Wayne Eppehimer
June 9, 2020Who Is God? (#3 in series)God - Everywhere All the Time"It is impossible for us to understand God exhaustively, but it is possible to understand Him meaningfully." Ravi Zacharias Omnipresence - last of the "Big 3" attributes. #1 Omnipotence, #2 Omniscience and #3 Omnipresence.Omnipresence - being present in all places at the same timePantheism - omnipresence is not pantheism. Both proclaim that God is everywhere, BUT pantheism proclaims God is diffused everywhere. In other words, there is a little bit of God here and there is a little bit there, and a little bit more of God over here and so on. Omnipresence means that ALL of God is everywhere ALL of the time. Hard to comprehend, but true. Psalm 139:6 says, "Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain."The true omnipresence of God. Jeremiah 23:23-24 23 "Am I only a God nearby," declares the LORD, "and not a God far away? 24 Can anyone hide in secret places so that I cannot see him?" declares the LORD. "Do not I fill heaven and earth?" declares the LORD. Jeremiah seems to be saying that heaven and earth contains God. "Do I not fill heaven and earth?" In a sense this is true, the following illustration demonstrates the reality:God fills heaven and earth just like the ocean fills a bucket which has been submerged a mile deep. The bucket is filled with the ocean, but at the same time the ocean surrounds the bucket.Heaven and earth are filled with God, and they are submerged in God. 2 Chronicles 2:5-6 NIV and Jeremiah 22:23-24 in the NLT.God is everywhere we go. Psalm 139:7-10Responding to the omnipresence of GodFear - if we sin and refuse to deal with it, we cannot hide from God because he is everywhere. Confidence - The prefix "omni" means universal or everywhere. The word "present" means here, close to, next to, near. In reality, God is very near. He is here. Next to you. He is present with us.Hebrews 13:5
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