This is not a particularly Reformed doctrine or a Puritan doctrine this is a part of the tradition of doctrine from the Church patriarchs and fathers, from Augustine through Thomas Aquinas and the Roman Catholic Church right through to the Reformation. The Westminster Confession addresses this using one word in its second chapter, as it expounds on the doctrine of God. Tonight we are thinking again of God as eternal, but this time in relationship to space rather than time. There is a distinction between God and creation. Space and time are aspects of God’s creation, and God is outside of creation. We made the point last week that space and time are intimately related to each other (we speak of the space-time continuum). So the everlasting nature of God in a timeless existence. In regard to time we said that God is everlasting in the sense that he is timeless (a notion that is sometimes called eternalism) rather than God existing in unending time (a notion that is sometimes referred to as temporalism). Firstly, with regard to time (which we covered last week). We said last time that God is eternal, and that we think of the eternity of God in two ways. (Transcription of audio file from 02:55 to 03:18 omitted.) Praying the Attributes of God, 2002 Omnipresence ⤒ 🔗 Forgive me for not thanking you every day for that.
You also know my sins and have covered me with the righteousness of Jesus Christ. You know my future and will lead me where I need to go. One of the things we are going to talk about is the omnipresence of God (that God is present everywhere). We are going to be thinking tonight about the immensity of God. We glorify him with our bodies, but we also glorify him with our minds by thinking his thoughts after him and by searching the Scriptures. Romans 11:33, 36Īnd that provides me with an opportunity to pause for a minute in our studies and remind ourselves that the purpose of all study and the purpose of all theology and the purpose of all intellectual knowledge is to enable us to glorify God. For from him and through him and to him are all things. Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways…. Paul, after he has spoken of God’s electing and predestinating purposes (an aspect of God’s omnipotence and omniscience, for sure), then explodes at the end of chapter 11 with a doxology: I have cited a very definitive text in Romans 11. Tonight we have the three “omnis”: omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient (all present/everywhere present and all-powerful and all-knowing). We are looking at the doctrine of God, and we have been looking in particular at the attributes of God.
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