The Attributes of God & The Agenda to Feminize the Almighty

So the title of the message tonight is the attributes of God, okay That's what we're gonna be looking at the attributes of God.

The Bible teaches that God He has many attributes more than we're gonna get to tonight, but just a few of the main attributes

God is omnipotent He is all -powerful. That's what that means. He is omnipresent So he's everywhere all at once God is omniscient

He knows everything there is to know God is also immutable so in his character

He does not change. Of course. The Bible says that God is love

So that's the attribute that people seem to elevate as if love is his number one attribute today

Historically, I think it's been understood that God's primary attribute is not actually love his primary attribute is what?

Holiness, right and I'll show you why that is later on So we'll talk about those things, but you see the question on the screen

It's becoming unfortunately, it's becoming normal in the mainline

Protestant denominations to refer to God as She or her

I could show you video. I'm not going to because it's painful to watch but I could show you videos of Lutheran and Episcopalian and Methodist Preachers praying to God using female pronouns and we've even had several of our church members approached by people asking if they would like to join this

Bible study where God is regarded as a Woman or as a female now, here's why this matters.

Okay. This is an assault number one It's an assault against the

Word of God because the Bible everybody knows the Bible refers to God as God the father right now

God himself doesn't really have a gender Jesus is the

God man and he has a gender Jesus was a man, but all the references to God it's the father he him

So to say that God is a man I mean you could say that about Jesus and even in the

Old Testament Exodus 153 it says the Lord is a man of war

But we understand that God certainly God the father doesn't really have a gender like a human being we everyone understands that But there's this agenda today to make

God out to be either non -binary or that God is Is a woman so if you've never heard of this you're fortunate

But it's actually spreading. Like I said, it's already in the mainline Protestant denominations and It's starting to trickle down into some

Evangelical churches I fear so it's an attack number one against the

Word of God and Number two, it's really an attack against the

God man Jesus Christ because if you say God is feminine or God is a woman. I mean, what does that mean about Jesus, right?

So this this does matter. So let's turn to Matthew chapter 1 but as for this idea that God is

Female, I I almost don't want to dignify this with a response That's that was sort of my

Initial reaction like I'm not gonna talk about this. It's just so foolish Why even bother but I'm just hearing it more and more and more as Time goes on and I still thought no,

I don't I don't want to do this I don't want to talk about it, but on my drive into church last Sunday I heard a preacher on a on the local

Evangelical radio station now granted it was a missionary. So it wasn't one of the local pastors But he said as far as man bearing the image of God He defined that as we bear the image of God in that we were made male and female

The way he phrased it made it sound like God like half of God is female or feminine attributes

Maybe it was a slip of the tongue, but it didn't sound like that either way That's not how you define, you know man bearing the image of God Also, I heard a sermon four years ago about Well from Max Lucado and he was preaching at the

National Cathedral in Washington DC and he called the Holy Spirit the mother spirit of God So this

I fear this is starting to trickle down into evangelical churches So when something like this comes around,

I think it's important You know for somebody to Address it or deal with it.

So that's why I wanted to do that. Okay, Matthew 1 18 through 23 It says now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows

After his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph before they came together She was found with child of the

Holy Spirit But then Joseph her husband being a just man and not wanting to make her a public example was minded to put her away

Secretly, but while he thought about these things behold an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream saying

Joseph son of David Do not be afraid to take to you. Mary your wife for that which is conceived in her is of the

Holy Spirit and She will bring forth a son and you shall call his name

Jesus for he will save his people from their sins So all of this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the

Lord through the prophet saying behold The Virgin shall be with child and bear a son and they shall call his name

Emmanuel which is translated God with us so Mary gives birth to Jesus Jesus is the

Son of God Meaning he is He is God.

He is God in the flesh and notice it says that Jesus is What he is

God with us So again, God doesn't really have a gender

But if God does have any gender when God became incarnate in this world

He came as a man like that's all we have to go on That's the only thing you could point to Jesus was a man and he was

God with us So really there's no Possible way you can spin the scripture to say that no

God is actually, you know Feminine or God God is female.

So what do you think? This is? Where do you think this is coming from? I'll let you have your comment first He said let us make man in our image and who was created?

Adam, a man. A woman was not created then, so I don't know how you pushed that to be...

Right. Yeah Adam was created first because you know the story

Eve was made after when Adam was put to sleep in the rib so if Adam is the image of God originally

Adam was a man Right The Godhead would be male if anything if right

So again, how they get this female so like where do you think this is coming from? What's the motivation?

Clearly, I think it's safe to say they're not actually seeing this in the text of Scripture. So what's behind it?

I mean, I guess this is a matter of an opinion, but yeah And mother nature, right, yeah, and God is a she

Right. I came in along with the package, right? So the feminist movement

That clearly there's connections. I mean they want a woman president, right?

They're working on that right now. If you can get a woman president, like how how can you go higher than that?

Well, you can't unless you make God into a woman like that's of course you can't actually do that But that's

I think part of the thinking Right This Is very similar to pagan religion pagan religion is about either

Worshiping the earth, you know mother nature that type of thing or it's worshiping multiple gods usually some sort of goddess even with Roman Catholicism, which

I believe is a blending of Christianity yes, but blending it with paganism

What do they do they elevate a woman if you look at a lot of Roman Catholic cathedrals in Europe They elevate

Mary even above God sometimes So this is very common within pagan religion to elevate

You know some sort of divine feminine Figure or some sort of goddess so it's actually very very common.

It's nothing new. So let's talk about some of the attributes of God I think we have to start out with saying this that God is one

All right, Deuteronomy 6 4 says here. Oh Israel the Lord our God is one

Lord, okay. We know there's one God and in the New Testament revelation of Jesus Christ We see that God is revealed in three persons father son and spirit so one

God in Three persons that's not a contradiction It would be a contradiction if you said there's one

God and three gods That would be a contradiction or if you said there's one person and three persons in the same

At the same time and in the same relationship, but that's not what we're saying. There's one God in three persons father son and Spirit and again when the second person became incarnate the only member of the

Godhead who actually took on Human form he was in fact a man

I Saw a hand. Yeah, and We should never this understand that Men are more important than women

And if ever there was a woman on earth that That should be at least admired

Is the Virgin Mary when God saw that sent the sending of prophets and Everything else was not working and and decided of course he decided

Before time began. Oh in fact time never did begin

Because before time was there's no such thing as before. I'm sorry.

I think it's okay to say time when he decided That he was going to have to enter

It was a woman that he chose to do it and in 27 years of police work

I just want to tell you that women are a lot nicer than men Yeah So when

God took on human flesh He was a man, but at the same time we have to be careful about this

Don't say well, you know the pastor says that God is a man well in that one sense with Jesus Yes, but God is not a man matter of fact numbers 2319 says

God is not a man that he should lie nor a son of a man that he should repent of course what that's saying is

God is not a human being and Human beings are the ones and animals have genders, but God is he

Transcends all of that also in John 4 24 Says God is spirit and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth

So God is not a human being he is he is spirit So I think we all we all understand that so God is not a man

But Jesus was a man it says in Colossians 1 15 that Jesus is the image of the

Invisible God and then Hebrews 1 3 says that Jesus some translations put it this way

Jesus is the exact representation of God's image or God's nature

But this is not Mormonism Mormonism Understand some of these verses that Jesus was a man because God was also a human being

Who had a gender male that's not what these verses are saying is that Jesus is like?

The Father in every way with his attributes Not the human part right because God the

Father is not a human okay I know all of you know that but just for the sake of maybe one person who watches who?

Who doesn't this is all pretty basic stuff the attributes of God? Don't do you know all this God is omnipotent omnipresent omniscient

I? Mean you but you can't assume that everybody automatically knows that so the attributes of God is a pretty basic study

But because it's so basic a lot of churches don't really bring it up much or teach on it

So we just need to kind of lay that foundation either way there's Zero justification for this idea that God Is female let's go to Genesis 35 11 and like Marcus said it's nothing against women

Not at all Genesis 35 11 this is another attribute of God.

I think though one one reason people do this They're trying this is my opinion.

I think they're trying to feminize God and it sort of goes hand in hand with this other idea that God's primary attribute is love because men like Marcus said women are much nicer than men

I mean some women would debate that I think But men can be aggressive right men fight men are more likely to fight physically that verse that I mentioned exodus 15 3 the

Lord is a man of War see people are uncomfortable with that it goes against modern sensibilities

But if you can feminize God and make God into this softer more gentle deity

Who's just all about love? I mean, that's a God that people are comfortable with Maybe it's unfair to women to say that's feminizing

God, but I think that's kind of all this stuff. I think is connected to Some degree even the pictures of Jesus being this, you know guy with long hair like that doesn't help

Okay, it doesn't help and I don't think it's true based on first Corinthians 11 but all of this is sort of part of the narrative to replace the true

God of the Bible with this this idol this God people have imagined who is just all loving all kind all gentle and soft and you really don't have to worry about God because he's you know, he's how many of you grew up where you know, your dad was the one who

Made the rules in the house and the mom was kind of the one who was more lenient and if dad said no you went to the mother to try to Sometimes it's the opposite I get it

But generally that's that's typically the way it is and I think people are trying to do that with with God Maybe I'm wrong.

All right, so Genesis 35 10 through 11 It says and God said to him.

So this is Jacob. Your name is Jacob Your name shall not be called Jacob anymore, but Israel shall be your name

So he called his name Israel verse 11. Also God said to him. I am

God what? Almighty I am God Almighty be fruitful and multiply a nation and a company of nations shall proceed from you in kings

Shall come from your body. So Genesis 35 11 gives us one of God's Not his primary attribute, but one of his primary attributes the

Lord is identified in Hebrew Does anyone know the Hebrew term for God Almighty? L L should

I Right, you probably know the song right the song L should I so L should

I is translated here? God Almighty. Okay. That's what the word omnipotent means.

God is all Powerful. All right, let's turn to Psalm 139

So God is all powerful, but you know, there are some people trying to redefine even this for example

Some trying to feminize this attribute Joyce Meyer and Bishop TD Jake's these are some of the most popular

Ministers in the nation they teach that L should die does not actually mean

God Almighty Even though it's been in the Bible for you know centuries and everyone of course

God is omnipotent God Almighty They say no, that's not what it means doesn't mean God Almighty According to Joyce Meyer L should die means that God is the quote all

Breasty one. I don't even think breasty is a word But is there

Joyce Meyer's words TD Jake's actually the way TD Jake's puts it. I'm not even comfortable saying that but but doesn't this seem odd like L should

I like everyone it's it's in the Bible God Almighty, but according to Joyce Meyer God is the all breasty one.

So You know people want to tamper with these attributes of God, I think again to make

To make themselves more comfortable with who God is Psalm 139 7 and 8 this speaks of God being omnipresent Said David speaking says where can

I go from your spirit or where can I flee from your presence? If I ascend into heaven you are there if I make my bed in Hell or she'll behold you are there.

So God is He's omnipotent all -powerful, but he is also omni present so God is everywhere all

At once remember when Jonah was called to go to preach to the city of Nineveh and he got on the boat

And he headed in the opposite direction to flee from the presence of the Lord Okay, he apparently he never read

Psalm 139. Maybe this was Written afterwards. I'm not sure What he thought

I guess in his mind God is at the temple God is in Israel So if I can just get as far away from Israel as I can

I'm getting away from God Well, is there anywhere you can go to get away from God? No If you go to heaven, he's there

David says if I make my bed in hell, he's he's there too. So God is Everywhere all at once he is omnipresent and because he is omnipresent God also sees everything

Proverbs 15 verse 3 says the eyes of the Lord are in every place keeping watch on the evil and the good also 1st

John 3 20 says that Flat -out says God knows all things

So God is omnipotent all -powerful omnipresent Everywhere all at once and he is omniscient

God knows Everything there is to know right any questions on these attributes?

So that's a God that I think when people hear of this Deity because again with paganism their gods are different the the gods of paganism don't know everything

They are confined to one location When you hear about this

God this God, I think scares people You can't go anywhere now He should this should comfort us because we love

God and we believe he loves us But if you're not on good terms with this

God, this is scary stuff to people and they're not comfortable with it. So God is omnipotent omnipresent omniscient

Malachi 3 6 tells us that God is immutable The Lord speaks here.

He says I am the Lord I change not Hebrews 13 8 says that Jesus Christ is the same both

Yesterday, or it's not both. Yeah both yesterday today and forever So we could talk about many other things.

Let's turn to Romans 3. Can anyone think of any other? Attributes that we haven't mentioned yet Okay Righteous righteous.

Yep. God is righteous God is just right God is eternal

Deuteronomy 33 27 talks about the eternal God. So God has no beginning

He has no end and even that we can't really fathom what that even means.

I mean we can sort of imagine There being no end to something we can't imagine not having a beginning that just doesn't doesn't compute with us so We want to look at God's righteous character and his judge or highlight this for a moment

God's righteous character his just character because if God is righteous and if he is

Just then when people rebel against him when man Rebels when man sins, what does

God have to do? Because God is righteous and he loves the right thing so much.

What does that mean? the opposite would be He hates Evil, he hates sin

See the problem with with human beings even though we're Christians and we say we hate sin

And I think we we do we don't hate it as much as we should But God hates sin so much he

He is so righteous He must punish sin and this is the whole purpose of why

Jesus came to die in the first place because God must deal with sin once and for all

Yes Good God is sovereign

Absolutely, yes He's perfect Yeah, good good anyone else

To affect in us Well, just so much in Scripture as you started to listen

I want to say whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are honest What sort of things are just what sort of things are fewer?

What sort of things are lovely if there be any virtue and if there be any praise he's praiseworthy

But Even good you say God is good. Okay, this is that's that is an attribute

All right, so we're highlighting his righteousness because he is righteous and because he is just he must punish sin so when let's take a courtroom, there's a judge sitting up there and criminal comes beforehand and this person committed this crime if that judge is

Just if that judge is righteous, what are they going to do with that crime or that criminal?

There has to be some punishment For a jet now today we live in a culture where you know people just get let go and we have laws now that people can steal up to a $1 ,000 and there's no charges and in our country.

We are an unrighteous nation where we are not punishing Crime and even violent crime sometimes but God is just so look at Romans 3 starting in verse 21 but now the righteousness of God apart from the law is

Revealed being witnessed by the law and the prophets even the righteousness of God Through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all who believe for there is no difference

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God being justified freely by his grace

Through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus whom God set forth as a propitiation by his blood through faith to demonstrate his righteousness because in his

Forbearance God has passed over the sins that were previously committed to demonstrate at the present time his

Righteousness that he might be the just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus so we see in this passage.

God is both mentioned as righteous and Just you see that Yeah tonight is not an exhaustive list of God's Fun though,

I mean it inspires Right just thinking about what he's like Yep, but here in verse 25 the word propitiation it means an appeasement or Satisfaction so some translations actually put it atoning sacrifice

So mankind has offended God and to cover that offense Jesus came to shed his blood as an

Atonement, okay So the only other time that that Greek word that's translated here propitiation

The only other time it's mentioned in the New Testament is Hebrews chapter 9 verse 5 where it's translated as mercy seat

So when you hear mercy seat, you should automatically think of the Ark of the

Covenant right and the tabernacle And if you remember what was inside of the

Ark The law right the Ten Commandments which man violated

Above the Ark between the cherubim angels The Lord dwelt between the cherubim.

So in the Ark who had the violated law here you have God up here So God is going to see the violated law.

He must punish sin, but instead Christ comes in and He atones for sin.

He covers Sin with his own blood. He is the one who Cleanses us he covers us.

He takes away all of our Sin, that is how a person can be saved that Christ Atones because God we we have all as we read in that passage

We have all sinned and we have all fallen short. God has to punish sin But Jesus made the atonement so he has all of that covered

So let's turn to 1st John 4 1st John chapter 4 so on the cross

Jesus took all of our sin the word being imputation so all of our sin was imputed to his account and The transaction is

Jesus takes all of our sin and in exchange if we will have faith in him

He gives us all of his what? Righteousness So that when

God looks at us, he doesn't see us as the sinners who have violated his law. He sees us as Righteous because we are we are covered by the blood of Christ And when we are in covenant with Christ, we are actually in Christ.

So when God looks at us, he he sees his son So it's not just that we're we're innocent or that we're not guilty.

We're actually seen as Righteous in the eyes of God Through what happened on the cross?

This is why and you know me and Marcus we go back and forth about this right about you know

Are you a sinner or are you a saint? Well in the New Testament Christians are called

Saints Now are we said well, yes, everyone sins But what has been imputed to our account

God sees us if we're saved he sees us as as Saints And If you read

Romans, I think it's Romans 5 or 6 I mean it all you said well, how does that happen?

Well God works in Covenants, so the covenant that we're all in initially we're in Adam, right?

Adam is our federal head, right? This is the theological language. So our representative is

Adam it's like with our country. We have representatives, right? We don't have a voice

In Boston, we don't have a voice. We don't have a voice in Washington DC. We have a system of representatives they represent us

Supposedly, okay Some of them do But that's how it works with the

Lord, right? So we have a representative Adam Adam failed so we are in Adam all who are in Adam die

So if you have faith and you are in the new covenant the new Adam or the second Adam Jesus Christ all who are in Christ are made alive.

So you are either in the covenant in Adam or in Christ This is how

God operates in covenants, so we're almost out of time We're just gonna look at these two final attributes.

We're gonna look at God's attribute of love. I mean God is love That's what the Bible says 1st

John 4 8. This is this is the verse says he who does not love does not know

God for God is Love. Okay, so that's one of the attributes of God and I'm I'm thankful for this, right?

Because we could talk about God I don't know that wrath is an attribute but God has wrath because he's righteous and he has to punish sin

We talked about that But God is love and God demonstrates that love and that he sent

Christ Romans 5 8 God demonstrates his own love toward us and that while we were still sinners

Christ died for us So the love here is not the emotion of love. It's not that well if you feel love

That's God and that's that's not the point it's that love is an essential part of God's character that's why he sent

Jesus in the first place because God loves people God is

Merciful. So once you receive Christ We live that out John 14 15

Jesus said you love me keep my commandments and then the Apostle John here He's talking about if we're walking for a

Christian We should also love one another because fellow brothers and sisters are also in Christ Look at first John 4 20 and 21 if someone says

I love God and hates his brother He is a liar for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen

How can he love God whom he has not seen in this commandment? We have from him that he who loves loves.

God must also Love his brother So love is clearly one of God's attributes

Is it I don't know. This is this is just my take based on what I'm hearing. This is the

Attribute of God that gets talked about the most today. I think that's a pretty fair statement to me.

It's obvious It's far and above all the others. It's God is love. God is love

God is love Unfortunately that gets redefined where love

Instead of being backed up by actions as it was by the Lord and sending

Christ And for us to love one another and to help one another love often gets redefined as you know acceptance where you just you must accept this person and everything that they're doing and that's

True love and that's not really how It's it's defined So love is elevated as God's primary attribute, but it's not let's look at God's primary attribute

Turn to Isaiah 6 and we'll close Isaiah chapter 6

Any study And again a lot. I think a lot of churches don't cover this because it's just so basic so elementary

But we should cover it but any study about the attributes of God any study worth its salt is going to mention this that God's primary attribute is

His holiness. Why is that because we read in Isaiah 6? Yes, the Bible does say that God is love but in Isaiah 6 we see that God is holy, holy, holy

Like the Bible never says that God is love love love if it did you could probably say that was the primary

Attribute, but we see in Isaiah 6 that God's Primary attribute is his holiness.

Isaiah 6 1 in the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting on a throne high and lifted up and the train of his robe

Filled the temple above it stood seraphim So these are angels each one had six wings with two he covered his face and with two he covered his feet and with two he flew and One cried to another and said holy, holy

Holy is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of his glory and The posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out and the house was filled with smoke

So I said here's Isaiah's Reaction once he realizes

Sees that God is holy. Holy. Holy. He says woe is me for I am undone because I am a man of unclean lips and I dwell in the midst of the people of unclean lips for my eyes have seen the king the

Lord of hosts so based on this and based on just all throughout the

Old Testament constantly talking about God's holiness So, what is holiness?

Holy means set apart. So God is we could say God is absolutely pure He is he is excellent.

He is he is uncommon See everything else is in a sense is common.

God is totally set apart from anything out everything and everything else that God is is is

Different than and he is so much higher than everything else. He is set apart

He's holy and once Isaiah realizes that then he knows how unholy he is, right?

so Isaiah Safe to say was probably one of the most godly men on the face of the earth, but once he sees the

Lord You know, whatever self -righteousness he may have had if he did have any it all just Falls away.

He says I you know, woe is me For I am undone. So, you know in conclusion the best way to understand the gospel and the best way to understand who

God is is to look at God's attributes to really get a sense of of the

Lord and his character because once we understand God If we understand him, then we'll better understand ourselves

We can go through life and do the normal thing and compare ourselves with others and you know

You can start thinking pretty highly of yourself after a while. But once you understand the person and character of God There's no room at all for self -righteousness

So once a person understands that then the gospel should be apparent of why why we need

God's grace and I just think going back to this thing about God These ministers saying that God is a woman.

I mean this just totally Exemplifies the rebellion in the world today.

I think Number one thing behind all this whatever the Bible says, they're just gonna say the opposite.

That's all that's all it is So if the Bible says up they're gonna say down if the Bible calls

God the Father. Well, we're gonna call Her God the mother that that's what it is.

It's just mankind's ongoing Rebellion and as we get closer and closer to the end of days, the rebellion is just becoming more obvious Inapparent so the people saying that the people buying into that what they need is a good study on God's attributes to understand who the true

God is and not this idol that they've Fashioned in their own mind. Let's pray

Lord, we thank you for who you are. We thank you for your love. We thank you For your mercy your grace.

We thank you for sending Jesus Into the world to die for all of our sin

Lord. We thank you for that We thank you for saving us and we praise you because you are a

God of love But we praise you because you truly are holy Holy holy and Lord if there's someone listening or watching right now who is

Never trusted in Jesus as their Lord and Savior. I pray that they would realize that God Lord you are perfectly righteous and just That they would finally come to that place where they have to admit to you that they are not and Lord we are

Very thankful that you are willing to forgive us of all of our sin based on the blood of Jesus And it's in his name.