"our God Is Eternal" Series

I Corinthians 13:3 says "We know in part" and see through a mirror dimly" can refer what we know about God. A Seminary professor explained it to me this way. Picture yourself with the biggest blackboard in history, and you place the tiniest dot of chalk on the board, that is just how much we know of God in His Being.

For God to be Who He is . . we can know Him just as He is described in His Word. In His Word He is Creator of man, and "He is good." Jesus said to the Samaritan woman, "God is a spirit, and they that worship Him, must worship Him in spirit and truth." (John 4:24) Jesus had explained to the men on the road to Emmaus, "a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see in me." (Luke 24:43) It also means that a spirit can be in body of man but it is 'a non-corporeal personal being.' (I Thessalonians 5:23)

Psalms 139 speaks to us His Spirit, that there is no place we can go without His presence." Theologians speak of God's "Infinite in His Being." The Bible speaks "Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see Him, saith the Lord." (Jeremiah 23:24) A preacher explained it this way, "Everyone in this world is immediately in His presence, just as everyone in this room is immediately in my presence." Everything in the universe in the presence of God.

The Eternal Being of God is explicitly explained in Psalms 90:1,2. "Thy throne O' God, is forever and ever. Thou, Lord, in the beginning being able g hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are thy works of thy hands. They shall perish but thou remainest, and they shall wax old as doth the garment and as a vesture shalt thou fold them up and they shall be changed. But thou art the same and thy years shall not fail"

The best way to describe God's Eternal nature comes from a theologian as he described in his writing. " With Him there is no distinction between the past, present, and the future; but all things are equally and always present to Him. With Him duration is an eternal now. To Him there is neither past or future . . . the past and the future are always and equally the present to Him. With God there is no timelessness. There must be succession. We are constantly called upon to believe that things are, without being able to tell how they are, or even how they can be. (Charles Hodge, Systematic Theology, page 390)

James O. Buswell wrote (A Systematic Theology of Christian Religion) " God always knows perfectly and completely what He will know when tomorrow becomes yesterday. His knowledge is not increased in the slightest degree by the fact that His consciousness is dynamically and perfectly related to the actual ongoing of finite events." (page 46)

Conclusion: Because we live in the eternity of God, we believe Jesus showed us His eternity by being raised from the dead. Through this He promised a eternal life and a eternal punishment for those who do not believe in Him. To follow Him in this life will lead everyone who believes and obeys what Jesus asked us to do we have the promise of living with the Eternal God whether in earth or heaven, wherever His Kingdom is -- Eternity. We are to remain faithful til death and "we will receive 'crown of eternal life'.