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Attributes of God God is self-existent. One of his attributes is self-existence. This is simply to say (with staggering implications) that God exists because he exists. He is not dependent upon anything or anyone for his thoughts or existence. (Exo 3:13-15 KJV)
And Moses said
unto God,
Behold, when I
come unto the children of Israel,
and shall
say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you;
and they shall
say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?
{14} And
God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM:
and he said,
Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel,
I AM hath sent
me unto you.
{15} And
God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel,
The LORD God of
your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,
and the God of
Jacob, hath sent me unto you:
this is my name
for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
God is self-sufficient. This attribute is closely connected to the attribute of self-existence,
but carries it a step further. This means God has never had in eternity past,
nor can ever have in the ages to come, a single need for which his own divine
nature has not already provided.
(Psa 50:9-15 KJV)
I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of
thy folds.
{10} For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle
upon a thousand hills.
{11} I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of
the field are mine.
{12} If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is
mine, and the fulness thereof.
{13} Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
{14} Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most
High:
{15} And call upon me in the day of trouble:
I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify
me.
Eternal (in and beyond time, without beginning or end) - God is
eternal. This means God is absolutely free from the tyranny of time. In him
there is no past or future, but one always and never-ending present. He is
neither conditioned nor confined by time.
(Psa 90:1-2 KJV)
A Prayer
of Moses the man of God.
LORD, thou hast
been our dwelling place in all generations.
{2} Before the
mountains were brought forth,
or ever thou
hadst formed the earth and the world,
even from
everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
God is infinite. God has no limitations. He is
bounded only by his own nature and will.
1 Kings 8:22, 23, 27:
"And
Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the
congregation of Israel,
and spread forth
his hands toward heaven: And he said,
Lord God of
Israel, there is no God like thee,
in heaven
above, or on earth beneath,
who keepest
covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart.
But will God
indeed dwell on the earth?
behold, the
heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee;
how much less
this house that I have builded?"
Jeremiah 23:24:
"Can any
hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord.
Do not I fill
heaven and earth? saith the Lord."
Gracious (giving beyond measure, from love). Favorable; kind; benevolent; merciful; disposed to forgive offenses and
impart unmerited blessings.
(Exo 34:5-7a KJV)
And the LORD
descended in the cloud, and stood with him there,
and
proclaimed the name of the LORD.
{6} And the LORD
passed by before him, and proclaimed,
The LORD, The
LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and
truth,
{7} Keeping
mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and
sin,
and that
will by no means clear the guilty;
(Neh 9:16-17 KJV)
But they
and our fathers dealt proudly,
and hardened
their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
{17} And refused
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.
(1 John 4:7-11 KJV)
Beloved,
let us love one another: for love is of God;
and every one
that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
{8} He that
loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
{9} In
this was manifested the love of God toward us,
because
that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through
him.
{10}
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us,
and sent his Son
to be the propitiation for our sins.
{11} Beloved, if
God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
Holy (sinless and opposed to sin) - pure in heart,
temper or dispositions; free from sin and sinful affections. Applied to God,
holy signifies perfectly pure, immaculate and complete in moral
character;
(Lev 20:7-8 KJV)
Sanctify
yourselves therefore, and be ye holy:
for I am the
LORD your God.
{8} And ye shall
keep my statutes, and do them:
I am the LORD
which sanctify you.
(Lev 19:2 KJV)
Speak unto all
the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto
them,
Ye shall
be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.
(1 Pet 1:15-16 KJV)
But as he which
hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of
conversation;
{16}
Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
Immutable (unchanging) -not capable or susceptible of
change.
(Mal 3:6a KJV)
For I am the LORD, I change not;
(Psa 102:25-27 KJV)
Of old
hast thou laid the foundation of the earth:
and the
heavens are the work of thy hands.
{26} They shall
perish, but thou shalt endure: yea,
all of them
shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them,
and they shall
be changed:
{27} But thou
art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
(Heb 13:8 KJV)
Jesus
Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
Just (fair and intent on making justice) -The virtue
which consists in giving to every one what is his due;
(Deu 32:3-4 KJV)
Because I will
publish the name of the LORD:
ascribe ye
greatness unto our God.
{4} He is the
Rock, his work is perfect:
for all his ways
are judgment:
a God of
truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
(Deu 10:17-21 KJV)
For the
LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords,
a great God, a
mighty, and a terrible,
which regardeth
not persons, nor taketh reward:
{18} He doth
execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow,
and loveth the
stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
{19} Love
ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
{20} Thou shalt
fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve,
and to him shalt
thou cleave, and swear by his name.
{21} He is thy
praise, and he is thy God,
that hath
done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have
seen.
Psa 50:1-6
KJV <A Psalm of Asaph.>
The mighty God, even the LORD, hath
spoken,
and called the earth from the rising of the sun
unto the going down thereof.
(2) Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God
hath shined.
(3) Our God shall come, and shall not keep
silence:
a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be
very tempestuous round about him.
(4) He shall call to the heavens from above, and to
the earth,
that he may judge his people.
(5) Gather my saints together unto me;
those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
(6) And the heavens shall declare his righteousness:
for God is judge
himself. Selah.
Merciful (overflowing with compassion). Having or
exercising mercy; compassionate; tender; disposed to pity offenders and to
forgive their offenses; unwilling to punish for injuries; applied appropriately
to God.
(Psa 145:9-12 KJV)
The LORD is good
to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
{10} All thy
works shall praise thee, O LORD;
and thy saints
shall bless thee.
{11} They shall
speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power;
{12} To make
known to the sons of men his mighty acts,
and the glorious
majesty of his kingdom.
(Psa 25:8-14 KJV)
Good and
upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the
way.
{9} The
meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.
{10} All the
paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his
testimonies.
{11} For thy
name's sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.
{12} What man is
he that feareth the LORD?
him shall he
teach in the way that he shall choose.
{13} His soul
shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.
{14} The secret
of the LORD is with them that fear him;
and he will show
them his covenant.
Omnipotent (unlimited power) -This means God can do anything if it
can be done and if it does not contradict his own nature.
(Gen 17:1b KJV)
I am the
Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
(Gen 18:14a KJV)
Is any
thing too hard for the LORD?
(Heb 7:25 KJV)
Wherefore
he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him,
seeing he ever
liveth to make intercession for them.
Omnipresent -The omnipresence of God thus means he is
present everywhere with his whole being at the same time.
(Jer 23:24 KJV)
Can any hide
himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the
LORD.
Do not I
fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
(Isa 57:15 KJV)
For thus saith
the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity,
whose name
is Holy;
I dwell in the
high and holy place,
with him
also that is of a contrite and humble spirit,
to revive the
spirit of the humble,
and to revive
the heart of the contrite ones.
(Isa 66:1-2 KJV)
Thus saith the
LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my
footstool:
where is
the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?
{2} For all
those things hath mine hand made,
and all those
things have been, saith the LORD:
but to this man
will I look,
even to him that
is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my
word.
Omniscient God is omniscient (all-knowing). God possesses (without
prior discovery of facts) complete and universal knowledge of all things past,
present, and future. This includes not only the actual, but also the possible.
This total and immediate knowledge is based on his eternity (he has always, and
will always exist), and his omnipresence (he has been, is, and will always be
everywhere at the same time).
(Josh 22:22a KJV)
The LORD
God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth,
(Psa 17:3 KJV)
Thou hast proved
mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night;
thou hast tried
me, and shalt find nothing;
I am purposed
that my mouth shall not transgress.
(Psa 139:1-12 KJV)
To the
chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
O LORD, thou
hast searched me, and known me.
{2} Thou knowest
my downsitting and mine uprising,
thou
understandest my thought afar off.
{3} Thou
compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
{4} For there is
not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
{5} Thou hast
beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.
{6} Such
knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto
it.
{7}
Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy
presence?
{8} If I
ascend up into heaven, thou art there:
if I make
my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
{9} If I
take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
{10} Even there
shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
{11} If I
say, Surely the darkness shall cover me;
even the night
shall be light about me.
{12} Yea,
the darkness hideth not from thee;
but the
night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to
thee.
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