Big Idea: God is eternal, which means he is always present. There is no past or future with God for God always is. This means then that God is unchangeable.
God the Father
3-1 There is but one living and true God, immanent, transcendent, infinite in being and perfection, pure spirit, invisible, immutable, eternal…
If God being spirit means that he is everywhere present, God’s eternality means that he is always present (tense).
Isaiah 40:12-17, 21-23, 27-28
Our God is ________________________. (without time)
Psalm 90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
Numbers 21:4-7 (pg. 120)
John 8:58 (ESV) — 58 Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”
God has always been and always will be, because God is always present.
Deuteronomy 33:26–27 (ESV) — 26 “There is none like God, O Jeshurun, who rides through the heavens to your help, through the skies in his majesty. 27 The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy before you and said, ‘Destroy.’
Our God is _____________________________ (without change)
Psalm 102:25–28 (ESV) — 25 Of old you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. 26 They will perish, but you will remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away, 27 but you are the same, and your years have no end.
God does not change. If God has no beginning, then he is never advancing. And if God has no end, He is never diminishing. God always is.
God’s Covenant in Christ never changes.
Hebrews 13:20 (ESV) — 20 Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant,
God’s love, forgiveness, mercy, compassion, and justice, never change.
Psalm 103:17 (ESV) — 17 But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children’s children,
God’s Word never changes.
Isaiah 40:6–8 (ESV) — 6 A voice says, “Cry!” And I said, “What shall I cry?” All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field. 7 The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the Lord blows on it; surely the people are grass. 8 The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.
God’s salvation in Christ never changes.
Ephesians 1:3–6 (ESV) — 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.
God’s wrath against sin never changes.
Matthew 25:46 (ESV) — 46 And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
