Sermon – “The Attributes of God”

God Omar, where would it be where we would be well worth for person, we wouldn’t be here without God, but any one as we didn’t know God and have gotten her lives. God is there, but what we did have. Where would we be on a more thank I thought where I adore. I don’t if other, though somebody wasn’t here this morning we had praise and burning joys and concerns of any thing but they someway like your little bit testimony about how the weeklong in an is is is is is he is will is is they are to be in here is a is is is is is is is is a you and well, actually I found how will he and he will be very easy to do in an all he knew that you were in the hall. He is will he or he he he as you are you have anything all he is in you and will and him to leave very on area now is in a bad and he he and you and your car and will is enough in the North and so have you me and you and I well I thought he is used in an is an and in and is in you and you and you is is is is is the audio and in and in and he and I are in and you and is in the more he and he is in and in three days time and in and is and he is all in reason, I really is beginning of the year and him as well as he is is is is is is is I you are in a you as we need in a meal in an is as little as you and you will and will and way is best. I will him to you, and God is in it or the speak, you just keep that in your mind and your heart. God is eternal faithfulness even for matters and we got about in the little discussion at the Bible say went on about predestination we get into too deep, but God does for no. He knows the number of the hairs on our heads. He knows our thoughts before we think of before knows all things that exist one of the attributes of God. He is good. He is holy justice, love, God is immutable, impartial and impartial know he loves the little children of the world, red and yellow, black and white. He is impartial. He is in comprehensible. He is infinite. He is jealous. He has a right to be jealous because he made it say men he I have a right to be jealous whenever we go off and worship other gods were just forget about. He is long-suffering. Oh my, how we have tested his patients, a man I know that I tested these patients every year. Praise God that he is long-suffering. Anybody else tested, not patients, thirty years on since and has not. Yeah, yeah, he is mercy. God is omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, he is righteous, self existent, self-sufficient, he is sovereign. He is transcendent. He is true, he is wise, he is wrapped my friends, this is just a partial list of God ‘s attributes. They are too many to discuss each and every one of them today because they are so meant. So, I’ve read them. He is our protector getting them really speak to use her something that God is you are not to be regarded really struck a chord with you this morning, July the share real-time interaction is is is is is is is is is long and I thought that I is compared at home and is going one of the topics other his attributes. It am going to point out this morning shows and are for my minds. There’s there’s one thing that really hard for us to grasp. He is infinite. Probably nobody else okay I’m a begin with, the one that people love to embrace the most night as well) not embrace at Saar Scripture this morning comes in first John chapter four verses seven through nineteen hear the word of the Lord, beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love in this the love of God was manifested toward us that God has sent his only begotten son into the world that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his son to be propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also want to love one another. No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us and his love has been perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in him and he announced because he has given us of his Spirit and we have seen and testify that the father has sent the son as as Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the son of God, God abides in him and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, repeats it again, God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God and God in him. Love has been perfected among us in this, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, so are we in this world that sink in because as he is so are we in this world. I’ll get back to that there is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment, but he fears has not been made perfect in love. We love him because he first loved us. Amen. They got out his blessings to the hearing and reading of his holy word of God ‘s love is often described as agape love that house. Agape love different than other types of love for the essence of agape love is sacrificial love and self-sacrifice nor our English word for love. Often times refers to the romantic lovers, sexual and nonsexual love, but it does not refer and even love. In the end, the Bible many times does not refer to agape love. It refers to a friendship or brotherly love, but that is not agape love. Agape love is a love which is of and from God. It doesn’t come natural. It is of and from God was not one of the gifts, the gift of love were back to the get same way it is often from God ‘s very nature is love itself. The apostle John affirms this in first John four eight. He says God is love, God does not merely love. He is love itself is that sink in then it is love itself. Everything God does flows from his love. What is important to remember that God ‘s love is not a sappy sentimental love, such as that is, we often hear pretrade God loves because that is his nature and expression of his being. He loves the young level the love the unlovable and we can only do that with the gift of love last night of the concert, Matthew West has a clip or video, a pair of the woman and he wrote. That’s wrote a song is a title that song. The woman of the mother. There was a mother that her seventeen -year-old daughter was killed by drunk driver forgets that was if I was on forgiveness. There was a moderate mother mother mother that that man was sent to prison for twenty two years in, she was in bondage. She was in dislike. She was in prison to the anger that she felt toward this man. I mean this man had stolen her daughter from her seventeen years of age. She was bitter. She was angry. She was angry at him to his anger, and the guy let this happen. It wasn’t until she found in her heart through the gift of love. The ability to forgive that she was released from her prison for seats they had a clip of her share testimony and see what that man imprisoned and said I forgive you. I forgive you for this bad mistake that you’ve done in it. He made a mistake. He was a good guy was in college we made one bad mistake. He got behind the wheel drunk. Well, she threw much effort in an update through a petition went before the judge and asked that his sins would be cut in half, and they get cut in half and he was released from jail, he and she goes around the country during testimony forgot to forgiveness and forgiveness can do what a powerful testimony. She loved the unlovable, only bother power of the Holy Spirit within. She loved the unlovable. Can we love the unlovable as a true test for love and he loves the unlovely, not because we deserve to be love, but because it is his nature to love us and he must be true to his nature and his character exists in his nature God ‘s love is displayed most clearly the cross were Christ died for the unworthy. He dived for the sinners which Romans five. They say God demonstrated his love toward us, and that was while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. We do not deserve it, but he loves the unlovely they love the unlovable. We were all in level before Christ can in your hearts. We are the unreasoning undeserving recipients upon him God demonstrates his love is love was demonstrated when he sent his son into the world to seek and save the lost and provide eternal life. He paid your ultimate sacrifice for those who love verse eight, said he does not love does not know God, so if we do not know God, we will not love our brother if we know God, we will love at the true tests that we know God if we say that we love God and hate our brother and we don’t really know God because his nature is love. We are to love other sacrificially. Jesus gave the parable to that of the good Samaritan is an example of sacrificial love. We the greatest unwavering walk right on by the serves American game by and sacrificed and help Amanda was injured, sacrificial love is not based on a feeling, but is based on the determined act of the will a joyful result for the welfare of others above, RN, but this type of love is not come natural to humans because of our fallen nature, we are incapable of part of having such love producing such love. If we are to love is God loves that love and agape love. It can only come from one source and that is a Holy Spirit. It can only come from God, the God of the love that he pours out in your heart to the Holy Spirit. This is God the Holy Spirit given to us when we became his children. Romans five five. It is been said that love is not defined God, but that God defines love God defines love the apostle John’s writings. He described God as Spirit, which refers to his essence, meaning that he does not have flesh and blood. They also describe God is light, which refers to his holy nature. Because of our reversing light as a symbol of holiness and refers to darkness as a symbol of sin. We know that God cannot sin, because he is holy, so therefore God is light, he is spared his life, and here he describes God as love you, God reveals his love for mankind in so many ways so many ways. Not only the loudest son to come and die for us, but that he designed all of creation to provide for man. He designed all this for us does not demonstrate his love in man dominion over the Earth does not describe as well. Philippians four nineteen, says, and my God shall supply all your needs according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Why, why does God provide for us because he loves us. He loves us deeper than we can we imagine in our finite minds. Oftentimes, even Christians get caught up in the things of life. We get so caught up in the things of life that we can’t lose our focus on God, and we get caught up with surviving and we forget about God when he is actually one we should be turning to every day because he shall supply all your needs. All your ridges all your boy, he will protect you. He is your strength. He is your human or God is not simply the greatest God among many gods. He is the only true God. When you receive that today he’s not the greatest God among many is the only true God. He is the living God. He is the sovereign God. He is the eternal God is the Lord. He is the Lord of Lords. He is the King of Kings, he is the creator, the giver of life, he is Lord. Amen. Look up songs Psalm eighteen. June three, says the Lord is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my strength, in whom I will trust my shield and no more than my salvation, my strong tower. I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be braised sociality, say from my enemies. You see your strong tower is seeing your deliver. Jeremiah ten ten well says, but the Lord is the true God. He is the true God. He is a living God in the everlasting King and his wrath. The earth will tremble and the nations will not be able to endure his indignation last you saw sake of them that God ‘s small G the gods that have not made the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens he has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens at his discretion when he uttered his utter his voice. He is God. Amen. Jeremiah called God, the everlasting King in Psalms ninety two, it says, from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God, Lord, thou art of God. He is from everlasting to everlasting God was when nothing else. Lots that that sink in for men sometimes than in the Psalms with his SSI law would let me think about Paulson God. God was when nothing else was she doing to me. He was when the earth was without form, before the earth was without form he was before there was light. God was before the waters were separated. God was before anything was God was anonymous online go to say that I completely understand this. This is a hard thing for our finite minds to grab a hold of and understand the main one is one of the most common questions that the kid will ask where did God come from it’s hard to let that sink, and that God has no beginning. He always was and always will be, from everlasting to everlasting, we can look in the history books and we can save when great men were born right people were born running so that this past week and looked at George Washington was born on February the twenty second seventeen thirty two. We know when his life began, but we cannot do that with God. We can’t say that while God was born a million years ago, we can’t do that because he has no beginning. He always wants you know, we could cite a look at the national debt. What is it now am afraid to even ask that money is probably twenty sixteen. Trains are to assist thinking trillions of years we can even apply. Not that God would give several gods began sixteen trillion years ago because it doesn’t it doesn’t work because he has absolutely no beginning everlasting to everlasting. It is slightly easier for our tonight minds to understand that we will live for eternity. Below we have a beginning, we can look forward and say because I’ve accepted Christ on the live forever more, but I don’t know about you but I’m just been honest here, I have a hard time looking back and realizing that it am I have a hard time realizing turned it back, but that’s where God wants us please was in eternity back so I can explain to you exactly how is because it just hits it just is. He has no beginning and he has no end is everlasting this is internal medicine. God is God is omnipresent. The Puritans believed in the ever present God you believe in an ever present God, amen. I guess were Puritans to be able to feel God everywhere. Amen. In the little things, as well as the big things is not awesome to feel the presence of God in the little things in life. In a rising up in our sitting down in her going out and are coming in to feel the presence of God, your life could could not be blessed more than to know and feel that presence of God all the time to have that intimate relationship with God, to know in that he is with you every day. That is the greatest blessing you can have. He is ever present with you right now whether you know it or not, you know, if you’re doing something that you don’t want us to know you better stop because he knows you cannot hide you cannot hide you better just stop going you know, as I was reflecting on this message this week in an different conversations is thinking about all the time that God has been Air Force and I could probably go on and on because I really think I probably got got very busy watching ever made many times in Scott’s going on a omitted. We do our but how awesome you think of this omnipresence that not only is he watching ever made is watching over the billions in the billions of people around the world. Isn’t that just awesome that our God that powerful that amazing. You know I was thinking of a few of the incidents were up on the back end realizing God was watching over me and his omnipresence in his protectiveness and there was a time I was probably about fifteen thousand of us even driving yet. Then, but I often drove the tractor ‘s announcement, working out the orchard and add and take me up to Colliers Mountain and that’s needed to get down fifty one Cowboys follows up on the mountain inside Mars had a beautiful orchard up on the top of this mountain and it was that you know are a rugged not been averaging up on top in the flattened out somewhat, but it that the workers went down or besides, and it was three miles from one end of that video the other end. It was you, George. So dad takes me up there one day the brush all between the constraints to get back and forth down the rows and around any city. Now, go to do this and not good. Thank you quite a while season delays, prayer fifty years old where round brush hog and with the tractor and brush all and the road. It cuts out and as get you up to the top. I was brought solving come out around the end the circle around to go back the other row. Well when I come around. Ananda, the one wrote there. The brush all caught the tree and it showed the tractor down over this bank. This bank is probably this high work cuts down the road and this just like this. So there I said with this tractor teeter tottering and just knowing what I know now you have it had to be God. It just kept that thing from flippant note because the trackers is not a separate bank like this and not flip so I had to empty know, but it does partake off, turned also the Brussels not going like this& I had to pause and think. Do I try to don’t you think back however the lock button C button does get down. I chose just to go down oversight of that record down evident by the tall grass don’t download area drug the dirt. Everything I just went around back up and went them out back on Bob. He said don’t tell me to get tractor done over the bank will experiment tell you that that’s what I’ve been going out. I don’t. It took me, but I look back one bad and I could probably name dozens and more because I have truly got got busy in the back and I didn’t have that intimate relationship with God been, but I believe God I know I can so I know the guy had his hand in my life because I think you so many times that he’s saving me from myself. I should say that we just put it that way because I think I had a plan from. I know they got a plan for my life, it’s a think. I know that he had a plan for my life is ever present with you. You could probably put an upper naming dozens of things that you know these protected you from a man is ever present, ever present, I found the story about an atheist. He was a blasphemer, a profane man, but he became converted by a single action of his own present going yet written on a piece of paper. God is nowhere, and he ordered his child. He wanted to make sure his child was that be an atheist. Also, so you are his child to write this down so that, like the movie. God is not dead, he orders. Challenge your right down that God is nowhere. You want the job did he wrote God is now here, but the- in a different place in the book the W on the no in the middle that God is now here by Brent God is now here he is now here today. He is ever present among us. Verse seventeen the first. John said, love has been perfected among us in this, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is so our we in this world as God is, so are we in this world this comment really ties right in the what we’re talking about subtle school as he is, so are we, God is his character should determine what we ought to be, since we have been created in the image in the likeness of God. So these attributes of God should be reflected in our lives, we should be long-suffering with our neighbors with our brothers. We should be Hollywood to eleven holy lives, he said, be it alcohol is I am only before knowing Barton guy might reveal things to us. We can do it to the bar the Holy Spirit love. We should love his God loans. We should be merciful as he is sorry we in this world we are his agents in this world is empowered us to do the things he did greater things than these, you shall do if we have been born of him. We ought to love one another to Ottawa to argue about that just shows we don’t know him. God is also omniscient mean that he is all knowing. Psalms one thirty nine, says the Lord. One thirty nine one two for the Lord, you have searched me and know me you know my sitting down in my rising up, you understand my thoughts afar off. You comprehend my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word on my tongue. But behold the Lord, you know it all together, he is all-knowing. There was a great Grecian artist was fashioning an image for the Temple. He was diligently carving the backside of this goddess. Someone said to him, you need not finish that part of the statute is because it’s going to be built into the wall. He replied that God can see all in the wall. He had a right idea of what is due. God, that God sees all we know he sees the back parts. He knows all he sees all and knows all. We cannot hide from God and Bible study. Wednesday night we read from ask chapter five summary reader will do that to you by certain man named Ananias was a fire is white solid possession and he kept back part of the proceeds. His wife also being aware of it, and brought a certain part of later that the apostles feet. But Peter said Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself, while the remaining wasn’t not urine, and after was sold, wasn’t not in your control. Why you can see this thing in your heart you have not lied to men. Would you like the God God is omniscient, we cannot live without we might think we can lot of God, but I’m a tight right now you cannot successfully Robert God heretical many years ago, and I know that I shared it says no man has sufficient memory to be successful liar. While a tight with God. You cannot be a successful liar. I don’t care how good your memory is you have a photographic memory but you cannot be a successful article because he knows we cannot lie. He knows all things, is omniscient, and knowing that he still loves us. He loves unlovable on the on proof of that, as he loves me. I’m proof of that. Let’s refocus on God or Newby is all these attributes and what he has done for us would kind of drifted from our time with him. Let’s refocus on him. Let’s delve back into his word was built back in the prayer. Let’s refocus on our maker, our Creator, the wonted love this so much that he got for us. Amen our closing hymn. 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