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Sermon 3 Outline:
Weve been talking about Trusting God and covenant - Covenant is God’s initiative to reveal Himself.
I am going to be picking up where i left off last week
Doxology from Paul:
Romans 11:33-36 “Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! “Who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has been his counselor?”
“Who has ever given to God, that God should repay them?”
For from him and through him and for him are all things.
To him be the glory forever!
Amen.”
[Title] No One Like Our God
Overview from last week
Fruit of Revelation
Increased Knowledge of God
Increased Christ-likeness
Increased participation in the mission of God
Hebrews 8:10-12 “This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Israel after that time, declares the Lord.
I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts.
I will be their God, and they will be my people.
No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.
For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.””
- God is the Giver and the Gift
Who is God?
Triune God
How Does God reveal Himself?
2 Pre-suppositions
1. God Exists
2. God Reveals Himself
Revelation
We are entirely dependent on God making Himself known.
Is not a disclosure of truths about God; it is the self-revelation of God.
3 Modes of Revelation -
Natural Revelation
Special Revelation
Christological Revelation
Special Revelation
God’s unique and supernatural communication of himself
Revelatory historical events (exodus and resurrection of Christ)
God acts in history, and that history communicates something of God.
Inspired Preaching (prophets and apostles)
1 Peter 1:12
Inscripturated revelation (God breathed Word through human authors to produce written texts)
To draw near to God in Scripture is to allow the wisdom and power of God’s Word to dwell in you richly.
We are not only hearing facts about God, but we are genuinely encountering God.
Divine illumination
(Holy Spirit brings understanding to believers about His Word)
Christological Revelation
The incarnation of Jesus Christ
It is a direct and unmediated (uncensored, uncut, unedited) communication of God.
He is the reality of God - it is the single greatest act of God’s self-revelation.
The identity of God is bound up with the identity of Jesus Christ -
John 1:18 “No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.”
And it also shows what God intended humanity to be and what it finally will be.
“God became what we are, so that we might become what He is.” - Athanasius.
The revelation of Christ - how Paul got through difficult times.
Colossians 1:15-20
What Are The Attributes of God?
2 Categories
Incommunicable Attributes
Communicable Attributes
Incommunicable:
The reason why “there is none like God” is because God alone possesses particular attributes that cannot be shared with any other creature.
Eternal:
God exists without beginning or end
Psalm 90:2 - “Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.”
God has no beginning, end, or succession of moments in his own being, and he sees all time equally vividly, yet God sees events in time and acts in time.
God’s experience of time is different from our own experience.
That is why one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years are like a day to God.
Which is encouraging because God sees me in the future (Image of Christ) and sees me now in my present but has more hope and excitement for you because of what he Sees.
God experiences all of time simultaneously
There is no gap between God’s plan and his execution of it precisely because he stands outside of it.
In closing - we could say that God is “everlasting” in the sense that he exists within time at every single point so that he is spatially present within every space-time location.
Self-Sufficient:
God’s being and existence are not contingent on anything else in the universe.
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.”
Job 41:11 “Who has a claim against me that I must pay?
Everything under heaven belongs to me.”
No one has ever contributed to God anything that did not first come from God who created all things.
God exists in an infinitely superior capacity to our own as he is the Creator of all things and all things endure because of His will (Re.
4:11).
God’s self-sufficiency implies his self-satisfaction with his own glory
Among the persons of the Trinity there has been perfect love and fellowship and communication for all eternity.
God is the “I AM”
The implication is that God’s existence and character are determined by himself alone and are not dependent on anyone or anything else.
God’s act of creation, redemption, and new creation are, therefore, the means of expressing his glory in a loving relationship with others.
Without creation, God would still be infinitely loving, infinitely just, eternal, omniscient, trinitarian, and so forth.
If God does not need us for anything, then are we important at all?
We are very meaningful because God has created us and he has determined that we would be meaningful to Him.
We and the rest of creation can glorify God and bring him joy.
Immutable:
God is characteristically changeless in His character
Malachi 3:6 “I the Lord do not change.
So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.”
The immutability of God’s being establishes the certainty of God’s Gospel plan.
Our faith rests on the unchanging plan centered on Jesus Christ as an eternal being, with an eternal priesthood, to bring eternal salvation, through the eternal Spirit.
Divine Immutability requires - Divine Impassibility.
External things will not change the purpose and plan of God for His children
Omnipotence:
The power of God knows no limit, no condition, and no contingency other than being expressed in accordance with his own character.
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