Drawing from Deuteronomy 10 and other key passages, Josh Strelecki, Pastor-Teacher, highlights that God is utterly unique as the “God of gods and Lord of lords,” possessing incommunicable attributes such as eternity, aseity, immutability, omnipresence, omniscience, and omnipotence. These belong to God alone, showing Him to be self-existent, unchanging, beyond time and space, and limitless in power and knowledge. In contrast, communicable attributes—like wisdom, holiness, goodness, justice, and love—are reflected in humanity in a faint, dependent way and are brought into proper expression and growth in believers as they are conformed to the image of Christ.

He stresses that real spiritual change does not flow chiefly from practical instruction or behavior tweaks, but from beholding the glory of the Lord in His Word by faith. As believers gaze on Christ—the perfect image of the invisible God—the Spirit transforms them “from glory to glory,” so that ordinary spheres of life (marriage, family, work, citizenship, church) become the very places where God’s character is displayed. Josh Strelecki, Pastor-Teacher, urges Christians to stop chasing worldly greatness and instead rest in God’s unchanging promises and eternal purpose in Christ, allowing His attributes to be formed in them and expressed through them in the seemingly small, everyday details of life.

Josh Strelecki, Pastor-Teacher, explains that while humanity cannot discover God on its own, God has graciously revealed Himself through both creation (general revelation) and Scripture (special revelation). From Isaiah 46, he emphasizes that God alone is God—there is none else and none like Him—who declares the end from the beginning and has both the intention and the power to bring His counsel to pass. Strelecki underscores how Scripture unveils God’s eternal purpose in Christ from before the world began through eternity future, and urges believers not to take this revelation for granted but to “get into the Book,” learn God well, believe what He says, and order their lives accordingly.

Strelecki then turns to God’s existence and attributes, showing from passages like Psalms, Romans, and Isaiah that denying God is the height of folly, even as creation, human dependence, and the order of the world all testify to a first cause and sustaining Creator. He highlights God’s incommunicable attributes—His eternity (from everlasting to everlasting) and aseity (self-existence, “I AM THAT I AM”)—as realities that set God utterly apart from idols and from His creatures, and yet this high and lofty One chooses to dwell with the humble and contrite. He closes by pointing to Christ as the perfect image of the invisible God, through whom believers not only come to know God savingly, but are also transformed into His likeness in those communicable attributes that reflect the family resemblance to their Creator.

Josh Strelecki, Pastor-Teacher, explained that God has chosen to reveal Himself, because man cannot discover God by intellect, wisdom, or research alone. He distinguished between general revelation—what we can know of God through creation—and special revelation—what God has specifically spoken about Himself, His will, and His purpose in Christ. Using Psalm 19, he showed that creation testifies to a Creator, but only in a broad, indirect way, whereas the written Word (the law, testimonies, statutes, commandments, and judgments) reaches the inner man and converts the soul. He emphasized that over time God moved from creation’s witness to inscripturated revelation: the creation account, the law, the prophets, and all that He chose to write down so that His self-disclosure would endure through history.

Josh Strelecki, Pastor-Teacher, then traced how Hebrews 1 presents God speaking “at sundry times and in divers manners” in the past—through direct speech, visible manifestations (like the burning bush and Sinai), dreams, visions, miracles, and prophetic words that addressed both near and distant future events—culminating in His final and fullest revelation in His Son. Christ is the Word made flesh, the image of the invisible God, the One in whom all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily, and all Scripture ultimately testifies of Him. In these last days, God has spoken by His Son, and that revelation has been inscripturated through the apostles and prophets, giving us a complete written Word that both reveals who God is and works effectually in the believer’s soul.

In this recap session of the series That Which May Be Known, Pastor-Teacher Josh Strelecki returns after a month away to bring the congregation back up to speed before pressing forward. Drawing from Hebrews 1:1–4, he outlines the three-part structure of the series — finding out God, the determinate counsel of God, and what God hath revealed — and briefly reviews the ground already covered: that man cannot by his own intellect or reason find out God, and that God has therefore revealed Himself through two kinds of revelation. General revelation, seen in creation and conscience, declares the existence of a creator universally and leaves all men without excuse, yet falls short of revealing God's plan and the need for redemption.

Special revelation fills that gap. Pastor-Teacher Strelecki traces how God moved from speaking directly to individuals — Adam, Abraham, David — through dreams, visions, and miracles, and ultimately through His Son, before having it all inscripturated in written form for every generation. He emphasizes the unparalleled treasure believers possess today: a completed, written revelation containing everything God wanted known, progressively unfolded over time and now fully available in scripture. The session closes with a preview of coming studies on the mediums and progressive nature of revelation, the existence and attributes of God, and ultimately His eternal plan and purpose in Jesus Christ.

Have you ever considered how much you can truly know about God just from the world around you—and why that still isn’t enough? In this sermon from the series “That Which May Be Known,” we explore the necessity and truthfulness of God’s revelation, then move into the foundational distinction between general and special revelation. Drawing from Romans 1, Psalm 19, Acts 14 and 17, and other key passages, the message shows how creation, conscience, and even everyday things like seeds, stars, and ants testify to God’s eternal power, wisdom, goodness, and divine nature—leaving humanity without excuse.

Yet, if general revelation powerfully displays God’s glory, why do we still grope in darkness without His Word? This sermon answers that by highlighting the limits of creation’s witness and the indispensable role of special revelation—God’s direct self-disclosure in His Word and ultimately in Jesus Christ. Listeners are urged to see Scripture not as a mere religious book, but as God personally unveiling Himself, His will, His redemptive purpose, and our true condition. The goal is not bare information, but transformation: to move from vague notions of God to a deeper, accurate, and personal knowledge that shapes our lives and fuels our gratitude and worship.

In this introductory message to the series “That Which May Be Known,” Pastor-Teacher Josh Strelecki explains why the church must give focused attention to knowing God as He has revealed Himself. He highlights the growing ignorance of the true God in the culture and even within professing Christianity, where many construct a “god” of their own imagination. Drawing from Job, 1 Corinthians, and Romans, he shows that humanity cannot “by searching find out God”; unaided human senses, reason, and intuition cannot arrive at a true and full knowledge of Him. Without God’s self-disclosure, we would remain in darkness about God’s identity, our own nature, the origin and purpose of creation, the problem of sin, and the reality of judgment and salvation.

Pastor Strelecki then emphasizes that God has graciously chosen to reveal Himself, and that this is both our greatest need and our greatest privilege. God has unveiled Himself in creation, in history, in Scripture, and supremely in the Lord Jesus Christ. The series will unfold in three parts: “Finding Out God” (revelation, illumination, God’s existence and attributes), “The Determinate Counsel of God” (His plan, will, and purpose in Christ), and “God Hath Revealed” (how He works out that counsel in progressive revelation and redemption). His stated aim is that believers would not merely accumulate facts about God, but truly know Him personally, applying His revealed character to their lives so that gratitude, faith, and Christlike transformation deepen as they behold Him in His Word.

How do you actually make decisions that reflect the grace you’ve received in Christ, rather than just reacting in the flesh? In this sermon from Philemon, the focus is on “grace-based decisions” – learning how the gospel and the Spirit’s work in us shape our judgments, not just our outward choices. Using Paul’s appeal to Philemon about Onesimus, the message shows that Christian obedience doesn’t come from pressure or mere command, but from drawing on the rich “reservoir” of who we are in Christ and every good thing God has already put in us.

From there, the sermon traces a biblical pattern for decision-making: recognizing the foundational resources we have in Christ, renewing our minds by the Spirit through the Word, and then making specific judgments in real-life situations. Passages like Romans 8, Romans 12, Titus 2, Philippians 1, and 1 Corinthians 6 & 10 are used to show how believers move from “what is lawful” to “what is loving, expedient, and edifying,” learning to deny the flesh, walk after the Spirit, refuse to repay evil for evil, and abound in love that approves what is excellent. The aim is to help believers see how to weave God’s truth into daily choices so that their lives increasingly echo Christ’s character in unique, practical circumstances.