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Last week we talked about how God’s justice is an idea that isn’t necessarily black and white.
It is complex.
Does that mean that God is morally ambiguous?
No we talked about how God is good and faithful.
He is just but He is also patient and merciful.
Today we are going to ask the question of ourselves, “Is our view of God big enough?”
By virtue of his position as Creator, God is Lord over all his creation.
He has the divine right to do with it whatever he pleases.
The Lord is the Potter; we are the clay.
He is the Shepherd; we are the sheep.
He is the Master; we are the slaves.
He is the Father; we are his children.
Never must the believer lose sight of the position of God, as he reigns and rules in the heavens doing whatever he pleases.
Do you have a proper heavenly perspective?
Do you submit to God as Creator and understand that you are a part of his creation?
Only when you understand God’s lofty position will you understand your humble position before him.
Then you will relate to your Creator in the right way as you see him as he truly is.
Job had lost everything and his friends did nothing to soothe that pain.
While his friends were accusing Job of sinfulness, Job was appealing to plead his case before the Lord.
Here in Job chapter 38 he gets his request.
Notice where God responds to Job from.
While our God calls us friend and is a God who is near it is also important to remember just how different He is from us.
There are attributes about God that set Him apart from us.
These are His incommunicable attributes or the attributes that we do not share.
God’s incommunicable attributes
God is independent: God does not need us or the rest of creation for anything, yet we and the rest of creation can glorify him and bring him joy.
His nature is not defined by creation’s view of Him.
His nature is defined by what and who He is in being.
God is unchangeable: God is unchanging in his being, perfections, purposes, and promises, yet God does act and feel emotions, and he acts and feels differently in response to different situations.
He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
God is eternal: 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 is in the beginning and in the end simultaneously.
He exists outside of time but chooses to act in time in the lives of His creation.
God is omnipresent: God does not have size or spatial dimensions and is present at every point of space with his whole being, yet God acts differently in different places.
He isn’t an old man with a big long beard He is.
He is the I Am.
God is unified: God is not divided into parts, yet we see different attributes of God emphasized at different times.
He is simultaneously justice and mercy, wrath and love, wisdom and light.
His attributes do not play second string to each other.
At all times He is perfectly fulfilling every one of His attributes never wavering for even a second.
God is Triune: He is three in persons yet one in being.
Each member of the Trinity has its own role yet they are one in nature.
Have you ever looked around at the nature around you and wondered how it got there?
The actions required to create the earth are far beyond understanding, to the point that the only option scientists have come up with for the earth’s origin other than God is chance and happenstance.
The world around us points solely to a designer.
God is meticulous in His creating.
Every square inch of the earth was accounted for.
Every star and every planet has its place and its orbit.
God has carefully laid the foundation of the earth.
He has dug the ocean depths and holds it in its place.
He created clouds and the water cycle.
Evaporation, condensation, precipitation the Lord has designed it all.
There is nothing in Creation that He is not in control of.
God is king over Job
God is king over the Earth
God is king over the Sea
Have you ever looked at a sun rise?
New Mexico has, I think, the most beautiful sunrises and sunsets.
You can look out and see miles of horizon.
Its all these pinks and oranges and purples.
In St. Louis you look out at a sunrise and there’s a jogger getting mugged and a Jack in the Box.
But more than the beauty of a sunrise have you ever thought about how the sun always rises in the East and always sets in the West?
There is not a single second in which the sun is outside of God’s control.
He puts it in its place He holds all things together.
There is even a story in the book of Exodus where the Lord holds the sun in its place so that Israel can win in battle.
God is king over the Sun
Did you know that even today we as a human race has never been to the bottom of the ocean?
Yet God knows every nook and cranny.
God is king over the Deep
Every ray of light and every shadow cast is done by God’s design.
God is king over Light and Darkness
Every rain drop and every unique snowflake falls exactly where God tells it to.
He causes rain to fall in the desert for grass to grow.
He causes the dew and frost.
He causes hail and ice.
God is king over the Weather
Every constellation and planet is put in its place.
There are stars and planets that we as humans will never discover.
No telescope can cover the expanse of the cosmos and yet God has placed every star and planet in its place for His own glory.
God is king over the Cosmos
God is king over Clouds
God is king over Lions
God is king over Ravens
God is king over Goats and Does
God is king over Reproduction
God is king over Domesticated Animals
God is king over Wisdom and Understanding
God is king over Ostriches
God is king over Horses
God is king over Birds of Prey
God is king over All Creation
How do we respond to the sovereignty of God?
Humility.
In chapter 40 and 41 God continues to prove to Job how powerful He is.
In all these things Job is getting a front row seat to all that it means to be Yahweh, The Almighty God, who created all things and holds all things by the word of His power.
He sees first hand just how small he is.
Job is brought out of his grief to find new perspective about the nature of God.
He sees the Lord’s justice first hand.
God who cares for even the most insignificant creatures, God who is Holy and perfect, God who deals patiently and lovingly with sinful and rebellious humans.
All of creation calls Him king except man.
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