God is Omnipotent, Omnipresent, Omnicient
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God is Omnipotent- all powerful
God is Omnipotent- all powerful
What this refers to is the attribute of God having infinite or unlimited power.
He can do all that He has determined to do, no person, or force can hinder him, or make him do anything contrary
But to say God can do all things means that He can do all that is in agreement with his other attributes (holy righteous and loving nature)
He cannot contradict Himself
So God cant be cruel or selfish
Can’t lie
Can’t break Promises
He can’t do absurd (make square circles, triangles with four corners, or a rock to heavy he can’t move)
God would have to stop being God to do those things
Oh, Lord God! You yourself made the heavens and earth by your great power and with your outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for you!
There is nothing beyond the power of God
Then Job replied to the Lord:
I know that you can do anything
and no plan of yours can be thwarted.
Our God is in heaven
and does whatever he pleases.
In him we have also received an inheritance, because we were predestined according to the plan of the one who works out everything in agreement with the purpose of his will,
He is able and will carry out all that He has determined to do
So What does God’s omnipotences mean for believers?
“I am now going the way of the whole earth, and you know with all your heart and all your soul that none of the good promises the Lord your God made to you has failed. Everything was fulfilled for you; not one promise has failed.
What, then, are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?
Such is the confidence we have through Christ before God. It is not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God.
We have Faith and Obedience because he has the power and will keep is promises because nothing can stop His will.
God is Omnipresent - all present
God is Omnipresent - all present
This is the state of God being present everywhere at once.
It means that He is always present in every place in His fullness
This does not mean that part of God is in China and another part of God is here, but that all of God is everywhere at once
Although the universe itself cannot contain God, God is present in all His fullness in every place
For the Believer it gives great confidence and comfort
for the unbeliever, terror because there is no possibility of hiding or escaping the presence of God
But will God indeed live on earth?
Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain you,
much less this temple I have built.
Where can I go to escape your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to heaven, you are there;
if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.
If I live at the eastern horizon
or settle at the western limits,
even there your hand will lead me;
your right hand will hold on to me.
The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, for
“ ‘In him we live and move and have our being’;
as even some of your own poets have said,
“ ‘For we are indeed his offspring.’
“in Him” important
Whether man acknowledges it or not, the reality of God is inescapable. there is no place that He is not. Furthermore all things were made by Him and continues to be sustained by Him. He set the universe in motion and sustains it.
For what great nation is there that has a god near to it as the Lord our God is to us whenever we call to him?
teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
God is Omniscient - all knowing
God is Omniscient - all knowing
refers to the attribute of possessing all knowledge.
The omniscience of God indicates that he possesses perfect knowledge of all thing pass present and future immediately effortlessly simultaneously and exhaustively.
there is nothing hidden from God
there is never the slightest difference between God’s knowledge and what really is.
God knows all the facts and interprets them with perfect wisdom.
Gives great confidence and comfort for believers because God knows every need
understands every trial
he has given us His infallible Word to guide
no sin is hidden or will be forgotten
Every creature every deed and every though is before him
Do not boast so proudly,
or let arrogant words come out of your mouth,
for the Lord is a God of knowledge,
and actions are weighed by him.
and declared:
May the name of God
be praised forever and ever,
for wisdom and power belong to him.
He changes the times and seasons;
he removes kings and establishes kings.
He gives wisdom to the wise
and knowledge to those
who have understanding.
He reveals the deep and hidden things;
he knows what is in the darkness,
and light dwells with him.
Do you understand how the clouds float,
those wonderful works of him who has perfect knowledge?
Lord, you have searched me and known me.
You know when I sit down and when I stand up;
you understand my thoughts from far away.
You observe my travels and my rest;
you are aware of all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue,
you know all about it, Lord.
For a man’s ways are before the Lord’s eyes,
and he considers all his paths.
No creature is hidden from him, but all things are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.