3-3-24// GOOD 6...Excellent
Michael Morgan
Psalm 46:10 Be still, and know that I am God
Rom 8:28 And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose
GOOD: agathos (ag-ath-os'); a primary word; "good" (in any sense, often as noun):
1. of good constitution or nature
2. useful, salutary: producing a beneficial effect: remedial. promoting health: curative.
3. good, pleasant, agreeable, joyful, happy
4. excellent, distinguished
5. upright, honourable
KJV - benefit, good (-s, things), well
GOD IS EXCELLENT
Ex 15:6-7 Your right hand, O Lord, is majestic in power, Your right hand, O Lord, shatters the enemy. 7 "And in the greatness of Your excellence You overthrow those who rise up against You; You send forth Your burning anger, and it consumes them as chaff.
2 Peter 1:2-3 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; 3 seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.
Ps 150:1-2 Praise the Lord! Praise God in His sanctuary; Praise Him in His mighty expanse.
2 Praise Him for His mighty deeds; Praise Him according to His excellent greatness.
GOD DOES EXCELLENT THINGS
Isa 12:5-6 Praise the Lord in song, for He has done excellent things;
Let this be known throughout the earth.
6 Cry aloud and shout for joy, O inhabitant of Zion,
For great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.
A MORE EXCELLENT WAY
1 Cor 12:31-13:7 But earnestly desire the greater gifts. And I show you a still more excellent way.
13 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails
GOD MADE YOU VERY EXCELLENT
Gen 1:31 God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Towb: excellent
HE WILL USE YOU FOR EXCELLENCE
Phil 1:6 For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.
Eph 2:10 For we are God's masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.
DWELL ON EXCELLENCE
HELPS US IN EVERYTHING
Phil 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things.
KEEP OUR BEHAVIOR EXCELLENT
1 Peter 2:12 Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation.