Adult Sunday School: Our Great God · Pastor Adam Wood · November 30, 2025

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Alright, well we are going to try and conclude this morning our study on the aseity of God, which is? What's that? No beginning or end? Self-existent, they're actually related, exactly. The idea of aseity is something that exists independently of any other cause. It's a word that we can use to describe God. We say, to put it easily, it's God's self-existent. So this is a series we're doing in our Sunday school called Our Great God when we're looking at the attributes of God. And again, I want to reiterate to you that my desire and my goal and hope as we go through the attributes is not to just give you theological terms or even theological truths, although we want to cover those. But to also look at it, look at these truths from a practical perspective as they relate to us in our lives practically, as they relate to the Lord Jesus Christ and as they relate to the gospel. And that's what we're going to do today. So let's pray and then we are going, we'll do a brief review and then we are going to get into the section about the practical aspect of God's self-existence. So let's pray together. Father, we thank you that you are a God whose attributes exceed our understanding. Lord, you're not a God that we can put our brains all the way around. You're not a God who is comprehensible to us. Lord, we know some things according to the ability that you've given to us when you created us. But Lord, there are many things that exceed our understanding and we are so glad for that. Lord, help us to truly stand in awe each one of all of your attributes and of this attribute in particular. And Lord, help us to to really give you praise and live like you are the God you describe yourself to be. And so Lord, we look to you now as we look in your word in Jesus name. Amen. All right. So what we saw last time is in God's self-existence, the primary kind of go-to verse for this is Exodus 3 14 in which God speaks to Moses. He says when Moses asks what God's name is so that he can tell the children of Israel, the Bible says and God said to Moses, I am that I am. Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I am, hath sent me unto you. And I am as we saw is just the be verb, which is the statement of God's existence. So no matter what point in what we would call history, whether it's past, present or future, God can always say I am at that moment because he exists. That's that's what that describes. Then we looked at Isaiah several verses in Isaiah. We looked at Revelation chapter one. I am Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end. And then the two things in particular that we we kind of derived from this truth is that God has no original cause. The fact of God's existence means that that God pre-exists everything and nothing brought God into existence. He is his own cause. And in fact, he has no cause. And that he is the original cause of all things. And so whatever came into existence came into existence dependent upon God. All things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made. And then this quote from from Tozer, which we're going to look at this book, several quotes from this book today. Just some good things. Tozer has a way of putting things in a very concise and powerful way, unlike many other authors. And so I just want to share some of those quotes with you today. But this is one quote of his. He says, God has no origin said innovation and it is precisely this concept of no origin which distinguishes that which is God from whatever is not God. The second thing we looked at also was because God is self-existent and does not had no original cause. So before anything was God already was therefore God is not dependent upon any thing. I'll read these verses again just as review. Job 22 verse 2 and 3. Can a man be profitable unto God as he that is wise may be profitable unto his self unto himself? Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that thou art righteous or is it is it gained to him that thou makest thy ways perfect? Psalm 16 verse 2. Oh my soul thou hast said unto the Lord thou art my Lord my goodness extendeth not to thee. Act 17 five. Neither is God worshiped with men's hands as though he needed anything seeing he giveth to all life and breath and all things. So one of the primary identifying characteristics of the true God if he is laid beside everything in this world that is called God is God is self-existent. He depends upon and needs nothing whatsoever. I want to be honest with you and we'll see it in just a minute. That fact bothers some professing Christians. That fact bothers some professing Christians. The reason it does is because some people have been taught to think God needs them. But that's not the God of the Bible. You know what? The Lord's not concerned to be honest with you. I don't think he's concerned one wit that his attribute bothers us. I don't think that worries him at all. It doesn't. So it is upon us to look at the scripture and to read how God has described himself. He says this is the way I am. This is who I am. This is how I am. And if we have a right view of God himself then that sets everything else in the right view as well. So we have three things. Remember every one of these attributes what I want to do is go through each one. I want to go through the theological part which is what we did last week. I want to look at the practical part. I want to look at, so relate, I called it in my notes for those of you that take notes, Ms. Brenna. Relation to practice, relation to Jesus Christ, and relation to the gospel. That's kind of the three ways I'm looking at it. So how does this attribute of God, God's aseity or self existence, relate to our practical life? Our practical life. As I said, this attribute bothers not only Christian, professing Christian people, but this attribute is directly contradictory. It is one of the primary attributes that contradicts some claims of so-called science. Now, you might think that the primary attribute of God that contradicts what might be called science is the fact of God's being a creator. God is creative. That might be one, but actually kind of at a lower level, this attribute really is diametrically opposed to the God of science. Now, I love science. I'm a science person. I like, read the encyclopedia for fun. So I like science. But the Bible says that there is no wisdom or counsel or knowledge against the Lord. And so science, the word science means knowledge. That's what the word means. And yet the worldview that has at its top, at the very peak, that has science as God is going to be in conflict with the God of the Bible. There can only be one. And science is not it. Now, why do I say that science has, that mankind, secularists, if you will, atheistic types, agnostic types, have science as their God? Because they would not say that. If you say, oh, you believe in science, so science is your God. They'll, I don't believe in God. Science is not God. Science is just facts. But here's the thing. You know, remember, in Acts 17, we saw that Paul used the aseity or self-existence of God to identify him among the other gods. Remember? Did you remember seeing that in Acts 17? So if we label something as self-existent, we are giving that thing or person, as the case may be, an attribute of God that identifies him as deity. And that is exactly what science has done with itself. Okay? So if you ask someone who has science as their God, or maybe a person who has science as his or her God, asks us, okay, you believe in God, then where did God come from? And we say nowhere. Right? We say nowhere. He is self-existent. He is, there's never been a time that he has not existed. He is Alpha and Omega. He is I Am. Right? To the materialist who worships that, and that's the term, that's the Ten-cent term. For someone who believes only in the material universe and does not believe in anyt...