In His love, He longs to give, to share the bounty.
12:9-10 ) He made us empty to be filled with His fullness, thirsty to drink of the water of life, weak to receive His strength, foolish to be instructed and corrected by His wisdom. Rather, particularly in relation to his people, the answer it this: though he doesn’t need us, he loves us, and his purpose in creating and redeeming us is not that we might fill up some lack in Him, but that He might fill us up with Himself. Ps 50 – he’s offended and dishonored to think so. Questions for our study in the self-sufficiency of God Why are we here? What is our purpose? The answer is NOT that God was lonely and needed fellowship. Questions for our study in the self-sufficiency of God Why are we here? What is our purpose? Why does God demand our obedience? Why does God enlist our service? Why does God call us to pray? Why does God require our worship? Scriptural Support for the self-sufficiency of God Psalm 50:7-15 God is judge, prosecuting attorney and witness Isaiah 40:12-17 We are drop in a bucket, speck of dust, nothing, less than nothing Acts 17:24-25 God can’t be served by human hands, as though He needed anything God possesses all His qualities by nature: It is God’s nature to be good, loving, holy, just and glorious God has this attribute intrinsically but we possess our attributes derivatively in that we had to get them from someone else. God needs nothing apart from Himself, for He possesses every quality within Himself. Another way to say it - God has no need for anything outside of who God is, in and of Himself.
The Self sufficiency of God Definition of the sufficiency of God - God possesses within Himself, intrinsically and eternally, every quality in infinite measure. ( Study this first ) - Scripture support Isaiah 6 Immanence means His nearness, kind, caring, protection and being close to us ( Study this second ) - Isaiah 6 Incommunicable means certain attributes of God that are not communicated to us, this does not mean that they are not revealed to us, but rather we do not share in any part of that attribute, this is distinctively divine Communicable attributes are those attributes which He communicates and this means shares in kind with His creatures in part. Transcendence means that God is far 'above' the creation in the sense that He is greater than the creation and is independent of it. Welcome to “Learning and Living the God-centered life” Carmel Baptist Church February 14, 2009