Who is God? (2)

Characteristics of God

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Who is God?

If your looking for the relative answer......well that depends on who you ask....

Muslims - There is 1 God and his profit is mohammed

Hindu’s- believe there are many god’s

Atheists- believe there is no god

Agnostics- beleive we can’t know whether there is a god or not

New Age- believes they are the god’s

JW’s- believe only the father is God, but not Jesus or Holy Spirit

Mormons- believe in the trinity but also believe they will become god’s

You ask 10 people your probably get 15 answers on who God is or isn’t

If your looking for the absolute answer....you have to look to the Bible

The Bible is God’s way of introducing Himself to human Kind

without the Bible we’d be as lost as everyone else is in their understanding about God.

Today let’s take a look at who the Bible descibes God is.

15 Characteristics of who God says He Is

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1. God Is Infinite – He is Self-Existing, Without Origin

Colossians 1:17 NASB95

He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

Psalm 147:5 NASB95

Great is our Lord and abundant in strength; His understanding is infinite.

2. God Is Immutable – He Never Changes

Malachi 3:6 NASB95

“For I, the Lord, do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

3. God Is Self-Sufficient – He Has No Needs

John 5:26 NASB95

“For just as the Father has life in Himself, even so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself;

4. God is Omnipotent – He Is All Powerful

Psalm 33:6 NASB95

By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, And by the breath of His mouth all their host.

5. God Is Omniscient – He Is All-Knowing

Isaiah 46:9–10 NASB95

“Remember the former things long past, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like Me, 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’;

6. God Is Omnipresent – He Is Always Everywhere

Psalm 139:7–10 NASB95

Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there. If I take the wings of the dawn, If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea, Even there Your hand will lead me, And Your right hand will lay hold of me.

Jeremiah 23:23–24 NASB95

“Am I a God who is near,” declares the Lord, “And not a God far off? “Can a man hide himself in hiding places So I do not see him?” declares the Lord. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the Lord.

7. God Is Wise – He Is Full of Perfect, Unchanging Wisdom

Romans 11:33 NASB95

Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!

8. God Is Faithful – He Is Infinitely, Unchangingly True

Deuteronomy 7:9 NASB95

“Know therefore that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps His covenant and His lovingkindness to a thousandth generation with those who love Him and keep His commandments;

2 Timothy 2:13 NASB95

If we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.

9. God Is Good – He Is Infinitely, Unchangingly Kind and Full of Good Will

Psalm 34:8 NASB95

O taste and see that the Lord is good; How blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!

10. God Is Just – He Is Infinitely, Unchangeably Right and Perfect in All He Does

Deuteronomy 32:4 NASB95

“The Rock! His work is perfect, For all His ways are just; A God of faithfulness and without injustice, Righteous and upright is He.

11. God Is Merciful – He is Infinitely, Unchangeably Compassionate and Kind

Romans 9:15–16 NASB95

For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy.

12. God Is Gracious – God Is Infinitely Inclined to Spare the Guilty

Psalm 145:8 NASB95

The Lord is gracious and merciful; Slow to anger and great in lovingkindness.

13. God Is Loving – God Infinitely, Unchangingly Loves Us

1 John 4:7–8 NASB95

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

14. God Is Holy – He is Infinitely, Unchangingly Perfect

Malachi 3:6 NASB95

“For I, the Lord, do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

Revelation 4:8 NASB95

And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within; and day and night they do not cease to say, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come.”

15. God Is Glorious – He is Infinitely Beautiful and Great

Habakkuk 3:4 NASB95

His radiance is like the sunlight; He has rays flashing from His hand, And there is the hiding of His power.

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