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“ Summary, Part 4 (final) ” B. THE PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF HIS INFINITE FLAWLESSNESS [51:27]. 1. It calls us to humble and contrite submission to whatever He ordains in our lives. 2. It calls us to trust in His integrity, not to blame Him for temptation or sin, even though we cannot understand how He sovereignly controls temptation or sinners. 3. It calls us to strive to imitate his flawless character. He is not only a heavenly Father, but a model Father.
Ian Migala (9/8/2014)
from Minneapolis, Minnesota
“ Summary, Part 3 ” 3. MT 5:48 [39:56]. God’s perfection is the standard of Christian obedience and behavior. Though we can’t hope to satisfy it, Christ makes no sense if this is not what this means. God’s ideality has profound implications for Christian ethics. Sinless perfection is communicable, but perfection is not. 4. JAS 1:13 [42:58]. God is inherently incapable of sin. Again, only faith in God’s word resolves the tension of God controlling Satan without any responsibility for Satan’s actions. II. SUMMARY OF THE PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF GOD’S IDEALITY [46:01]. A. THE PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF HIS INEXHAUSTIBLE SUFFICIENCY [46:45]. 1. It calls us to praise Him for making our lives complete. 2. It calls us not to second-guess Him, but rather to fear Him. 3. It calls us to give Him all the credit for all we have. 4. It calls us to trust and ask Him to supply all our material and spiritual needs. 5. It calls us to cling to Christ for all we need and beware whatever draws us away from Him.
Ian Migala (9/8/2014)
from Minneapolis, Minnesota
“ Summary, Part 2 ” I. SURVEY OF THE BIBLICAL WITNESS TO GOD’S IDEALITY (HIS ABSOLUTE PERFECTION) [17:31]. A. BEHOLD THE BIBLICAL WITNESS TO GOD’S INEXHAUSTIBLE SUFFICIENCY. 1. PS 18:30-32 [18:11]. Because God is perfect, we can safely depend upon Him, even for our own perfection. Not sinless perfection, but evangelical obedience as completeness. From our perspective, we don’t see our lives as the complete tapestry God made them to be. 2. ECC 3:14 [24:16]. All God does is ideal, since God Himself is ideal. We cannot improve His work. 3. ROM 11:35-36 [26:07]. God is in debt to no one and needs nothing from anyone. 4. EPH 1:22-23 [27:36]. God lacks nothing. 5. COL 2:8-9 [30:33]. Christ is ideal (which makes this a good passage to share with Jehovah’s Witnesses). Everything we need is found in Christ. Humanistic philosophy doesn’t teach this. B. BEHOLD THE BIBLICAL WITNESS TO GOD’S INFINITE FLAWLESSNESS [32:56]. 1. JOB 4:17-18, 15:1-16 [33:31]. Compared to God, even the heavens are unclean and the angels are foolish. Our own charge from this is to walk humbly. We have no right to complain to God about our misfortunes. 2. HAB 1:13 [37:31]. Why does God use the godless to chastise His people, or at all for that matter? Trust in God resolves the tension. Faith doesn’t end the mystery; it only diffuses it.
Ian Migala (9/8/2014)
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*.] INTRODUCTION [starting at 1:25 of the audio]. ‘Existential’ refers to existence. Existential properties, then, refer to the general parameters of existence: completion, dependence, limitation, origin, duration, and alteration. Thus, we define God’s existential attributes when we answer these very questions about His being. When God created the universe, He entered relations into the things He made. When we thus distinguish absolute and relative attributes, we must exercise great caution. It would be wrong to say that it is absolutely necessary for God to be omnipresent in space, or ever-present in time. In all this, we must uphold God’s unchangeableness. He does not change. Thus, we expound God’s existential attributes in terms of His relations to space, time, creatures, and sin. God’s ideality is His inherent and infinite perfection. ‘Perfect’ means complete and flawless.
