Great Doctrines
Lesson 4
Lesson Text—Psalm 93:1-3
Psalm 93:1-3
1 The LORD reigneth, he is clothed
with majesty; the Lord is clothed
with strength, wherewith he hath
girded himself: the world also is
stablished, that it cannot be moved.
2 Thy throne is established of old:
thou art from everlasting.
3 The floods have lifted up, O LORD,
the floods have lifted up their voice;
the floods lift up their waves.
Lesson Text—Psalm 93:4-5
Psalm 93:4-5
4 The LORD on high is mightier
than the noise of many waters,
yea, than the mighty waves of
the sea.
5 Thy testimonies are very sure:
holiness becometh thine house,
O LORD, for ever.
Focus Verse—Psalm 90:2
Psalm 90:2
Before the mountains were
brought forth, or ever thou hadst
formed the earth and the world,
even from everlasting to
everlasting, thou art God.
Focus Thought
The nature of God is beyond our
full comprehension, but what we
do know of Him—that He is selfexistent, transcendent, sovereign,
omniscient, and almighty—is a
source of comfort and praise.
Introduction
I. God Is Self-Existent
Frequently, when individuals
attempt to describe God, they slip
into the use of philosophical
terminology rather than scriptural
language. Someone has described
theology as the intersection of
philosophy and Scripture.
Philosophical considerations often
tend to overwhelm Scripture. For
this reason, Paul warned against
the deceptiveness of philosophy
(Colossians 2:8).
I.
We are limited in our
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Is Self-Existent
understanding
of God by the
limitations of human language. No
words are sufficient to fully and
accurately describe the
magnificence of the Lord. He has
revealed many things about Himself,
but we can perceive only what we
can describe and can describe only
what our language can encompass.
We are further limited by the scope
of human ability to understand
language itself.
I.
Trying to comprehend and
describe
God is comparable to a
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Is Self-Existent
person trying to pour five gallons of
liquid into a half-pint container. One
could get the essence of the whole,
but never encompass its totality.
Since humanity is incapable of
comprehending or describing God
in His fullness, God has revealed
Himself to us. This revelation is
sufficient to allow humans to
develop a proper relationship with
Him. By His revelation He has let us
know the proper way to approach
Him and how to relate to His ways.
God Is Self-Existent
I. God Is Self-Existent
When God revealed Himself to
Moses in the burning bush, He
identified Himself as “I AM”
(Exodus 3:14). This designation for
God encompasses the idea of God
existing eternally and without
creation by another—the selfexistent One.
I.
God is the uncreated “First
God
Is Self-Existent
Cause.”
He is neither created by
nor derived from any prior
existence. He is the answer to the
question, “Where did everything
come from?” The “big bang”
theory and others like it
presuppose the existence of
“something” in the beginning of
all things. Whatever the
mechanics of creation may have
been, God is the self-existent
beginning of all things.
A. God Is Eternal
A. God Is Eternal
“Before the mountains
were brought forth, or ever
thou hadst formed the
earth and the world, even
from everlasting to
everlasting, thou art God”
(Psalm 90:2).
I.
As creatures of time, bound by
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Is Self-Existent
strictures
of time, it is practically
impossible for an individual even to
conceive of the idea of eternity.
Mankind’s own experiences and
lifespan tend to control and limit his
personal concept of the duration of
time. He may intellectually grasp the
idea of past millennia, but his real
perception is more in line with the
idea of “threescore years and ten”
presented in Psalm 90:10.
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on the other hand, is not
bound by time because He created
it. Time is irrelevant to His
existence. With neither beginning
nor end, He neither ages nor
changes.
B. God Is Self-Revealing
B. God
Is
Self-Revealing
“Because that which may be
known of God is manifest in
them; for God hath shewed it
unto them. For the invisible
things of him from the
creation of the world are
clearly seen, being
understood by the things that
are made, even his eternal
power and Godhead; so that
they are without excuse”
(Romans 1:19-20).
I.
Through the centuries
God
Is Self-Existent
mankind
has devised all
manner of ideas concerning the
nature of God. Usually the
concepts of individuals were at
best skewed and more often
absolutely wrong. But God has
revealed Himself through
nature, theophanies, the written
Word, the Incarnation, and the
infilling of His Spirit.
C. God Is Self-Sustaining
C. God Is Self-Sustaining
“If I were hungry, I would not
tell thee: for the world is
mine, and the fulness
thereof” (Psalm 50:12).
I.
God does not need anyone or
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Self-Existent
anything. He is the creator and
owner of everything. There is
nothing that any individual or all
individuals can add to Him.
Further, if He had a need, it
would be futile for Him to ask us
for assistance. Anything we
could provide Him is already His
for the taking and using. (See
Psalm 24:1-2; 89:11; 115:15-16.)
God Is Transcendent
II. God Is Transcendent
A. God Is Not Limited by
Space or Time
God is everywhere in His
fullness continually; there is no
“present moment” into which He
is locked as are we. Theologians
refer to God’s freedom from limits
and boundaries as His infinity, His
immensity, and His
transcendence.
I.
The idea of past, present, and
future poses no restrictions on God.
God
Is
Self-Existent
With God, Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob are still alive in His presence
(Matthew 22:32; Mark 12:26-27; Luke
20:37-38), the devil is already
defeated, and His church is
victorious and with Him in eternity. It
is no great feat for God to reveal the
very moment of creation, the end of
all things, and the process between
the two events with unfailing
accuracy. All of the events framed
by time as we mortals perceive it is
to God as if it were eternal, present
tense.
the same
token by
of Space
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Limited
understanding, all places are
or“here”
Timein the
equally
comprehension of God. This is one
reason God can hear all prayers at
once whether those who are
praying are inches or miles apart.
Multiple emergencies do not stress
or test the limits of God because
He suffers no restrictions relative
to His location, time, or any other
such human limitation.
B. God Is Immutable
B. God Is Immutable
“For I am the LORD, I change
not; therefore ye sons of
Jacob are not consumed”
(Malachi 3:6).
I.
God does not change. Styles and
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fashions
change. Fads come and
go. Types of governments rise and
fall. Social theories wax and wane.
What is “hot” cools down and
something else takes its place.
Religious ideas morph and shift, but
God remains ever the same. No
matter who sits on the earthly
thrones or who is trodden down by
human governments, God is
unchanged in His plan, purpose,
and power (James 1:17).
C. God Is a Spirit
C.
God
Is
a
Spirit
“Behold my hands and my
feet, that it is I myself:
handle me, and see; for a
spirit hath not flesh and
bones, as ye see me have”
(Luke 24:39).
“God is a Spirit: and they
that worship him must
worship him in spirit and in
truth” (John 4:24).
I.
As to the essential nature and
being of God, He is not physical as
God
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we perceive human identity. The best
way to describe the essence of His
being is as a Spirit. Jesus Himself
pointed this out to the Samaritan
woman. (See John 4:24.) Then, after
His resurrection Jesus emphasized
the fact of His physical existence as
opposed to being only a Spirit. The
laws of physics and other sciences
that regulate the perceivable creation,
such as those discovered and
identified by Newton and Einstein, do
not apply to a spirit, so physical laws
do not bind or limit God.
I.
That God is a Spirit impacts the
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Is way
Self-Existent
proper
for mankind to
approach Him. For instance, our
physical activities do not impress
Him. It is not enough for a person
to go through a set of motions or
follow rituals in the worship of
God. Just going through physical
moves and saying the right words
is insufficient to appropriately
engage the Creator of all things.
I.
To properly draw near to the Holy
God
Is
Self-Existent
One of Israel, it is necessary to
engage the deeper part of our
being—our human soul and spirit.
Although God reached out to
mankind by taking on human flesh
(John 1:14; I Timothy 3:16), we must
reach out to Him from the depths of
our spirits. No flesh shall glory in
His presence (I Corinthians 1:29; I
Peter 1:24). We can best approach
Him from our inner being.
God Is Sovereign
III. God Is Sovereign
A. God Is on the Throne
The vision of God ruling His
kingdom from a throne recurs time
and again in Scripture. (See I Kings
22:19; Psalm 11:4; 45:6; 47:8-9;
Isaiah 6:1; Ezekiel 1:26; Daniel 7:9;
Hebrews 12:2; Revelation 3:21; 4:2.)
This imagery speaks to us of God’s
majesty, authority, and power. God
alone rules without the need to
consider the wishes or power of
others.
A.
As He is the sovereign of all eternity,
God
Is
on
the
Throne
none can rightfully question His
authority or actions: “What doest
thou?” (Job 9:12; Ecclesiastes 8:4;
Daniel 4:35). In Him is all authority
and power over all things of heaven
and earth.
B.
Mankind
and
Angels
Are
B. Mankind and Angels Are
Free Moral Agents
Free Moral Agents
By His sovereign act God has
given the gift of choice both to
mankind and the angels. We know
this freedom of choice as mankind’s
free moral agency. However, that
God has given mankind the power
of choice by no means limits the
final decision regarding all things,
which remains with God. In other
words, we may make our decisions,
but the final disposition of all
matters lies ultimately with God.
A.
Adam and Eve had the freedom to
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choose
disobey
God’s plan.
Lucifer and his cohorts were able to
choose to rebel against God.
However, the results of their
decisions are continuing to play out
on the world’s stage even to this
day. In the end, God will call all
these and all mankind into the
ultimate account for their choices
and actions. He alone will determine
the appropriate action to take in
relation to the decisions of mankind.
C.
God
Exercises
His
C. God Exercises His
Sovereignty
Sovereignty
God exercises His sovereignty by
overruling others as a planned
means to His own divine goals (Acts
2:23; 13:26-39). One way He guides
events is by determining the length
of individual lives. (See Genesis 5:20;
II Samuel 14:14; Job 14:5;
Ecclesiastes 8:8; Hebrews 9:27.)
God also exercises His
sovereignty by using His
unparalleled knowledge and wisdom.
He can so arrange events that the
A. outcome
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choices of
mankind bring about His desired
results (Acts 2:23; Acts 13:26-29).
On other occasions God directly
intervenes on the stage of human
history. Such past instances include
the opening and closing of the Red
Sea (Exodus 14:21, 26), casting
down the walls of Jericho (Joshua
6:20), delivering His servants from a
fiery furnace or a den of lions, and
raising the crucified body of the Son
of God from the dead (Acts 13:2939).
D. God’s Goals
D. God’s Goals
“For my thoughts are not
your thoughts, neither are
your ways my ways, saith
the LORD. For as the
heavens are higher than the
earth, so are my ways higher
than your ways, and my
thoughts than your
thoughts” (Isaiah 55:8-9).
A.
God has aims and goals that we
would be wise to discover and with
God
Is
on
the
Throne
which we should endeavor to align
ourselves. His ultimate goals may
not necessarily line up with
humanity’s plans. Some of His plans
are not even within the reach of our
comprehension.
1. God guarantees the stability of
the world against all the forces of
chaos (Psalm 93:1-4). “The Lord
reigneth, he is clothed with majesty;
the Lord is clothed with strength,
wherewith he hath girded himself:
the world also is stablished, that it
cannot be moved” (Psalm 93:1).
A.
God upholds all things by the
word
(Hebrews 1:3).
GodofIsHisonpower
the Throne
His continued involvement with His
creation keeps everything in
existence and order according to
His perfect plan. God even involves
Himself on a subatomic level in the
earth. That like charges repel and
opposite charges attract is a known
fact of science, which we can readily
observe in the characteristics of a
pair of magnets. Yet, the power of
God holds every nucleus together,
which is comprised of positively
charged particles.
A.
This insures the continuance of the
basic building blocks of the
God
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on
the
Throne
universe.
God has also set the limits of the
seas (Job 38:11-12; Proverbs 8:29),
and He controls even the wind and
waves (Psalm 65:7; 89:9; 93:3-4;
Mark 4:39-41). All of nature obeys
His command.
2. God confirms the
trustworthiness of all His
utterances and directives. “Thy
testimonies are very sure: holiness
becometh thine house, O Lord, for
ever” (Psalm 93:5).
A.
We can trust God’s Word to guide
God
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thepaths
Throne
us
on the
proper
of life. He
declares the accuracy and surety of
His directives. “The law of the Lord
is perfect . . . the testimony of the
Lord is sure. . . . the statutes of the
Lord are right . . . the commandment
of the Lord is pure. . . . the fear of
the Lord is clean . . . the judgments
of the Lord are true and righteous
altogether“ (Psalm 19:7-9).
3. God calls for the homage of
holiness on the part of His people
(Psalm 93:5).
A.
“Speak unto all the congregation of
God
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Throne
the
children
Israel,
and say unto
them, Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord
your God am holy” (Leviticus 19:2).
From the days of Moses
(Leviticus 10:3) through the psalms
(Psalm 5:4-7; 99:5) and prophets
(Isaiah 52:11; Zechariah 14:20-21)
even to the church age (I
Corinthians 3:16-17; Hebrews 12:14)
and beyond (Revelation 21:27), God
has commanded and expected
holiness in His people. Only the holy
shall stand in His presence.
God Is Omniscient
III. God Is Omniscient
“Neither is there any creature
that is not manifest in his
sight: but all things are naked
and opened unto the eyes of
him with whom we have to do”
(Hebrews 4:13).
A.
As the Creator and Sovereign of
God
Is
on
the
Throne
all, God knows all things. Nothing
can hide from His omniscience.
God knows the facts as well as the
actions and intentions. He knows
what is done in every
circumstance, and He knows the
reasoning and motives behind all
events (Proverbs 15:3, 11).
A. God Knows All
A. God Knows All
“For he looketh to the ends
of the earth, and seeth under
the whole heaven” (Job
28:24).
A. God Is on the Throne
Inherent in the being of God is
the universal knowledge of all
things. As the Creator of
everything, He knows the
composition, capability, capacity,
and limitations of all that exists.
Nothing escapes His
comprehension.
B.
God
Knows
the
Past,
B. God Knows the Past, the
the Present, and the
Present, and the Future
Future
“Remember the former things of
old: for I am God, and there is none
else; I am God, and there is none
like me, declaring the end from the
beginning, and from ancient times
the things that are not yet done,
saying, My counsel shall stand, and
I will do all my pleasure”
(Isaiah 46:9-10).
A.
God has shown Himself
cognizant
of all
phases
of time and
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on
the
Throne
eternity. Among all supposed deities
whom some people perceive as
gods, God alone has infallibly told
of past things otherwise unknown,
and He alone declares future things
with exact accuracy (Genesis 1:1;
Isaiah 44:28-45:1). Through His
prophets God has even challenged
other gods and prophets to match
His knowledge of both the past and
present (Isaiah 41:22-24; 42:9). None
has ever met the test.
C.
God’s
Knowledge
Is
C. God’s Knowledge Is Linked
Linked with His
with His Sovereignty
Sovereignty
“In whom also we have obtained
an inheritance, being
predestinated according to the
purpose of him who worketh all
things after the counsel of his
own will”
(Ephesians 1:11).
A. God
Is
on
the
Throne
God knows all things because
He created them, sustains them,
and keeps them functioning every
moment according to His eternal
plan and purpose. He has a
purpose for His creation, and He
will bring it about through His allsufficient knowledge and
complete sovereignty.
D.
Knowledge
of
D. Knowledge of Omniscience
Omniscience Brings
Brings Assurance to the Saved
Assurance to the Saved
“Because he hath appointed a
day, in the which he will judge
the world in righteousness by
that man whom he hath
ordained; whereof he hath given
assurance unto all men, in that
he hath raised him from the
dead” (Acts 17:31).
A.
God has not forgotten mankind.
God
Is on the
Throne
He
is carefully
caring
for his
needs. When a believer realizes
God knows all things, it is a great
source of strength and comfort to
him, a strong anchor in troubled
times. In the midst of his
tribulation Job found confidence in
God. Although he could not
perceive the presence of God, he
had faith in God and knew God
was well acquainted with his
situation (Job 23:10).
E.
To
the
Unsaved
God’s
E. To the Unsaved God’s
Knowledge Brings
Knowledge Brings Dread
Dread
While the omniscience of God
comforts a believer, it torments the
unbeliever. A person cannot hide
either himself or his sins from God’s
view (Psalm 94:1-11; 139:7-12; John
1:1-12). Even those who put up a
brave front of doubt or denial often
understand there is a God who one
day will judge them.
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Often Is
their
denial of
God betrays the depth of their
desire to know they will not have
to account to Him some day.
They are hoping against hope
that they will not be accountable
for the sins they have committed
in this life. Some might describe
their diatribes against God as a
modern equivalent of “whistling
past the graveyard to keep up
their courage.”
God Is Almighty
IV. God Is Almighty
A. Omnipresence —
God Is Everywhere
“Can any hide himself in secret
places that I shall not see him?
saith the LORD. Do not I fill
heaven and earth? saith the
LORD” (Jeremiah 23:24).
A mere change of geographical
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Is
location does not change our
Everywhere
relationship
with the will of God.
Jonah was just as called to
Nineveh when he was on the ship
running from God’s will or when he
was in the belly of the whale as he
was at home in Israel. The psalmist
realized there was no place, high
or low, near or far, where a person
could escape the knowledge and
hand of God (Psalm 139:7-13).
A. Omnipresence—God
Is
Both Job and Amos understood
that
the omnipresence of God
Everywhere
reached far beyond any earthly
confines. They even mentioned
that God had placed the star
Arcturus and the constellations of
Orion and the Pleiades into their
places in the constellation. (See
Job 9:9; 38:31; Amos 5:8.) A
person cannot escape the
omnipresent God of the universe!
B.
Omnipotent—God
Can
B. Omnipotent—God Can Do
Do Anything
Anything
“Ah LORD God! behold, thou
hast made the heaven and the
earth by thy great power and
stretched out arm, and there
is nothing too hard for thee”
(Jeremiah 32:17).
A.
God is unlimited in His power; He
Omnipresence—God
Is
can do all things. The very Creation
brilliantly
exhibits His unlimited
Everywhere
power. He just spoke the word and
created all things (Genesis 1:3, 6, 9,
11, 14, 20, 24, 26). Then He
repeatedly showed His dominance
over the laws and forces of the
natural world He had created. He
manifested His power through the
miraculous birth of Isaac, the
parting of the Red Sea, the virgin
birth of Christ, and the
Resurrection, along with a myriad
of other interventions in history.
God Is Love
V. God Is Love
“He that loveth not knoweth
not God; for God is love” (I
John 4:8).
“And we have known and
believed the love that God
hath to us. God is love; and
he that dwelleth in love
dwelleth in God, and God in
him” (I John 4:16).
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God has defined HimselfIs
as love.
HeEverywhere
has dealt with mankind as a
loving Father, and His role as
Redeemer reinforces the fact of His
love.
The love of God is not just some
sort of emotional response to our
winsomeness. Rather, it is a matter
of commitment to us whatever our
situation is. The Greek word for
“love” used in I John 4:8 and I John
4:16 is the word agape, which refers
to selfless love that seeks the good
of the beloved, even at cost to self.
A. Omnipresence—God
Is
Calvary is the supreme
demonstration
of the commitment
Everywhere
of such love. Real love is not
captive to emotions, but it
transcends the transient emotional
rollercoaster.
A. Reaches to Fallen
A. Reaches to Fallen
Mankind
Mankind
“For ye know the grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ, that,
though he was rich, yet for
your sakes he became poor,
that ye through his poverty
might be rich” (II Corinthians
8:9).
We witness the sacrificialIs
A. Omnipresence—God
component of God’s love for
Everywhere
mankind
in His forgoing of the riches
of heaven in exchange for the
poverty of an earthly ministry. Not
only did He trade streets of gold for
dusty roads, He gave up the angelic
praise for the mockery and spittle of
mankind (Matthew 27:30-31; Mark
10:34; 14:65; 15:19). We see His
commitment of love in His pursuit to
the end for the redemption of
mankind by the Cross despite the
high personal price of pain and
humiliation He suffered.
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He loved enough that He didIs
not
quit. Love compelled Him to
Everywhere
continue regardless of cost or
feelings.
He showed His love for mankind
by the fact that He came to serve
others rather than to be served
(Matthew 20:28). This is so different
from much of what passes for love
among humans whose aim involves
self-gratification and self-gain.
A. Omnipresence—God
Is
He subjected Himself to the
poverty
of becoming human for the
Everywhere
purpose of lifting us to the realms of
His glorious riches. (See Romans
8:32; Ephesians 3:8; Revelation 3:18;
21:7.) That is real love!
B. Reveals Himself
B. Reveals Himself
“No man hath seen God at
any time; the only begotten
Son, which is in the bosom of
the Father, he hath declared
him” (John 1:18).
A.
The love of God also manifests
Omnipresence—God
Is to
itself in His revealing of Himself
mankind.
Without such selfEverywhere
revelation mankind would be left
forever to the realm of unfounded
speculation about the nature of God.
Clearly, the multitude of religious
ideas throughout history and across
the globe demonstrates how far
afield the suppositions of mankind
can roam. After God made man in
His own image (Genesis 1:27), it was
not long before man began to make
gods in his own image, in likenesses
that largely magnified man’s assets
and flaws.
To read Greek and Roman
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Is
mythology reminds one of soap
Everywhere
operas
on a grand scale. The
jealousies, adulteries, hatreds,
and passions of these so-called
gods merely exhibit humanity in
all its sinful corruption. Much the
same can be said of Far Eastern,
European, and New World
attempts at defining and
describing the nature of God.
A.
Instead of leaving His nature to
Omnipresence—God
Is
the imagination of sinful beings,
God
has repeatedly and continually
Everywhere
revealed Himself to His creation. He
has appeared to various prophets
(Exodus 3:4-6; Numbers 12:8; Isaiah
6:1) and given us His written Word
so we may know more about Him.
Then He manifested Himself in
human flesh and walked among us
so we might know Him fully (I John
1:1-3). One of His purposes in
coming was so we might know Him
better and know His identity.
Matthew 11:27
“All things are delivered unto
me of my Father: and no man
knoweth the Son, but the
Father; neither knoweth any
man the Father, save the Son,
and he to whomsoever the
Son will reveal him”
(Matthew 11:27).
C. Restores the Soul
C. Restores the Soul
“He restoreth my soul: he
leadeth me in the paths of
righteousness for his
name’s sake” (Psalm 23:3).
The psalmist spoke of theIs
A. Omnipresence—God
restorative power of God. Our
Everywhere
travels
throughout this world often
leave us emotionally bruised and
spiritually depleted. It is in these
low times that the love of God
touches us in our depths to
recharge us for the days ahead.
Though we may become weary
along the way, He loves us enough
to share with us His strength and
lend us His shoulder.
We discover another example
A. Omnipresence—God
Is of
the restorative power of the love of
Everywhere
God
in the story of the prodigal
son in Luke 15. Though the
younger son had wasted all his
substance, the father gladly
welcomed him home. Several
things did not matter when seen
through the eyes of the father’s
love. It mattered not that he had
gone out full and come home
empty. (See also Ruth 1:21.)
A.
The stained and tattered cloak
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was
not enough to slow down love’s
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approach. The son’s lack of shoes,
emblematic of not taking care of
one’s responsibilities (Deuteronomy
25:7-10; Ruth 4:7-8), did not matter
to the father. The father’s love saw
only the potential for restoration.
The tsunami of the father’s care and
concern overwhelmed the
protestations of unworthiness by
the older brother. Surely our
heavenly Father is no less loving
than this father was.
D. Redeems the Soul
D. Redeems the Soul
“Thus saith the LORD the
King of Israel, and his
redeemer the LORD of hosts; I
am the first, and I am the last;
and beside me there is no
God” (Isaiah 44:6).
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into sin, and he became a slave
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sinful nature; he needed a
redeemer. Redemption in the Old
Testament required kinship and the
means to make the purchase.
Further, the kinsman had to be
willing to make the redemption; he
could have the means and yet
decline to pay the cost and fulfill his
obligations (Ruth 4:7-8). One other
necessary element for redemption
to take place was love—the
commitment to do whatever was
necessary to redeem the prized
possession.
Our God was more than able
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redeem mankind; He was willing.
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Further,
the cross stands out not
only as a place of cruel torture,
but as an emblem of the supreme
love of the Redeemer. (See Isaiah
43:1; 43:14; 44:24; 48:17; 54:5;
59:20; Jeremiah 50:34.) He loved
enough to pay the price to redeem
our souls from damnation and
destruction.
Conclusion
D. Redeems the Soul
God has left the world with a
multitude of evidence as to His
nature, identity, power, plan, and
love for mankind. We may be
incapable of fully understanding
all about God, but He has given us
sufficient knowledge of His being,
will, and love so we may have a
relationship with Him and
experience His supreme
redemption.
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God does not engage in Is
the
typical processes of human
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argument to prove His existence.
His Word simply declares His
being and nature without
pandering to mere human
reasoning. Those who will not
accept the evidence of nature, the
Word, history, and their own inner
witness of His being probably will
not acknowledge the truth even if
it were presented with the most
logical and tightly woven
arguments.
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Once we know and recognize
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who God is, we discover the
relationship it engenders, and it
comforts us greatly. When we fully
recognize Him, we gladly praise
and worship Him, for He is worthy!