WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.000 The attributes of God. 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:12.300 I don't know that there's a greater endeavor in our studies of scriptural things than to study. 00:00:12.300 --> 00:00:16.699 The topic of theology. 00:00:16.699 --> 00:00:18.600 And that of God. 00:00:18.600 --> 00:00:22.500 So it's my privilege. 00:00:22.500 --> 00:00:27.199 Today to teach on the attribute. 00:00:27.199 --> 00:00:30.600 Of the spirituality of God. 00:00:30.600 --> 00:00:34.500 The spirituality of God. 00:00:34.500 --> 00:00:36.299 And. 00:00:36.299 --> 00:00:43.600 I've enjoyed studying and researching and looking into this and I'm excited to share this information. 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:44.700 With you today. 00:00:44.700 --> 00:00:46.100 So. 00:00:46.100 --> 00:00:52.000 The attribute of God spirituality is probably the most difficult to understand. 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:56.000 Because we're entering a territory outside. 00:00:56.000 --> 00:01:00.000 As it relates to things we know. 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:03.700 And I'll unfold that in a minute. 00:01:03.700 --> 00:01:09.000 So we can understand to it to a degree. 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:14.099 Some of the attributes of God like his omnipotence. 00:01:14.099 --> 00:01:16.700 That means he's all-powerful. 00:01:16.700 --> 00:01:20.900 I mean we know what power is we can kind of understand power. 00:01:20.900 --> 00:01:26.400 But then we attribute all power to God. 00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:28.799 Any power that is. 00:01:28.799 --> 00:01:30.700 Comes from God. 00:01:30.700 --> 00:01:33.000 Our very ability. 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:36.700 To live and move and have our being. 00:01:36.700 --> 00:01:39.000 To tie our shoes. 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:42.200 To stand up and walk. 00:01:42.200 --> 00:01:46.900 Is from the power of God. 00:01:46.900 --> 00:01:50.700 We can also think about knowledge. 00:01:50.700 --> 00:01:53.099 We know what knowledge is. 00:01:53.099 --> 00:01:55.200 And this God being omniscient. 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:57.299 He has all knowledge. 00:01:57.299 --> 00:02:01.099 He knows all things about everything. 00:02:01.099 --> 00:02:02.700 There's nothing. 00:02:02.700 --> 00:02:04.500 That he doesn't know. 00:02:04.500 --> 00:02:06.200 There's nothing hidden. 00:02:06.200 --> 00:02:07.700 From him. 00:02:07.700 --> 00:02:09.900 He knows all things. 00:02:09.900 --> 00:02:12.599 Now maybe a little bit more difficult. 00:02:12.599 --> 00:02:18.599 As we move toward the spirituality of God would be the omnipresence of God. 00:02:18.599 --> 00:02:22.500 That God is present everywhere. 00:02:22.500 --> 00:02:24.599 Now we know what it means to be present. 00:02:24.599 --> 00:02:27.400 We're all present here this morning. 00:02:27.400 --> 00:02:30.800 Now we could be somewhere else. 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:33.300 In our minds. 00:02:33.300 --> 00:02:34.800 Maybe some of you are. 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:36.400 I hope not. 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:39.500 We can be somewhere or think about being somewhere else. 00:02:39.500 --> 00:02:43.800 But we can only be in one place at one time. 00:02:43.800 --> 00:02:46.699 But God. 00:02:46.699 --> 00:02:48.400 Is everywhere. 00:02:48.400 --> 00:02:50.199 He's present. 00:02:50.199 --> 00:02:53.300 Everywhere. 00:02:53.300 --> 00:02:55.099 So. 00:02:55.099 --> 00:02:59.699 When we think about the attribute of God spirituality. 00:02:59.699 --> 00:03:02.199 We're entering into the unknown. 00:03:02.199 --> 00:03:05.800 We go beyond our senses. 00:03:05.800 --> 00:03:09.199 Beyond that which we can experience. 00:03:09.199 --> 00:03:10.900 We can know something. 00:03:10.900 --> 00:03:14.300 Know what something is by. 00:03:14.300 --> 00:03:15.400 Looking at it. 00:03:15.400 --> 00:03:17.400 We can look at something and know what that is. 00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:19.800 We can handle something. 00:03:19.800 --> 00:03:21.800 And maybe know what that is. 00:03:21.800 --> 00:03:23.900 We can hear something. 00:03:23.900 --> 00:03:25.000 We can hear a train. 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:26.199 Maybe we don't see the train. 00:03:26.199 --> 00:03:28.199 But we hear the horn of the train. 00:03:28.199 --> 00:03:29.800 We hear the roar of the train. 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:32.500 We know there's a train coming. 00:03:32.500 --> 00:03:35.400 So we know what things are by our senses. 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:37.599 We can smell or taste something. 00:03:37.599 --> 00:03:40.500 Or even by a simple description of something. 00:03:40.500 --> 00:03:44.199 We know what it is. 00:03:44.199 --> 00:03:49.000 By the way Jimmy's jealous this morning. 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:51.000 I've got the new screens. 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:53.400 I get to use and I get to do it first. 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:55.599 So Amen. 00:03:55.599 --> 00:03:57.199 And that's going to be nice. 00:03:57.199 --> 00:03:57.900 Isn't it? 00:03:57.900 --> 00:04:00.900 Especially with the preaching time and people in up there. 00:04:00.900 --> 00:04:02.500 Sometimes I don't know if you've ever set up there. 00:04:02.500 --> 00:04:06.099 But if you're sitting in certain sections, it's kind of hard to see the preacher. 00:04:06.099 --> 00:04:07.300 So that'll be up there now. 00:04:07.300 --> 00:04:09.300 So that's going to be very helpful. 00:04:09.300 --> 00:04:13.599 We're thankful for that and all the work that went into getting out about. 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:15.400 So so what is that? 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:20.800 We see something burning. 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:21.500 We see a picture. 00:04:21.500 --> 00:04:22.899 We know that that's fire. 00:04:22.899 --> 00:04:27.699 What's that? 00:04:27.699 --> 00:04:32.100 What motivation? 00:04:32.100 --> 00:04:36.000 What is that? 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:38.600 Y'all can answer. 00:04:38.600 --> 00:04:39.199 What is that? 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:41.000 Okay. 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:41.699 What is it? 00:04:42.699 --> 00:04:43.699 What is it? 00:04:43.699 --> 00:04:48.699 It's wood. 00:04:48.699 --> 00:04:57.100 It's wood and it's metal or iron or the metal compositions made up of certain alloys probably. 00:04:57.100 --> 00:05:01.699 So things are made up of things. 00:05:01.699 --> 00:05:18.500 More simply, I could just say some words and you would have a picture in your mind of what that is, you know, like pig scissors, ladder, shoe. 00:05:18.500 --> 00:05:28.100 Now, this is where we can get into trouble if we're not careful in thinking about God. 00:05:28.100 --> 00:05:31.800 If we try to put an image. 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:34.399 To God. 00:05:34.399 --> 00:05:38.000 What happens if we do that? 00:05:38.899 --> 00:05:41.800 We may be breaking a commandment, right? 00:05:41.800 --> 00:05:54.100 You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that it is earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth. 00:05:54.100 --> 00:06:04.199 So we know we're not to make an idol and worship that even something that's pertains to God. 00:06:04.199 --> 00:06:13.300 You know, we have these statues in certain places or these different things and we're not worshiping the statue. 00:06:13.300 --> 00:06:14.899 We're not worshiping the thing. 00:06:14.899 --> 00:06:18.199 It just helps us get in the mind to think about right. 00:06:18.199 --> 00:06:19.300 That's okay, right? 00:06:19.300 --> 00:06:22.699 No. 00:06:22.699 --> 00:06:33.399 So even as we think in our mind, we need to be careful about putting an image or thinking about an image that we can worship. 00:06:33.399 --> 00:06:35.600 We worship God. 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:37.300 We worship him. 00:06:37.699 --> 00:06:44.800 So when we talk about the spirituality of God, we're trying to describe what he is. 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:53.500 Now all the previous illustrations of things that we can see or think of they're made up of other things. 00:06:53.500 --> 00:07:00.800 We are made up of bone and water and blood and muscle and sinew and cartilage and so forth. 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:07.600 But even those things are made up of minerals and elements and down to the atom. 00:07:07.600 --> 00:07:14.500 That's we think of God who made all things. 00:07:14.500 --> 00:07:18.500 God made all things. 00:07:18.500 --> 00:07:24.199 Therefore, he's outside of the makeup of those things. 00:07:24.199 --> 00:07:29.800 He does not consist of any minerals or elements or atoms. 00:07:29.800 --> 00:07:35.500 So let's think about that. 00:07:36.300 --> 00:07:50.800 God said to Moses, I believe Pastor Jeff touched on this passage last week relating to Moses when he asked God, Art you want me to go and deliver your people out of Egypt? 00:07:50.800 --> 00:08:00.000 But who should I tell them has sent me if I go on my own authority, they're not going with you God or telling me to go. 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:07.300 Who do I tell them has sent me and God said to Moses, I am who I am. 00:08:07.300 --> 00:08:16.500 Your translation might say I am that I am and he said say this to the people of Israel. 00:08:16.500 --> 00:08:21.399 I am has sent me to you. 00:08:21.399 --> 00:08:24.699 What is he saying? 00:08:24.699 --> 00:08:25.800 What does he mean? 00:08:25.800 --> 00:08:34.100 I believe that he's saying you cannot tell them what I'm like. 00:08:35.500 --> 00:08:43.500 You cannot tell them who I am because you cannot compare me to anything that you know. 00:08:43.500 --> 00:08:48.399 You cannot compare me to any one that you know. 00:08:48.399 --> 00:08:53.500 I am unlike anything that you know. 00:08:53.500 --> 00:08:59.700 I am that I am I am what I am. 00:08:59.700 --> 00:09:01.600 I am who I am. 00:09:02.100 --> 00:09:06.500 I am God and there is none else. 00:09:06.500 --> 00:09:09.799 There's none like unto me. 00:09:09.799 --> 00:09:17.200 So what does that mean? 00:09:17.200 --> 00:09:19.700 It means he's transcendent. 00:09:19.700 --> 00:09:28.700 He transcends or goes beyond all that we know things to be. 00:09:28.700 --> 00:09:50.500 Isaiah 55 8 through 9 says for my thoughts are not your thoughts neither your ways my ways declares the Lord for as the heavens are higher than the earth so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. 00:09:50.500 --> 00:09:55.899 You can't compare you don't understand. 00:09:56.600 --> 00:10:00.200 I am it's not that I'm just smarter than you. 00:10:00.200 --> 00:10:02.000 It's not that I'm just bigger than you. 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:08.100 I transcend further than the heavens are above the Earth's. 00:10:08.100 --> 00:10:14.799 Psalm 50 20 22. 00:10:14.799 --> 00:10:19.100 Think of this you sit and speak against your brother. 00:10:19.100 --> 00:10:21.500 You slander your own mother's son. 00:10:21.500 --> 00:10:25.700 These things you have done and I've been silent. 00:10:26.600 --> 00:10:28.100 You thought. 00:10:28.100 --> 00:10:32.799 That I was one like yourself. 00:10:32.799 --> 00:10:37.500 You thought I was a man like you are. 00:10:37.500 --> 00:10:44.700 You thought I would look over something you thought I would just not recognize what you were doing. 00:10:44.700 --> 00:10:52.399 But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you Mark this then you who forget God. 00:10:53.200 --> 00:10:56.600 Lest I tear you apart and there be none to deliver that's. 00:10:56.600 --> 00:11:00.500 A stern warning in it. 00:11:00.500 --> 00:11:04.200 That we can't think of God like a man. 00:11:04.200 --> 00:11:11.299 We can't think of God in terms that we think of one another or high even highly important people. 00:11:11.299 --> 00:11:17.000 And when we begin to think of him in ways that he's not. 00:11:17.000 --> 00:11:21.200 Lower than what he really is. 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:24.000 He said you forget me. 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:27.600 You forget who I am you forget what I am. 00:11:27.600 --> 00:11:33.399 So let's not think of God as a mere man. 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:35.700 So what is God? 00:11:35.700 --> 00:11:39.299 What is God? 00:11:39.299 --> 00:11:47.200 This is not a question that children often ask they may ask it but more often they're asking. 00:11:47.200 --> 00:11:50.399 Where does God live? 00:11:51.899 --> 00:11:53.899 Where does where did God come from? 00:11:53.899 --> 00:11:55.899 They may ask what does God look like? 00:11:55.899 --> 00:11:59.399 But not often do they ask what is God? 00:11:59.399 --> 00:12:00.399 What is he? 00:12:00.399 --> 00:12:02.700 What is he made up of? 00:12:02.700 --> 00:12:08.600 Here's where he's different than all other beings. 00:12:08.600 --> 00:12:11.700 God is a being. 00:12:11.700 --> 00:12:15.799 He is the only pure. 00:12:15.799 --> 00:12:18.100 Being. 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:26.200 And from him all other beings have their being. 00:12:26.200 --> 00:12:31.500 He is the supreme ultimate being. 00:12:31.500 --> 00:12:42.000 So the spirituality of God God is pure being and God is the only pure being. 00:12:42.000 --> 00:12:46.600 In 1 Corinthians 15 38. 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:49.799 Talking about the resurrection there. 00:12:50.600 --> 00:12:53.399 And it states there that God has given. 00:12:53.399 --> 00:12:55.899 Everything a body. 00:12:55.899 --> 00:13:00.100 He talks about different bodies or different beings. 00:13:00.100 --> 00:13:01.600 There's one body. 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:05.399 For man, there's one body for the Beast. 00:13:05.399 --> 00:13:07.700 There's one body for the birds. 00:13:07.700 --> 00:13:09.799 There's one body for the fish. 00:13:09.799 --> 00:13:15.899 But then he says we're so on a natural body. 00:13:15.899 --> 00:13:17.600 We're raised. 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:18.799 Why? 00:13:19.700 --> 00:13:21.299 Spiritual body. 00:13:21.299 --> 00:13:29.799 So these bodies that he talks about God is a person. 00:13:29.799 --> 00:13:31.899 He's not a man. 00:13:31.899 --> 00:13:34.600 But he's person. 00:13:34.600 --> 00:13:38.000 And he's not just a person. 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:40.200 He's three persons. 00:13:40.200 --> 00:13:43.600 Three persons one essence. 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:48.299 What do we know that as of course is the Trinity. 00:13:49.500 --> 00:13:50.500 The Trinity. 00:13:50.500 --> 00:13:54.899 Someone has said try to comprehend the Trinity. 00:13:54.899 --> 00:13:58.000 And you'll lose your mind. 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:02.500 Deny it and you'll lose your soul. 00:14:02.500 --> 00:14:10.799 So God is a person three persons one essence. 00:14:10.799 --> 00:14:13.600 So what is God? 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:19.700 Thinking through all these things that we are that we see these things that we are. 00:14:19.700 --> 00:14:21.700 What is God? 00:14:21.700 --> 00:14:24.299 Well, he's not a man. 00:14:24.299 --> 00:14:25.399 He is a person. 00:14:25.399 --> 00:14:27.799 And he is a spirit. 00:14:27.799 --> 00:14:30.899 God is spirit. 00:14:30.899 --> 00:14:33.299 Now, here's our here's our proof text. 00:14:33.299 --> 00:14:47.000 Of course, John 4 24 where Jesus is speaking to the woman at the well the Samaritan woman and going through that dialogue and he makes this statement. 00:14:47.299 --> 00:14:53.899 God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. 00:14:53.899 --> 00:15:02.200 Your translation may say God is spirit. 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:11.799 And I believe that would be the more correct translation because there's not an indefinite article in the Greek. 00:15:11.799 --> 00:15:16.000 There's definite article the but there's no indefinite article. 00:15:16.500 --> 00:15:18.799 And so when it says God is a spirit. 00:15:18.799 --> 00:15:22.899 And they that worship him must worship him in spirit and truth. 00:15:22.899 --> 00:15:26.799 It's more likely that it's God is spirit. 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:31.299 It's written the same way as as we have God is light. 00:15:31.299 --> 00:15:36.299 We wouldn't say God is a light or God is love. 00:15:36.299 --> 00:15:38.500 We wouldn't say God is a love. 00:15:38.500 --> 00:15:44.799 So in this passage in this text, it's saying God is spirit. 00:15:45.500 --> 00:15:53.700 And here is an attribute that we have of God that Jesus himself identifies his father as. 00:15:53.700 --> 00:15:58.899 God is spirit. 00:15:58.899 --> 00:16:09.700 I want to point out that while the Holy Spirit is the third person of the Godhead and he is spirit. 00:16:09.700 --> 00:16:14.299 But we're talking about the essence of God being spirit. 00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:25.799 It is a different category of study will say as we approach the attributes of God in both the Old Testament Hebrew and the New Testament Greek. 00:16:25.799 --> 00:16:30.299 The word spirit means breath. 00:16:30.299 --> 00:16:32.299 Or wind. 00:16:32.299 --> 00:16:45.399 We get that from the wind blows where it listed where it will we can hear the sound there out but we don't know from whence it comes or where it goes. 00:16:45.399 --> 00:16:49.399 So is everyone that is born of the spirit. 00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:53.500 The spirit wind breath. 00:16:53.500 --> 00:17:01.899 You know some would say that that we couldn't relate that wind. 00:17:01.899 --> 00:17:10.099 Is like the spirit because the wind is made up of certain things right. 00:17:10.099 --> 00:17:16.599 The wind is made up of oxygen nitrogen all the elements that are in air. 00:17:16.599 --> 00:17:22.700 I think it could be more. 00:17:22.700 --> 00:17:25.400 Of something. 00:17:25.400 --> 00:17:30.599 There's air right here. 00:17:30.599 --> 00:17:40.400 It may or may not be moving but what's what's pushing what's pushing the wind. What's making the air move. 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:42.500 There's some force behind that. 00:17:42.500 --> 00:17:44.900 Where's that? 00:17:44.900 --> 00:17:49.500 And that is more like we can say spirit. 00:17:49.500 --> 00:17:54.599 Not that it is a spirit but that that's kind of get in our minds and that. 00:17:54.599 --> 00:17:58.000 We don't know where it comes. 00:17:58.000 --> 00:18:00.500 We don't know where it's going. 00:18:00.500 --> 00:18:06.599 So is everyone that is born of a spirit of the spirit. 00:18:06.700 --> 00:18:08.000 Now we have a spirit. 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:10.299 We have a spirit. 00:18:10.299 --> 00:18:11.299 We have a soul. 00:18:11.299 --> 00:18:16.900 And that in essence is who we are. 00:18:16.900 --> 00:18:21.500 Well, I'm running out of time quick. 00:18:21.500 --> 00:18:24.000 I wanted to go into something there. 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:28.700 But so as we get into this, let's let's think about this. 00:18:28.700 --> 00:18:30.799 Can we really comprehend that? 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:33.900 It's incomprehensible. 00:18:34.099 --> 00:18:40.500 God is is we cannot understand or know fully. 00:18:40.500 --> 00:18:43.900 What God is. 00:18:43.900 --> 00:18:54.000 Therefore the way he is described in his attributes of spirituality is by things that he's not. 00:18:54.000 --> 00:19:02.599 We describe this attribute of the spirituality of God by things that he's not like this. 00:19:03.400 --> 00:19:04.799 He's not comprehendible. 00:19:04.799 --> 00:19:08.400 He cannot be comprehend comprehended fully. 00:19:08.400 --> 00:19:10.400 So he's incomprehensible. 00:19:10.400 --> 00:19:12.000 He's immaterial. 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:14.900 Now there's couple of definitions to that word. 00:19:14.900 --> 00:19:16.599 You wouldn't say that God is immaterial. 00:19:16.599 --> 00:19:22.799 As black as we know it not being important or of no importance irrelevant. 00:19:22.799 --> 00:19:26.500 Because God's far from that right? 00:19:26.500 --> 00:19:30.299 He's the main important person. 00:19:30.299 --> 00:19:32.599 He's the most relevant being. 00:19:33.599 --> 00:19:46.299 Another definition of that is spiritual not physical in Caporal not consisting of matter or material substance having no form. 00:19:46.299 --> 00:19:52.599 God's center is everywhere. 00:19:52.599 --> 00:19:56.099 His circumference is nowhere. 00:19:56.099 --> 00:19:58.599 Thomas Watson. 00:20:00.099 --> 00:20:05.099 So if he's immaterial if he's in if he if he's not made up of anything. 00:20:05.099 --> 00:20:07.599 He's outside. 00:20:07.599 --> 00:20:11.500 Of that which is made net which is created. 00:20:11.500 --> 00:20:15.000 He's doesn't have a form. 00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:16.900 He's not made up of matter. 00:20:16.900 --> 00:20:19.900 Then he must be. 00:20:19.900 --> 00:20:22.000 Invisible. 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:26.799 Unseen. 00:20:27.900 --> 00:20:32.900 Incapable by nature of being seen inaccessible from view. 00:20:32.900 --> 00:20:37.900 Think we sing the song don't we immortal invisible. 00:20:37.900 --> 00:20:39.700 God only wise. 00:20:39.700 --> 00:20:42.799 By faith. 00:20:42.799 --> 00:20:52.900 He Moses left Egypt not being afraid of the anger of the King for he endured as seeing him who is invisible. 00:20:52.900 --> 00:20:56.299 How do you see him who is invisible? 00:20:56.299 --> 00:21:02.599 And he said. 00:21:02.599 --> 00:21:05.599 You cannot see my face. 00:21:05.599 --> 00:21:12.599 This is later as Moses was on the mouth and receiving the law and he asked God show me your glory. 00:21:12.599 --> 00:21:15.000 We know the story there. 00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:19.299 He said you can't see my face for there shall no man see my face and live. 00:21:19.299 --> 00:21:23.500 Now under the King years. 00:21:23.500 --> 00:21:27.900 Here's where we get the song from Paul speaking to young Timothy. 00:21:27.900 --> 00:21:37.099 Now under the King eternal immortal invisible the only wise God be honoring glory forever and ever. 00:21:37.099 --> 00:21:38.200 Amen. 00:21:38.200 --> 00:21:52.000 Who only hath immortality dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto whom no man has seen nor can see to whom be honor and power everlasting. 00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:53.200 Amen. 00:21:54.000 --> 00:21:57.000 Then we have the words from John's commentary. 00:21:57.000 --> 00:21:58.799 No man has seen God at any time. 00:21:58.799 --> 00:22:02.299 The only begotten son which is in the bosom of the father. 00:22:02.299 --> 00:22:05.799 He has declared him again. 00:22:05.799 --> 00:22:07.299 John says in 1st John. 00:22:07.299 --> 00:22:10.299 No one has seen God at any time. 00:22:10.299 --> 00:22:13.500 So he's invisible. 00:22:13.500 --> 00:22:18.200 He's immaterial. 00:22:18.200 --> 00:22:21.099 He's infinite. 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:23.799 You see how these are negatives. 00:22:23.799 --> 00:22:25.500 He's not material. 00:22:25.500 --> 00:22:27.400 He's not visible. 00:22:27.400 --> 00:22:29.200 He's not finite. 00:22:29.200 --> 00:22:31.700 We are finite. 00:22:31.700 --> 00:22:33.500 We are beings who change. 00:22:33.500 --> 00:22:34.200 We grow. 00:22:34.200 --> 00:22:35.200 We get old. 00:22:35.200 --> 00:22:36.400 We get sick. 00:22:36.400 --> 00:22:37.700 We eventually die. 00:22:37.700 --> 00:22:40.000 God does none of these things. 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:49.400 This is another harder and impossible thing to comprehend the attributes infinite infinity. 00:22:50.599 --> 00:22:53.599 Not only does it mean not finite. 00:22:53.599 --> 00:22:55.900 It means a number. 00:22:55.900 --> 00:22:59.799 An infinite amount. 00:22:59.799 --> 00:23:01.599 How much is an infinite amount? 00:23:01.599 --> 00:23:09.599 Just keeps going. 00:23:09.599 --> 00:23:14.200 And when we think about the God being infinite. 00:23:14.200 --> 00:23:17.799 He's infinite in all of his attributes, right? 00:23:18.099 --> 00:23:20.299 He's infinite in his power. 00:23:20.299 --> 00:23:22.700 He's infinite in his love is knowledge. 00:23:22.700 --> 00:23:29.799 He is bigger and greater. 00:23:29.799 --> 00:23:38.500 Than an eternity will be able to teach us all there is to know about him. 00:23:38.500 --> 00:23:41.000 Infinite. 00:23:41.000 --> 00:23:44.599 Eternity is not going to be too long. 00:23:46.299 --> 00:23:52.799 It's going to be glorious as we're learning of our infinite God. 00:23:52.799 --> 00:23:58.500 All we must hear God is our Lord and of great power. 00:23:58.500 --> 00:24:01.599 His understanding is infinite. 00:24:01.599 --> 00:24:07.900 Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised and his greatness is unsearchable. 00:24:07.900 --> 00:24:16.099 Many Oh Lord my God are thy wonderful works which thou has done and I thoughts which are to us word. 00:24:16.099 --> 00:24:19.700 They cannot be reckoned up in or in order unto thee. 00:24:19.700 --> 00:24:25.500 If I were to declare and speak of them they are more than can be number. 00:24:25.500 --> 00:24:34.599 The incomprehensible unknowable unable to be known God makes himself known. 00:24:34.599 --> 00:24:36.700 Oh, this is good. 00:24:36.700 --> 00:24:38.799 He makes himself known. 00:24:38.799 --> 00:24:40.000 He's made us. 00:24:40.000 --> 00:24:48.500 He's made himself known in our conscience that which may be known of God is manifest in them for he hath showed it unto them. 00:24:48.500 --> 00:24:50.700 We know there's a God. 00:24:50.700 --> 00:24:53.299 How do we know there's a God? 00:24:53.299 --> 00:24:57.799 I'm going to put it as simple because we're alive. 00:24:57.799 --> 00:25:09.900 Because we are living our very life is evidence that we didn't make ourselves. 00:25:09.900 --> 00:25:12.700 We didn't cause ourselves to be. 00:25:13.700 --> 00:25:30.700 We are alive because there is a maker of us for the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made even his eternal power in God had so that they are without excuse. 00:25:30.700 --> 00:25:36.200 No one will be able to stand before God on the day of judgment and say I didn't know. 00:25:36.200 --> 00:25:40.099 Look around look up. 00:25:41.599 --> 00:25:51.099 He's everywhere declaring himself the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament show his handy word. 00:25:51.099 --> 00:26:01.400 Now, do you want to know everything you can know about God? 00:26:01.400 --> 00:26:03.000 Yes. 00:26:08.900 --> 00:26:50.599 You can know you can't know all a few quick verses Christ who is the image of the invisible God God who has sunder times and diverse manners spake in times past under the fathers by the prophets hath in these last days spoken unto us by his son whom he appointed air of all things by whom also he made the worlds who being in the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person and upholding all things by the word of his power when he had by himself purged our sins sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high. 00:26:50.599 --> 00:27:07.900 We can see God in Christ and the word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory the glory as of the only begotten of the father full of grace and truth. 00:27:07.900 --> 00:27:16.200 Jesus said to him Philip asked show us the father and we'll be satisfied. 00:27:16.200 --> 00:27:26.000 Oh Philip have I not been so long with you and still you don't know me whoever has seen me has seen the father. 00:27:26.000 --> 00:27:29.500 How can you say show us the father? 00:27:29.500 --> 00:27:45.000 For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness has shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:48.700 Amen. 00:27:48.700 --> 00:27:50.299 Amen. 00:27:50.299 --> 00:27:52.299 And Amen. 00:27:52.299 --> 00:27:57.099 Do you know God? 00:27:57.099 --> 00:28:00.299 Do you want to go know God? 00:28:00.299 --> 00:28:05.200 You can know him the spout. 00:28:05.200 --> 00:28:17.500 Father thank you so much that we could never even scratch the surface of who you are. 00:28:17.500 --> 00:28:29.000 But thank you that you give us so many insights in your word but then above all you give us Christ. 00:28:29.000 --> 00:28:34.299 God in human flesh. 00:28:34.299 --> 00:28:39.000 Bless this day in Christ name.