God the Father, Student Workbook, SW06

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God as Father The Goodness of God

Welcome in the strong name of Jesus Christ! After your reading, study, discussion, and application of the materials in this lesson, you will be able to: • Provide an outline of God’s marvelous goodness expressed in his moral attributes of his perfect moral purity, absolute integrity, and unbounded love. • Show how God’s perfect moral purity is demonstrated through his holiness, righteousness, and justice. • Clarify those qualities associated with God’s integrity, i.e., his genuineness, veracity, and faithfulness. • Recite an overview of the attributes associated with the love of God, his benevolence, grace, mercy, and persistence. • Detail the biblical basis for the wrath of God as a moral quality usually associated with God’s severity. • Explain the relationship between God’s goodness and severity, his love and justice. • Express the need for an understanding of God’s attributes and nature that prevents any confusion or conflict about the Lord and his actions. Rom. 2.3-11 - Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who do such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? [4] Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? [5] But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed. [6] He will render to each one according to his works: [7] to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; [8] but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. [9] There will be tribulation and distress for every human Please Don’t Fool Yourself

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