Big Idea: God is beyond measure!
God the Father
3-1 There is but one living and true God, immanent, transcendent, infinite in being and perfection…
Our God is ________________________. (beyond measure)
Psalm 145:title–3 (ESV) — A Song of Praise. Of David. 1 I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your name forever and ever. 2 Every day I will bless you and praise your name forever and ever. 3 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.
As created beings there always exists a boundary that we reach when extoling our favorite food, or place, or activity, or person, etc. But this is not the case with God. There is no end to the praise that we will offer to God because God has no end.
Rev. 4:1-11 (pg. 967)
Psalm 145:3 (NET) — 3 The Lord is great and certainly worthy of praise! No one can fathom his greatness!
Psalm 145:3 (NIV) — 3 Great is the Lord and most worthy of praise; his greatness no one can fathom.
Job 38:1–11 (ESV) — 1 Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said: 2 “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? 3 Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me. 4 “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. 5 Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? 6 On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone, 7 when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy? 8 “Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb, 9 when I made clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band, 10 and prescribed limits for it and set bars and doors, 11 and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stayed’?
When we say that God is infinite, we are saying that God is __________ ___________.
1 Kings 8:12–13 (ESV) — 12 Then Solomon said, “The Lord has said that he would dwell in thick darkness. 13 I have indeed built you an exalted house, a place for you to dwell in forever.”
1 Kings 8:27 (ESV) — 27 “But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
Our God is infinite in ________________________. (self-existent)
Exodus 3:13–14 (ESV) — 13 Then Moses said to God, “If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?” 14 God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘I am has sent me to you.’ ”
God therefore told him His name, or, to speak more correctly, He explained the name יהוה, by which He had made Himself known to Abraham at the making of the covenant (Gen. 15:7), in this way, אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה, “I am that I am,” and designated Himself by this name as the absolute God of the fathers, acting with unfettered liberty and self-dependence (cf. pp. 46–47).
There is nothing outside of God that compels Him to be anything other than what He already is.
The Divine Infinity is the, “…bottomless profundity of essence (existence), and full confluence (coming together) of all kinds and degrees of perfection, without bound or limit.” –John Howe
Question to consider
How should you respond this week to the reality of God’s infinite being?
