WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.400 of God's asiatic and I have four points. 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:06.400 What is a say it? 00:00:06.400 --> 00:00:13.099 We're going to have to define that word to what is the biblical warrant for a safety? 00:00:13.099 --> 00:00:19.199 Is this a biblical doctrine or is it just a philosophical construct three? 00:00:19.199 --> 00:00:21.199 How does a say it? 00:00:21.199 --> 00:00:29.600 He relate to God's other attributes and then for if we have time we'll look at why it matters. 00:00:29.600 --> 00:00:33.299 All right as we define a say it. 00:00:33.299 --> 00:00:36.500 As we look at what is a say it? 00:00:36.500 --> 00:00:39.000 It's a Latin word. 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:51.700 The the all a say it eos comes from the Latin word from and say is the Latin word for self. 00:00:51.700 --> 00:00:55.200 So it literally means from self. 00:00:56.200 --> 00:01:02.200 Many of your old enough you probably recognize frog horn leg horn. 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:06.000 He would go around saying I'll say I'll say. 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:13.500 And so he was talking about the doctrine of divine a say it. 00:01:13.500 --> 00:01:15.200 I'm sure of it. 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:31.099 Bruce Ware defines a say it as God's exists eternally independent of the world as the one who is fully self-sufficient in his own infinitely perfect self existence. 00:01:31.099 --> 00:01:34.700 That is God is from himself. 00:01:34.700 --> 00:01:42.900 He he doesn't have another source that he is derivative from he's undereived. 00:01:42.900 --> 00:01:47.599 God exists relies on nothing other than himself. 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:56.299 He is the only being our thing who is eternally independent and needs nothing besides himself to be who he is. 00:01:56.299 --> 00:02:04.599 John 5 27 says the father has life in himself. 00:02:04.599 --> 00:02:12.500 Now think about everything else that you know everything you else that you know is a derivative. 00:02:12.500 --> 00:02:14.500 We have delegated power. 00:02:14.500 --> 00:02:16.400 We need other things to exist. 00:02:16.400 --> 00:02:28.000 You cannot exist without the sun without energy without food water and shelter so many other things you need and so you can't exist without other things outside of yourself. 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:33.500 God is the only being that can exist without needing anything but himself. 00:02:33.500 --> 00:02:35.400 He's fully complete. 00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:41.400 In fact a say it he means that God is absolute often when we think about God's attributes. 00:02:41.400 --> 00:02:49.300 We say God is absolute sovereign and what do we mean by absolute that means he has every ounce of power. 00:02:49.300 --> 00:02:50.699 He's got it all. 00:02:50.699 --> 00:03:08.699 He is absolutely a totality has every ounce of power or wisdom or whatever other attribute that you may think of about God to say that God is absolute is to say he depends upon nothing for his existence his actions is knowledge his will or anything else that he does. 00:03:08.699 --> 00:03:11.599 In other words, God is perfect. 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:13.800 He is self-sufficient. 00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:21.800 He is complete and is perfect in his thoughts and his will and his power nothing can be added to God. 00:03:21.800 --> 00:03:23.000 He lacks nothing. 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:24.300 He needs nothing. 00:03:24.300 --> 00:03:26.800 He's completely independent. 00:03:26.800 --> 00:03:31.900 So another way of saying God's a say it is to say he's fully independent. 00:03:31.900 --> 00:03:33.800 He's self-sufficient. 00:03:33.800 --> 00:03:34.599 He's complete. 00:03:34.599 --> 00:03:35.599 He's absolute. 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:38.099 The Dutch reformer. 00:03:38.099 --> 00:03:48.199 Well not reformer but the Dutch Puritan Herman Bavnik says absolute is the same as not depending upon anything else. 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:51.300 And he's the only being that is like this. 00:03:51.300 --> 00:03:52.699 He is self-contained. 00:03:52.699 --> 00:04:02.699 All of creation has consist all of other creation everything else is dependent upon God. 00:04:02.699 --> 00:04:09.599 And him we live and move and have our being God is the only being that is dependent upon nothing. 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:24.199 Colossians 1 16 for by him all things were created in heaven and earth visible and invisible rather Thrones or Dominions or rulers or authorities all things were created through him and for him. 00:04:24.199 --> 00:04:27.800 He is before all things and in him all things hold together. 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:33.399 Now he is the being that everything else depends upon but he depends upon nothing besides himself. 00:04:33.399 --> 00:04:37.600 He is the first calls that needs no other calls but himself. 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:40.500 He depends upon nothing outside of himself. 00:04:40.899 --> 00:05:03.500 Acts 17 24 talking about God and dwelling it says this the God who made the world and everything in it being Lord of heaven and earth does not live in temples made by man nor is he served by human hands as though he needed anything since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything that is we need God. 00:05:03.500 --> 00:05:05.600 God doesn't need us. 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:09.800 Job 22 2 says can a man be profitable to God? 00:05:10.500 --> 00:05:17.199 Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself but he is not to God that is God doesn't need us. 00:05:17.199 --> 00:05:18.399 He doesn't seek our counsel. 00:05:18.399 --> 00:05:19.600 He doesn't need our wisdom. 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:20.800 He doesn't need our gifts. 00:05:20.800 --> 00:05:48.699 He doesn't need our praise is fully independent and self-sufficient Romans 11 34 who has known the mind of the Lord who has been his counselor or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid for from him and through him and to him are all things you see God is the only being like this that is self-sufficient if God had to depend on something outside of himself. 00:05:48.699 --> 00:05:49.800 He wouldn't be God. 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:53.800 The thing that he depended upon would be God. 00:05:53.800 --> 00:05:56.100 So he's complete. 00:05:56.100 --> 00:05:58.699 He's the only true automobile. 00:05:58.699 --> 00:07:21.199 You think of the word automobile, you know, it comes from two words self-mobile and the thought was, you know, horses weren't self-mobile but now that we got a machine and has an engine attached to it, it drives itself or it motorizes itself and so they gave the automobile the name self-mobile but we know that automobiles need gasoline and they need a driver and they need things outside of the automobile itself to dry but God is the only true automobile the only true being that needs no gasoline or no food or needs anything outside of himself to be able to completely operate and do as he does. Now as we think about what is the seity of God it's the self-sufficiency of God the completeness of God the independence of God the absoluteness of God all these terms are synonyms to the word aseity but what is the biblical warrant for aseity? How do we get that? Well, there are three things that we can derive aseity from one we can get it from his name and Exodus chapter 3 Moses asked God what is your name? You know, I need to know who's going to send me. 00:07:21.199 --> 00:07:24.199 They're going to ask me who sent you. So what is your name? 00:07:24.199 --> 00:07:30.199 So I may know how to tell them the answer and Exodus 3 14. 00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:39.100 This is what God said to Moses. I am who I am and he said say this to the people of Israel. 00:07:39.100 --> 00:07:42.399 I am has sent me to you. 00:07:42.399 --> 00:07:45.699 So what is this name? We get the name. 00:07:45.699 --> 00:07:50.399 I am we get Yahweh, but what is the word Yahweh mean? 00:07:50.399 --> 00:08:02.399 Are Jehovah and there's another way of pronouncing the name Yahweh. What does Yahweh mean the name of God me? 00:08:02.399 --> 00:08:06.100 What means I am I am what I am. 00:08:06.100 --> 00:08:09.800 He's defining who he is. 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:20.899 He's the only being that could say I am what I am and it's implication that he is undereived. 00:08:20.899 --> 00:08:22.300 He's undereived. 00:08:22.300 --> 00:08:26.899 He's not who he is based upon what other people are. 00:08:27.100 --> 00:08:30.699 He is who he is based upon who he is. 00:08:30.699 --> 00:08:33.799 No one else is like that. 00:08:33.799 --> 00:08:38.600 All of our own identities are derivative identities. 00:08:38.600 --> 00:08:42.100 You couldn't be who you or is like I'm an independent person. 00:08:42.100 --> 00:08:47.299 No, really you're you're much of your identity is from the world that shapes you. 00:08:47.299 --> 00:08:54.399 Your parents and many other factors come into play and to identify your own self. 00:08:54.799 --> 00:08:59.600 God is the only self-sufficient God who is I am who I am. 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:06.899 Now another way of looking at this a tip God and driving God's a say it is from God's eternality. 00:09:06.899 --> 00:09:11.600 R.C. Sproul says because God himself had no beginning. 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:15.799 He was always already there in the beginning. 00:09:15.799 --> 00:09:20.399 When we affirm that God is eternal. 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:26.200 We are saying that he possesses the attribute of a say ity or self existence. 00:09:26.200 --> 00:09:31.100 This means that God eternally has existed of himself and in himself. 00:09:31.100 --> 00:09:38.000 That is if you think of a being who's infinite and eternal that is he's always been there. 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:43.000 Then there's not a time that he did not exist. 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:49.799 So the fact that it's hard to put your mind around that God who's always been who always is. 00:09:50.500 --> 00:09:56.899 And the fact that he always is means that he didn't come to being he wasn't created. 00:09:56.899 --> 00:10:00.600 He didn't evolve out of something else. 00:10:00.600 --> 00:10:05.100 He's just been who he is and who he is from all eternity. 00:10:05.100 --> 00:10:07.100 So that speaks of his a say ity. 00:10:07.100 --> 00:10:18.700 First Timothy 6 16 says who alone possesses immortality and dwells the unproachable light whom no man has seen or can see to him be honored in eternal Dominion. 00:10:18.700 --> 00:10:19.500 Amen. 00:10:20.100 --> 00:10:29.799 Or as Revelations 1 8 tells us I am the Alpha and the Omega says the Lord God who is and who was and who is to come the Almighty. 00:10:29.799 --> 00:10:34.500 God who has no beginning and a God who has no end. 00:10:34.500 --> 00:10:38.600 That speaks of the fact that he is self-existent. 00:10:38.600 --> 00:10:50.299 Now as we kind of define the doctrine of a say ity and we've kind of looked at some of the reasons that the Bible teaches the doctor of a say ity. 00:10:50.299 --> 00:11:05.899 The third thing we want to look at is how does the doctrine of a say ity relate to the other doctrines of God and if you were like me when I was in college, I I wanted to have one central attribute of God. 00:11:05.899 --> 00:11:15.000 I wanted God to have like who is God and if you had to reduce God down to one thing, what would it be? 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:22.500 And I was clever when I was in college and I said it was the sovereignty of God everything can be traced back to the sovereignty of God. 00:11:22.500 --> 00:11:45.399 And so I put in my mind, I had this idea that at the core God's core at the core of God was the sovereignty of God and then you have the other attributes that spring out of the sovereignty of God like the sovereignty of God is what is the root behind all the other the knowledge and wisdom and love and every other attribute we can think about. 00:11:46.700 --> 00:11:51.899 Well, I can see where someone who come to the doctrine of a say ity is that well, no the say ity is the root. 00:11:51.899 --> 00:11:59.000 Maybe that's the root part of God and all the other attributes flow out of the a say ity of God. 00:11:59.000 --> 00:12:04.000 I can see that and that that might be the way you can look at it. 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:09.500 But let me suggest to you that God doesn't have a central attribute. 00:12:09.500 --> 00:12:12.700 He is who he is all that he is. 00:12:12.700 --> 00:12:25.100 That all his attributes we can say it this way are inseparable to the other attributes of God where you find one of the attributes of God by necessity. 00:12:25.100 --> 00:12:30.600 You will see the other attributes there inseparable not I didn't say they're indistinguishable. 00:12:30.600 --> 00:12:42.899 We know the difference between love and wrath and once we say love and wrath is equal or the same thing then the terms love and wrath mean nothing to us. 00:12:42.899 --> 00:12:48.799 Once you say they mean the same thing they're identical then we can't understand God at all. 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:53.000 We have no definitions that can put our minds around God. 00:12:53.000 --> 00:12:59.600 So we're not collapsing all the attributes together into one mushy undefinable attribute. 00:12:59.600 --> 00:13:03.500 Some theologians tend to do that. 00:13:03.500 --> 00:13:10.700 No, we want to keep the attributes distinguish and separate it but they're not they're not separable. 00:13:10.700 --> 00:13:18.600 That is you can't fully pull one attribute if you started pulling one of the attributes out of God all the other ones will follow. 00:13:18.600 --> 00:13:27.299 You know, you can cut your arm off and you can still be who you are, you know, but because of God is a spiritual being we'll talk about that next week. 00:13:27.299 --> 00:13:38.100 You can't take one attribute away without pulling all the other attributes of God and it's amazing now because God is infinite and he's eternal. 00:13:38.100 --> 00:13:39.100 Think about this. 00:13:39.100 --> 00:13:44.000 Wherever God is all of God is now where is God? 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:45.000 Well, he's everywhere. 00:13:45.000 --> 00:13:47.399 That means all the attributes are everywhere. 00:13:47.399 --> 00:14:00.899 And so if you would kind of do a thought experiment make God and like put a little space between your fingers and say now can God be there? 00:14:00.899 --> 00:14:02.600 Absolutely. 00:14:02.600 --> 00:14:03.600 He's but he's there. 00:14:03.700 --> 00:14:09.000 How much of God is is some of God there are most of God or a little bit of God. 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:12.100 Isn't amazing that all of God is there. 00:14:12.100 --> 00:14:23.799 Every attribute of God is in between your fingers now expand that out to the galaxies and beyond the galaxies and beyond what we can comprehend with no limits. 00:14:23.799 --> 00:14:27.600 You know is God there too? 00:14:27.600 --> 00:14:29.399 Yes, all of God is there. 00:14:29.399 --> 00:14:34.600 You see this is why the Bible says in John 4 that God is love. 00:14:34.600 --> 00:14:36.700 God is love now. 00:14:36.700 --> 00:14:43.899 It doesn't say that God has love you have love or you have some love you can grow in love and you can diminish in love. 00:14:43.899 --> 00:14:48.600 We can possess it and lose it if you would but God. 00:14:48.600 --> 00:14:52.899 God is love. 00:14:52.899 --> 00:15:03.399 It's not something he has or adds to his being or takes away from his being is something that defines his very nature. 00:15:03.399 --> 00:15:04.399 It's who he is. 00:15:04.399 --> 00:15:05.399 What is God? 00:15:05.399 --> 00:15:07.299 You say well, what is God? 00:15:07.299 --> 00:15:11.600 Well one way of defining God is love. 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:14.000 He that's what that's who he is. 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:16.299 Just not what he has. 00:15:16.299 --> 00:15:22.100 That's who he is all that God is is love. 00:15:22.100 --> 00:15:25.899 Now. 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:34.500 Now that's not God is not simply love. 00:15:34.500 --> 00:15:37.899 He is love but he's also the other attributes. 00:15:37.899 --> 00:15:39.299 God is eternal. 00:15:39.299 --> 00:15:42.200 It's not that God possesses eternality. 00:15:42.200 --> 00:15:44.899 That's who he is. 00:15:44.899 --> 00:15:46.899 We can say God is omniscient. 00:15:46.899 --> 00:15:48.500 That means he knows everything. 00:15:48.500 --> 00:15:50.799 That's who he is. 00:15:50.799 --> 00:15:52.200 He is these things. 00:15:52.200 --> 00:16:05.399 In fact, when you think about God being eternal Psalm 90 verse 2 says before the mountains were brought forth or ever you had formed the earth or the world from everlasting to everlasting you or God. 00:16:05.399 --> 00:16:15.799 First, in the 616 who alone has immortality who dwells in the unapproachable light Psalm 102 27 but you are the same and your years have no end. 00:16:15.799 --> 00:16:19.299 Geronimo 33 27 the eternal God is your dwelling place. 00:16:19.299 --> 00:16:24.399 The eternal God is your dwelling place and underneath are the everlasting arms. 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:31.399 So God is love. 00:16:31.399 --> 00:16:32.299 God is eternal. 00:16:32.299 --> 00:16:33.500 God is omniscient. 00:16:33.500 --> 00:16:37.299 God is omnipotent which means he's all-powerful. 00:16:37.299 --> 00:16:39.600 I mean think about that for a minute. 00:16:39.600 --> 00:16:47.100 He's all or total or absolute. 00:16:47.100 --> 00:16:49.899 He's absolute powerful. 00:16:49.899 --> 00:16:52.700 He's all-powerful is omnipotent. 00:16:57.100 --> 00:17:03.000 Is there is it does that mean there could be another source of power that doesn't belong to God? 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:11.299 No, every ounce of power is his. 00:17:11.299 --> 00:17:16.099 Is that why have power or that's on loan to you from God. 00:17:16.099 --> 00:17:18.500 You live and move and have your being in him. 00:17:18.500 --> 00:17:19.799 Well, Satan has power. 00:17:19.799 --> 00:17:23.900 Yes, but that's because God has delegated. 00:17:25.200 --> 00:17:35.200 A little bit of power to him and that means God is sovereign if he's all-powerful that we can only do the laws of nature the laws of the universe. 00:17:35.200 --> 00:17:39.099 The laws of the demonic realm the laws of the human race. 00:17:39.099 --> 00:17:42.400 We can only do what God permits us to do. 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:43.799 He's still in control. 00:17:43.799 --> 00:17:45.500 He still has all power. 00:17:45.500 --> 00:17:48.799 So it's not a war between a greater power and a lesser power. 00:17:48.799 --> 00:17:50.500 God is all-powerful. 00:17:50.500 --> 00:17:54.099 Well, how does all these attributes? 00:17:54.799 --> 00:17:58.200 Relate to one another. 00:17:58.200 --> 00:18:03.700 Remember what I said when I was younger. 00:18:03.700 --> 00:18:07.000 I wanted the sovereignty of God to be at the core of God. 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:09.500 I just felt like man, that's the most important. 00:18:09.500 --> 00:18:16.099 Attribute and I think we're all kind of maybe have gone through that thought ourselves here and there. 00:18:16.099 --> 00:18:26.000 We want to pick out what attribute we like the best or we find to be the most important the most helpful to us and we put that at the middle of the being of God. 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:32.500 But I paint this picture that to say that we can't put a attribute in the middle. 00:18:32.500 --> 00:18:46.200 Or we can't separate the attributes from one another because all the attributes define God in the same way that they define each other. 00:18:46.200 --> 00:18:53.500 For instance, let's put love in the middle just for a thought experiment. 00:18:53.500 --> 00:18:55.299 Let's say God is love. 00:18:55.299 --> 00:18:56.599 That's his central attribute. 00:18:56.599 --> 00:18:58.099 That's the heart of who God is. 00:18:58.099 --> 00:19:01.000 He's love, but he's also these other things on the side. 00:19:01.000 --> 00:19:11.500 He's, you know, powerful, wise, knowing, all-knowing, infinite, eternal, holy, good, just well, let's say God is love, but then we could say God's love. 00:19:11.500 --> 00:19:18.799 If God is love that defines who God is then we could say God's love is all-powerful, right? 00:19:18.799 --> 00:19:20.599 What kind of love is it? 00:19:20.599 --> 00:19:22.599 Define this love. 00:19:22.599 --> 00:19:24.400 Well, it's an all-powerful love. 00:19:24.400 --> 00:19:27.000 What's more than an all-powerful love? 00:19:27.000 --> 00:19:28.599 It's an all-wise God. 00:19:28.599 --> 00:19:30.599 I mean, it's all-wise love. 00:19:30.599 --> 00:19:33.700 I mean, this is amazing about this love of God. 00:19:33.700 --> 00:19:41.099 It's not just this raw emotion of love or this self-sacrificing giving, however you want to define love. 00:19:41.099 --> 00:19:43.799 It's a love that has power to it. 00:19:43.799 --> 00:19:44.799 In fact, how much power? 00:19:44.799 --> 00:19:45.500 All-powered. 00:19:45.500 --> 00:19:48.799 In fact, it's a love that has all wisdom attached to it. 00:19:48.799 --> 00:19:51.700 It's a love that has all knowledge attached to it. 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:53.500 It's a love that is infinite. 00:19:53.500 --> 00:19:54.700 That's amazing. 00:19:54.700 --> 00:19:55.700 Infinite love. 00:19:55.700 --> 00:19:57.700 It's a love that is eternal. 00:19:57.700 --> 00:19:59.400 There's no beginning to this love. 00:19:59.400 --> 00:20:03.299 Just as God is eternal, God's love is eternal. 00:20:03.299 --> 00:20:05.500 You can't separate God from love. 00:20:05.500 --> 00:20:06.400 Does that make sense? 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:11.900 And so everything that God is, love is, that is the love of God. 00:20:11.900 --> 00:20:14.799 It has the same attributes as God. 00:20:14.799 --> 00:20:16.599 So God's love is eternal. 00:20:16.599 --> 00:20:17.700 God's love is holy. 00:20:17.700 --> 00:20:18.799 God's love is good. 00:20:18.799 --> 00:20:20.099 God's love is just. 00:20:20.099 --> 00:20:21.700 All the other attributes. 00:20:21.700 --> 00:20:26.000 This is just a small sampling of God's attributes just for illustration sake. 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:30.200 All God's attributes define God's love. 00:20:30.200 --> 00:20:36.200 Now, but love defines God's goodness. 00:20:36.200 --> 00:20:49.400 You could put God's goodness in the middle or God's justice in the middle or God's power in the middle or God's wisdom in the middle or God's knowledge or God's eternality in the middle or any other attribute. 00:20:49.400 --> 00:20:56.299 You could pack any attribute you want, stick in the middle and all the other attributes define that one attribute. 00:20:56.299 --> 00:20:58.000 Does that make sense? 00:20:58.000 --> 00:21:01.700 So God is who he is. 00:21:01.700 --> 00:21:03.099 He's a simple being. 00:21:03.099 --> 00:21:05.799 He can't be separated in different parts. 00:21:05.799 --> 00:21:11.099 You're a body and your left hand's over here, your right hand's there and you can be separated. 00:21:11.099 --> 00:21:14.599 But God is a infinite spirit. 00:21:14.900 --> 00:21:20.000 He's a being that all of his attributes are self-derived. 00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:22.200 We're talking about the assayate of God. 00:21:22.200 --> 00:21:31.000 Every attribute is self-derived within God and inner dependent if you would are inseparable. 00:21:31.000 --> 00:21:35.099 I like that word better from the other attributes. 00:21:35.099 --> 00:21:38.500 And so this is who our God is. 00:21:43.700 --> 00:21:51.200 Now my last point and the seven minutes I have left. 00:21:51.200 --> 00:21:54.900 Again, I say this is inseparable. 00:21:54.900 --> 00:21:57.700 His attributes are inseparable but not indistinguishable. 00:21:57.700 --> 00:22:02.799 And think about this because God is love. 00:22:02.799 --> 00:22:04.200 He's going to be a God of wrath. 00:22:04.200 --> 00:22:09.000 If he didn't have love, he wouldn't be wrathful. 00:22:09.000 --> 00:22:12.900 Or if he didn't have love, he wouldn't be good. 00:22:12.900 --> 00:22:14.500 If he wasn't good, he wouldn't be just. 00:22:14.500 --> 00:22:21.299 So all the attributes are interdependent and they require the other attributes to function. 00:22:21.299 --> 00:22:27.700 So God is who he is, all that he is and he's been all that he is from all eternity. 00:22:27.700 --> 00:22:32.200 And he hasn't needed to collect anything new outside of himself. 00:22:32.200 --> 00:22:33.700 He hasn't developed. 00:22:33.700 --> 00:22:34.599 He hasn't grown. 00:22:34.599 --> 00:22:36.099 He doesn't need us. 00:22:36.099 --> 00:22:40.500 He doesn't need anything other than who he has always been from all eternity. 00:22:40.500 --> 00:22:42.599 That's really the assayate of God. 00:22:43.599 --> 00:22:45.000 Now, what does it matter? 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:49.099 What's some quick applications for us to take home with us? 00:22:49.099 --> 00:22:54.400 One, we need to realize that God is God and we're nothing close to God. 00:22:54.400 --> 00:22:58.000 We're so far down from being God. 00:22:58.000 --> 00:23:01.900 You know, a lot of times reality hits that we're not God. 00:23:01.900 --> 00:23:08.000 Well, you got to realize that God needs nothing and will never need anything. 00:23:08.000 --> 00:23:10.200 He has everything in himself. 00:23:10.200 --> 00:23:11.200 He's complete. 00:23:11.200 --> 00:23:11.799 He's happy. 00:23:11.799 --> 00:23:12.900 He's satisfied. 00:23:12.900 --> 00:23:17.700 You, however, in me, we're dependent. 00:23:17.700 --> 00:23:20.000 We are dependent. 00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:21.799 God is independent. 00:23:21.799 --> 00:23:25.599 That makes us very much dependent upon God. 00:23:25.599 --> 00:23:32.299 Now, this also should cause us to go if God is the one who has everything. 00:23:32.299 --> 00:23:44.799 If he has, he's the source of all goodness, the source of all love, the source of all power of all justice, everything else is derivative justice or derivative of goodness, derivative holiness. 00:23:44.799 --> 00:23:51.200 What everything else is a outflow of who God is, then it should cause us to seek God for everything. 00:23:51.200 --> 00:23:57.599 You know, we know to seek God for our daily provisions, but we should seek God for every aspect of our life. 00:23:57.599 --> 00:24:00.700 You want to be holy, seek God for he has holiness. 00:24:00.700 --> 00:24:02.900 If you want goodness, seek God. 00:24:02.900 --> 00:24:06.500 Everything that you and I need comes from God. 00:24:06.500 --> 00:24:08.700 In him, we live and move and have our being. 00:24:08.700 --> 00:24:14.599 So we need to have a great, not just respect and worship who God is for being God. 00:24:14.599 --> 00:24:25.000 Some people say the safety of God is the Godness of God, but I think it should cause us to humbly seek him and look for our provisions from him. 00:24:25.000 --> 00:24:37.299 This, this means that God is sovereign, sovereign over everything. 00:24:37.299 --> 00:24:53.799 When he delegates a measure of power to the laws of nature and human race and freedom of the will and things of that, he, he, it's not that he's given it away. 00:24:53.799 --> 00:24:57.900 Where he ceased to control it. 00:24:57.900 --> 00:25:06.099 He doesn't cease to be God just because he's delegating some of power and some of things to his creation. 00:25:06.799 --> 00:25:09.700 He still is in control over all things. 00:25:09.700 --> 00:25:28.299 And so that should cause us to have a high regard to who God is, a complete submission to him, a great humility as we consider who he is in light of who we are. 00:25:28.299 --> 00:25:34.700 I have five minutes left. 00:25:34.900 --> 00:25:37.099 In fact, I'll see if there's any questions. 00:25:37.099 --> 00:25:42.099 If not, we can go to prayer a little early. 00:25:42.099 --> 00:25:51.400 Yeah. 00:25:51.400 --> 00:26:01.900 Like a fall. 00:26:01.900 --> 00:26:09.599 A seity, somebody asked you, what is a seity? 00:26:09.599 --> 00:26:12.599 It's the self existence of God. 00:26:12.599 --> 00:26:25.000 That's the quickest definition, the self existence, but it also implies complete independence, complete absoluteness, the perfection of God. 00:26:25.000 --> 00:26:26.200 He's self-contained. 00:26:26.200 --> 00:26:33.700 He drives himself from himself and because there's no beginning, he didn't pop into existence. 00:26:33.700 --> 00:26:43.000 He's like, he's just always been who he is and he's completely independent from anything outside of himself. 00:26:43.000 --> 00:26:48.700 So it's really amazing concept to think about this is who our God is. 00:26:48.700 --> 00:26:56.000 You we live in our dark. 00:26:58.799 --> 00:27:04.000 Do we limit the power of God in our lives? 00:27:04.000 --> 00:27:04.799 Yes and no. 00:27:04.799 --> 00:27:07.099 I mean, we can't limit God's power. 00:27:07.099 --> 00:27:10.000 We're not strong enough to hinder him. 00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:16.700 So that in that sense, no, but from the enjoyment and the peace that we experience. 00:27:16.700 --> 00:27:21.099 Yes, from that perspective, God's going to do what he's going to do. 00:27:21.099 --> 00:27:34.200 But we often think if we understood who God was, and his promises to us, we would be able to rest, rest quite a bit easier. 00:27:34.200 --> 00:27:37.900 And then we do. 00:27:37.900 --> 00:27:41.700 All right. 00:27:41.700 --> 00:27:43.900 Yes. 00:27:43.900 --> 00:27:52.500 About your department concept of God that he became the way that he was that being a dumb God. 00:27:52.500 --> 00:27:54.900 He had quite now. 00:27:57.200 --> 00:28:02.799 Yeah, you can only by definition, you can only have one self-sufficient. 00:28:02.799 --> 00:28:07.099 Self-derived being who's all-powerful. 00:28:07.099 --> 00:28:18.700 If you had two all-powerful beings that contradict one another, it's that it's an impossibility for you to have all power and for God to have all power, but something's got to give there. 00:28:18.700 --> 00:28:38.500 So there can be only one God by definition and it also rules out all the Hinduistic, all the Eastern mysticism and the Middle Eastern religions that have a dual power system. 00:28:38.500 --> 00:28:44.900 You have God who's a greater power than you have the Satan who's a lesser power and these powers are at war with one another. 00:28:44.900 --> 00:28:50.099 No, if you understand who God is, that you see that Satan's God's Satan. 00:28:50.099 --> 00:28:55.000 That Satan can only do what God allows him to do, that God has everything. 00:28:56.000 --> 00:28:59.200 All right, let's take some time to prepare. 00:28:59.200 --> 00:29:09.200 [BLANK_AUDIO]