I. Even without the Bible God’s existence is obvious.

A) Something or Someone has always existed because nothing cannot produce or become something.

B) Whatever begins to exist has a cause for its existence. Hard evidence points to the reality that the universe began to exist. Thus, the universe has a cause.

C) The cause must be uncaused, ore we have a vicious infinite regress of causes.

D) The cause must exist outside the universe or it would be subject to universal causation.

E) The cause must be immaterial or it would be subject to universal causation.

F) The cause must be unimaginably powerful to bring a universe with 200 billion galaxies into existence.

G) The cause must be an intelligence beyond compare to arrange for a universe that develops into a home for intelligent life such as you and me.

H) God fits all of these qualifications:

1. By definition God is an uncreated Being who has always existed.
2. God is the initiator of existence, and the creator of everything, which is to say He is the Father of the universe.
3. God is all powerful.
4. God is personal and therefore able to act apart from a prior cause.

I) The order and fine tuning of the universe is evidence of a Creator. Design evinces a Designer.

1. The universe did not order itself.
2. The laws of physics are not the result of chance.
3. The essential factors for life present on earth are not a happy accident.

II. The God of the Bible fits the description of God the Father, Almighty maker of the universe.

A) “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1)

B) “Before the mountains were born Or You gave birth to the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.” (Psalm 90:2, NASB 2020)

C) “By faith we understand that the world has been created by the word of God so that what is seen has not been made out of things that are visible.” (Hebrews 11:3, NASB 2020)

D) “God is spirit and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers.” (John 4:24)

III. God is personal.

A) God is not an idea or concept. 

B) God is not the universe. 

1. We must reject pantheism.
2. Don’t pray to the sky, the stars or the universe.
3. The universe isn’t telling you anything other than the reality that God created it.

“The heavens declare the glory of God, the sky speaks His praise” (Psalm 19:1).

C) God is not a force. 

Sorry, Star Wars got it wrong.

IV. You are not God (nor am I or any other created being).

A) Don’t confuse your conscience with God.

B) “To you it was shown that you might know that the LORD (YHWH), He is God; there is no other besides Him” (Deuteronomy 4:35).

C) “I am the LORD (YHWH), and there is no other; Besides Me there is no God” (Isaiah 45:5).

D) “Know that the LORD (YHWH) Himself is God; it is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture” (Psalm 100:3).

V. The divine Name revealed in the Bible aligns with the essential nature of God.

A) “Then Moses said to God, ‘Behold, I am going to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, “The God of your fathers has sent me to you.” Now they may say to me, “What is His name?” What shall I say to them?’ 

And God said to Moses, ‘I AM WHO I AM’; and He said, ‘This is what you shall say to the sons of Israel: “I AM has sent me to you.”’” (Exodus 3:13–14, NASB 2020)

B) YHWH means God is eternal and self-existent.

C) YHWH is the ground of all Being; the source of existence.

VI. Jesus Christ is the One who we must go to in order to meet and know God personally.

A) “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God… and the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we saw His glory, the glory of the One and Only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:1, 14).

B) “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father, except through Me.

VII. The Only Begotten Son offers you and I the privilege of calling the Father our Daddy!

“Because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, ‘Abba! Father!’ Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.” (Galatians 4:6–7, NASB)