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The Attributes of God Part 3

Bible Text: Isaiah 55:9

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are my ways higher than your ways, And my thoughts than your thoughts.”

Introduction:

We have been talking about the Attributes of God.

How that God does not simply possess His attributes, but that He is His attributes.

And God is not one part of this attribute and another part another attribute.

He is not one part omniscient and another part Holy, But He is the sum of all His attributes altogether, all the time.

His omniscience is an all-holy, all-loving- all-powerful omniscience.

His Holiness is an omniscient, all-loving, all-powerful, holiness.

They can not be separated like so many times we try to do.

Many times to talk about God’s justice or His wrath, someone might say, “Well, my God is a God of love.”

As somehow that God’s love supersedes all His other attributes.

God’s love will never be anything less than an all-holy, just, righteous, and merciful, gracious love.

Just because God is wrathful to those that have rejected His Son and because He gives them perfect justice instead of mercy, in no way makes Him less than an all-loving merciful God.

In a real sense, His mercy and grace do extend to even the evil, in His common mercy and in His common grace in that He many times withholds His judgments from the evil for a time and in that He makes it to rain on the just and the unjust, He blesses with many things even to those that are not His.

Even to the point that would make those that are His cry out to Him, like Jeremiah.

Jeremiah 12:1 “Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper?

wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?”

God, where is thy justice?

Where is thy wrath, Upon these wicked, wicked men?

We many times forgetting that apart from the righteousness of Christ which is gifted upon us, we are that evil man.

God could say, well if you want justice, should I have started with you?

Before My mercy and grace saved you.

Should I have rained down My great wrath upon you?

See the real question isn’t why God shall allow so many to end up in a devil’s hell.

The real question is why aren’t you going to be there?

Why aren’t I going to be there?

That would be just!

That would be right!

But God, willing to display all of His attributes, made way for His mercy and for His grace.

Exodus 33:19 “… (I) will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.”

And I will not stand up here and argue with you over a Calvinist viewpoint versus an Arminian viewpoint, the Bible says what it says and means what it says.

I get so tired of the arguments pitting the one against the other.

Either the Bible is the truth or it is a lie.

When Jesus says, You can not come to Me except the Father that sent Me draw you.

Well, that is exactly what He means.

And when the Bible says, Whosoever will, let him come and take of the water of live freely.

What part of that don’t you get?

Just because the two don’t line up perfectly in your eyes, does that limit God to your understanding?

God forbid!

God will never fit in the little neat boxes we try to put Him in.

His ways are so much higher than our ways and His thoughts than our thoughts.

But these things line up perfectly in eternity.

But, let’s get back on track, we are on number 7 of His attributes.

We have already looked at:

I.

The Aseity of God

II.

The Self-Sufficiency of God

III.

God is Immutable

IV.

God is Omnipresent

V. God is Omniscient

VI.

God is Omnipotent

VII.

God is Wise - He Is Full of Perfect, Unchanging Wisdom

Proverbs 3:19 “The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth; By understanding hath he established the heavens.”

Wisdom is more than just head knowledge and intelligence.

Wisdom is someone that sees and understands all the facts about a situation, the ins, the outs, the would be’s, the could be’s, the has been’s, the will be’s, and then makes the best decisions based on all that knowledge.

But even that definition fails to communicate the wisdom of God because His wisdom is infinite.

It is perfect all the time.

There is no guesswork in it.

He sees the end from the beginning and He brings about His will in perfect knowledge and at the perfect time.

The coming of Christ in the flesh, do you believe there could have been a better time for Him to come?

No, but He came, rather was sent at the exact perfect time in history to accomplish God’s will.

Galatians 4:4-5 “But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.”

But when the fulness of the time… That word fullness means that the conditions were complete.

God’s creation, the fall of man, the wickedness of man, God’s judgment on the earth, God’s creating a nation for Himself, God’s law, the prophets, their going into captivity, God bringing them back into their own land, and that’s just a blip in history of all that transpired, all these things transpired to bring about the perfect timing for God’s plan of salvation to be revealed to the world.

For the One that was talked about in Genesis 3 to come, to fulfill His sovereign plan.

Friend, I can not emphasize enough, how great His wisdom is.

Romans 11:33 “O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!”

Though we can’t understand it.

We can’t comprehend it, it gives us great comfort to know that God is infinitely wise, that He could never be any less wise or any more wise.

That He brought you about in this life at the exact perfect time for His plan.

There could not have been a better time for you to be born than when you were born or you would have not had been born when you were.

Do you get that?

You were fashioned in the womb, made in the image of God, brought to this earth in this exact timing, just as Mordecai had told Esther, in the providence that befell her, for such a time as this.

God doesn’t make mistakes.

Job 12:13 “With him is wisdom and strength, He hath counsel and understanding.”

Psalm 147:5 “Great is our Lord, and of great power: His understanding is infinite.”

Isaiah 40:28 “Hast thou not known?

hast thou not heard, That the everlasting God, the Lord, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Fainteth not, neither is weary?

There is no searching of his understanding.”

Turn to Job 28:12

Job 28:12-24.

A little long but makes the point.

12 But where shall wisdom be found?

And where is the place of understanding?

13 Man knoweth not the price thereof;

Neither is it found in the land of the living.

14 The depth saith, It is not in me:

And the sea saith, It is not with me.

15 It cannot be gotten for gold,

Neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.

16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir,

With the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: