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Knowing God

John 8:48-59

Pastor Bob Hiller
5/26/2013

John 8:58-59 "I tell you the truth," Jesus answered, "before Abraham was born, I am!" At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds.

1. The ____________ over who Jesus is has raged ever since His ____________ ministry.

2. In our day, talk of God is shaped by ____________ and ____________ rather than the ____________.

3. It is only by means of His ____________ that Jesus shows us the ____________ about God.

Scripture Readings
Proverbs 8:1-4;22-31
Acts 2:14a,22-36
John 8:48-59

Take It With You!

Here we will offer thoughts and meditations on the message to help us as we contemplate and discuss what we are hearing.

But true Christian theology, as I often warn you, does not present God to us in His majesty, as Moses and other teachings do, but Christ born of the Virgin as our Mediator and High Priest. Therefore when we are embattled against the Law, sin, and death in the presence of God, nothing is more dangerous than to stray into heaven with our idle speculations, there to investigate God in His incomprehensible power, wisdom, and majesty, to ask how He created the world and governs it. If you want to comprehend God in this way and want to make atonement to Him apart from Christ the Mediator, making your works, fasts, cowl, and tonsure the mediation between Him and yourself, you will inevitably fall, as Lucifer did (Isaiah 14:12), and in horrible despair lose God and everything. For as in His own nature God is immense, incomprehensible, and infinite, so to man's nature He is intolerable. Therefore if you want to be safe and out of danger to your conscience and your salvation, put a check on this speculative spirit... Therefore begin where Christ began - in the Virgin's womb, in the manger, and at His mother's breasts. For this purpose He came down, was born, lived among men, suffered, was crucified, and died, so that in every possible way He might present Himself to our sight. He wanted to fix the gaze of our hearts upon Himself and thus to prevent us from clambering into heaven and speculating about Divine Majesty.

Martin Luther, Commentary on Galations

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