(25-04-2025, 06:47 AM)cheekopekman Wrote: I think it's easier for a child to obey his father whom he can see than God who is invisible lah!
You need faith to obey God lah!
(25-04-2025, 08:15 AM)Lukongsimi Wrote: I even shared the gospel to kids n they accepted Christ
Age around 4 years old plus not even 7 years old
Hallelujah
One of the things we learn is that God is Spirit (John 4:24). He's omnipresent, present everywhere all the time, existing everywhere simultaneously, and can commune with us on a one-to-one basis. Yes, God is all that; He's as personal with you and me as He is with everyone of His children who can be in His presence all the time no matter where they're. That's how big God is.
We can get acquainted with God in the intimacy of a Father-child relationship, not just in the awesome fact of His greatness. I told the moslem a while back that we would approach God and take His Word in childlike faith and simplicity, adding that the essential truths of the gospel are simple enough for a 7-year-old to understand them; a 7-year-old can often understand better than a grown-up can. He disagreed, saying we should read and examine doctrines using our God-given brains and intellect, something the Muslims are wont to do. To him accepting doctrines with 'blind faith' is the height of folly. I understand his situation since Allah is an impersonal God.
The God of the Bible offers mankind a personal relationship of great intimacy. That's not the case in Islam, which has no fatherly concept of God. To most Muslims, Allah is seen more as a remote judge who isn't personally involved with mankind. Islam isn't about fellowship with God, but service, submission, and allegiance to God. Let me expand on the issue from the Christain perspective in the second person:
You must realise that you're a spirit; you have a soul, and you live in a body (1 Thess 5:23). You become acquainted with God through your spirit, not with your mind or body. You can't understand God with your intellect. That's what's wrong with the world today. People have tried to understand God and the things of God by what they hear, what they see, what they read, or by their emotions. That's why you see empty words with no power and no supernatural manifestations, all because people are trying to understand God with the intellect.
Some talk about God and stuff like that, but they're explaining it from a theological standpoint. You'll never know God from them or from theological books. You'll know something about God, but you'll never know God personally or mystically until your spirit comes in contact with God's Spirit. It's your spirit, not your mind, that has to be in full contact with God. That's where the real knowledge of God takes place - in your spirit or heart, not just in your mind or intellect. That's why God created man. He created man to have someone to fellowship with - someone to give His inheritance to. That's what the Bible teaches. God said in Genesis 1:26, "Let us make man in our image." He made man to fellowship with Him.