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Good morning, CHURCH!
(Opening joke)
So, I might have to rethink the whole talking to everyone after service thing.
Or maybe I just need to put an age limit on it.
You know that the younger you are and the older you are, you don’t seem to have a filter.
Kids will just say anything sometimes and so will the elderly.
It takes some years to get your filter and then it only last for so long.
One Sunday after service an older lady came up to me and she said, “Pastor J, would you like to know the secret to a great sermon?”
I said, “Well of course I would like to know the secret to a great sermon.”
She said, “A great sermon needs to have 3 parts.
A good beginning, a good ending, and it needs to have them as close together as possible.”
(Pause)
“You’re pretty good at that beginning and ending thing but they aren’t quite close enough together yet.”
Are you ready to be equipped today?
Let me see your Bibles.
Let’s go to the book of James 1:17 for this week’s wisdom Vaccination.
This Week’s Wisdom Vaccination
James 1:17 ESV
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
It was common to Jewish and Greek wisdom, that God was the author of everything good.
They used terms like Father of lights to refer to the creator of the stars or from above to mean from God.
And it was clear to them that this doesn’t change about God.
But we know that their are a lot of deceived people whom blame God for bad things that happen to them or in this world.
Bible believers, believe differently.
We believe that God is responsible for the good and the enemy or mankind not following God are responsible for the bad.
Today I’m starting a new series and it is going to be a series meant to build your faith, hope, trust and love for God.
Society is always eating away at these things, undermined by Satan himself.
The new series title is:
God Cannot...
By focusing on things God cannot do, we will be able to lock in on what he really does for his children.
Today’s message title is:
God Cannot Change
This is referred to as the immutability of God or the unchangeability of God.
The Bible is very clear that God does not change, neither His mind, His will, nor His nature.
In this lesson we will discuss why this is a benefit to his children that he cannot change.
God not changing is one of his many great attributes.
Some of the other attributes of God are that He is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, wisdom, power, holy, merciful, patient, just, good and full of grace and truth.
These attributes benefit those in right standings with God.
And ultimately, they will be a detriment to those who will not repent and follow God.
We saw a great example of what God’s unchangeableness leads to when people repent in Jonah.
(Pastor J I thought Jonah gave us an example of God actually changing.)
God had sent Jonah to tell the people of Nineveh that in 40 day he would destroy them because of how they lived.
The King of Nineveh believed Jonah and called a fast for everyone in Nineveh.
Jonah 3:9 ESV
Who knows?
God may turn and relent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish.”
The King of Nineveh thought God might change his mind and not destroy them because they repented and fasted.
What the King of Nineveh didn’t understand was that it was God’s desire all along that the people of Nineveh repent.
This was in no way a change in who God was.
This was a part of the nature of our loving God all along.
When God changes his decisions, it doesn’t change who HE is or his being.
We also see in Malachi how the unchangeableness of God benefitted the people.
Malachi 3:6 ESV
“For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.
Listen to this in The Message Translation.
“I am God—yes, I Am.
I haven’t changed.
And because I haven’t changed, you, the descendants of Jacob, haven’t been destroyed.
You have a long history of ignoring my commands.
You haven’t done a thing I’ve told you.
Return to me so I can return to you,” says God-of-the-Angel-Armies.
Isn’t it a wonderful thing that God can’t change the fact that he is patient with us?
Numbers 23:19 ESV
God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind.
Has he said, and will he not do it?
Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
This was an account of Balak trying to get Balaam to convince God to revoke his blessing on the Israelites.
Basically God was like, “I’m not like humans in the sense that you can buy my decisions or manipulate me to change.”
Once God has struck a covenant or made a decree, he doesn’t change.
We can change and, in many instances, we need to change.
But God doesn’t need to change.
We see the same thing said of God in Isaiah.
Isaiah 46:9-11 ESV
remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me,
10 declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’
11 calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country.
I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have purposed, and I will do it.
The one true God can’t be compared to all of the other things than man worships like they are gods.
He is telling them to remember the former things.
God’s track record is perfect.
If he summons a bird it obeys.
Whatever he sovereignly dictates will come to pass.
Now from a logical viewpoint, we are going to look at three reasons God cannot change.
Point #1
God is not bound by time.
First, if anything changes it must do so in some chronological order.
There must be a point in time before the change and a point in time after the change.
Therefore, for change to take place it must happen within the constraints of time.
However, God is eternal and exists outside of the constraints of time.
John 17:5 ESV
And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.
2 Timothy 1:9 ESV
who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,
And as eternal and independent of time, which is the “form” of change and mutability, He cannot be subject to any change at all.
God’s unchangeableness, therefore, flows from His self-existence throughout eternity.
Why is this important for you to know?
This is important for you to know so that when you put your hope in him and his promises, you can be sure that he can’t change and he won’t change just because it’s you.
God is complete and perfect in Himself and is not the result of any process of self-realization.
(God will never realize that something about himself needs to change.)
He is so great that His relationship to the created universe cannot begin to exhaust His Being.
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