{"id":54,"date":"2018-11-06T16:24:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T00:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrate.bettersermons.org\/?p=54"},"modified":"2020-06-01T11:41:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T18:41:33","slug":"gods-creative-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/gods-creative-character\/","title":{"rendered":"God’s Creative Character"},"content":{"rendered":"
God’s Creative Character<\/span><\/div>\n

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Key Passage<\/strong>:\u00a0Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and His understanding no one can fathom.<\/em>\u00a0Isaiah 40:28. <\/p>\n

Key Thought<\/strong>: Creating the world in seven days was not the beginning or end of God\u2019s creative expression. God is constantly creating even today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Idea:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0We can see God\u2019s creative spirit active in our world today.\u00a0He does not grow tired of creating new things in each of us.<\/p>\n

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1.\u00a0 He creates new hearts.\u00a0<\/strong>Psalms 51:10 \u2013\u00a0\u201cCreate in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.\u201d
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\nEven for someone who hates chores, the feeling of having a nice clean house at the start of each Sabbath day is so special. God is in the business of cleaning hearts\u2026\u00a0Of sweeping out the cobwebs, the hurts and anger, the insecurities and fears, the unmentionables and the weaknesses.\u00a0He cleans them out so that there is space for all He wants to fill us with.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0He creates new attitudes and makes us more like Him.<\/strong>\u00a0Ephesians 4:22-24 \u2013\u00a0\u201cYou were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/em>God can\u2019t wait to create the new furniture in your heart. To put in the right balance of color and style and functionality. He wants to create new Christ-like character traits, to bring new talents and gifts, to create a feeling of unconditional acceptance and love so that we can use our new hearts for him.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0He creates chances for us to do good and show Christ to others.\u00a0<\/strong>Ephesians 2:10 \u2013\u00a0\u201cFor we are God\u2019s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/em>When our hearts are renewed and filled with the things of God, we begin to spill over.\u00a0We are no longer as self-absorbed as before.\u00a0We begin to notice the needs of others and understand how we can use what God has given us to help them.\u00a0And then God can be seen in us.
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