Prince of peace - Isaiah 9:6
• Prince of the kings of the earth - Revelation 1:5
• Prophet - Luke 24:19; John 7:40
• Ransom - 1 Timothy 2:6
• Redeemer - Job 19:25; Isaiah 59:20; 60:16

• Resurrection and life - John 11:25
• Rock - 1 Corinthians 10:4
• Root of David - Revelation 22:16
• Root of Jesse - Isaiah11: 10
• Ruler of Israel - Micah 5:2
• Savior - 2 Peter 2:20; 3:18; Luke 1:47

• Witness - Isaiah 55:4
• Wonderful - Isaiah 9:6
• Word - John 1:1; 5:7
• Word of God - Revelation 19:13
• Word of Life - 1 John 1:1

Starting to study the names of the church as

• Assembly of the saints - Psalms 89:7
• Assembly of the upright - Psalms 111:1
• Body of Christ - Ephesians 1:22,23; Colossians 1:24
• Branch of God's planting - Isaiah 60:21
• Bride of Christ - Revelation 21:9
• Church of God - Acts 20:28
• Church of the Living God - 1 Timothy 3:15
• Church of the first-born - Hebrews 12:23

• General assembly of the first-born - Hebrews 12:23
• Golden candlestick - Revelation 1:20
• God's building - 1 Corinthians 3:9
• God's husbandry - 1 Corinthians 3:9
• God's heritage - Joel 3:2; 1 Peter 5:3
• Habitation of God - Ephesians 2:22
• Heavenly of Jerusalem - Galatians 4:26; Hebrews 12:22

• Holy city - Revelations 21:2
• Holy mountain - Zechariah 8:3
• Holy hill - Psalms 15:1
• House of God - 1 Timothy 3:15; Hebrews 10:21
• House of the God of Jacob - Isaiah 2:3
• House of Christ - Hebrews 3:6
• Household of God - Ephesians 2:19

• Inheritance - Psalms 28:9; Isaiah 19:25
• Israel of God - Galatians 6:16
• King's daughter - Psalms 45:13
• Lamb's wife - Revelations 19:7; 21:9
• Lot of God's inheritance - Deuteronomy 32:9
• Mount Zion - Psalms 2:6; Hebrews 12:22
• Mountain of the Lord's house - Isaiah 2:2
• New Jerusalem - Revelations 21:2

• Fellow-citizens with the saints - Ephesians 2:19
• Fellow-heirs - Ephesians 3:6
• Fellow-servants - Revelations 6:11
• Friends of God - 2 Chronicles 20:7; James 2:23
• Friends of Christ - John 15:15
• Godly, The - Psalms 4:3; 2 Peter 2:9

• Kings and priests to God - Revelations 1:6
• Kingdom of priests - Exodus 19:6
• Lambs - Isaiah 40:11; John 21:15
• Lights of the world - Matthew 5:14
• Little children - John 13:33; 1 John 2:1
• Lively stones - 1 Peter 2:5

• People near to God - Psalms 148:14
• People saved by the Lord - Deuteronomy 33:29
• Pillars in the temple of God - Revelations 3:12
• Ransomed of the Lord - Isaiah 35:10
• Redeemed of the Lord - Isaiah 51:11
• Royal priesthood - 1 Peter 2:9

• Abaddon - Revelation 9:11
• Accuser - Revelation 12:10
• Adversary - 1 Peter 5:8
• Angel of the bottomless pit - Revelation 9:11
• Apollyon - Revelation 9:11

• Beelzebub - Matthew 12:24
• Belial - 2 Corinthians 6:15
• Crooked serpent - Isaiah 27:1
• Dragon - Isaiah 27:1; Revelation 20:2
• Enemy - Matthew 13:39

• Evil spirit - 1 Samuel 16:14
• Father of lies - John 8:44
• Great red dragon - Revelation 12:3
• Leviathan - Isaiah 27:1
• Liar - John 8:44

• Lying spirit - 1 Kings 22:22
• Murderer - John 8:44
• Old serpent - Revelation 12:9; 20:2
• Piercing serpent - Isaiah 27:1
• Power of darkness - Colossians 1:13

1. Do I experience the fear of God as it has been described so far?
2. Does my fear of God tend to slavish - trying to please a taskmaster that can not be pleased?
3. Is my fear of God so shallow that I tend to be overly familiar with and fail to show the reverential awe that is due him?

• Wise, wise, wise is the Lord Almighty
  
• Powerful, powerful, powerful is the Lord Almighty

• God's perfection separates him from His creation
• Attributes of mercy, might, power, love, purity are all within the meaning of holiness
• His holiness is not just one of a number of attributes but the sum of all of them
• God's name is has adjective 'holy'  next to it more than all other qualifiers combined
• First and last son in the Both magnify the holiness of God
  • Moses crossing the Red Sea - Exodus 15:11
  • Those victorious over the beast - Revelation 15:4

• One reason the Bible is so adamant about pride is its effect on our view of God.
  
• When we puff ourselves up with pride we begin to act as if we are God
  
• Instead of being in the image of God we try to make God in our image
  

1. We make God into a national God = prospers our country only
2. Watering down the Bible = suit our feelings
3. When we act as if we are a special case = God will overlook our situation
4. When we become depressed & discouraged (I’m just a failure) = God messed up

• Satan wants to put thoughts in the minds and hearts of the saints to lead them astray
• He really wants to come after the ministry staff that leads God’s people.

1. Have division and tension in your marriage (not a divorce just disunity)
2. He wants your children (that’s one of the best ways he can hurt you)
3. He wants you to be competitive & jealous of others
4. He wants you to struggle with forgiving others
5. He wants you to be focused only on your ministry & not the church (bigger picture)

1. We’re family, he wants it to be like Cain & Abel
2. King Saul, Satan wants you to think you can lead better than others, nothing to learn from me, be a good follower
3. Satan wants KC church divided from the Heartland & movement

Summary

Noah and his family went into the ark with two of each creature. It rained for forty days and forty nights and the earth was covered.

Observations

Genesis 7:1 - I have found you righteous in this generation
Of all the people, God considered Noah the most righteous among his generation. God knows our thoughts [1 Chronicles 28:9] , motives, and sees our actions. What has God found us to be?

Genesis 7:16 - Then the LORD shut him in
In the end, it is God's call when things should start and end. It was God who decided what to close the ark's door and He shut the door. Same is true for either our death or judgement day. God will call the shots. Now is the time where we call the shots. To either follow him or not.

Genesis 7:20 - covered the mountains to a depth of more than twenty feet
Assuming mount Everst (29,029 feet) existed back in these time, the flood was quite deep. Nothing could have survived that much water. Even if you limit your focus to just earth - God's power is tough to comprehend.

Genesis 7:23 - Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out
Besides Noah, his family, and the animals on the boat, every living creature was killed. Sometime thoughts enter our minds that there is some kind of gray area between good and evil where we can live our lives. On that day, there were only those inside the boat and those outside of the boat. No one lived in the middle.

Personal Application

I need to look for what I see as gray areas in my life. When I am neither hot nor cold [Revelation 3:16], I am not aware of where I am.

• Romans 6:1-4 - You have begun a brand new life; you were born again (John 3:1-5)
• Acts 2:36-41 - Every one of your sins has been forgiven and forgotten (Jeremiah 31:31-34)
• Galatians 3:26-28 - The blood of Christ you received at baptism now covers and protects you.
• Ephesians 1:13-14 - You received the Holy Spirit who gives you power (Romans 8:5-11)
• 1 Corinthians 12:12-13 - You have been added to the body; enjoy your new family

• Ephesians 4:17~24 - You humbled yourself and let others teach and challenge you – keep it up
• Acts 19:17-20 - You were completely open with your sins – keep it up
• Romans 6:17-18 - You obeyed the Bible teaching when you saw it – keep it up
• Hebrews 3:12-14 - You spent good quality time with other disciples - keep it up

1. Imagine what the day of judgement will be like. Who will be there?
2. How will everyone be feeling?

1. Who is the bride of Christ?
2. Describe heaven.
3. Check yourself against verse 8. Are any of these sins in your life?

1. What other eternal joys will be in heaven?
2. Why does God want us to know these words are trustworthy and true?

God is a consuming fire who should be feared - Hebrews 12:29

He is God who wants us to love him and not idols - Deuteronomy 4:24

God is a blessed and only Ruler, king of kings and lord of Lords - 1 Timothy 6:15

Our problem is that we think God is like us
My thoughts are not your thoughts - Isaiah 55:8

Societies throughout history have developed their own relgions based off God's which human resemblance:

• Greek methoology is full of sinful gods
• Hinduism feature gods who remind of ourselves

Our Father is without blemish or stain
In fact many can say, if God is like my father, I want nothing to do with Him

God appeared to Ezekiel in blazing fire and he fell facedown - Ezekiel 1:27-28
John saw Jesus with eyes of blazing fire and fell at his feet as though he was dead - Revelation 1:14-16T

The paradox of God: He says to not be afraid but at the same time to have a humble, contrite spirit - Isaiah 66:2
When a holy God confronts sinful humans, the only result can be fear and trembling

We must totally aware of our own unworthiness

It took a while, but Job finally understood this: "My ears heard you but now my eyes...and repent in dust and ashes" - Job 42:5-6

This is the reaction we should have when sinful selfs meets a pure, holy and prefect God

David understood our unworthiness: "But who I am... Everything comes from you" - 1 Chonicles 29:14-15

Solomon aware of his own afflicions, asked God to hear men's prayers - 1 Kings 8:38

Jesus warned that we need to be careful to not be proud based off anything we have or done - Revelations 3:17
But to have the attitude of the tax collect who prayed "Have mercy on me, a sinner " - Luke 18:13

Our good deeds or possessions in no way make worthly of coming in the presence of the holy one

John was given a glemce of what heaven would be like in Revelations:

• A rainobw encircled the throne v4:3
• God was dressed in white with golden crowns v4:4
• Lighting and thunder came from the throne v4:5
• Before the throne was a sea of glass, clear as crystal v4:6
• Strange creatures with eyes covering them were continually praise God v4:6-8
• Jesus approached the throne to open the scroll v5:4-5
• All the living creatures and the 24 elders fell down before the Lamb v5:8
• They held golden bowls full of incense which were the prayers if the saints v5:8
• 100 million angels appeared to loudly sing about the Lamb along with a great multitude v5:11-13

Heaven is a place full of blessings

Jesus referred serveral times to our reward in heaven

No eyes have seen, no ears have heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared - 1 Corinthians 2:9-10
God will give us all things - Romans 8:32

No one can stop us from going to heaven but ourselves
Heaven is worth any earthly price - Romans 8:18

He is preparing an incrediable guest room for us

Do you think of God as one who wants nothing more than to bless your life?

Bible Study Disciplines

Mark up your Bible in to different themes:

Example subjects:

• Blue = God's qualities
• Yellow = Love
• Green = Sin and righteousness
• Pink = prayer and faith
• Purple = Joy
• Orange = evangelism and discipling
• Megenta = the spiritual world

Might circle references to God, Jesus or the Holy Spirit

Read the whole Bible every year

Foucused study on indivdual books and passages are good but it also important to have the broad picture of God's revelation ingrained in our hearts

Read the Bible everyday

Jesus lived on every word that came from the mouth of God - Matthew 4:4
The law required the kings of Israel to recopy and read out loud all the days of their lives - Deuteronomy 17:18-20
Bereans examined the scriptures every day - Acts 17:10-12

Memorize key verses

Memorizing scripture helps us to talk to God using quoted scripture (God's language) and keeps us pursuing righteousness
I have hideen tyour word in my heart so I might not sin against you - Psalms 119:11
Proverbs 22 advises to have the Proverbs ready on our lips

The people were ashtonished by Jesus

Who do I you say I am? They had to go to the grave in order to find a man to whom they could liken him

No man in Jesus' day was great enough to convey their idea of strength

Pilot was afraid of Jesus even though He was a poor unarmed peasant

Proof of His power was in the intensity of the hatred and in the intensity of love which he excited

You can not hate a weakling or a no body

He was so mightly that when men thought of him, they thought of God
The man who was nearest to him, saw him in a vsion after he was gone and said, "When I saw him I fell at his feet as dead" - Revelation 1:17

Motives can be everything

The Bible insists that God sees not just what we do but also why we do it

Example: Balaam spoke blessings on the Isreal three times but he was denounced in scripture as an evil man

Joshua tells us that the only reason Balaam didn't curse Israel was because God made hime speak blessings - Joshua 24

Balaam was considered a false teacher who:

• Lured unstable men into sin - 2 Peter 2:14
• Loved money by doing wrong - 2 Peter 2:15
• Showed Balak how to trip up the people of Israel - Revelation 2:!4

Do you obey God from the heart? Do you find yourself doing the right thing for the right reasons?

When I saw him, I fell at his feet as if I were dead - Revelation 1:17

Throughout history, men have struggled with Jesus' identity

John had no doubts while worshipping God in exciled to the Greek island of Patmos

While listening to Jesus' words and turned to look, he was floored at the sight of the Son of Man - Revelation 1:13

John had the privelege of hearing and seeing Jesus as the King and reacted with both dread and fear

I thanks and praise you, God, for you have given me wisdom - Daniel 2:23

Nebuchadnezzar had a strange dream and wanted to know what it meant

When his advisors couldn't help, he had them all executed

Daniel asked the king if he could take a crack at interpreting the royal dream

The pressure was on - Daniel needed answers and soon

Daniel asked his friend to pray for divine revelation  and he received a vision that clearly explained the kig's dream

God gave Daniel exactly what he needed to save his life and his friends lives

When Daniel was squeezed, out came his faith in God who does his best work under pressure