and i'm here to tell you this evening with the open bible that god is a spirit you haven't seen god and nobody's ever seen god now it's true of course that the bible speaks about his hands but that's just a way of getting it over to our poor minds that god is very powerful it's true that the bible sometimes speaks about his eyes but that's just a way of getting it over to our poor minds that he sees everything it's true that the bible speaks about his mouth but that's just a way of getting it
over to our poor minds that god speaks and reveals himself [Music] god is a spirit he has no body he can't be weighed he can't be measured he can't be touched he can't be felt he is a spirit and god is a personal spirit [Music] because he's not a something he's a someone that's why god has names and god's most best known name is of course jehovah yahweh which is just the english way of writing the name which he revealed himself when he spoke to moses at the bush i am that i am god is
a someone that's why several times in the bible we read that people became his friends and that he becomes theirs and that's why from the beginning of the bible to the end we read that god can be known this is the great god that we find in the scripture but what is he like in himself as far as space is concerned god is everywhere do not i fill heaven and earth says the lord jeremiah 23 24 and what that means of course is that god is not absent anywhere and that means that god in all
his glory all his being all his majesty all his purity all his power all that god is is in any place at any time and in every place at every time as far as space is concerned he's everywhere now our mortal minds can't take that in how can it be that the whole of god is here and yet the whole of god is there how can it be that god in all his fullness is here yet if we went to the furthest and farthest flung galaxy the whole of god is there that completely baffles us
and blows our human mind but that's what the scripture declares and all we can do is bow down in adoring wonder and worship god so far as time is concerned he is eternal from everlasting to everlasting you are god [Music] when abraham prayed to him or when david prayed to him or when we prayed to him just now he was exactly the same he's completely unchanged he had no beginning he has no end he has no age he is infinite there is no sort of limit for god as far as knowledge is concerned god knows
everything our knowledge is very small and if we put together all that the human race knows it's very very small it's only a part of the whole [Music] when we come into the world we have very little knowledge and we have to learn things one at a time and then quite often we forget them just as quickly god never learned anything ever and there's nothing that he doesn't know anywhere and he sees all things as they really are and he sees all things as they really are all the time and we read in the scriptures
in psalm 147 his understanding is infinite and that means of course if you're unconverted that it's impossible to deceive god you can't pull the wool over his eyes you can't make things out to be different from the way they really are as far as power is concerned he does whatever he chooses psalm 115 verse 3 says he has done whatever he please pleases and we read in the book of daniel he does according to his will in the armies of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth no one can restrain his hand or say
to him what have you done we read in the book of ephesians he works all things after the council of his own will [Music] but the very movement of an insect the very blowing of the wind and listen even what wicked men do [Music] every detail brings to pass exactly what god planned without him being wicked in any way what is this god like this everlasting god what sort of god is he this god who is a spirit what is he like and the bible tells us he is holy we read just now god is
light and in him is no darkness at all now in god's presence our wonderful creatures have never sinned and yet there's something different about god which is so splendid that these creatures which have never sinned they can't even look on god because he's holy the word holy means to be cut off and god is cut off from all his creatures he's completely different and separate from all his creatures because he is entirely [Music] pure and yet we can never really understand what that means [Music] we just have to accept what scripture says and say with
the psalmist and with moses that he's glorious in holiness these are fewer eyes than to even look upon sin isn't that a wonderful truth can you imagine what it would be like if the god who exists from eternity to eternity who is in all places at all times who knows all things and can do whatever he likes wouldn't it be a terrible message that i had to preach if i had to tell you that that god is wicked or tyrannical or selfish but thank god i don't have to tell you that he's holy everything about
him is pure and right which is the next word he is righteous we read this evening in psalm 145 the lord is righteous in all his ways god can't do anything wrong he can't think a wrong thought he can't speak a wrong word he can't do a wrong act absolutely everything that god does is right and when i read the bible i breathe a great sigh of relief wouldn't it be a terrible thing if this great infinite eternal god did even one thing wrong that's a fear that i never have to nurse he's righteous in
all his ways he can never be blamed for anything [Music] and he's loving everybody knows that the bible says god is love the bible doesn't say by the way that love is god [Music] if you don't know god you don't know what love is god is love we read in exodus the lord the lord god merciful and gracious long-suffering and abounding in goodness and truth slow to anger we read in micah and joel and of great kindness god is love why do some of you stay away from him [Music] and god is good the lord
is good to all the lord is good to all isn't that marvelous thou art good and do us good said david in his psalms now ordinary men and women consider god to be their enemy they would rather have got out of their life yet their hearts still beat their lungs still breathe their minds still think he gives them rain and sunshine and fruitful seasons to enjoy and sometimes even gladness of heart it sends into their world laughter and joy and love and children and he's actively good to them [Music] and the harvest still ripens for
them and the bread is still made and they still eat it but the greatest proof of the goodness of god is that he loves to forgive his enemies and does so when they come asking him for mercy the bible says you lord are good and ready to forgive abounding in mercy to all those who call upon you and the last word in that particular list is the word wise blessed be the name of god forever and ever said daniel for wisdom and might are his look at the intricacy of the creation the fine balance the
tiniest creature the smallest molecule the atom itself dna it's all the handiwork of god how wise he is to have created it and the very existence of knowledge the very fact that there's such a thing as understanding is god's invention then when we think of how he planned a way to save rebels and sinners and ungrateful spiteful people and he did it through the blood of a cross [Music] oh we admire the wisdom of god and we say with the apostle paul oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of god
how unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out who has known the mind of the lord who has been his counselor who is first given to him and it should not be given to him again for of him and through him and to him are all things to whom be glory forever he is incomprehensible you see as we read the bible what the bible says is clear enough i can tell you and you can find out for yourself what the bible says questions which begin what we can answer what is god like what
sort of god is he what is he in himself those sort of questions we can answer because god has given the answers questions which begin how none of us can answer how is it that god can be in all places at all times in the wholeness of his being we can't answer that how is it that god can know all things as they really are all the time without learning them how is it that he can be just and love righteous and good how how how how is it that he can be three and yet
one we can't answer any of those questions because we're just ordinary creatures our minds are very limited and we're sinful creatures and our minds are very darkened there is no question beginning with how that we can answer because we are not god and all we can do there is bow the knee before god acknowledge the mystery and admit that he is god and we are his creatures
