And the Spirit possesses all of the attributes. In other words, the Father possesses all of the attributes, both incommunicable and communicable. Now, remember these attributes are true of each of the three persons of the trinity. We dealt briefly with his self-existence, and we pointed out that this was his independence. And we shall deal with them in due course, but we have dealt with these six or five incommunicable attributes up to this point. Those that are communicable are attributes such as, for example, God’s righteousness, and that attribute is an attribute which bears a great deal of analogy to the properties of human nature or God’s love. And we’ll have looked at his self-existence, his simplicity unity and so on. And as you can tell by that simple diagram which I have drawn for our overhead projector, you can see that we’re dealing entirely with the incommunicable attributes. The communicable attributes are those that bear considerable analogy to the properties of human nature. The incommunicable attributes are those that bear little analogy to the properties of human nature. These two classes are incommunicable and communicable. And we have divided them into two classes. We are studying the attributes of God, which we have defined as the perfections of the divine essence set forth in the Scriptures or visibly exercised in his works of creation, providence, and redemption. If I say, Surely the darkness will overwhelm me, And the light about me shall be night Even the darkness is not dark to thee, But the night is as bright as the day: The darkness and the light are both alike to thee.” If I take the wings of the morning, And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea Even there shall thy hand lead me, And thy right hand will lay hold me. “Where shall I go from thy Spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there. David writes in the seventh verse - and I am reading from the New American Standard Bible, in case you notice some differences. For our Scripture reading which has to do with the omnipresence or immensity of God, let’s turn to Psalm 139, and let’s read verses 7 through 12. Our subject tonight is the continuation and conclusion of our last study which was, Where is God? or the Spirituality, Infinity and Immensity of God. We commit this hour to Thee, and we pray that Thy voice may be heard through the Scriptures. May the attributes of properties of our great God become very plain to us so that they may be sources of comfort and bases upon which we may trust in our personal lives and in the day in which we live. May we also grow in the knowledge of our Father and of the Holy Spirit. And so may this hour tonight be an hour in which we grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. And we are extremely solemn, Lord, as we think it is with this word that we have today and that this word shall be our judge in the day in which we as Christians appear before the judgment seat of Jesus Christ.Īnd we pray that as we stand before that judgment seat, we may not be ashamed. …Thee for the word of God, and we thank Thee that it is living, powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, that it pierces even to the dividing asunder of the soul and the spirit and of the joints and the marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
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