ASIETY OF GOD Joh 1:2 He was in the beginning with God.

Joh 1:2 He was in the beginning with God. OBS: Notice here that Christ, who is God, stepped the counsel of His own will (Eph1:11). That He did
SERIES: THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD Joh 1:3 All things were made through him, and from eternity and went into our time. Incarnation. create was simply for His manifestative glory.
STEVE LAWSON without him was not any thing made that was made. The uncreated creator became a creation.
2014 CONC: God is never uncreated and then created. CONC: The reason that He made us is purely for his
OBS: God told Moses to write the very first and very Otherwise, it's a puny god. own pleasure (His glory), nothing else urged Him to
DEFINITION: important verse of His revelation: In the beginning OBS: The Mormons believed that for Jesus Christ. do so.
Medieval Latin aseitas, from Latin a se from God created the heavens and the earth.
oneself (from a, ab from + se oneself) + -itas ity. Psa90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, Q: Who is the center of all things? A: God and God
(Study guide:) The word aseity comes from Latin OBS: The most important axiom: In the beginning, Or ever You had formed the earth and the world, alone.
roots meaning from and self. God = In the beginning there was God. Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.
the absolute eternal self-existence, self- THINK ABOUT THIS:
sufficiency, independence, and autonomy of God CONC: God had existed even before he created the CONC: There was never a time when God was not OBS: To be overwhelmed by this fact must produce in
cosmos. God. us humility of heart: That God who had been self
INTRO SPROUL: We cannot have something out of nothing... satisfied, chose to create the universe and even us to
LAWSON: There is no higher subject than the study of JMACS TAKE ON SCIENCE AND GOD Therefore it is necessary that there must be God. behold the grandeur and majesty and glory of God.
God. No truth is so mind expanding, heart enlarging, English philosopher Herbert Spencer, who died in OBS: This axiom is not easy for a human-centric
and life changing as the study of God(paraphrased).. 1903, was famous for applying scientific discoveries to Isa 43:10 "You are My witnesses," says the LORD, theology.
philosophy. He listed five knowable categories in the "And My servant whom I have chosen, That you may
SPURGEON: (Mal 3:6 exposition) natural sciences: time, force, motion, space, and know and believe Me, And understand that I am He. RECALL: God gives grace to the humble, give strength
There is something exceedingly improving to the mind matter. Before Me there was no God formed, Nor shall there to the weak. This is the place to be - humility before
However, Genesis 1:1, the first verse in the Bible, be after Me.
in a contemplation of the Divinity. It is a subject so God.
vast, that all our thoughts are lost in its immensity; so says, "In the beginning [time] God [force] created
[motion] the heavens [space] and the earth [matter]." AWPINK: In the beginning God (Gen 1:1). There was
deep, that our pride is drowned in its infinity. Other RICK WARRENS ABERENT THEOLOGY
God laid it all out in the very first verse of Scripture. a time, if time it could be called, when God, in the
subjects we can compass and grapple with; in them God was thinking of you even before he made the
unity of His nature (though subsisting equally in three
we feel a kind of self-content, and go our way with the world. In fact, that's why he created it!
CONC: There is no time that God did not exist. In fact, divine persons).
thought, Behold I am wise. God designed this planet's environment just so we
God who created time is not bounded by time. could live in it.
Exo3:14 And God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I
But when we come to this master-science, finding that We are the focus of his love and the most valuable
AM." And He said, "Thus you shall say to the
our plumb-line cannot sound its depth, and that our MIND CANNOT FATHOM of all his creation.
children of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you.'"
eagle eye cannot see its height, we turn away . . . with OBS: Our finite mind cannot fathom how God had The Bible says, "God decided to give us life through
the solemn exclamation, I am but of yesterday, and existed, for us who all have a beginning, it is hard to the word of truth so we might be the most
OBS: At that time, He was self sufficient and self
know nothing. imagine a God who had no beginning -but that is what important of all the things he made."
satisfied, not in need of anything.
the Scripture says. This is how much God loves and values you! -
AWPINK: There was no heaven, where His glory is now
particularly manifested. There was no earth to engage - Purpose Driven Life
CONC: There is no subject that is so humbling as the Psa93:2 Your throne is established from of old; You
His attention. There were no angels to hymn His
study of God. are from everlasting. OBS: The problem here that the tone here is that we
Q: How old is the throne of God? praises; no universe to be upheld by the word of His
power. There was nothing, no one, but God; and are that very important that we have some value
We are like moths trying reach the immense radiance A: From eternity past. (Can we measure that?) and therefore God loves us because of our value.
that, not for a day, a year, or an age, but from
of the sun. We will drown and get burn to understand everlasting. During eternity past, God was alone:
God's reality of His dirty. WE HAVE OUR OWN BEGINNINGS AND EXPIRATIONS OBS: The verse quoted above is explained out of
EX: Cemetery: Date of birth, Date died. self-contained, self-sufficient, self-satisfied; in need of
nothing. context and from the New Century Version.
CONC: This subject should enfuel us and edify us and APPL: Contrast to God, from eternity to eternity.
humble us to believe in an immense God. Jam 1:18 Of His own will He brought us forth by the
Talking about Christ: Prophet Micah says: Q: HOW ABOUT THE ANGELS AND HUMANS?
word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of
Mic 5:2 "But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Though The angels or us cannot augment nor diminish God's
This subject should also comfort us and console is. His creature
you are little among the thousands of Judah, Yet out sufficiency. We cannot lend God, we cannot bribe
Westminster confession: On attributes of God. Him - He is not under obligation to anyone. He did not
of you shall come forth to Me The One to be Ruler in Why did God do all this? Why did he bother to go to
Israel, Whose goings forth [origin] are from of old, create us because he needed us. all the trouble of creating a universe for us?
IN THE BEGINNING, GOD
From everlasting." Because he is a God of love. This kind of love is
Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens AWPINK: God was under no constraint, no obligation,
and the earth. difficult to fathom, but it's fundamentally reliable.
From everlasting no necessity to create. That He chose to do so was You were created as a special object of God's love!
OBS: I dont know how we are to image that. purelya sovereign action His part, caused by nothing God made you so he could love you. This is a truth
Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the
From everlasting to everlasting. outside Himself, determined by nothing but His own to build your life on.
Word was with God, and the Word was God.
mere good pleasure; for He worketh all things after
 Rom 11:34 "For who has known the mind of the hand of the majestic God of heaven.
LORD? Or who has become His counselor?"
EXP: God does not need another counselor. He THE CREATION GROANS ALONG WITH BELIEVERS
Rev 4:8 The four living creatures, each having six Himself is all wise. We need Him to seek wisdom. Rom 8: 21 the creation looks forward to the day
wings, were full of eyes around and within. And they when it will join Gods children in glorious freedom
do not rest day or night, saying: "Holy, holy, holy, Rom 11:35 "Or who has first given to Him And it from death and decay.
Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to shall be repaid to him?" Rom 8: 22 For we know that all creation has been
come!" EXP: Technically, no one can lend to God that God is groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the
obliged to Him. (Dios, may utangkasa akin) present time. (NLT)
Isa 57:15 For thus says the High and Lofty One
Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell Rom 11:36 For of Him and through Him and to CONC: THE infinity of our God is beyond
in the high and holy place, With him who has a Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen comprehension, and yet what we need for now is to
contrite and humble spirit, To revive the spirit of the Of Him [from Him] = God is the source of get flooded and awestrucked by what He had
humble, And to revive the heart of the contrite ones. EVERYTHING revealed.
Through Him = God is the means of EVERYTHING
Psa102:27 But You are the same, And Your years To Him = God is the goal of EVERYTHING APPLIC:
will have no end.
Q: Can we put our trust on God who is Self-Existing?
CONC: All Things will in the end give God the glory, as
CONC: This God is self existent, never dependent on He had planned long time ago.
anyone or anything outside of Himself.
Q: Should I bring small things to God? Or should I
LAWSON: There is no reality outside of that bring Him large things?
GOD IS LIFE statement. [those who say otherwise will find A: Everything in our life is little.
CONC: God even has ALL LIFE FROM HIMSELF.
themselves in big trouble in the end]
And our lives we derived from Him.
CONC: Therefore we must bring everything to God.
Col 1: 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the We must trust Him and love Him with all our heart,
Joh1:4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of firstborn of all creation.
men. and soul, and mind.
Col 1: 16 For by Him all things were created, both in
CONC: Mans physical life is from God, mans spiritual the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, Pro 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And
life is from God, mans eternal life is from God. whether thrones or dominions or rulers or lean not on your own understanding;
authoritiesall things have been created through Pro 3:6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He
Joh 14:6 = Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, Him and for Him. shall direct your paths.
and the life. No one comes to the Father except Col 1: 17 He is before all things, and in Him all Pro 3:7 Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the
through Me. things hold together. (NASB) LORD and depart from evil.
Pro 3:8 It will be health to your flesh, And strength
Joh5:26 ="For as the Father has life in Himself. CONC: Nothing exists for itself, through itself, and by to your bones.
itself. Pro 3:9 Honor the LORD with your possessions,
Joh11:25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and And with the firstfruits of all your increase;
the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, Q: What is the true cry of every mans heart?
he shall live. A: To know and comprehend the God and His glory.
That is where our heart can find its rest. Not in a love
Act 17:28 "for in Him we live and move and have affair with somebody, not our wives, nor husbands. OBS: There is nothing that we lack that God cannot
our being, as also some of your own poets have said, Our hearts beat towards the glory of God. It is either do. Everything is in Gods dispensation.
'For we are also His offspring.' we are following it or a false reality.
CONC: We have a God who is eternal from time
OBS: God did not create us because He was lonely, or 1Co 8:6 But we know that there is only one God, the before, and time eternal, and outside of time. We
that He had a need that He Himself cannot meet, or Father, who created everything, and we exist for him. have a God who is self sufficient, living and source of
that there is a hole in His heart. He is all sufficient. He And there is only one Lord, Jesus Christ, through life, and He is ready to dispatch all we need as we
is in need of nothing outside of Himself. whom God made everything and through whom we obey and put our faith to His Son Jesus Christ.
have been given life.
ROMANS 11
Heb1:3 The Son reflects God's own glory, and
everything about him represents God exactly. He
sustains the universe by the mighty power of his
command. After he died to cleanse us from the stain
of sin, he sat down in the place of honor at the right