Adult Sunday School: Our Great God · Pastor Adam Wood · November 16, 2025

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What I'd like to do this morning is I've been thinking and praying about the next step as we finished up our study of our church, the study when we went through various aspects of our church last week. And so I've been thinking about what direction we might go this week. To be honest with you, the lesson I have for today is kind of a skeleton lesson. It's not fully developed because I want to use it as an introduction to our next study. So what I'd like to cover for the next however long it takes is what I'm calling our great God. That's what I want to call it. And it's based out of Psalm 95. If you would look at Psalm 95, it's actually in the bulletin too if you happen to pick up a bulletin today. Psalm 95, Psalm 95 and verse number 3, Psalm 95 and verse number 3 says this, says this, And so the study we want to begin today is a study called our great God. And what it is, is a study of theology. Theology. And by theology I don't mean it in the broad sense where we study spiritual matters, but the doctrine of God. And if we look at the different subjects, scriptural subjects that we can study in the Bible. We can study prophecy, we can study history in scripture, we can study, of course we can study the cross, the gospel, and those kinds of things. And those are all good things and we've studied them all. We even have studied practical matters as well. But the one subject that in my view is the most enjoyable thing to study is the subject of God himself. And that's what I want to focus in on for the next little bit in our Sunday School class. Is I want us to take some time to just look at who God is and how God is and his various attributes. And I of course don't want to do it in a way that's dry because if there is, when I was praying about this, I was talking to the Lord about how you study these different attributes of God and make them so that they're not dry. If we study the doctrine of God, if we studied who God is and how God is and his various characteristics, and we came out of it with a dry study, we have done something wrong. We have done something wrong. In fact, when you consider heaven, a lot of our songs talk about heaven and what heaven is and what we're going to do in heaven and all these things. But really, heaven, as we'll see in just a minute, the thing that will make heaven so it never gets boring is God. Right? The only thing that matters about heaven is God. Right? The thing that makes heaven worth being there is the fact that God is there. And that because of these various attributes of God, it is utterly, even in a glorified state, even after we've met the Lord, we've been resurrected in a glorified body, no more sin, no more limitations as far as human limitations down here go. Yet, being in the presence of God and every moment discovering new things about our God who is himself inexhaustible, that is what makes heaven heaven. Right? That is what makes heaven the blissful place that it is. So it's not about streets of gold and it's not about gates of pearl and walls of jasper and all of that, those kinds of things, although we know those things are all true, it's about the God who is there. And we should all stand in awe of God. And to do that, we have to understand him. We have to know him. Now, pretty much everybody in the world has a concept of God, but most people in the world view God basically, you could fit him inside of one of these cups right here. Right here. Basically, God could fit inside this little cup in most people's mind. And that's the extent of his character. In other words, they can just rattle off maybe a few things about God and he fits inside the cup. But the truth is that we can spend all of our time on this one subject and never exhaust it. But more importantly than that is just the reality that when we study this particular subject of God in the Bible, we study who God is. It is the most rewarding subject that you can study in the Bible. It really is. This is what it's all about. And what I want to do for the introduction today is I want to go through the scripture and I want to show you what the Bible is all about on this topic. And just kind of do a very brief overview of it. Because we have to have the right focus and the right understanding of the text of scripture if we're going to be able to understand and see God in the text of scripture. Because the Bible is all about the Lord. It's all about God. But before we do that, first of all, let's pray. And then I want to give you a challenge. I want to give you a challenge to open up our study here. Let's pray together. Thank you, Lord, that you are a great God and a great King above all gods. And there is none like you. There is none similar. You stand alone. And Lord, we use human language to try and describe you according to your revelation in scripture. We do a poor job. We acknowledge that. We admit that. But Lord, you have put in our hearts at least some measure of a capacity to know you and to understand you and to stand in awe of you and all of your attributes, Lord. We look to you as the greatest thing that could ever be. There's nothing greater that could be on our lips than the truth of who you are. And we say those things and sometimes we say those things and we don't necessarily feel them as we should. But Lord, it is still true. There is no greater subject that could be on our lips than our great God. Lord, through our study this in our Sunday school class, I pray that in each and every person here and myself included, that you through your word and your revelation of who you are, that you would cause each one of us to truly stand in awe of your greatness. That we would not just listen and receive information, but we would be awestruck. That we would be stupefied. That we would truly have a glimpse of your glory through our study here. Lord, open up, we pray, your word to us as we examine it over the various weeks and look at the various characteristics. Make your word come alive to us that we can truly know you better. And Lord, also please help us to know how to apply these truths. These things would not just be information or points on a doctrinal statement, but these truths would affect us in our personal lives and our walks in our daily life. So Lord, help us. We just look to you. Bless our study. Reveal yourself to us in a plain way, we ask in Jesus' name. Amen. All right, so for our exercise to begin, I want to give you an opportunity to, as a group, to list every attribute or characteristic of God that you can think of. Every attribute or characteristic of God that you can think of. So who's going to be bold enough to start us out? Joseph. Immutability. Immutability. What does that mean? Right. All right. Yes, sir. God is just. Holy. All right. What's that? Creator. He's the creator. He's creative. All right. Yes, ma'am. Loving. Omnipotent. What does that mean? All powerful. Yes, sir. Longsuffering. God is longsuffering. Anybody else? That's it. Yes, ma'am. Forgiving. God cannot lie. I don't know the word for that. True, maybe. Maybe. Truthful. All right. Yes, ma'am. Merciful. You stole it right out of his pocket. All right. Powerful. Right. That's like omnipotent. Did you say omnipotent? All right. That's right. Omniscient. What does that mean? He knows everything. So you're telling me he knows things that haven't happened yet. All right. We're going to get into that later. Yes, sir. What? Faithful. All right. Okay. He's a friend. How would you? That's sort of like faithful. It's sort of like loyal. Kind of like loyalty. Yes, sir. Triune. What does that Tencent word mean? All right. Very good. Our father. So he's a father. His fatherhood, you could say. Anybody else? Gracious. It's one we haven't covered. All right. Anybody else? All-knowing. That's omniscient. Yep. That's all together. Yep. Our refuge. All right. The onl...