Get in the Game 1: knowing the context

In the game of life, knowing the lay of the land is vitally important.  Sizing up situations correctly can mean the difference between life and death, joy and dismay, success and failure.

So just what kind of world do we live in? What is reality?

1. There is the God of the Bible who created all else. He is the Uncreated One who created all else.
2. The reality he created is:
• made up of some things that will fade away and some that are eternal
• has both a spiritual and physical (material) plane which interpenetrate.
• operates by cause and effect
3. The creation of God contains:
• matter and energy governed by the laws discoverable by physics and chemistry
• plants, animals, humans, and inanimate objects (living and non-living things)
• spirit beings (holy and demonic angels)
4. What happens in life is the result of:
• actions of people (freely choosing)
• directional sway of Satan (the prince of this world)
• interference by spirit beings in defense of God and his children and unholy spirits blocking the ways of God.
• Under God supreme power and purposes

So...

Living God's ways in His world really matters and prayer really works. Know this and living in the REALity will make all the difference in the world.

Come find out more this week as we consider: What is the Christian Life? PVBC Carrollton, 11 AM Sunday.