INTRO: So, what have we learned about God so far? Well, we saw that the highest and holiest name of God is the name, Jehovah. And this name speaks of His self existence. He is dependent on nothing and no one. He has existence in Himself. We learned as well that God is spiritual, not physical. He cannot be seen unless He manifests Himself in some physical way. And being spirit, He is, of course, invisible.
Now we have said that He is self existent, but we want to add to that this morning that He exists in a living state. You and I, to stay alive, need sustenance. We must have an environment conducive to physical life. The temperature has to be right. The mixture of air we breath has to be right. The food has to be right and the water has to be right. Fail in any one of those, and we cease to exist in a living state. Furthermore, our living state and our very existence had a beginning. Not so with God. He had no beginning. We may say of man however, that once man comes into existence at conception, man can never cease to exist. It is only the state of his existence that changes at physical death. So after conception, one exists either in a living state or a dead state. One may exist in heaven or in hell. God can never exist in a dead state. The German theologians of the not to distant past taught that God is dead, but that can never be. |
