God’s Character
character - the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing;
moral or ethical quality (Dictionary.com)
God’s great character should motivate us further to serve Him.
We should try to emulate God’s Character – which includes …
Loving - to strongly care for and to try to affect a person for his own best good
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I John 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in
him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Just - guided by truth, reason, justice, and fairness … in accordance with standards or requirements
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Exodus 32:31-33 And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin,
and have made them gods of gold. Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin; and if not, blot me, I pray
thee, out of thy book which thou hast written. And the Lord said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned
against me, him will I blot out of my book.
Ezekiel 18:20-24 Read the passage. Notice that we die spiritually for our own sins, not for Adam’s
sin or anybody else’s sin. Notice also that if the wicked will turn from their sins, God will forgive
them. But if the righteous turn from their righteousness to wickedness, they will be lost. God is just.
Colossians 3:25 But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is
no respect of persons
Strict - characterized by or acting in close conformity to requirements or principles
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Num 15:32-40 … the children of Israel … found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and … all the congregation. …
And the Lord said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone
him with stones without the camp. And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and
stoned him with stones, and he died; as the Lord commanded Moses. … That ye may remember, and
do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God. I am the Lord your God ….
Merciful - acting out of kindness, compassion, or favor
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Hebrews 8:12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I
remember no more.
I John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from
all unrighteousness.
Patient - bearing provocation, annoyance, … delay, hardship, pain, etc., with fortitude and calm
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II Peter 3:9-11 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is
longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away
with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are
therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of
persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness
Faithful - does what he says he is going to do, keeps his promises
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Deuteronomy 7:9 Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth
covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations
I Cor 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful,
who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able ; but will with the temptation also make a
way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
God’s mercy does us no good unless we take advantage of it by obeying the gospel.