Who Made God?

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I invite you to stand again because we do stand for the reading of God's Word.
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Now, we have been in Genesis 1, verse 1.
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It is.
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Testing.
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It's on.
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I can hear it this way.
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Okay.
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We've been in Genesis 1, 1 and we're not leaving Genesis 1, 1, just so you know.
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We're going to be here still a little while longer, so I want to invite you with your Bibles open and to do something we haven't ever done before.
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I invite you to read it with me.
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This is one of those verses that everybody should know.
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We're reading from the English Standard Bible.
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So as we begin, let's read.
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In fact, let's read down to verse 2.
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We'll read all the way verses 1 and 2.
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In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
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The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
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May God add His blessing to the reading and to the hearing of His Word.
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And you may be seated.
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It is without doubt that we have all heard the question, and perhaps many of us have asked it ourselves.
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It usually comes out of the mouth of children when they first begin to ponder the reality of existence, and they understand concepts like cause and effect.
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And the question is this.
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If God made everything, who made God? If God made everything, who made God? And that may seem on its face like somewhat of a trivial question, and yet it's not.
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It's actually a very profound question, and it's not one that is just going away.
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People still ask it today.
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I had a conversation with one of you guys.
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It was Caleb, right? We had on Wednesday night that he was sharing the gospel with a family member, and they started talking about everything, all kinds of different belief systems, and the man came.
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Who made God? This wasn't a child.
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This was a grown man having a very sincere and important question.
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You say God made everything.
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Well, who made God? Last week in our sermon, we showed that the entire universe has its beginnings in the book of Genesis.
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In fact, remember we had 18 sermon points, and every one was a point of beginning for something.
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We said that everything had its beginning in Genesis.
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Space, time, matter, energy, everything has its beginning in Genesis.
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But what about God? Is He to be included in those things that have their origin in Genesis? Asked more simply, does God have a beginning? We've said Genesis is the beginning of everything.
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Well, is it the beginning of God? Well, in today's message, I want to show that God is not to be included in the category of creature.
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God is not part of the created order.
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He does not have a starting point.
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You often hear the phrase, origin story.
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Like you go watch a movie and it'll have the origin story of a character or an origin story of a person.
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God has no origin story.
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And my purpose and plan in today's message is to show you that the testimony of Scripture declares that God has always been and He has the power of being in Himself.
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Now, I want to clarify something as we begin.
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And my wife kind of challenged me last night.
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She said, stop apologizing.
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She said, you apologize too much when you preach.
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Usually it's about time.
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Sometimes I feel like I go forever.
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But I do want to add a note.
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Today is going to be a theology lesson.
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Because you need it.
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I think to understand Genesis 1-1, you need to understand this simple theology lesson that we're going to have today.
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If you were part of our systematic theology study on Wednesday night, you will have heard some of this.
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Not all of it, but you will have heard some of it.
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Because you can't do theology without learning about the nature of God.
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And that's what we're going to do today.
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And I really think when you come to that fourth word in Genesis, in the beginning, God, you have to understand you can't go further until you reconcile who that is.
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You can't go further until you reconcile what that kind of being is.
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Because it's a different being than anything else in the whole universe.
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There's none like unto Him, the Scripture says.
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The problem with the modern church is we have very much made God like us.
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Even the secular world sings, what if God was one of us? Now I realize that's a 20 year old reference, or better.
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So I may have dated myself a little on the song.
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But you understand, we are very good at bringing God down.
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We are very good at making God condescend.
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But today I want us to think about God in who He truly is.
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In His majesty, in His fullness, in His full orbed eternality.
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I want us to consider the God of Scripture.
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The God who is made known in the very first verse.
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In the beginning, God.
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And my hope is that by the end of this message we have a greater vision of the immensity, of the majesty of our Almighty Creator.
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The only uncaused, the only self-existent, the only independent being in all of the universe.
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He's not even in the universe, He is above it.
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He alone is worthy of our worship.
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He alone is worthy of our trust.
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He alone is worthy of our obedience.
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He alone is worthy of our love.
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This is God.
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This is the God who is being spoken of.
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This is the God of the Scriptures.
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This is the God who is here in the beginning.
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So what I've done is I've outlined three important statements.
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I'm going to give them to you on the board.
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I really wish I had a whiteboard this morning.
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One day, maybe when we get the chancel redone, we'll have whiteboards up here.
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And I'll be happy.
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Because I enjoy having a whiteboard.
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I know Brother Andy does too.
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And maybe we'll just get one that's meant to be for in here.
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But I did ask that we put the outline.
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Because I have three points to give to you today.
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And they're not just simple points.
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They're a sentence each.
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And so if you want to take notes, they'll be on the screen.
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And we're going to look at three very distinct things.
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I'm going to give them to you real quick in three shots.
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And then I'll go back through each one.
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One, our existence demands that something is eternal.
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That's the first thing we're going to look at.
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Number two, the Bible teaches that God is that eternal something.
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And number three, the nature of God as the eternal something.
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Now that one is less of a statement.
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It's more of what we're going to look at.
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So let's go back to the first thing.
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Our existence demands that something is eternal.
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I want to ask you a question.
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And I want you to be honest.
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You don't have to answer.
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I just want you to be honest in your mind.
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Do you exist? Okay, I see some of you shaking your heads.
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It is almost universally accepted that we do exist.
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You are real.
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I am real.
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We are not the figment of someone's imagination.
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We are not a mirage.
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We are genuine beings.
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We are not holograms.
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We are not simulations.
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We are genuine beings.
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Now I say that only because I said the word almost because not everybody believes that.
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Some people believe that all of existence is an illusion.
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I want to read a quick quote from the Sunday edition of the New York Times back in August.
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An article was published with the headline, Are we living in a computer simulation? Now this is not the Inquirer or some tabloid.
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This is the New York Times.
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And it asked the question, Are we living in a computer simulation? The article recounts several scientists sharing their own theories about why they believe that our experience of reality is not real at all, but simply is the creation of some computer program that some higher life form has established and designed.
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And they said we shouldn't dig too far into this because if we find out, if they find out we know, then they'll just cancel the program and we'll all cease to exist.
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We have to be very careful.
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Now again, these are not fiction writers.
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These are not Hollywood executives looking for the next Matrix movie.
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These are scientists who work for colleges and universities who are writing theories about the theory of existence and they say we don't exist.
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Even Elon Musk, you ever heard that name? Elon Musk, the guy who created the Tesla automobile and he's very well known, even he said he believes that the chances we're not a simulation are one in billions.
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He said it's almost guaranteed that we are.
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And he's no dummy.
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I mean not at least in regard to intelligence.
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And what I said to that, my wife and I were talking about this last night, I said you know it's amazing what the ungodly will accept because they will not accept God.
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It's amazing what the ungodly will believe because they will not simply believe what the Bible says.
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They'll believe the incredible rather than believing the truth.
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Well outside of pure science fiction, I think we can all say we exist.
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If you don't think you exist, see me afterward and I'm going to hit you in the arm and it's going to hurt and we'll both believe we both exist.
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Rene Descartes said this, he said I think, therefore I am.
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So this is not really a modern question.
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Rene Descartes lived several hundred years ago but he had the question of existence, do I exist? And the question of existence, he said you know what, I think therefore I must exist even if I thought I didn't exist.
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The very doubt of existence is thought and it proves that I actually do exist.
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So yes you exist, yes I exist.
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But just as certainly as you do exist, there is certainly a time when you didn't.
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Amen? Was there a time when you weren't? I was born April 2nd, 1980.
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Nine months before that I did exist.
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The ten months before that I did not.
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And some of you did.
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It's hard for me to imagine before me.
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Not because that sounds a little arrogant.
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What I mean is it's hard for me to imagine life without me because I wasn't there.
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That doesn't sound any better.
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What I mean is I can't imagine non-existence.
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I can't imagine what it was like before me but yet many of you lived many decades before I did and you know there was existence before me.
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And no matter how...
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Yeah, here it is Jack, yeah.
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And before you Jack, there was existence before you.
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And we go further and further back and there's always a time when we weren't.
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And now we are.
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That fascinates me because even the things that are old, mountains, rivers, streams, oceans.
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There was a time when they were not.
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There was a time when they didn't exist.
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There was a time when there weren't even molecules.
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There wasn't even the space to put the molecules in.
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There was a time when nothing that you know existed.
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But there's never been a time when there was nothing at all.
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Because if there's ever been a time when there was nothing at all, there would still be nothing at all.
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Because nothing comes from nothing.
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If there was ever a time when there was absolute...
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We can't even really...
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Our minds can't wrap around nothing.
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But if there was ever a time when there was nothing and I mean nothing including God.
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Nothing.
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There would still be nothing.
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There's actually a logical phrase.
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It's a Latin phrase.
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Not that I just throw the Latin out there to sound smart.
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But I do like this phrase.
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It's a Latin phrase called ex nihilo.
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Ex nihilo means out of nothing.
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And then the whole phrase is ex nihilo nihil fit which is Latin for out of nothing comes nothing.
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If I take a jar and there's nothing in it and I cap the jar and I put it on a shelf and I come back in 10 years there's still going to be nothing in it.
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Provided there was nothing in it to begin with.
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If I come back in a thousand years and there's still going to be nothing in it provided there was nothing in it to begin with.
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If I come back in 10 billion years there's going to be nothing in it provided there was nothing in it to start with.
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Because nothing produces nothing.
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Therefore, if there was ever a time when there was nothing no God, no nothing there would still be nothing because there would be nothing to produce the something.
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Now I know I'm getting a little in the realm of philosophy here but I promise I'm going to get to the why this matters scripturally in a minute but you've got to understand we've got to wrap our minds around this.
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If there was ever nothing there would still be nothing.
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There has to be something that is forever.
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And you say, well what is that forever something? Well scientists used to believe it was the universe.
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Scientists used to believe the universe was the forever something.
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That is until 1929.
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When Edwin Hubble you've heard of the Hubble telescope Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe was expanding.
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And when he discovered the universe was expanding he says, well if it expands it had to have come from somewhere.
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It can't be eternal if it's growing.
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It has to have had a point of origin.
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Therefore that idea that the universe is eternal and constant stopped.
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Science abandoned that because it just doesn't fly.
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So they began to say, where did this universe come from? And they had the problem ex nihilo, neophyte, can't come from nothing, has to come from something.
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And so they began to have all of these theories about where it came from.
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What was the something? What was the something that brought about the nothing? And you've all heard of the Big Bang? That there was one time where our whole universe was held in an infinitesimally small piece of something and it blew up and became everything.
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But again, that's something.
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It's not nothing.
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You're going to hear something and nothing a lot.
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So if you're getting bothered by it just hang with me.
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I'm going to say it a lot.
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Because here's the point.
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If it was nothing it would still be nothing.
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Had to come from something.
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I would change it.
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It has to come from someone.
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And God is that eternal someone.
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Stephen Hawking tried to produce the idea in his book The Grand Design that the universe could come from nothing.
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And he abandoned the very simple philosophical principle that nothing comes from nothing.
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And he said, no, something can come from nothing because of gravity.
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And then I raised my hand.
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Of course he didn't see me.
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But I said, isn't gravity something? Is gravity something or is it nothing? And if you do read the book you'll notice he doesn't say it came from nothing.
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He talks about multiple universes and all kinds of various things that produce the universe we now have.
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The idea that something comes from nothing is ridiculous and even he knew it.
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There must be something that's eternal.
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And that something is God.
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This moves to my second point.
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The Bible teaches that God is the eternal something.
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God is the eternal being.
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In fact, I want to show you a few scriptures.
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If you want to turn there, that's fine.
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If you just want to jot them down, that's fine.
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But the first one is the one we read in our call to worship this morning.
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Psalm chapter 90, verse 2.
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Brother Adam read it for us this morning.
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It says, Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations.
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Verse 2.
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Before the mountains were brought forth or ever You had formed the earth and the world.
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From everlasting to everlasting You are God.
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Now, some could make the linguistic argument that the word alam in Hebrew doesn't always mean forever.
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Sometimes it just means an indefinitely long period of time.
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But the context determines how it's used.
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And the context of chapter 90, verse 2 is apparently the context of infinity.
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Because what the writer is saying is that before the earth was, before there was mountains, before anything, God, You were there.
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And guess what? You're also to the end and further.
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From forever to forever You are God.
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Now, for a moment, I just want to say this.
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I don't get it.
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I can't wrap my mind around eternity.
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Because everything I know had a starting point.
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We've already established that.
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Everything I know, every one of you had a starting point.
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Everything in this world had a starting point.
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Even the world itself.
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Even the space the world is in.
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Everything had a starting point.
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God didn't have a starting point.
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You know what had a starting point? Time.
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Time had a starting point.
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Because God lives outside of time.
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God is not bound by time.
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You know there are people who believe that He is.
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There are those who ascribe to a theology called open theism.
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Open theism teaches this.
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God experiences time the same way we do.
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God is therefore moving through time just as we are.
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And today is August, September.
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Today is September 15th, 2019 on our calendar.
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It is also September 15th, 2019 on God's calendar.
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And God, like we are, is tearing off the calendar page every day.
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And He's got an idea of what's going to happen.
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But He is not certain.
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And this is what the open theist will say.
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God cannot know what will happen for certain because it has not happened yet.
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Consider for a moment what that means.
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God is bound by time.
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If God cannot know what will happen, then He is bound by time because it hasn't happened yet.
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You know what the Bible says? The Bible says God is not bound by time.
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From everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
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He is not limited in the same way we are by time.
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This is why God can give a prophecy and it's absolutely going to take place.
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One, because He decrees that it will take place.
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But also because He knew what to decree to bring about His perfect will.
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People always wonder, you know, can we thwart the will of God? No! Because if you could have thwarted the will of God, He would have thwarted you.
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Because He knew what was going to happen and He determined the end from the beginning.
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In fact, that's another passage.
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Turn with me to Isaiah 46.
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Isaiah 46.
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It's one of my favorite passages.
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I even have it marked in my Bible here.
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This is my pulpit Bible and apparently I've still marked it.
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Isaiah 46 verse 8.
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Remember this and stand firm.
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Why would he say that? Because this is something we can stand on.
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Something we can be confident about.
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This is something we can hold to.
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This is an anchor for our faith.
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Remember this and stand firm.
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Recall it to mind, you transgressors.
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Remember the former things of old.
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This is God speaking through the prophet.
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For I am God and there is no other.
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I am God and there is none like me.
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Just that enough should just make us get down on our knees and just worship right now.
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I'm God, there's no one else.
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There's none like me.
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By the way, when you hear the Mormons tell you, Oh, you can become a God one day.
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I am God and there is none like me.
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Isaiah also says, Before me there was no God formed, neither will there be one formed after me.
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So the entire theology of Mormonism is wrong on that point completely.
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But be that as it may, coming back to this passage.
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He says, I am God and there is no other.
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I am God and there is none like me.
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Declaring the end from the beginning.
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And from ancient times things not yet done.
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Saying my counsel shall stand and I will accomplish all my purpose.
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God knows the future because he's not bound by time.
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And he's determined the future from the beginning.
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This is why he can talk about the cross as though it had already happened.
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He says about the cross, Jesus is the lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
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Because God didn't have to wonder.
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I wonder if they're really going to put him on a cross.
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Maybe they'll behead him.
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Maybe he'll get burned at the stake.
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Oh, we have to wonder, don't we? God doesn't wonder.
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God is a different kind of being than you.
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This is the part we can't get.
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God is so different from you.
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Every time you try to think God is like, you're wrong.
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Because there's nothing to compare him to.
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This is why every time somebody tries to figure out the Trinity, and they say, oh, it's like ice and water and steam.
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Or it's like a man who's a father and a husband and a son.
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No, he's not.
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Both of those dip into heresies.
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Because they miss the point.
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That when we say God is one in essence and three in person, and those three persons are co-equal, co-eternal, and distinct.
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That is absolutely unique, and there's nothing like that in the entire universe to compare it to.
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You might as well just accept it as it's stated, rather than try to find something that it's like, because it's not like anything.
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Sorry, I get a little excited here.
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So we're told here, God has determined the end from the beginning.
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Why? Because he's not bound by time.
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God doesn't live in time.
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We don't understand that, because we do.
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Isaiah 57, verse 15 says, God is the one who inhabits eternity.
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He lives in eternity.
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He inhabits a sphere.
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A sphere.
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I was really landing in the wrong spot today.
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He inhabits a sphere of existence that we can't even understand.
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Not really.
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This is why he has to condescend to us.
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This is why we have in the Bible those things called anthropomorphisms, which is where God uses things like hands and eyes, and all those things to help us understand him.
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Because he can't just describe himself as he is, because we just wouldn't get it.
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And so he, R.C.
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Sproul said this, God lisps.
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He condescends.
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So that we can try to understand some of whom he is.
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Because it's so much that we could not, if we were able to have a vision of what he truly is.
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It would be too much.
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God is eternal.
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He exists outside of time.
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There was never a time when he was not.
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And logic demands that there be something that is eternal.
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Because we have to have something to have something now.
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Because if there was ever nothing, we'd still have nothing.
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And the something that has always been is God.
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And he's really something.
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I really was looking forward to saying that.
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God is really something.
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Alright, so now the third thing.
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I want to look at the nature of this eternal God.
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This only, God is the eternal something.
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I want to look at his nature.
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And we're going to do this by going to Exodus chapter 3.
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So go with me to Exodus 3.
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What kind of a being is God? Well, if we say God is eternal, we're not only necessarily, or declaring something necessary about his being, but we're also saying something about the kind of being that he is.
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Because if God is eternal, then that makes him unique in many ways.
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There are three things that are unique about God, that absolutely belong to him alone.
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And I want to share those three things with you.
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They're going to be up on the board.
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Number one, if God is eternal, that means he is uncaused.
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Number two, if God is eternal, that means he is self-existent.
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And number three, if God is eternal, that means he's independent.
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So let me just for a moment unpack those.
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And then we're going to read, because this is how God describes himself, by the way.
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The whole reason why I'm saying this, is because in a moment we're going to read in chapter 3 verse 15, or verse 14 rather, where God speaks to Moses, and God gives himself a name, and that name says everything I just said in one small two-word phrase.
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But we're going to see that after we unpack this for a second.
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Let's look first at what it means to be uncaused.
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When we say God is uncaused, what we're saying is he's the only one that didn't have an antecedent.
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He's the only one that didn't have something before him that made him be.
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You were caused, your parents were caused, their parents were caused, and on and on and on.
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I go back to Mormonism.
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You know what Mormonism believes? Mormonism believes that God was caused.
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Because they believe that God was once a man who lived on a planet that surrounded a star called Kolob, that that man named Elohim adhered to Mormon teachings, and because he adhered to Mormon teachings, he himself became a god at his death, and he went on through celestial marriage to populate our world through his new established godhood.
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Now if you think I'm making that up, if that sounds like science fiction, I'll tell you what.
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Joseph Smith was a pretty decent writer, and he was very, very creative.
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And he created an entire system around the idea that God was once a man who became God, and therefore because you are a man, you can become God.
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So God, and then you say, well what about the God before him? And this is what is known in Mormon theology as the eternal regression of the gods, meaning it just goes back eternally.
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There never was a beginning, it just keeps going back and back and back and back.
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But each one was caused by the one before him.
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That's called the eternal regression of the gods.
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There's a Greek word for that.
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That's right, it's baloney.
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It's a very important Greek word, remember it.
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But that's what it is.
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It's baloney.
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God is uncaused.
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Nothing caused him to be.
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We don't get that because everything we know is caused.
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God, but God.
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God is uncaused.
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God is self-existent.
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What does that mean? That means he has the power of being in and of himself.
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John 5.25 says this, Just as the father has life in himself, he has granted the son to have life in himself.
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Life in himself.
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Not from somewhere.
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You know why you have life in you? Because God gave it to you.
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You know what happens when you die? Life leaves you.
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You go with it.
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But the point is, life for us is determined by something outside of us.
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But life for God, God is a living being.
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And God has the power to live in himself.
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You don't.
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You don't have the power to live in yourself.
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I've thought about this.
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I tell you what.
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I remember a few years ago.
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I was walking down the hall.
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And it just struck me.
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That at any moment, the power to live could leave my body.
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I mean, it really did.
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It was almost like a moment of real fear.
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The power to live is not mine.
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I didn't make it happen.
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I don't have any control over it.
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I have a buddy who is a paramedic.
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And he tells me about this thing in your heart.
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That they call it the widow maker.
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Because if you get a clog in that particular part of your heart, they don't have...
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He says they go and they try to revive.
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He says there's really no way to save the person.
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Because it's just that fast.
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It's one part of your heart that if it clogs, they're not going to do open heart surgery.
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You're going to die a long time before there's ever an opportunity to even get you on the ambulance and get you down there.
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And he says he's seen 45 year old men.
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In an instant, life is done.
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At least life here.
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You don't have the power of life in you.
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But God does.
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And in that verse, John 5, Jesus did too.
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That's the amazing thing.
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Jesus had that power.
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I've come to give Him life and life more abundant.
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He came with that power.
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But you don't have it.
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God is the only one.
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God Himself has the power of life.
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That self existence.
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And the last one, He's independent.
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You know I hear all the time people say, I'm independent.
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Oh, I'm so independent pastor, I pay my own bills.
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I'm so independent, I don't need nobody.
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You are so dependent, you don't even realize how dependent you are.
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You're dependent on other people who don't even realize it.
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If you've got a job, you're dependent on the people who are actually working with that job of you to make it all work.
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You're not doing it all by yourself.
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Well, I'm a one man show.
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Well, your customers would say different.
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Because you're dependent on them.
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You are not independent, not even close.
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And your life is not independent.
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You are absolutely, utterly, always, 100% all the time dependent upon God.
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I hear people say, and you've probably seen this joke.
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People say, do I need the Holy Spirit to worship? I say, dude, you need the Holy Spirit to go to Walmart.
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You need the Holy Spirit for everything.
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Literally everything.
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God is everything.
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You can't be independent.
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Even the unbeliever is dependent upon God for his very existence and his very life.
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And the Bible says his heart is beating inside of him.
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And God is in control of it.
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He has plans.
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God directs his steps.
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He's not independent.
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But God is.
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God is uncaused.
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God is self-existent.
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God is independent.
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He's the only one that is.
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And now we go to Exodus 3.14.
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In Exodus 3.14, Moses is speaking to God.
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And it says, God said to Moses, I am who I am.
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Why did he say this? Because Moses said, when I go to the people and I say you sent me, who do I say sent me? And God says, I am who I am.
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So you tell them, say to the people of Israel, I am, has sent me to you.
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This is the name God gives himself.
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And I gotta tell you, when I was a teenager and I heard that, I thought it was a grammatical mistake.
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Because I've never heard anyone describe themselves as I am.
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Maybe somebody will say, I am beautiful, or I am smart, or I am intelligent.
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But God simply says, I am.
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And when you go to Israel and you tell them that I have sent you to them, you tell them, I am has sent you.
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That word, I am, it's amazing what God can do with two little words.
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It's amazing what God can do with one simple phrase.
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Because it describes everything I just said about being uncaused, about being self-existent, about being independent.
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It's all in that phrase, I am.
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Because what the phrase I am means is I exist, or I be.
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Now forgive the grammatical, but the phrase be is the proper form of the verb here, so it would be I be, or I exist.
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So if I said to you, I exist, I would have to qualify that.
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I would have to say, I exist because I have enough air to breathe.
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I exist because I have enough food and water to ingest and nourish my body.
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I exist because the world is just close enough to the sun that I can be warm, but just far enough away that the water is liquid and not solid or steam.
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I am because of all of these factors.
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God simply says, I am.
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Period.
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End of story.
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I don't need anything.
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I don't want anything.
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You know what want is? Want is lack.
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God lacks nothing.
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Now He calls and commands things, but that's not the same as lacking something.
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God doesn't call you to worship Him because He lacks something that you need to fulfill in Him.
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God chooses to be glorified by you, and we should be thankful that He does.
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But guess what? He's going to be glorified through you whether you worship Him or not.
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He's going to be glorified through your worship or glorified through your judgment.
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But He will be glorified.
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The point is this.
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God is non-contingent.
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He is absolutely unique.
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And that's why I love Isaiah 44, 24.
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It says, Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb, I am the Lord who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens.
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I didn't need you.
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I didn't ask your permission.
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This is what He said to Job.
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Remember the end of Job? Job and God are finally getting the opportunity to really understand what's going on here.
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And God looks at Job and He says, Where were you? I don't think He said it just that way, but maybe.
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Where were you when I formed the world? This takes us to Romans 9 where Paul reminds us when we have theological issues with God, we need to remember one thing.
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Who are you, old man, to answer back to God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, Why have you made me this way? We are really not able to wrap our minds around what and who God really is.
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But that's the point of today.
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To try to help us understand, when we get to that fourth word in Genesis, in the beginning, God, we are talking about a different kind of being.
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This is not just a glorified man.
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This is a different type, a different kind of being than we really have understood.
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And it's important that when we understand, when it says in the beginning, God, it's referring to God in His fullness.
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And I don't want to take a hard right turn, especially as I draw to an end, but I do want to remind you, when it says in the beginning, God, it's referring to the Trinity.
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God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, all three persons of the Trinity are there and they've always been there.
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There is not a time when Jesus came on the scene or Jesus was created.
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Jesus is not created.
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He is one with the Father from all eternity.
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This is why, in the beginning, God, and in John's Gospel it says, in the beginning was the Word.
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John is, in a sense, echoing Genesis 1-1 to remind us that at that moment, when God called all things into existence, Christ and the Holy Spirit, the triune God, were there.
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That is the God we serve.
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That is the God we worship.
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And this reminds us that when we come to faith in Christ, we are not coming to faith in a mere man, but we're coming to faith in the God-man.
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So my question to you, as I do bring it to a close, I'll ask this, do you believe today in the eternal God who made heaven and earth and is the necessary One, the only One, who Himself inhabits eternity? Do you believe in Him today? Did you come today wondering who made God? Have you understood now no one made God because God is the One from whom all other things were made.
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He was not made, but He alone inhabits eternity.
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And He is Father.
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He is Son.
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He is the Spirit.
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Three in one together.
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And when we worship, praise God from whom all blessings flow.
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Praise Him, all creatures here below.
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Praise Him above ye heavenly hosts.
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Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
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Amen.
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Let's pray.
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Father, I thank You for Your Word.
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Lord, may it be that as we consider all that we have thought about today, all we have learned about today, Lord, that we would be moved toward a better understanding of who You are, of Your nature, of Your eternality.
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That when we're faced with someone who might ask us the question, who made God? May we with great confidence say, God is the only uncaused, the only self-existent, the only independent being in all of the universe.
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And we are responsible to Him because He is our Creator.
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Lord, may we take that responsibility seriously.
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And may we turn to Him in faith.
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Lord, for those who do not know Christ, may today be the day that they see this eternal Creator as the one to whom they are responsible.
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As Paul taught us in Acts 17, the God who created all things has commanded all men everywhere to repent.
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Lord, may we heed that command.
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In Jesus' name.
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Amen.