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“ Summary, Part 4 (final) ” JAMES 1:13 – when Satan and man changed the creation through sin, God began to deal with us as sinners; He cannot be tempted, nor does He tempt. SUMMARY STATEMENT: With respect to alternation and change, God is unchangeable; this is God’s immutability. In relation to decay and death, it is God’s incorruptibility. PRACTICAL LESSONS FROM GOD’S SUPREMACY: 1. GOD ALONE IS WORTHY OF OUR HUMBLE, ADORING WORSHIP [45:02]. 1 TIMOTHY 6:15 – this is our creator and redeemer. He knows our nature: we are but dust. 2. WE SHOULD GIVE GOD OUR ABSOLUTE TRUST AT ALL TIMES, ESPECIALLY IN TIMES OF NEED [48:08]. DEUTERONOMY 33:26-27 – He not only created us, but our needs as well. He did this to show His strength and faithfulness to us. 3. GOD ALONE SHOULD BE SOUGHT FOR PARDON FROM OUR SINS [51:00]. MICAH 7:18 – We can’t seek it anywhere else, as nothing else can save.
Ian Migala (7/14/2014)
from Minneapolis, Minnesota
“ Summary, Part 3 ” C. GOD ALONE IS INFINITE [29:02]. God’s infinity means that He is limitless (PSALM 145:3, 147:5; ISAIAH 40:28) and illimitable (1 KINGS 8:27). All other beings are finite. Contrary to what Frank Peretti’s novels suggest, God and Satan are not competing for control. SUMMARY STATEMENT: With respect to limitation, God is infinite; this is God’s infinity. In relation to space, it is God’s omnipresence. D. GOD ALONE IS ETERNAL [32:33]. God’s eternity means that only God is an eternal Spirit, without origin (PSALM 90:2, JEREMIAH 10:6, 16). All other spirits are originated; we all have a beginning. Though we may be eternal from the point of creation, only God is without origin. SUMMARY STATEMENT: With respect to origin and duration, God is infinite; this is God’s eternity. In relation to time, it is God’s everpresence. E. GOD ALONE IS UNCHANGEABLE [34:46]. God’s immutability means that He alone is without alteration or change (PSALM 102:25; HEBREWS 1:10-12). All created things are mutable and changeable, but God cannot develop, improve, mature, age, decay, weaken, or grow weary (after all, he gives strength to men). MALACHI 3:6 – the precious capital of God’s covenants with His people. JAMES 1:17 – imagine a fitful, temperamental God. All other spirits can change.
Ian Migala (7/14/2014)
from Minneapolis, Minnesota
“ Summary, Part 2 ” A. GOD ALONE IS IDEAL: THAT IS, INHERENTLY AND INFINITELY PERFECT [19:21]. Perfection relates to completeness and flawlessness. All God is and does is perfect: absolutely complete and flawless. PSALM 18:30 speaks of His blamelessness. ECCLESIASTES 3:14 tells us that God’s actions are perfect, complete, and unchangeable. ROMANS 11:35-36 tells of God’s self-counsel. EPHESIANS 1:22-23 speaks of His perfect work in Christ. He cannot be improved, be tempted, or fall (EXODUS 15:11; JOB 4:17-18, 15:15; JAMES 1:13), and that makes Him unique. Angelic spirits are capable of falling and improvement (1 PETER 1:12), as is man (HEBREWS 12:23, MARK 10:18). SUMMARY STATEMENT: With respect to completion and flaw, God is ideal; this is God’s ideality. In relation to lack, need, flaw, and sin, it is God’s inexhaustibility and impeccability. B. GOD ALONE IS SELF-SUFFICIENT [26:26]. When only God was, He was perfectly happy and content in Himself (JEREMIAH 10:16, JOHN 5:26). God alone is the rock on which all rests (ACTS 17:25, 1 TIMOTHY 6:16). The creation didn't fill any need that He had, for He had no needs. God’s self-existence is his aseity. SUMMARY STATEMENT: With respect to dependence and support, God is self-existent; this is God’s aseity. In relation to creatures, it is God’s independence.
Ian Migala (7/14/2014)
from Minneapolis, Minnesota
“ Summary, Part 1 ” [Pastor Nutter credits his former professor, Pastor Greg Nichols of Grace Immanuel Reformed Baptist Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan for the outline of this message, which can be found in Pastor Nichols’ book, *What does the Bible say about God?: The Biblical doctrine of God*.] After a quick review of last week’s message, we move on in Part Three to II. THE SUPREMACY OF GOD [starting at 3:00 of the audio]. The Old Testament stresses God’s peerlessness, and the New His spirituality (and vice versa). Yet we must not conclude that the Testaments view God’s nature from completely different perspectives. Throughout Scripture, we see statements containing the idea of God’s supremacy. Starting at 5:45 of the audio, Pastor Nutter reads a list of them and asks us to note in each one the thought concerning God’s uniqueness: EXODUS 9:14, 15:11; DEUTERONOMY 3:24, 4:35, 39, 6:4, 33:26-27; 1 SAMUEL 2:2; I KINGS 8:23, 27; PSALM 86:8, 89:6, 113:5; ISAIAH 40:17-18, 25, 28, 46:5, 9; JEREMIAH 10:6, 10, 16; MICAH 7:18; MARK 12:29, 32; JOHN 5:18, 10:30, 33; 1 CORINTHIANS 8:4, 6; PHILIPPIANS 2:6; and 1 TIMOTHY 6:15 [ends at 15:25]. God does what He does because He is who He is. His attributes are ‘existential’, since each relates to being or existence. We now explore five of them.
