God Is... Omnipresent and Eternal
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God is Omnipresent
God is Omnipresent
Definition: God is everywhere present and is not limited to any location or physical space
Definition: God is everywhere present and is not limited to any location or physical space
God is everywhere - Psalm 139:7-10
God is everywhere - Psalm 139:7-10
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
God is not limited by physical space - 1 Kings 8:27
God is not limited by physical space - 1 Kings 8:27
“But will God really dwell on earth? The heavens, even the highest heaven, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built!
God exists outside of His creation and cannot be contained by anything created - Acts 17:24-25
God exists outside of His creation and cannot be contained by anything created - Acts 17:24-25
“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands.
And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.
What omnipresence is not:
What omnipresence is not:
God moves very fast from place to place giving the illusion of being in more than one place
God moves very fast from place to place giving the illusion of being in more than one place
God is a multi-tasker
God is in everything (Pantheism)
God is in everything (Pantheism)
Omnipresence makes possible God’s promise to never leave us - Matthew 28:19-20
Omnipresence makes possible God’s promise to never leave us - Matthew 28:19-20
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
God is Eternal
God is Eternal
Definition: God does not exist within time but rather exists before and outside of time. - Revelation 1:8
Definition: God does not exist within time but rather exists before and outside of time. - Revelation 1:8
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”
God is eternal in that He lives forever - Isaiah 57:15
God is eternal in that He lives forever - Isaiah 57:15
For this is what the high and exalted One says— he who lives forever, whose name is holy: “I live in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.
God is eternal in that He has no beginning - Psalm 90:2
God is eternal in that He has no beginning - Psalm 90:2
Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
God is eternal in that He is not limited by time - Psalm 90:4
God is eternal in that He is not limited by time - Psalm 90:4
A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.
God’s eternal Nature is beyond our understanding - Job 36:26
God’s eternal Nature is beyond our understanding - Job 36:26
Job 36:26 (NIV)
How great is God—beyond our understanding! The number of his years is past finding out.
Benediction - 1 Tim 1:17 “Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.”