Embark with me, Jason DeMars, on a profound journey into the essence of the Divine, where the treasures of God's nature await your discovery. Prepare to be transformed as we traverse the landscape of the Almighty's attributes, from His love and holiness to His wrath and grace. With the guiding wisdom of Brother William Branham's teachings, we'll unlock the mysteries of scripture, shedding light on the profound prophecies of Malachi 4 and Revelation 10:7, and deepening our faith along the way. Expect to emerge with a refreshed soul and an expanded understanding of the gospel that shapes our daily lives.
In our intimate exploration, we delve into the pillars of God's character—His omniscience, immutability, and sovereignty—and their undeniable influence on our spiritual walk. As we navigate the complex themes of foreknowledge, election, and the unchangeable nature of God, be ready for clarity to dawn upon the enigmas that often perplex believers. We'll tackle head-on the supposed contradictions within scripture, seeking harmony within divine truths, and let's not overlook the empowering impact these revelations have on our prayer lives and personal callings.
But the journey doesn't end there; we press on to appreciate the depths of God's patience, mercy, grace, and goodness, all of which find expression in the tapestry of biblical history and our contemporary experiences. We'll grapple with theodicy, ponder the nature of divine justice, and cherish the notion that our knowledge of God, while vast, will forever remain an unfinished symphony. So come, join in the worship and wonder as we honor an Eternal King whose incomprehensibility promises an eternity of growth in joy and understanding, both here and in the life to come.
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Embark with me, Jason DeMars, on a profound journey into the essence of the Divine, where the treasures of God's nature await your discovery. Prepare to be transformed as we traverse the landscape of the Almighty's attributes, from His love and holiness to His wrath and grace. With the guiding wisdom of Brother William Branham's teachings, we'll unlock the mysteries of scripture, shedding light on the profound prophecies of Malachi 4 and Revelation 10:7, and deepening our faith along the way. Expect to emerge with a refreshed soul and an expanded understanding of the gospel that shapes our daily lives.
In our intimate exploration, we delve into the pillars of God's character—His omniscience, immutability, and sovereignty—and their undeniable influence on our spiritual walk. As we navigate the complex themes of foreknowledge, election, and the unchangeable nature of God, be ready for clarity to dawn upon the enigmas that often perplex believers. We'll tackle head-on the supposed contradictions within scripture, seeking harmony within divine truths, and let's not overlook the empowering impact these revelations have on our prayer lives and personal callings.
But the journey doesn't end there; we press on to appreciate the depths of God's patience, mercy, grace, and goodness, all of which find expression in the tapestry of biblical history and our contemporary experiences. We'll grapple with theodicy, ponder the nature of divine justice, and cherish the notion that our knowledge of God, while vast, will forever remain an unfinished symphony. So come, join in the worship and wonder as we honor an Eternal King whose incomprehensibility promises an eternity of growth in joy and understanding, both here and in the life to come.
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As we go through the attributes of God, I'm struck by the fact that how interchangeable they are, how much they feed into each other, the continuity that you see going through all of the attributes of God His supremacy, his uniqueness, his holiness, his goodness feed directly into His wrath, his justice, his jealousy, which also then goes directly to His grace, his mercy, his love. So when you see all of these things coming together, it produces such a beautiful picture of who God is and the importance of the gospel. Our condition, our need for the gospel, and as we look at the whole picture, as we'll finish in this second recording of the attributes of God, is that the greatest thing that we can have in our own life is knowing Him. And it's not merely knowing Him by knowing the facts about God, but it's experientially knowing the attributes and nature of God. Again, as we said before, we don't know God in some ethereal revelation unrelated to Scripture. God is revealing Himself to us through His Word, but it's through His Word that we experience Him here and now, on a daily basis in our lives, as he leads us, guides us, teaches us, corrects us, comforts us, takes us through trials and difficulties and delivers us. All of these things of God are known to us by experience as we confront the enemy, the devil, all of these things that come in our path. That's how we get to know Him more, and I believe that's the importance of understanding who God is. Knowing God. If your interpretation of God's love is not buttressed up against God's holiness, god's uniqueness, god's jealousy, god's wrath, you'll miss the entire picture of who he is. We have to have the broadest picture of understanding that the Bible gives to us. So as we look at Brother Branham's life and we examine things that he says, we can see what an incredible experience he had of knowing the author. Remember, we're supposed to know the author, but the basis of knowing the author is the Word. But it has to be more than that. It takes the Spirit to make the Word alive in our lives. We have to get the Holy Ghost so that we would know the things that are freely given to us by God.
Speaker 1:Greetings Bible believers and followers of the End Time Message. Welcome to another episode of the Jason DeMars podcast, the place where we explore the incredible mysteries hidden within the pages of the Bible. I'm your host, jason DeMars. It's time to get started on another journey into the heart of God's Word. If it's your desire to grow in Revelation and see the message and the light of the Bible, you're in the right place. Today, brothers and sisters, we delve into the Scripture guided by the extraordinary revelations that God chose to unveil through Brother William Marion Branham, a messenger with a unique calling to fulfill Malachi 4 and Revelation 10-7 and unlock the secrets of the End Time Message. Our purpose isn't to have another basic Bible study. We're going to dig deep and peel back the layers of prophecy, decoding the signs and perhaps discovering how the Bible resonates within the very fabric of our present day and time. In this podcast, my purpose is to help you grow in your faith through solid Bible teaching through the lens of the message of Malachi 4. So grab your Bible, a cup of coffee and let's get started. And remember that your feedback, testimonies, questions and prayer requests are always welcome. Please send them on social media or at JasonDeMarscom.
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Speaker 1:Let's go into the knowledge of God. God knows everything, everything that happens past, present and future of all creatures, all things, every thought, every action, every single detail in the life of every single being in heaven, earth, hell and the ocean. God knows every minute detail about you, about your being, about what you are doing, about what you are thinking, etc. As we showed before, god cannot gain new knowledge. He doesn't somehow learn of what you are thinking. He knew what you would think about before there was even time or space for you to dwell in. Nothing escapes God's notice. He knows our thoughts. He knows when we sit down and stand up. He searches out our paths and when we lay down and are acquainted with all our ways, even before a word is on our tongue, he knows it. We cannot go anywhere to flee from His Spirit. If we make our bed in hell or go to the farthest depth of the sea, he is there. If I go to the darkness, he is there If the darkness and the darkness is light to Him. He formed our inward parts and knit us together in our mother's womb. His thoughts towards us are more than there is sand at the sea shore. Incredible.
Speaker 1:Hebrews 4.13 says no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him, to whom we must give account. Ezekiel 11.5. And the Spirit of the Lord fell upon me and said unto me Speak, thus saith the Lord. Thus have ye said, o house of Israel, for I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them. Psalms 98. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. Psalms 147.5,. Great is our Lord and of great power. His understanding is infinite. God knows everything that has happened, is happening and will happen, and not only knows that, but he does according to His own will. It's completely impossible for God's purpose to be stopped. Prophecy will be fulfilled. God's eternal purpose will stand. So let's look at the foreknowledge of God Now.
Speaker 1:The foreknowledge of God can sometimes be a touchy subject. People will take this topic and begin to actually pervert the truth of God's eternal purpose and decrees. God's decrees are eternal and they are based upon His free will. Acts 2.23 says 1 Peter 1 verse 2, elect according to the foreknowledge of God, the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Grace unto you and peace be multiplied. This word foreknowledge is prognosis. In Thayer's definitions it's foreknowledge, forethought, prearrangement.
Speaker 1:Now the Armenian understanding of salvation teaches that God's decrees are based upon His foreknowledge, and that's true. That is in their idea of foreknowledge. He barely foreknows the future choices of free agents and as such, ordains them to be. I believe this is a false understanding of God's foreknowledge. The cause of election in this understanding is not His purpose, but rather our believing. That is something that we do. To put it another way, our believing is the cause of our salvation. This puts our will at the forefront, and God's will then submitted to the will of His creation.
Speaker 1:Does Scripture say this? Does Scripture declare this? No, romans 9.11. For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to election, might stand? Not of works, but of Him that calleth. And Romans 9.16. So then, it is not of Him that willeth, nor of Him that runeth, but of God that showeth mercy. So Brother Branham says this in the great warrior David.
Speaker 1:Before we read that quote, I want to just comment on this again. The foreknowledge is based on our choice. In our minion doctrine, this is incorrect, and this is what has infected most of the Christian world. Salvation is now based upon our choice. If salvation is based on our choice, salvation isn't of the Lord and salvation isn't the grace of God. Salvation is our choice, but that's not what God shows in his word. In fact, he emphasizes in Romans 9 that before there was any choices made so that God's purpose According to election could stand, he says I have loved Jacob and hated Esau. So it's not of him that wills, nor of him that runs that God shows Murphy. But if foreknowledge is the basis for knowledge of our choices is the basis, then Romans 9 has to be sliced out of your Bible. All right, now let's read that quote from the great warrior David, 1955.
Speaker 1:Brother Branham says last night we were speaking on the same thing that gifts and callings are without repentance. It's God's election and foreknowledge is what makes the thing go. If we have a desire, the Bible said it's not him that willeth or him that runneth, but it's God that showeth mercy. See, it's not whether you will or whether you want to or whether your desire is, it's whether it's God's will or not. In 1965, modern events made clear by prophecy.
Speaker 1:Brother Branham says it's got to come according to the word if it comes from God, because it's to vindicate or to prove God's presence. And he foreknew all these things, being by his foreknowledge. He ordained, foreordained it's called in the Bible, predestinated Every age to its place and every man to its place and every messenger to its place. He is God. The devil ain't pulling nothing, nothing over on him. He's God and he has ordained everything to take place. And falls just exactly in line with his word. So God for ordains in every age, even the messenger, every man to its place. He's ordained everything to take place and falls just exactly in line with his word. He doesn't ordain it based on your choices. That's the point is he ordains it based upon his free choices.
Speaker 1:Romans 8, 29 and 30 for more, for whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son that he might be the first born among many brethren, moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called. Whom he called them, he also justified and whom he justified them. He also glorified Romans 11 to God, if not cast away his people, which he foreknew. God doesn't merely foreknow the acts of those that repent and believe. Instead, god foreknows the individual people who in fact become saved. It is you who are in his thoughts, not just your choices.
Speaker 1:Acts 1348. And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad. It glorified the word of the Lord and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed. So it wasn't our believing that ordained us to eternal life, it was our ordination to eternal life that caused us to believe. What is the cause of our? Our belief? It's God's For ordination.
Speaker 1:So when we look to foreknowledge, foreknowledge Speaks of the planning. Predestination speaks that he planned your destiny beforehand. So predestination looks to your ultimate destiny. Foreknowledge looks to the plan that took place before the foundation of the world. He ordained it. It's very important that we have a clear and scriptural understanding that God's foreknowledge of the persons who are, is of the persons who are saved, and not only of their actions of coming to salvation. His foreknowledge is not based upon mere knowledge of our actions, but instead it's based on the counsel of his own will. He knows me, he knows you Beforehand. He wills that we come forth and that we receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1:This takes us into our next attribute of God the immutability of God. Immutable, invariable in an unalterable, not capable or susceptible of change. The Bible portrays God as Immutable, yet as acting, feeling emotions and responding differently to various situations. In all such actions, feelings and responses, god is constant and consistent. James 1, 17 every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and cometh down from the father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. So God doesn't Change his mind, he doesn't change his, his actions. He's not variable, right he's. He is consistent what he ordains, what he purposes to do, that he does. He's consistent with his own Attributes in nature.
Speaker 1:Hebrew 6, 17 and 18 we're in God, willing more abundantly to show under the air is a promise, the immutability of his counsel confirmed it by an oath that by two Immutable things in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us? God is immutable in his nature. By two immutable things it's impossible for him to lie. So God cannot lie. He's immutable.
Speaker 1:Malachi 3, 6. For I am the Lord, I change not. Therefore, you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed. God is immutable in his attributes. Psalms 100, verse 5 for the Lord is good, his mercy is everlasting and his truth endure to all generations. So his mercy and truth are immutable.
Speaker 1:Jeremiah 31, 3. The Lord hath appeared of old unto me saying yay, I have loved thee with an everlasting love. Therefore, with loving kindness, have I drawn thee. Numbers 23, 19 God is not a man that he should lie, neither the son of man that he should repent. Hathi said, and shall he not do it? Or hathi spoken, and shall he not make it good For Samuel 15, 29 also, the strength of Israel not lie nor repent, for he is not a man that he should repent.
Speaker 1:So it's often said, god, if God cannot change and he's absolutely sovereign over everything that happens, what is the purpose of prayer? So many of the things he wills to come to pass are as equally ordained as the prayer that was uttered that brought them to pass. See, prayer, prayer is God's purpose, for us to be involved in his Plan of salvation and his work on earth. God works in and through man, so he ordains the prayer to go to, go forth to accomplish the purpose that he has. Genesis 6, 6. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him at his heart. Is this a contradiction? The explanation is actually quite simple. God often speaks in relationship to his creation. In terms that we can relate to, this is attributing human qualities to an eternal God.
Speaker 1:Exodus 31, 18. We find this many places and we're gonna read quite a number of them here. And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon Mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone written with the finger of God, so written with God's finger. Psalm 18, 6. In my distress I called upon the Lord and cried unto my God. He heard my voice out of his temple and my cry came before him, even into his ears. Psalm 18, 8.
Speaker 1:Then went up a smoke out of his nostrils, fire out of his mouth. Devoured coals were kindled by it. Then the channels of waters this is Psalm 18, verse 15. Then the channels of waters were seen in the foundations of the world, were discovered at thy rebuke, oh Lord, at the blast of thy, the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
Speaker 1:Exodus 4, 14. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses and he said is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee, and when he seeeth thee he will be glad in His heart. Anger kindled against God, with God. Genesis 2, 2. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. Psalm 78, 65.
Speaker 1:Then the Lord awake. Awake as one, out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shout by reason of wine. Wow, god likens himself to his awakening or his movement upon this situation as someone waking, waking up, and as a strong man that's shouting because he's drunk Okay, let's, we'll get to it. We'll get to it. Psalm 121, for behold he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber in our sleep. Jeremiah 7, 13. And now, because you have done all these works, safe the Lord, and I speak Under you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not. And I called you, but you answered not. Job 23, 13,.
Speaker 1:But he is in one mind and who can turn him? And what his soul desired, even that he doeth. Romans 11, 29, for the gifts and callings of God are without repentance. Isaiah 54, 10, for the mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not depart. Depart from neither, from the neither shall the covenant my of my peace be removed. Safe the Lord that have mercy on these.
Speaker 1:So as we look at these things, we can understand that God is a spirit. He doesn't. He doesn't have a hand, he doesn't have a no, I mean, he can create for himself a theophany in which he has that. But he and himself doesn't have nostrils, doesn't have a mouth, doesn't have ears, he doesn't sleep, he doesn't get drunk, he doesn't get suddenly angry because of the behavior of people, see. But yet he is a God that takes on form. He is a God that Veils himself in a way that we can understand him. God knows what's going to happen. God knows that his, what his response is going to be before the foundation of the world. He's not surprised and becomes angry. He doesn't get shaken and woken up out of a deep sleep and Start shouting like a drunk man. Of course not. These are all what we call anthropomorphisms. It's attributing human qualities To an eternal, invisible spirit. See, so that we can understand what's happening.
Speaker 1:All right, the next Attribute of God will look at is the power of God. Without God's power, he would be unable to perform his will in any and all circumstances. He is both all powerful and all wise. God's infinite power gives him the ability to perform what he has, in his wisdom, planned. Psalm 62, 11. God has spoken once twice have I heard this that power belongeth unto God. He's the ultimate source of authority and power. So the. When we look at power, we were looking at it not merely as authority. We looked at it in another place. But we're looking more so at the, the strength to accomplish something. Matthew 5, 18. For verily, I say unto you to heaven and earth, pass One jot or one tittle shall know wise. Pass from the law till all be fulfilled. Revelation 19, 6. And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty Thundering saying alleluia for the Lord, god omnipotent, raineth.
Speaker 1:Omnipotent means the all-ruling, that is God, the absolute and universal, sovereign, almighty, omnipotent. Job 38, 4 through 6. Where was thou when I laid the foundation of the earth? Declare if thou us understanding who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest, or who has stretched the line upon it, whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened and who laid the cornerstone thereof? So there we see, god has the power to create something out of nothing. So ultimate Power is in his hand. He alone has power.
Speaker 1:Omnipotent means that one person has the power If there's a hundred people that are omnipotent. No one's omnipotent. Just God is omnipotent and he operates that omnipotence through in himself, but also through his ordained purposes and ordained people. Death has no power over God. Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead. A Legion of demons must leave at his command. Storms disappear at a moment.
Speaker 1:At his word, charles Bergen says, god's power is like himself, self-existent, self-sustained. The mightiest of men cannot add so much as a shadow of increased power to the omnipotent one. He sits on no buttress throne and leans on no assisting arm. His court is not maintained by his courtiers, nor does it borrow its splendor from his creatures. He is himself the scent, great, central source and originator of all power. Amen.
Speaker 1:Job 2614 lo, these are parts of his ways, but how little of a portion is heard of him? With the thunder of his power, who can understand? In Creation and in our own lives we only see a part of his ways and we know only a little portion of him. We can truly comprehend very little of God's power. Job 9 8. Which alone spreadeth out the heavens and treadeth upon the waves of the sea. I Mean you think about this is what is more powerful and terrifying Than the waves of the sea on this earth? And it says God merely he walks upon them, simply. Job 22, 14. Thick clouds are a covering to him that he seeeth not, and he walketh in the circuit of heaven. So he walks in the circle of heaven. It's for him, it's a simple thing. For us it's an impossibility. Now we have airplanes, but you can't walk in heaven.
Speaker 1:Psalm 104 3. Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters? Who make it the cloud his chariot? Who walketh upon the wings of the wind? These great and massive things that we Can, we don't know how to control and we don't know how to gather up for ourselves. God Treats them as common. We treat the ground as common. To us, the chariot is just a means of transportation. God looks at these things as common, simple. Now, as we looked at these three verses, they're not saying God literally walks on waves, though he did in Jesus Christ, or that he walks on the atmosphere, above the earth, or that he has made clouds his chariot, or that he walks on the wind. It's saying the most dangerous elements on earth that other utterly sweep us away into death, are easily controlled and have no impact upon God. They're under his feet and under his perfect control.
Speaker 1:Let's look at Habakkuk 3, 1 through 4. A prayer, a prayer of Habakkuk, the prophet, upon Shigianath. Oh Lord, I have heard thy speech and was afraid. Oh Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years. In the midst of the years, make known in wrath. Remember mercy.
Speaker 1:God came from Teaman in the Holy One from Mount Paran. His glory covered the heavens and the earth was full of his praise and his brightness was as the light. He had horns coming out of his hands and there was the hiding of his power. God hides his power from the mass mass of mankind Though, as it is evident, all the world via creation. They don't see it and they don't witness it. Unless your eyes have been opened by revelation, you do not see his power. And yet, even with our eyes open, we personally witness only a portion of his power Ephesians 3, 20 and 21. Now, unto him that is able to do, exceeding abundantly, above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us. Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus through all ages. World without end. Amen, people bear.
Speaker 1:Let's look at the faithfulness of God. You know people barely mean what they say anymore. They say something and turn around and do the opposite. People not only divorce in an instant, but they are so confident of unfaithfulness they often don't even marry at all anymore. All of us, every one of us, have been unfaithful in our hearts to Christ and sinned against Him, deuteronomy 7.9.
Speaker 1:Know, therefore, that the Lord, thy God. He is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations. To be faithful is a quality that is absolutely essential to God's character. You know, we see, his immutability leads directly into his faithfulness. God is always faithful to his word and he will always fulfill his word. 2 Timothy 2.13.
Speaker 1:If we believe not yet, he abideth faithful. He cannot deny himself. For God to be unfaithful it would mean that he is denying himself. So it's impossible. You know, it's just like the people that ask the question can God create a la rock that he cannot lift? God cannot be untrue to himself. God cannot do things that contradict his nature and his attributes.
Speaker 1:Hebrews 6.18. God's nature is love, light, spirit, and we are going through his attributes. Now His attributes flow out from his nature. Hebrews 6.18. That by two immutable things it is, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation. Who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us? Psalms 36.5. Thy mercy, o Lord, is in the heavens, and thy faithfulness reaches under the clouds. Numbers 23.19.
Speaker 1:God is not a man that he should lie, neither the Son of man that he should repent. Have he said and shall he not do it? Or have he spoken and shall he not make good? God has, over and over and over again, fulfilled his word. It may not be the way that we think it is or in the timing that we think it should be done, but he does it. He said through Isaiah behold, a virgin shall conceive, and 800 years later a virgin did. He said that after 400 years he would deliver his people, and 430 years later he did so. Hebrews 10.23. He says he is faithful. That promised.
Speaker 1:Sometimes it is difficult to harmonize God's faithfulness with some of our experiences in life when newborns or mothers die, when our relatives whom we prayed for and believed for pass away, when we experienced painful things like a spouse leaving us or a child dying too young or a miscarriage, when you're tempted to give yourself over to unbelief in the faithfulness of God. Rebuke the devil and he'll flee from you. Regardless of what we see and what we understand and these difficult things that we go through, god is faithful. William Cooper, in the hymn God moves him in a mysterious way, writes Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust him for his grace. Behind a frowning providence. He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, unfolding every hour. The bud may have a bitter taste, but sweet will be the flower. Blind unbelief is sure to air and scan his work in vain. God is his own interpreter and he will make it plain. We cannot always understand God's purposes. If we believe, then we'll have an answer in the future. If we don't believe, we will never get an answer.
Speaker 1:Sin produces evil. Evil produces all types of suffering. For a Christian, god takes suffering and uses it to cause us to grow in character, experience and the love of God. In the sermon I know, 1960, brother Brandon says and why does God let troubles come? God harnesses troubles, puts bits in its mouth and makes it obey him. And those troubles bring us into a closer fellowship with God. God is also faithful to correct us and teach us through troubles.
Speaker 1:Psalms 1, 1975,. I know, O Lord, that Thy judgments are right and that Thou, in faithfulness, has afflicted me. Psalms 1, 1971,. It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn Thyself statues. Psalms 89, 31 through 34. If they break my statutes and keep not my commandments, then will I visit their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless, my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. My covenant will I not break nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Job 5, 19,. He shall deliver thee in six troubles, in Isaiah and seven. There shall be, there shall no evil touch thee. God is faithful. Regardless of the troubles, the trials, god's judgments are right. You say, why did this happen? I don't understand it. If we trust God, we'll find out that his judgments are right and that in faithfulness he has afflicted us. So even our affliction comes it because of his faithfulness. He's faithful to himself. He's faithful to his word. Because he's faithful to his word and his promises, we can trust him.
Speaker 1:Aw Pink writes Apprehension of this truth will check our murmurings. The Lord knows what is best for each of us. One effect of resting on this truth will be to silence our petulant complainings. God is greatly honored when, under trial and chastening, we have good thoughts of him, meet his wisdom and justice and recognize his love in his rebukes. Verse Peter, 4, 19,. Wherefore, let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well-doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
Speaker 1:The next attribute we want to cover is the love of God. The Bible shows us three things about the nature of God. We just mentioned this. God is spirit, god is love, god is light. God's love is looked upon as some form of agreeable weakness that he wants us to be good. But since we're not good, he just resigns himself and takes pity on us. God loves us all, has been turned into all he does and all he is, and it means that God wants us to have good self-esteem no matter what, and then he just agrees with everything that we do because of that.
Speaker 1:I believe this is the reason we see so little love for God among professing Christians. They don't understand all of his attributes as revealed in Scripture and so, having a perverted understanding, they cannot comprehend for themselves the incomprehensible depth, breadth, length and width of God's love. Therefore, we have a bunch of lukewarm Christians who show none of the character of Christ in their own lives. God's love is uninfluenced. Let's look at the Scriptures and prove that out Deuteronomy 7, 7, and 8.
Speaker 1:The Lord did not set his love upon you nor choose you because you were more in number than any people, for you were the fewest of all people. But because the Lord loved you and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondman, from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. 2 Timothy 1, 9, who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began First. John 4, 19,. We love him because he first loved us. We did not earn or merit or do anything to deserve God's love. In fact, we did everything we could to earn his anger. He loves you because he chose to love you before the foundation of the world.
Speaker 1:2. God's love is eternal. God is eternal and therefore his love is eternal. If God is love, god is eternal, so love is eternal. Regions 1, 4, and 5,. According as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love, having predestinated us into the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will. Jeremiah 31, 3,. The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying Yea, I have loved thee with a everlasting love. Therefore, with loving kindness have I drawn thee. See, his love is there before the foundation of the world. And he says I have loved thee with an eternal love. 3. God's love is sovereign Romans 9, 13,. As it is written Jacob have I love, but Esa have I hated. God chooses whom he loves based upon his own sovereign will, as we saw in the above verse. In love he predestined us. God is sovereign and God is love. Therefore, it is sovereign love.
Speaker 1:4. God's love is infinite. Ephesians 3, 18 and 19 may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height, and to know the love of Christ which passes, which passeth knowledge that he might be filled with all the fullness of God. His love is immeasurable. It goes on and on and on and never ends. It passes. It goes beyond knowledge. It is beyond breadth, length, depth and height.
Speaker 1:5. God's love is immutable James 1, 17,. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father of lights. With him whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. There's no variance or shadow of turning in God and therefore, there's no variableness or shadow of turning in his love. When he decides to love you, he loves you, and that's the end. Romans 8, 35-39,.
Speaker 1:Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine, or nakedness or peril or sword, as it is written? For thy sake, we are killed all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter Nay. In all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to be separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord. Nothing is more powerful than God's love. It is immutable.
Speaker 1:6. God's love is holy. Hebrews 12, 6,. For whom the Lord loveth, he chaseneth and scourges every son whom he receives. He is holy and he tells us to be holy. So through his love, see, it's a father's love to the children. Through his love he corrects us to make us more holy.
Speaker 1:7. God's love is gracious. Ephesians 2, 4 and 5,. But God who is rich in mercy for his great love, wherewith he loved us even when we were dead in sins. Hath quicken us together with Christ. By grace, ye are saved. God's love extends grace to us. Look at the hymn. The love of God is greater far than tongue or pen can ever tell. It goes beyond the highest star and reaches to the lowest hell. The guilty pair bowed down with care. God gave his son to win. His airing child he reconciled and pardoned from his sin. O love of God, how rich and pure, how measureless and strong. It shall forevermore endure the saints and angels' song.
Speaker 1:Next attribute of God I want to cover is the patience of God. Exodus 34, 6,. And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed the Lord, god merciful and gracious, longsuffering and abundant in goodness and truth. Numbers 14, 18,. The Lord is longsuffering and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation. Psalms 86, 15,. But thou, o Lord, art a God full of compassion and gracious, longsuffering and plentious in mercy and truth.
Speaker 1:God's patience or longsuffering is mentioned alongside of his mercy and grace. Time and time again, patience is actually a display of his mercy. They're distinct, but they cannot be separated. Stephen Charnock the Puritan defines God's patience in part. It is a part of the divine goodness and mercy, yet differs from both, god being the greatest goodness at the greatest mildness. Goodness is always the companion of true goodness, and the greater the goodness, the greater the mildness. Who so holy is Christ and who so meek? God's slowness to anger is a branch of his mercy. The Lord is full of compassion. Slow to anger, psalm 145, verse 8,.
Speaker 1:It differs from mercy in the formal consideration of the subject. Mercy respects the creature as miserable. Patience respects the creature as criminal. Mercy pities him in his misery. Patience bears with the sin which engendered the misery and giving birth to more. So patience is the ability to control your actions, regardless of the circumstances that are around you.
Speaker 1:When speaking of God's patience, it is that attribute that holds back his wrath, giving space and opportunity for the wicked to repent, and then they are awaiting his future purpose to punish them in due time. It is a weakness in man that he cannot exercise control over himself, causing him to do foolish things when provoked. A strong man takes power over his passions and acts in love and self-control when treated with injustice, waiting and allowing God to take vengeance Nehemiah 9.17. And refuse to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them, but hardened their necks and, in their rebellion, appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness and forsookest them. Not God's patience or long-suffering means that he is slow to anger. Romans 9.22. What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction? Romans 15.5. Now, the God of patience and consolation, grant you to be like-minded one toward another.
Speaker 1:According to Christ Jesus, god's patience is manifested in various ways. We see that 1 Peter 3.20, which sometime were disobedient when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was preparing, wherein few, that is eight souls were saved by water. Here we see God waited in the days of Noah 120 years. In Acts 14, 16, and 17 we see that he allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways and still gave them reign from heaven in fruitful season. God was patient, allowing time for the children of Israel to repent while they were in the wilderness for forty years. We can go on. It's manifested in different ways.
Speaker 1:Another attribute of God is the mercy of God. Psalms 136.1. O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy endureth forever. Every verse in this chapter extols the mercy of God. It's his mercy that endures, or remains constant forever. Psalms 103, 17, and 18 says but the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him and his righteousness unto children's children, to such as keep his covenant and to those that remember his commandments to do them. His mercy is from everlasting to everlasting, from eternity to eternity. His mercy is there, already in existence at the beginning of time and remains the same until the end of time and continues to be in existence.
Speaker 1:First Kings 3.6. And Solomon said Thou has showed unto thy servant, david, my father, great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth and in righteousness and in uprightness of heart and with thee, and thou has kept for him this great kindness that thou has given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. God's mercy is great. Psalms 86, 5,. For thou, lord, art good and ready to forgive and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee. His mercy is plenteous or it is abounding. Luke 1.78. Through the tender mercy of our God, whereby the day spring from Manahai hath visited us, his mercy is tender. So his mercy is from everlasting to everlasting. Two, his mercy is great. Three, his mercy is plenteous or his mercy is tender.
Speaker 1:Exodus 3319. And he said I will make all my goodness pass before thee and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee and will be gracious. To whom I will be gracious and will show mercy? On whom I will show mercy? Here we see that mercy is made to be distinct from grace. There are two different things, according to the word of God.
Speaker 1:Mercy, to offer help to, is means to mercy, means to offer help to the one who is afflicted. Grace means good will, loving, kindness, favor. A good example of this is the elect angels. Some angels were chosen to fall and others chosen to stand firm when Lucifer made his rebellion. These angels were chosen to stand in the presence of God, given a wonderful position and given the strength to endure the temptation of Lucifer and remain faithful to God. They were not in need of mercy, but they were recipients of grace, god's favor. Mercy is extended to those in need of help, and grace is God's favor toward his angels or sons and daughters. Lamentations 322.
Speaker 1:It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed because his compassion's fail not. We need both mercy and grace. Mercy finds its source in the grace of God. God's favor is extended to us and, by extension, he has mercy upon us, vile sinners that we are. And there is also three types of mercy that God has towards his creation. One, a general mercy extended to all creation, including believers, unbelievers, animals, etc. Psalms 145, verse 9,.
Speaker 1:The Lord is good to all and his tender mercies are, overall, his works, all of his works, acts 1725. Neither is worshiped with men's hands as though he needed anything. Seeing he give us to all life and breath and all things. God provides the needs of all of his creation in our condition of need. Two, there is a special mercy that he gives to all humans, matthew 548. That you may be children of your Father, which is in heaven, for he makes his Son to rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. So that's, he sends rain for everyone, makes the sun shine for everyone. Three there is a sovereign mercy that he extends only towards his elect. The first two mercies mentioned are only temporary and applicable to this realm, that is, it only extends up until they go to the grave.
Speaker 1:Isaiah 2711 says when the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off. The women come and set them on fire, for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore, he that made them will not have mercy on them and he that formed them will show them no favor. Remember that God's mercy endures forever. That means that the attribute of mercy never changes. He can't stop being merciful. However, the exercise of his mercy is based on his sovereign will. There's nothing outside of himself that obligates him to have mercy.
Speaker 1:Romans 9, 15. For he say at the Moses I will have mercy. On whom I will have mercy? And I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So his mercy is extended based on his sovereign will. It's nothing that we earn, because mercy, by biblical definition, is never earned. Tied him Titus 3, verse 5 Not by works of righteousness, which we have done, but according to his mercy. He saved us. God's mercy produced a savior, a lamb slain before the foundation of the world. God's mercy provided the means for us to be forgiven through the blood of that lamb. The righteousness of Jesus Christ enables us to jump beat for God to justify bestowing mercy upon us.
Speaker 1:But mercy comes from the counsel of his own will. Numbers 14, 18 the Lord is long suffering and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression and by no means clearing the guilty. Visiting the iniquity of the father Fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generations by note, the phrase by no means clearing the guilty seems to be contradicting the first phrase, which says long suffering and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Why would God put in his word directly together, that he is merciful and by no means will he clear the guilty? God's mercy is not arbitrary. God is merciful, he's also good. The facts that he is good means he's just so. If God grants mercy, it's because of his love and goodness. That love and goodness is there, based upon his sovereign will. They're not just given to anyone for no apparent reason. It's his sovereign will. And then in that person that he has been, that has been chosen for mercy, he becomes humble, sorrowful, repentant.
Speaker 1:A person that continues in sin and rebellion against God continually Cannot expect anything but the justice of God, which says by no means clearing the guilty, but visiting. Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of those that hate me. Those that love him repent and those that hate him don't repent. Those who love him are those who have been chosen by God that his mercy would be extended even further. God cannot grant mercy arbitrarily. It would fly in the face of his holiness. He grants mercy and in turn, in mercy makes a way for a right standing with before God. God will not Accept you as an unholy person. His mercy makes the means for declaring you holy and righteous before him. His mercy made the cross and the Blood and the means of justification. You can receive the righteousness of Christ because the mercy of God extended forth and produced the lamb slain before the foundation of the world. All right.
Speaker 1:Next attribute I want to cover is the grace of God. The grace of God is only extended to the elect. Grace is never given to all of mankind. Mercy is given generally and specifically, but grace is always given specifically. Grace is the eternal and absolute free favor of God bestowed upon his elect family and elect angels. Divine grace is the sovereign and Saving favor of God exercised in his blessings upon those who do not merit them and from which no Consum compensation is demanded from them. It's God's favor given to those who in fact deserve the opposite. They deserve death and hell and instead they are given every redemptive blessing.
Speaker 1:Grace is unmerited and unsought and there is nothing in us that attracts it to ourselves. Grace cannot be bought or earned or won. When we speak of grace, we speak of something that is completely undeserved and the recipient has no claim on them whatsoever. It comes as pure free giving and at first is unasked and even undesired. The Bible says no man sought God at any time. Romans 11, 6 says and if by grace, then it is no more of works. Otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace. Otherwise work is no more work.
Speaker 1:Ephesians 2, 8 and 9 for by grace are you saved through faith that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. It has nothing whatsoever to do with works or choices. It can. It is completely separate from separate from works and our choice and is completely based upon God's sovereign choice. Romans 4, 4 and 5 not a hymn, not a hymn that worketh is the result, reward, not reckoned of grace but of debt. But to him that worketh not but believeth on him, that justifies the ungodly. His faith is counted for righteousness. Grace cannot be earned by works, any more than you could unite an acid and an alkali or unite oil and water, grace is eternal. So, number one grace is eternal and was planned before it was given.
Speaker 1:2nd Timothy 1 9, who has saved us and called us with a holy calling Not eat according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began. Grace grace is given in Christ Jesus before creation to. Grace is free. It's not for sale. Romans 3 24, being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, from possessing the enemy's gates, 1959. Therefore, we do not look back upon our merits because we do not have any such, but we look back to the merits of Calvary, where our grace was given to us freely by the Son of God, and we can hardly choke back the tears that would run down our Throats when we think of we, the unworthy people, how that by his grace at Calvary he did that for us that we meant be brought so close to God, even to relationship.
Speaker 1:Three Grace's sovereign, romans 521. That is, sin hath reigned unto death. Even so, might grace reign through the righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ, our Lord. Hebrews 4 16. Let us therefore come boldly under the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. So grace is sovereign because the one who occupies the throne is sovereign. The message of grace 1961.
Speaker 1:Sovereign grace is from a sovereign one. Sovereign grace from a sovereign one, sovereign. What can it do? Sovereign can do whatever it wants. To listen to this now. Sovereign grace can only be given by one that sovereign. And God is sovereign, so he can give sovereign grace. Therefore, being sovereign, grace don't have to ask anybody. It don't have to. It does what it wants to. Isn't that wonderful. It don't have to ask can I do this or shall I do this? Can, I, must, I will. I doesn't do it, it does, it does it itself. Grace is sovereign. Therefore, he can save the vilest, you can save the worst. He can save the impurest, he can save the immoralist. He can heal the sickest. Hallelujah. So Exodus 33, 19. I will be gracious. To whom I will be gracious? It's sovereignly given. It's God is not under any obligation to give us his grace. It's unmerited favor.
Speaker 1:Eternal life is a gift from God that cannot be earned by any works, for any works of our own. Since it's a gift, it cannot be said it is something that we have a right to. Since salvation itself is a gift, no one has a right to tell God whom he can give it to. Since it's a gift, the giver never refuses anything who seeks it whole, anyone who seeks it wholeheartedly and according to the rules he is appointed. He refuses no one that comes to him empty-handed. However, among the mass of humanity, no one truly seeks this gift according to God's appointed means. Instead, he seeks to make his own way by his own means.
Speaker 1:As a result, god, by his sovereign grace, chooses some of the impotent, reb, impenitent rebels To receive the free gift of eternal life. God chooses some and passes by others. Those whom he passes by, he leaves them to their own merits and their own choices and allows them to reap what they have sown. In the midst of a bunch of pagans, god chose Abraham to be his friend. In the midst of unworthy people, he chose Peter and Andrew, matthew and James to be his disciples.
Speaker 1:John 1 17, for the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. Acts 20, 24,. But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that it might finish my course with joy in the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify of the gospel of the grace of God. The gospel that declares that we can only be saved by grace if we are to be saved at all Is foolishness and a stumbling block to the whole human race which believes it certainly deserves to go to heaven. The gospel of the grace of God informs us that we are unworthy, guilty, condemned sinners Awaiting the execution of God's wrath, but that God freely calls those whom he has chosen to himself. Aw Pink writes the gospel contemplates every descendant of Adam as a fallen, polluted hell, deserving and helpless sinner. The grace which the gospel publishes, his own, his only hope. All stand before God, convicted as transgressors of his holy law, as guilty and condemned criminals who are not merely awaiting sentence but the execution of the sentence already passed upon them. John 3, 18 and Romans 3 19. To complain against the partiality of grace is suicidal. If this sinner insists upon bare justice, then the lake of fire must be his portion. His only hope lies in bowing to the sentence which divine justice has passed upon him, owning the absolute righteousness of it, casting himself on the mercy of God and stretching forth empty hands To him. Avail himself of the grace of God Now made known to him in the gospel, end quote All right.
Speaker 1:Next Attribute of God I want to look at is the goodness of God. Psalms 52, verse 1 To the chief musician, mascul, a Psalm of David when doig the edamite came and told Saul, send him to him. David has come to the house of a bit of a bit of a black. Why boastest thou thyself and mischief Almighty man? The goodness of God endureth continually. Romans 2, 4. Or despises thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth he to repentance. Exodus 33, 19. And he said I will make all my goodness pass before thee and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee and will be gracious. To whom I will be gracious and will show mercy? On whom I will show mercy? Excuse me, the goodness of God refers to the perfection of his nature. God is light and in him is no darkness of all.
Speaker 1:First, john 1 5 perfection. God's perfection is absolute and nothing is wanting or defective in it and nothing can be added to it to make it better. Thomas Matten says he's originally good, good of himself, which nothing else is. For all creatures are good only bar by Participation and communication from God. He's essentially good. Not only good, but goodness itself. The creature's good is a super added quality in God. It is as it is his essence. He is infinitely good. The creature's good is but a drop, but in God there's an infinite ocean of gathering together of good. He is eternally and immutably good, for he cannot be less good than he is, as there can be no addition made to him, so no a subtraction made from him. Amen. Genesis 1, 31. And God saw everything that he had made and behold, it was very good in the evening and the morning or the sixth day. Psalms 1, 1968. Thou art good and do us good. Teach me thy statutes, statutes. So God is the sum of all goodness and what he does is good.
Speaker 1:The goodness of the creation comes from the goodness of its creator. The way that God created and how he provides food for us from this creation and the various types of food and how he grows them and Makes the right amount of nutrients in them to give his creature strength. The way he designed the fish, the beast, the birds, the bugs to all work together in a system of food, etc. He gives us sleep to refresh our bodies, eyelids, eyebrows, to protect our eyes, etc. The way he designed everything Psalm 136, 25 who give it food to all flesh for his mercy and earth forever.
Speaker 1:The goodness of God is also seen in the fact that when man sinned and God correctly brought suffering and death into the world, yet God made a way for man to be redeemed and he continued to provide good things which the body, mind and soul needs. Now the question is would God be good if he didn't punish those that despise and walk over his goodness, mercy and patience? It would be an ill reflection of God's goodness if he did not punish the wicked. The goodness of God appears in its highest form when he, god, gave his son as a propitiation for our sins Psalms 107, verse 8. Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men. God's goodness is constant and abundant. We experience it continually and daily, but we often take it for granted and only see it as a course of nature or something to that effect.
Speaker 1:Romans 2 4 says do you despise the riches of his goodness? His goodness is despised when it's not used as a means to lead us to repentance and instead it's used to harden your heart to the into the presumption that God overlooks sin. My, what a horrible thing. Nahum 1 7 the Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble, and he knoweth them that trust in him. Atheists of today will constantly say look at all the bad things that happen in the world. Therefore, god is not good. It's such a stupid stupidity, word of stupidity and a mind of stupidity that would go to that. What is even good without God? How is there a definition of good without God? There's just things that are happening. See, the things that you're talking about are evil, are a result of sin and wickedness.
Speaker 1:All right, I believe this is our last attribute of God that we're going to cover, that is, this is the eternal revealing of God, or the unlimited God. It's impossible to fully know Him. Every picture, every part, every portion, it's impossible. Job 11, 7 through 9. Can't thou, by searching, find out God? Can't thou find out the Almighty into perfection. It is as high as heaven. What can't thou do? Deeper than hell, what can't thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth and broader than the sea.
Speaker 1:From this study we found out that God, for his first and incomprehensible being. As we've studied his attributes, it's caused me to be lost, absolutely lost in wonder About his infinite greatness. God is eternal. God is an immaterial spirit. He's omniscient, omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. And as we contemplate these things, our minds and hearts are beyond overwhelmed.
Speaker 1:Spurgeon says nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing so magnify the whole soul of man as a devout, earnest, continued investigation of the great subject of the deity. The most excellent study for expanding the soul is the science of Christ and him crucified and the knowledge of the Godhead. Just because we cannot acquire complete knowledge doesn't mean we need to stop and not attain more understanding. We pray to. Brother Branham says in the Patmos vision pray to God for a revelation by his spirit. This is the first step. Get in the spirit Now.
Speaker 1:We've been talking about the offices and manifestations of the one true God and beholding his glory in a scriptural study. But he is not to be known intellectually. He is known spiritually, by spiritual revelation. I Believe that this study should give us all a greater desire for more knowledge of God, but knowing that that comes from the Bible and through that and through the message of the hour to give us a spiritual revelation. 1955 and sermon fellowship by redemption. If they want facts, they have to come back to the Bible to get it.
Speaker 1:This is God's book, only book now. Now how we praise the Lord for this great, marvelous book and in that contains the will of God, the Promise of God, and it's the book of all the books. All other books fail, all the books, other books vanish away, their knowledge is gone. But this book contains the eternal, eternal truths of God. Therefore, what the Bible says, you could say amen to it. We need to get into the channel of God's revelation of himself to us. When I say the eternal revealing of God, I don't mean that we cannot know anything now and we have to wait. I mean that we are just starting in a journey to know God and we cannot limit ourselves to what we have just now. There's more for us to enter into in this life yet all of that will be based upon the scripture.
Speaker 1:Now God sent a Prophet to correct our understanding of the Godhead. It should be a topic we're continually contemplating, praying over and meditating on. Not only that, but also the attributes of God. Think about Moses saying I want to see your glory. God said I'll make my backside pass before you. Then a theophany went past him as he was covered in the rock, and God proclaimed his name and it was basically a list of his attributes. God passed by him and said it's not enough just to see my theophany. You must hear about me Merciful, gracious, long-suffering, good, truthful, forgiving, just wrathful. See God. God gave to him his attributes. He says Moses, you want to see my glory. My glory is manifested in who I am and what my attributes are towards you.
Speaker 1:Job 26, 13 and 14 by his spirit he has garnished the heavens his hand of form, the crooked serpent I was talking about the One of the constellations, low. These are parts of his ways. But how little apportion is heard of him. But the thunder of his power who can understand this? Teaches us humility, caution and reverence. After all of our searchings, our prayers and meditations and revelations, we have to say with Job, these are parts of his ways.
Speaker 1:I Want to read from you from a Writer by the name of John Dick, who wrote in 1840 the saints in heaven will see God with the eye of the mind, for he will always be invisible to the bodily eye. They will see him more clearly than they could see him by reason and faith, and more extensively than all his works and Dispensations had hitherto revealed him. But their minds will not be so enlarged as to be capable of contemplating at once or in detail the whole excellence of his nature. To comprehend infirm, infinite perfection, they must become infinite themselves, even in heaven. Their knowledge will be partial, but at the same time their happiness will be complete because their knowledge will be perfect in this sense that it will be at Adequate to the capacity of the subject, although it will not exhaust the fullness of the object. We believe that it will be progressive and that as their views expand, their blessedness will increase. But it will never reach a limit beyond which there is nothing to be discovered. And when age, ages after ages, have passed away, he will still be the un-incomprehensible God. Amen, that's beautiful, that's the way.
Speaker 1:I want to finish, also with the scripture. First Timothy 117, now under the King Eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, the honor and glory forever. Amen. God bless you, saints. Thank you for listening to this podcast, the Jason DeMars podcast. If you want to become a sponsor, look at the buzzbrow Podcast. You can become a patron there and then you'll have access to our patron only podcast the mysteries revealed there and you could do it for as little as five dollars a month to be a supporter to help keep this Podcast going. Thank you once again, and may the Lord be with you and bless you as you walk with him and he reveal himself to you more and more.