Good God

Abundant Faith Christian Church

2 Thessalonians 1:11

11 To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power,

• Mark 10:18
  18 And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.

Definition

• The state or quality of being good; moral excellence
• Excellence of quality
  
• The best part of anything
  

Moral Excellence (state or quality of being good; moral excellence)

• We can only do good - we cannot be good
  
  • Sin prevents us from being good
    
  • Romans 7:19-20 (NLT)
    19 I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway. 20 But if I do what I don’t want to do, I am not really the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.
    
• More of Excellence (Excellence of Quality)
  
  • The only way to “Moral Excellence” is to get “More of Excellence”
    
    • The only way to “More of Excellence” is through the God of excellence
      
      • 1John 1:5
        5 This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
• This is why we must be born again
  2 Corinthians 5:17
  17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.[b] The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

More Than Excellent (The best part of anything)
Psalm 34:8

Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good!

Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!

• Psalm 23:6
  Surely[d] goodness and mercy[e] shall follow me all the days of my life,
• 1John 2:2
  2 He himself is the sacrifice that atones for our sins—and not only our sins but the sins of all the world