Illustration – a person I know went on a missions trip to Madagascar and discovered that those there are big on ancestor worship.
This is probably the religion that occupies almost 2/3s of our current world.
#SHAREFUL DEFINITION FULL#
When the tummy of this god was full then he would bless those who fed him. They thought that the gods got hungry literally and therefore they would bring a sacrifice to their particular god to eat and then be satisfied. The pagan nations around Israel believed that their gods were needy. However, Israel is evidently doing this with the same mindset toward sacrificing that we common to those pagan nations that were surrounding them. God says – you are bringing your bulls and male goats from your field So Israel might ask – “So what are we doing wrong?” You told us to bring sacrifices and that is exactly what we are doing, we are bringing our sacrifices. They are not guilty of failing to bring sacrifices before Him because He says that they are doing that. Read Psalm 50:7-12 Ask the question – “What in the world is going on here?” God first tells the people of what they are NOT guilty of.
#SHAREFUL DEFINITION TRIAL#
These are what I am calling the set up verses: God is calling heaven and earth to bear witness His people are on trial and God is judging them So we need to know – “What is the charge that God is bringing against His people?” READ Psalm 50:4-6 God is talking about the people of Israel and those who have practiced the sacrificial system that God has put in place. God is holding Israel accountable before His bar of justice. Turn to Psalm 50 Background – Israel is on trial and God is acting in the role of both judge and prosecuting attorney who is charging them. Example: Breathing air Well, is this in fact what the Scriptures teach us about God? Something extrinsic to you but you take it inside of you because you need it. Because it is possible to possess something intrinsic within that is not intrinsic to you. Is it redundant for us to ask the question about God possessing these qualities intrinsically? The answer is that it is NOT redundant and here is why. God possesses these qualities in infinite measure which means there are no limits or restrictions to His love, wisdom and justice. God possesses these qualities eternally – there was never a time in the past and never a time in the future when He won’t have these qualities. God possesses all His qualities by nature: It is God’s nature to be good, loving, holy, just and beautiful 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. Self sufficiency of God Definition of the sufficiency of God - God possesses within himself, intrinsically and eternally, every quality in infinite measure. Remember from last week that our course is titled The Sovereignty of God and…the incommunicable attributes of God The definition for incommunicable attribute means an attribute that is privileged to God alone So tonight we are going to study the attribute of God known as self-sufficiency And in doing so we will attempt to answer the following questions
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