Steven Nickel Seeing God 3.09.2025.pptx

03-09-2025

1. “ SEEING GOD” “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.” Matthew 5:8

2. REALIZATION I can “see God”

3. REALIZATION I can “see God” See who God is “Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them .” John 14:21

4. REALIZATION I can “see God” See as God does “What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us.” 1 Corinthians 2:12

5. REALIZATION I can “see God” See where God is working Jesus: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does.” John 5:19-20a

6. CONDITION I must be “pure in heart” ULTIMATE purity “Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him , for we shall see him as he is.” 1 John 3:2

7. CONDITION I must be “pure in heart” IMPUTED purity “But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe .” Romans 3:21-22a

8. CONDITION I must be “pure in heart” REGENERATIONAL purity “So I say, walk by the Spirit , and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.” Galatians 5:16

9. CONDITION I must be “pure in heart” PRACTICED purity “You 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.” Ephesians 4:22-24

10. DEDUCTION I am “blessed” To be “blessed” means God is SUPERNATURALLY working in your life!

11. DEDUCTION I am “blessed” “Anyone who will take the time to enter into an intimate relationship with God can SEE GOD do extraordinary things through his or her life .” Henry Blackaby

12. “ Search me, God, and know my heart ; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me , and lead me in the way everlasting.” Psalm 139:23-24