Who Is God? His Attributes of Greatness
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He Knows Everything
He Knows Everything
Omniscience of God
About All Things
About All Things
22 “It is He who reveals the profound and hidden things; He knows what is in the darkness, And the light dwells with Him.
5 Great is our Lord and abundant in strength; His understanding is infinite.
13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.
Without Being Taught
Without Being Taught
13 Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord, Or as His counselor has informed Him?
14 With whom did He consult and who gave Him understanding? And who taught Him in the path of justice and taught Him knowledge And informed Him of the way of understanding?
34 For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who became His counselor?
About Us
About Us
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar.
3 You scrutinize my path and my lying down, And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.
4 Even before there is a word on my tongue, Behold, O Lord, You know it all.
God is not susceptible to fake news! He knows the whole truth about everyone and everything.
8 You have placed our iniquities before You, Our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
17 He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?” Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, “Do you love Me?” And he said to Him, “Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You.” Jesus said to him, “Tend My sheep.
God is not just a computer bank of knowledge. He is also wise. That is, He uses His infinite knowledge bring the perfect end result by the using the best possible way. Because He knows all things, no one could possibly come up with a better way of doing the universe than He can.
Men try to second guess God and think that if they were in God’s position, they would have handled things in a better way than He has. Such arrogance from such limited and small creatures!
About Our Need
About Our Need
23 this Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death.
Application:
God know all about you. Your whole life is open for God to see in infinite detail. He knew every mistake, every sin, every backsliding. But knowing you did not at all scare Him away from loving you. He initiated a relationship with you in full disclosure of all your actions past, present, and future. There is nothing that you have done, or will do that will catch Him by surprise or stop Him from loving those who belong to Him.
Do you belong too Him?
He Has Authority Over Everything
He Has Authority Over Everything
Sovereignty or Supremacy of God
Over History
Over History
10 Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things which have not been done, Saying, ‘My purpose will be established, And I will accomplish all My good pleasure’;
11 also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will,
Over The Nations
Over The Nations
1 Why are the nations in an uproar And the peoples devising a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth take their stand And the rulers take counsel together Against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying,
3 “Let us tear their fetters apart And cast away their cords from us!”
4 He who sits in the heavens laughs, The Lord scoffs at them.
5 Then He will speak to them in His anger And terrify them in His fury, saying,
6 “But as for Me, I have installed My King Upon Zion, My holy mountain.”
6 and he said, “O Lord, the God of our fathers, are You not God in the heavens? And are You not ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in Your hand so that no one can stand against You.
Over Our Lives
Over Our Lives
11 also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will,
9 “Woe to the one who quarrels with his Maker— An earthenware vessel among the vessels of earth! Will the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you doing?’ Or the thing you are making say, ‘He has no hands’?
13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.”
15 Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.”
Over Salvation
Over Salvation
48 When the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord; and as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed.
18 So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires.
Application:
He Has Power Over Everything
He Has Power Over Everything
Omnipotence
11 Once God has spoken; Twice I have heard this: That power belongs to God;
4 His radiance is like the sunlight; He has rays flashing from His hand, And there is the hiding of His power.
35 “All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, But He does according to His will in the host of heaven And among the inhabitants of earth; And no one can ward off His hand Or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’
Over Disease
Over Disease
3 Jesus stretched out His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
Over Creation
Over Creation
4 “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding,
5 Who set its measurements? Since you know. Or who stretched the line on it?
6 “On what were its bases sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone,
11 The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; The world and all it contains, You have founded them.
12 The north and the south, You have created them; Tabor and Hermon shout for joy at Your name.
Genesis 1 is a parade of the power of God. He speaks and our world is snapped into existence.
To Keep Everything Going
To Keep Everything Going
3 And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
To Answer Prayer
To Answer Prayer
20 Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us,
21 to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.
Application:
15 My times are in Your hand; Deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who persecute me.
7 Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him; Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, Because of the man who carries out wicked schemes.