ATTRIBUTES OF GOD

Attributes of God

I am not going to talk about all of them I just want to hit on a few of them.

Omniscient – knows everything 

<To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.> O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it. Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? (Psa 139:1-7)

Omnipotent – Has all power

Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee: 

(Jer 32:17)

Omnipresent – present everywhere all the time

The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. 

(Pro 15:3)

Immutable – God never changes

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. 

(Heb 13:8)

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. 

(Jas 1:17)

Just – fair in all his actions

The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation. 

(Num 14:18)

Full of Grace – Favor, goodwill, and kindness

Grace is receiving those things we don’t deserve, like forgiveness of sins, salvation 

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. 

(Eph 2:8-9)

Merciful – exhibits compassion against those who offend him

Mercy is not receiving those things we deserve, like the punishment for our sins. 

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. 

(Rom 9:14-16)

Loving – exhibits a love not based on worth or merit of object of his love.

Love is the sacrificial giving of oneself for the benefit of others without thought of return.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 

(1Jn 4:7-8)

The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. 

(Jer 31:3)

I would like to tie these last three together in what I call the greatest gift we could ever receive; God’s mercy, grace, and love. 

John 3:16 says “for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believed in Him should not perish but have everlasting love.” When we look in this verse we see all three attributes. 

We see God’s love 

We see his grace in that he gave his son

We see his mercy in that we receive eternal life

Again in Romans 5:8 we can see all three, “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” 

The bible clearly states in Romans 3:23 that we are all sinners. “for all have sinned and fell short of the glory of God.

In Romans 6:23 it say that the wages (payment) for sin is death. It also says that the gift (something gave in love) of God is eternal life through Jesus.

Now the bible says that this gift of God is through Jesus Christ. So you may be asking how you receive it then. The answer is found in Romans 10:9, 10 “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 

(Rom 10:9-10)

Romans 10:13 says “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

Now I ask you tonight are you willing to except this gift?