God Does Not Change Series

It is easy to say in the Sunday School environment that God is unchanging – the 50 cent theological word for that is “immutability.” But the fact that we live in an ever changing world, where quite literally everything is changing around us, whether it be knowledge, the culture, our attitudes, our ages, and so forth, tends to color our view of God, who is unchanging.

When the culture around us is embracing wickedness and perversions and calling it good, there are those who believe what God had called an abomination in Old Testament must have suddenly changed in these modern times. Has God changed what He calls good and evil? Is not what God called sin in Bible still sin today? But here are the hard unchanging facts that the world overlooks: Sin is still sin. And things (like homosexuality and the like) which God called an abomination to Him in the Old Testament over 3,000 years ago, is still an abomination to Him today. God will still judge sin. And there is no other way to God, but by Jesus. God Himself has said as much:

Malachi 3:6a “For I, the LORD, do not change …

People changed, but God never changed in the past, nor will He ever change in the future. The same God who was present at creation is the same God we have today. And His word which we have in our hands has not changed either. It is in this fact that God does not change that we have an anchor for our soul.

Hebrews 6:17–18

Einstein said that the reason he could construct the theory of relativity was because there is one thing in the world that is unchangeable. That one thing—the speed of light—is the only constant in this physical, material universe. Light travels at the rate of 186,000 miles per second or 300,000 km/sec—seven times around the world at the tick of a clock. [1] It takes 8 minutes 19 sec for the light to leave the sun and reach the earth – (about 93 million miles).

However, in recent years it has been shown that the speed of the light has not been a constant (as we have always thought that is was) as demonstrated by the particle accelerometer on the border of France and Switzerland. In recent history, the Speed of light was exceeded. This is causing scientist to rethink the fundamental principles of the laws of physics. Over the last 30-40 years many top Physicists have formatted the theories that the speed of light, like everything else in the universe obeying the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, is slowing down. Some scientist estimated that some 6,000 years ago the speed of light was at or near infinity. These finding are blowing up the world of science and making the biblical claims of a relatively young universe more viable. Isn’t it interesting, science is only catching up to where the Bible has always been.

But we digress. The point I want to make is the fact that everything in the universe is changing. God and His word is unchanging. In fact, the Bible tells us that one day all of heaven and earth will be pass away and God will create it all new. In our world today, nothings stays the same, except Almighty God.

The questions are being asked: What is constant – what is unchanging – or what is unchangeable? Today truth is no longer a objective constant. Truth is relative – Truth to me may not be truth to you. The world tells us that we are here by chance – meaning we evolved as a result of some cosmic roll of the dice, and we just happened to be here. We are just a product of our environment, therefore truth is what it is to me. We react to predetermined chemical reaction in our brains and being; Then what’s the point? What is truth? And why does it matter?

How often do we search for something constant, something that is unchanging. We need a rock, an anchor we can cling to, something that is not going to move, something that is not going to change. In the New Testament we read:

Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Over this past month, we have covered a number of the attributes of God: God is all powerful – omnipotent; God possesses all knowledge – omniscient; God is larger than the universe–he is everywhere –omnipresent; Now we consider that God is unchanging – He is immutable.

But let’s consider, just for a moment, that God does change or alters Himself, according to A.W. Tozer, one of three things must take place:

1. God must go from better to worse, or

2. He must go from worse to better, or