THE TITLES OF GOD Pastor J. C. O’Hair

THE TITLES OF GOD

Pastor J. C. O’Hair

We couldn’t have a better beginning that In ave in the Bible. “In the beginning God (ELOHIYM) created the heaven and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1). With this verse read John 1:1 to 3: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made.”
Then read John 17:3, “And this is life eternal, that they might know Thee THE ONLY TRUE GOD, and Jesus Christ, Whom Thou hast sent.” In I Timothy 3:15 God is called “THE LIVING GOD.” God is the true and the living God.
Now we quote John 4:24 - I John 4:8 - I John 1:5 and Hebrews 12:29: “GOD IS A SPIRIT; and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.” “He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for GOD IS LOVE.” “This then is the message which we have heard of Him, and declare unto you, that GOD IS LIGHT and in Him is no darkness at all.” “GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE.”
Let us not conclude from these definitions that God is an impersonal force or a divine principle as is taught by the religious rationalists and metaphysical cult leaders today, who propagate their agnosticism and satanic vagaries in the name of Christianity.
In the Old Scriptures we have several Hebrew words translated “God” or “The Lord.” The short word “EL” has the meaning of “strength.” The longer word is “ELOAHH.” The plural is “ELOHIYM”, which is the word in Genesis 1:1. In Genesis 1:26 ELOHIM said, “Let US make man in OUR image and likeness.” Then the word “ADONAY” suggests a reigning master. And the word translated “JEHOVAH” is used so many times in the Old Testament Scriptures.
In Philippians 4:9 and Hebrews 13:20 God is called “THE GOD OF PEACE.” He brought Christ from the dead. “THE GOD OF PEACE shall bruise Satan under your feet.” (Romans 16:20). In Romans 15:13 God is “THE GOD OF HOPE” Who can fill the believer with all joy and peace in believing. In James 1:17 God is “THE FATHER OF LIGHTS” in heaven from Whom all good and perfect gifts come. In Hebrews 12:9 is “THE FATHER OF SPIRITS” Who chastens and corrects His children. In II Corinthians 1:3 God, “THE GOD AND FATHER OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST,” is “THE GOD OF ALL COMFORT” and “THE FATHER OF MERCIES.” In I Peter 1:3 and in Ephesians 1:3 God is “THE GOD AND FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.” In I Peter 5:10 is “THE GOD OF ALL GRACE.”
All of these wonderful titles are more than significant in God’s dealings with the human race, proving Romans 5:20, “where sin abounded grace doth much more abound.” The wonderful spiritual, eternal blessings, which believers receive because they are in Christ, are according to the riches of God’s grace. (Ephesians 1:6 and 7).
“The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men.” (Titus 2:11). Remember that God is “THE GOD OF ALL GRACE.” With this in mind, let us think of II Corinthians 9:8 - “And God (THE GOD OF ALL GRACE) is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.”
The titles of God suggest that for His children, accepted in the Beloved, there is peace, hope, comfort, mercy, every good and perfect gift,” “all spiritual blessings in the heavenlies,” and “all grace.”
There is a title for God in Ephesians 1:18 for a special blessing for God’s people, which is not heard frequently in Christian circles, because very, very few Christians pray the prayer of Ephesians 1:16 to 18, to receive from the Father of glory the Spirit of wisdom and revelation for the most wonderful truth for saints in all the Bible, which was “the mystery of God’s will,” God’s Secret for members of the Church, until it was made known to and through the apostle Paul. Do you obey Ephesians 3:9?

What is the Gospel?

Believing Christ died, that’s HISTORY.

Believing Christ died for YOUR sins and rose again, that’s SALVATION.

Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which the preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.  For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;  And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.  1. Corinthians 15:1-4

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