Sermon Tone Analysis

Chapter 11

Israel turns from their rescuer (1-4)

God became their Father

protected them

taught them

fed them

God has done the same for us, yet we turn from him

Israel continues to turn away from God (5-7)

God allowed Israel the freedom to be obedient

God distinguishes himself (8-9)

Can we know God?

THERE is but one only living and true God,b who is infinite in being and perfection, a most pure spirit,d invisible, without body, parts,f or passions, immutable,h immense, eternal,k incomprehensible, almighty,m most wise, most holy,o most free, most absolute,q working all things according to the counsel of his own immutable and most righteous will, for his own glory:s most loving, gracious, merciful, long-suffering, abundant in goodness and truth, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin;u the rewarder of them that diligently seek him; and withal most just and terrible in his judgments;x hating all sin, and who will by no means clear the guilty.z

THERE is but one only living and true God,b who is infinite in being and perfection, a most pure spirit,d invisible, without body, parts,f or passions, immutable,h immense, eternal,k incomprehensible, almighty,m most wise, most holy,o most free, most absolute,q working all things according to the counsel of his own immutable and most righteous will, for his own glory:s most loving, gracious, merciful, long-suffering, abundant in goodness and truth, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin;u the rewarder of them that diligently seek him; and withal most just and terrible in his judgments;x hating all sin, and who will by no means clear the guilty.z

From the simplicity of God it follows that God and His attributes are one.

The attributes cannot be considered as so many parts that enter into the composition of God, for God is not, like men, composed of different parts.

Neither can they be regarded as something added to the Being of God, though the name, derived from ad and tribuere, might seem to point in that direction, for no addition was ever made to the Being of God, who is eternally perfect.

The Bible never operates with an abstract concept of God, but always describes Him as the Living God, who enters into various relations with His creatures, relations which are indicative of several different attributes.

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The imagery is of a Father and a Son.

We can comprehend God, yet not apprehend God

We cannot exhaustively know God

The Bible never operates with an abstract concept of God, but always describes Him as the Living God, who enters into various relations with His creatures, relations which are indicative of several different attributes.

What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it - the fact that he knows me.

- Packer, knowing God, 41.

From the simplicity of God it follows that God and His attributes are one.

The attributes cannot be considered as so many parts that enter into the composition of God, for God is not, like men, composed of different parts.

Neither can they be regarded as something added to the Being of God, though the name, derived from ad and tribuere, might seem to point in that direction, for no addition was ever made to the Being of God, who is eternally perfect.

THERE is but one only living and true God,b who is infinite in being and perfection, a most pure spirit,d invisible, without body, parts,f or passions, immutable,h immense, eternal,k incomprehensible, almighty,m most wise, most holy,o most free, most absolute,q working all things according to the counsel of his own immutable and most righteous will, for his own glory:s most loving, gracious, merciful, long-suffering, abundant in goodness and truth, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin;u the rewarder of them that diligently seek him; and withal most just and terrible in his judgments;x hating all sin, and who will by no means clear the guilty.z