God made everything in the universe and he put us on this earth to make the freewill decision to serve God or Satan. God didn’t want to be heavy handed and make himself so obvious to everyone that men had no other choice but to choose God. That wouldn’t be fair. That would be putting a finger on the scales and God wouldn’t do that. God is all about fairness and justice. At the same time, God had to make it so man could search and find him if they wanted to do so. God had to walk the fine line between being overbearing and obvious and being readily available to anyone searching for him. God is doing what I call, “hiding in plain sight.”
Ecclesiastes 3:11 – He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
Proverbs 3:19 – The Lord by His wisdom founded the earth; by His understanding He established the heavens.
As a believer I see the signs of God everywhere around us. To the nonbeliever our God Jehovah is a fairytale and our faith is foolishness. Satan is the god of this world and he has done a good job of putting blinders on the eyes of fallen man. Satan is hiding the truth of God from us and obscuring the true path to God with all these fake religions and false gods he has sponsored throughout history. As believers, we’re commanded by God to know the truth of God’s Word and to witness for Christ to the nonbeliever. This blog series will provide proofs of God which you can use to convince nonbelievers that God’s existence, God’s love, and God’s grace are real. I started my blog on December 1, 2019, and much of what I’m sharing in this blog series is also on those first 25 blog posts. Now is a good time to restate the obvious.
Zechariah 12:1 – The Lord, who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him.
Psalm 8:3-4 – When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him?
Be strong and bold in your belief in God. Nonbelievers will always try to confront you and destroy your faith in God. Be ready for them and counterpunch right away because they won’t be ready when you push back. Hit them with the truth of God by asking them point blank, “Why do you think my God is not real?” You’ve asked a leading question so you control the narrative. The nonbeliever has no real idea why they don’t believe in God because they haven’t thought about it a lot. It’s human nature for them to respond with, “Why do you think God is real?” They’ve fallen into your trap. Now they pretty much have to listen to you because, after all, they asked you and you’re just being polite and giving them what they asked for. If, on the other hand, the nonbeliever attempts to explain his lack of faith in God you can easily refute his reasons if you know your Bible. I find people tend to respond best to what they know, and what their physical senses tell them about the world, and that’s especially true with nonbelievers. So start your defense of the Christian faith with the three sure signs of God that can be documented in our physical world by our collected human knowledge and our human senses. You can elaborate on each one later depending on which one the nonbeliever is having the most trouble accepting or the one they challenge you on.
1. God has given us creation – The heavens, the earth and man are all the handiwork of Almighty God. The intricate physical laws and workings of the univers bear the mark of an intelligent designer who can only be God.
2. God has given us the Bible – God’s Word in written form is perfect and without error. Detractors have tried for 2000 years to disprove the Bible but they’ve all failed. The Bible contains over 1000 prophecies, over 500 of which have been fulfilled and documented as a historical fact. The Bible is the revelation of God so that we might know him, worship him and obey the commands of God.
3. God sent us Jesus Christ – God sent his son into the world to die on the cross for our sins as prophesied in his word. There are over sixty Bible prophesies pertaining to the coming of the Christ and Jesus fulfilled them all by his birth, ministry and death. Jesus walked the earth as God in the flesh and now he is in heaven sitting at the right hand of God as our mediator until the time of his second coming to the earth to set up his millennial kingdom.
In this blog we’ll focus only on the first sign; God’s creation of the universe:
Romans 1:20 – For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so they are without excuse.
Psalm 19:1 – The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork.
Even skeptics agree there seems to be a magnificent order to our universe. It’s impossible for order to be created out of chaos and disorder on its own. If you have an effect such as order in the universe there must be a cause. If you take a rational objective look at how our univers works there’s no other possible explanation other than there’s a Super Designer of the universe and that person is God. No person who has ever looked up at the night sky can honestly say in their heart that they didn’t know God existed. God also made man with eternity in his heart so he would know instinctively there’s a God and that he should seek out the Creator. God created human beings with a missing part by design. We were all created with a void in our hearts that can only be filled by God. Think of our heart as a lock with one key; and only God has the key. God is the key! Human beings can never be truly happy without the indwelt Holy Spirit of God on the inside of them. Human beings can never live successful and productive lives in the eyes of God apart from his grace. Most wealthy people are miserable and they don’t know why. They thought money would make them happy but they are mistaken.
Isaiah 44:24 – Thus says the Lord, your redeemer, and He who formed you in the womb; I am the Lord, who makes all things, who stretches out the heavens all alone, who spreads abroad the earth by Myself.
Colossians 1:17 – And He (Jesus) is before all things, and in Him all things consist.
I don’t care if you’re Jeff Bezos or the Queen of England; in the end death is the great equalizer. What it boils down to is do we have a right relationship with the God who made us? King Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, figured that out at the end of his life and tells us so in the Book of Ecclesiastes. He said everything in life is meaningless apart from a right relationship with God. King Solomon was the richest man who ever lived and he knew God and spoke to God so he should know. The question is, has each one of us sought out God and accepted Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior? If we have then we’ve already led a successful life in the eyes of God. That free will choice to serve God is the only thing that will lead to eternal life in heaven.
Without this restored fellowship with God we’re lost; we’ll be doomed to spend an eternity in hell in constant pain and torment forever for rejecting God and choosing to serve Satan. The problem is most people lose their way and either don’t see any God at all or they chase after false gods or they see themselves as God; all of which are fatal and which ultimately leads to eternal damnation in the lake of fire for those who reject the grace of God. God’s glory is before all men who take the time to look and search for him. On the last day the nonbeliever will not be able to stand before Jesus Christ and say they didn’t know about the existence of God because the proof of God is self-evident for those who look for it. The Bible tells us because of God’s wrath it’s a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God unsaved. Avoid the wrath of God at all costs.
Hebrews 10:31 – It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Hebrews 9:27 – And it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment.