Prayer Service 5-17-23

Adoration

God’s Infinity

Lexham Survey of Theology (God’s Infinity)

God’s infinity is an incommunicable attribute, or perfection, of God that denies any limit to God’s being or perfections and affirms that God transcends the categories of finite creatures

It means that whatever God is, he is perfectly and eminently (i.e., to the best and highest degree possible). He has every degree of perfection without any limitation. None of God’s attributes can be considered “in progress” or “not yet complete.” As such, divine infinity qualifies all the other attributes. Whatever God is, he is infinitely.

Traditionally, divine infinity has been described under three distinct but related aspects

The infinity of God’s essence:

Absolutely perfect

Qualitatively infinite

Lexham Survey of Theology (God’s Infinity)

God’s absolute infinity affirms the fullness and completeness of his being. In this way, the doctrine of divine infinity is closely related to the doctrine of divine simplicity. Not only is God whatever he has, but everything he has, he has infinitely.

2. Infinity in relation to time (eternality)

Transcends time

3. Infinity in relation to space (omnipresence)

Transcends space (matter)

Simultaneously filling and sustaining

Scripture attests to multiple aspects of God’s infinity:

Zophar (rightly) said:

Job 11:7–10 (ESV)

7 “Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?

8 It is higher than heaven—what can you do? Deeper than Sheol—what can you know?

9 Its measure is longer than the earth and broader than the sea.

Eliphaz told Job:

Job 5:8–9 (ESV)

8 “As for me, I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause,

9 who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number:

David wrote:

Psalm 145:3 (ESV)

3 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.

Solomon told Hiram, king of Tyre:

2 Chronicles 2:4–6 (ESV)

4 Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of the Lord my God and dedicate it to him for the burning of incense of sweet spices before him, and for the regular arrangement of the showbread, and for burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths and the new moons and the appointed feasts of the Lord our God, as ordained forever for Israel.

5 The house that I am to build will be great, for our God is greater than all gods.

6 But who is able to build him a house, since heaven, even highest heaven, cannot contain him? Who am I to build a house for him, except as a place to make offerings before him?

Psalm 90:1–2 (ESV)

1 Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.

2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

Land and temples don’t really matter!

HE is our dwelling place!

Psalm 139:7–10 (ESV)

7 Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence?

8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!

9 If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

10 even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.

Jeremiah 23:23–24 (ESV)

23 “Am I a God at hand, declares the Lord, and not a God far away?

24 Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord.

Isaiah 40:12–17 (ESV)

12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?

13 Who has measured the Spirit of the Lord, or what man shows him his counsel?

14 Whom did he consult, and who made him understand? Who taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?

15 Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust.

16 Lebanon would not suffice for fuel, nor are its beasts enough for a burnt offering.

17 All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.

Daniel 4:34 (ESV)

34 At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored him who lives forever, for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation;

2 Peter 3:8 (ESV)

8 But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

This all brings a new depth to:

Matthew 5:48 (ESV)

48 You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Our conclusion:

Romans 11:33 (ESV)

33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!

Prayer of Adoration

Supplication

Ephesians 3:20–21 (ESV)

20 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,

21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

Violet Crisp: Respiratory Infections

Sonya (Lewis) Picon: Chronic Respiratory Disease

Erica Walters and Baby

Luke Thacker: Bone Cancer

Lou Jones, Ty Benton, Hope Sanders, Allen Garver, Randy Young, Mark Hill

Andrew Herrington and family

Our Youth:

Conversion, Cultivation in the fear of the Lord.

Wisdom and perseverance for parents

Protection/guidance for those entering college/careers.