3 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 1 - Part 3 - Book 1 - Attributes of God

http://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com You know so many people have all kinds of ideas about God. Well listen, this is bringing God down so far beneath what He really is. We’re going to look at the attributes of God, and consequently what I want to wind up this program on is, since He’s that kind of a God, we can be perfectly comfortable in placing all of our faith in what He has said. People can’t seem to get the idea that what God has said, we can believe it. When the Apostle John wrote the Book of Revelation, it was all by Holy Spirit inspiration. Every Word of this Book from cover to cover is the Word of God and we can believe it, because IT’S proven itself over and over. Well the first thing that I like to point out in this lesson is, that God has these certain attributes. I think it behooves us to just constantly remind ourselves of these from time to time that God is Sovereign. Secondly, we can say that God is immutable, and the best verse that most of us know concerning that is in the Book of Hebrews where it says, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever!" God hasn’t changed His attitude toward sin simply because it’s a later time in human history. God is always the same! Well they’ve had a change their attitudes and they are not immutable, but God is.God never changes! God is Omniscience. So God is all knowledge, He Omniscience! There is nothing that God doesn’t know, and He doesn’t have to go looking anything up in a text book. God doesn’t have to go to His library, because God is Omniscience! God knows the end from the beginning! The billions in China? God in His Omniscience, and Sovereignty has put together every sperm and every egg that has ever been fertilized. Do you think God has lost sight of anyone of them? In other words you cannot go anywhere without God being there. David, in the Psalms, even puts it in a place that’s really hard to swallow, when he said, "Lo I go to the deepest Hell, God is there, and though I go to the highest Heavens, God is there. I’ve also read that astronomers feel that our universe is always expanding outwards, but does it ever go beyond God? Never. So that brings up the next attribute of God. You cannot comprehend a place that is beyond the God of this Book, He is Imminent. Now for another attribute of God. God has never treated anyone or anything unfairly. Now a lot of times terrible things happen, even to believers, and I know as humans we are often tempted to question, "Well is God fair? I told Isis, "Isn’t it amazing, it just seems the dearest and sweetest people on earth are the ones that get stricken the most often", and we do say, "Well God why?" God is Righteous, He’s Just. Well you know when you talk to a highly educated man, I’m more apt to think that he’s right and I’m wrong, but I feel that the Grace of God is an attribute. Remember very few people, even believers, understand the Grace of God. Why? I’ve had many people, after they’ve heard me teach, that had never really had a grasp of Grace, until they heard me teach it. I showed the book to Andre, and he said "How could anyone write a book that think on just six verses?" Grace is not license, but rather Grace is that attribute of God that He is capable of absolutely forgiving and cleansing and calling Righteous the most vile sinner that will believe Paul’s Gospel for salvation. God looks at that murderer as a man that is still capable of His Grace. Now I know that’s beyond us, because it’s an attribute of God. Another one of God’s attributes, which is next door to Grace, is His love. What an attribute that God can love beyond lovely. We can’t always comprehend it, but God loves them, and He has already purchased their salvation, if they’ll just cash in on it. Hebrews 11:6a "But without faith it is impossible to please him: (God, up in verse 5) for he that cometh to God must (repent? Hebrews 11:6a "But without faith it is impossible to please him (God) for he that cometh to God must believe…" When you trust the Word of God, you’re believing it, and when you believe the Word of God, you’re exercising faith, and when you exercise faith, you’re trusting and believing. Hebrews 11:6b Never! It’s the very same application, that when God has said something, we can believe it, and when we believe it, God is going to reward us with the greatest experience in all of human history, and what’s that? SALVATION! "Because the BOOK says so, that’s what God’s Word says." "And when you take God at His Word, what is that?" "FAITH!" Because it’s God that said it. When you go back to Genesis 1:1 where we’ve been studying, and it says, "In the beginning, God created (call out of nothing) the heaven and earth." God is! II Peter 3:10 Well listen, if God has already fulfilled the first half of the prophetic proclamation, then why in the world can’t people believe that He will fulfill the last part. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible