The Eternality and Immutablility of God
Sermon Notes
A New Series on the Person of God
There are two kinds of people - people with a big God or a little God. Find the people who have a big God and build your life into them (B.B. Warfield).
Quotes by A.W. Tozer
What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
The history of mankind will probably show that no people has ever risen above its religion, and that man's spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has even been greater than its idea of God. Worship is pure or base as the worshiper entertains high or low thoughts about God.
For this reason the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most portentous fact about any man is not what he at a given time may say or do, but what he in his deep heart conceives God to be like. Always the most revealing thing about the Church is her idea of God, just as her most significant message is what she says about Him or leaves unsaid, for her silence is often more eloquent than her speech. She can never escape the self-disclosure of he witness concerning God.
1. God is eternal - He is infinite.
Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations.
Before the mountains were born
Or You gave birth to the earth and the world,
Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God
(Psalm 90.1-2).
• He has no beginning or ending.
• He was not made - He is, He always was, and He always will be.
"I AM WHO I AM" (Exodus 3.14)
• He is not like me nor like anyone else.
• He is not dependent on anything; therefore He does not change.
2. Jesus Christ is God - He is eternal - He is infinite.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever (Hebrews 13.8).
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He was in the beginning with God.
All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.
In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men (John 1.1-4).
And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth 1 (John 1.14).
3. What does it all mean for us in 2010?