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Recite your memory verses to each other

COMMUNICABLE ATTRIBUTESJeff Mangum

GOD’S KNOWLEDGE - OMNISCIENCE

God fully knows himself and all things actual and possible in one simple and eternal act. God’s knowledge is not limited by the creation. He does not and cannot learn.

Job 37:16

× “Do you know how the clouds hang poised, those wonders of him is perfect in knowledge?”

1 John 3:20

× “For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.”

Hebrews 4:13

× “Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.”

ISAIAH 46:9-0

“I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done.”

Matthew 6:8

× “Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.”

Matthew 10:30

× “Even the hairs of your head are all numbered.”

1 Samuel 23:11-13× “Will the men of Keilah surrender me into his hand?

Will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? O LORD, the God of Israel, please tell your servant.” And the LORD said, “He will come down.” Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul?” And the LORD said, “They will surrender you.” Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah, and they went wherever they could go. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he gave up the expedition. 

Mathew 11:21

× "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.”

OMNISAPIENCE (WISDOM)

God always chooses the best goals and the best means to those goals.

“Wisdom, among other things, is the ability to devise perfect ends and to achieve those ends by the most perfect means. It sees the end from the beginning, so there can be no need to guess or conjecture. Wisdom sees everything in focus, each in proper relation to all, and is thus able to work toward predestined goals with flawless precision.” -Tozer

Romans 16:27

× “To the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.”

Job 12:13

× “With him are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.”

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DiscussWhen is a time that you have struggled to believe in God’s knowledge or wisdom?

What consequences do you see in your life when you don’t believe that God is all-knowing and all-wise?

RIGHTEOUSNESS (JUSTICE)

God always acts in accordance with what is right and is himself the final standard of what is right

Deuteronomy 32:4

× “All his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he.”

Genesis 18:25

× “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”

MERCY, GRACE, & PATIENCE

God’s mercy means God’s goodness toward those in misery and distress.

God’s grace means God’s goodness toward those who deserve only punishment.

God’s patience means God’s goodness in withholding of punishment toward those who sin over a period of time.

Exodus 34:6

× “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness”

2 Samuel 24:14

× “I am in great distress; let us fall into the hand of the LORD for his mercy is great . . .”

Matthew 5:7

× “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy”

Exodus 33:19

× “I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy”

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DiscussWhen is a time that you have struggled to believe in God’s justice or mercy?

What consequences do you see in your life when you don’t believe that God is just and merciful?

OMNIPOTENCE (POWER, SOVEREIGNTY)

God is able to do all his holy will.

Jeremiah 32:17

× “'Ah, Lord GOD! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.”

Genesis 18:14

× “Is anything too hard for the Lord?”

Ephesians 3:20

× “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.”

Matthew 3:9

× “God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.”

Exodus 32:10

× “Then I will make you into a great nation.”

“There is infinitely more power lodged in the nature of God than is expressed in all His works.” -Pink

GOODNESS

God is the final standard of good, and all God is and does is worthy of approval.

Luke 18:19

× “No one is good but God alone.”

Psalm 100:5

× “For the LORD is good;    his steadfast love endures forever,    and his faithfulness to all generations.”

Psalm 119:68

× “You are good and you do good; teach me your statutes.”

Genesis 1:31

× “And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.”

Luke 6:36

× “Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.”

2 Corinthians 1:3

× “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort.”

“If I were God, and the world treated me as it treated Him, I would kick the wretched thing to pieces.” -Martin Luther

Ephesians 2:5

× “Even when we were dead in our trespasses, [God] made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved.”

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DiscussWhen is a time that you have struggled to believe in God’s sovereignty or goodness?

What consequences do you see in your life when you don’t believe that God is sovereign or good?

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DiscussWhat happens to my life when I forget and don’t believe that God is good/holy?

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Didache (~50-100 AD) “Accept as good the things that happen to you, knowing that nothing transpires apart from God.”

Irenaeus of Lyons (~180 AD) - “The creation is not subjected to Satan’s power, since indeed he is himself but one among created things...all human affairs are arranged according to God the Father’s disposal.”

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John Calvin (early 1500s) - “There is no erratic power, or action, or motion in creatures, but that they are governed by God’s secret plan in such a way that nothing happens except what is knowingly and willingly decreed by Him.”

Jacob Arminius (late 1500s) - "Nothing can be done apart from the will of God, not even any of those things that are done in opposition to it."

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DiscussWhat happens to my life when I forget and don’t believe that God is free/sovereign?at God is righteous/omnipotent?

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“As holiness is the beauty of all God’s attributes, so power is that which gives life and action to all the perfections of the Divine nature. How vain would be the eternal counsels, if power did not step in to execute them. Without power His mercy would be but feeble pity, His promises an empty sound, His threatenings a mere scarecrow. God’s power is like Himself: infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; it can neither be checked, restrained, nor frustrated by the creature.”

Stephen Charnock