Repeatedly through the scriptures, God is defined as the One who made the heavens and the earth. He is unconfined by His creation; our ability to relate to Him must begin with an acknowledgment of the distinction between the Creator and His creatures.
Observations: w/ implications
- God is self-existent: a se
A. Divine Necessity
B. Divine Eternality - You are contingent; becoming
A. Dependency
B. Change - Jesus is self-existent: a se
A. The Son exists before His incarnation
B. Eternally begotten NOT made
Conclusions:
- God don’t need you
- God has ordered our lives for our need not His
- You need Jesus for your becoming
Application: The Doctrine of Aseity should lead us to…
- Repent of idolatrous versions of God
- Approach God through the person of Jesus Christ
- Worship in humble discovery
Psalm 90:1-2
“Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations. Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.”
Exodus 3:14
“God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’”
Psalm 121:1-2
“I lift up my eyes to the mountains— where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.”
John 1:1-2
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.”
1 Corinthians 8:5-6
“For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”), yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.”
John 8:57-58
“You are not yet fifty years old,” they said to him, “and you have seen Abraham!” “Very truly I tell you,” Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born, I Am!” At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds.”
John 1:1-4
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.”
Ephesians 2:4-5
“But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.”
Ephesians 2:18
“For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.”
Ephesians 3:12
“In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence.”
1 John 2:23
“No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.”