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The Immutability of God –

As our relationship with God broadens and deepens, we should find our lives in this place, where we’ve been able to link truth-to-life. We’ve taken a Biblical truth or principal and have then applied it to our life and then see it validated by what God does. Giving/Tithing Being in Fellowship

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The Immutability of God –

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  1. As our relationship with God broadens and deepens, we should find our lives in this place, where we’ve been able to link truth-to-life. • We’ve taken a Biblical truth or principal and have then applied it to our life and then see it validated by what God does. • Giving/Tithing • Being in Fellowship • Serving

  2. The principal really is the same for us, when we negotiate, instead of obeying, we run the risk of not experiencing the blessing God has for us. It’s not necessarily about doing things for God, even though that’s part of it, but it’s allowing Him to take you, where He wants you to be with Him.

  3. We should be able to experience the things of God that we’ve heard taught. We should be able to experience the truths of the Bible in the context of our relationship with God. If we aren’t, then we are really living at a level close to someone that hasn’t even allowed God into their lives.

  4. The Immutability of God – is an attribute that "God is unchanging in his character, will, and covenant promises." God's immutability defines all of God's other attributes: God is immutably wise, merciful, good, and gracious. God is omnipotent (having all power), God is omnipresent (present everywhere), God is omniscient (knows everything), eternally and immutably so.

  5. If any of these incommunicable (God only) attributes such as Omnipotence, Omnipresence, Unchangeableness were taken away from God, He ceases to be God. Infiniteness and immutability in God are mutually supportive and actually imply each other. An infinite and changing God is inconceivable; it is a contradiction in definition. God's essential nature is unchangeable.

  6. Numbers 23:19 “God is not a man, that He should lie,Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do?Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

  7. 1 Samuel 15.29 And he who is the Glory of Israel will not lie, nor will he change his mind, for he is not human that he should change his mind!” NLT

  8. Psalm 102:26-27 They will perish, but You will endure;Yes, they will all grow old like a garment; Like a cloak You will change them, And they will be changed But You are the same, And Your years will have no end. NKJV

  9. James 1:16-17 So don’t be misled, my dear brothers and sisters. 17 Whatever is good and perfect is a gift coming down to us from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens.He never changes or casts a shifting shadow.

  10. Malachi 3:6 “For I am the Lord, I do not change; Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

  11. The difference is empowering, in the aspect of living in the authority, that God has given us, when we know why we say what we say and then most importantly live in that authority. Knowing that God is always faithful because he is unchanging should be a game changer

  12. It only takes a slight lie or mistruth as to who God is and what He can do in our lives, that can cause us to not believe or trust Him. What compounds it, as we begin believing an untruth or begin to not trust God’s faithfulness, it can lead us to rebel against Him.

  13. Background: • Calls Moses • Hardens Pharaoh’s Heart • 10 Plagues • Passover • Parts the Red Sea • Ten Commandments • A year removed from the Exodus

  14. Numbers 13:1-2 1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2“Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, everyone a leader among them.”

  15. 3 So Moses sent them from the Wilderness of Paran according to the command of the Lord, all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel. 

  16. Genesis 22:1-6 Sometime later, God tested Abraham’s faith. “Abraham!” God called. “Yes,” he replied. “Here I am.” 2 “Take your son, your only son—yes, Isaac, whom you love so much—and go to the land of Moriah. Go and sacrifice him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.” 3 The next morning Abraham got up early.

  17. Genesis 22:1-6 He saddled his donkey and took two of his servants with him, along with his son, Isaac. Then he chopped wood for a fire for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had told him about. 4 On the third day of their journey, Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.

  18. Genesis 22:1-6 5 “Stay here with the donkey,” Abraham told the servants“ The boy and I will travel a little farther. We will worship there, and then we will come right back.” 6 So Abraham placed the wood for the burnt offering on Isaac’s shoulders, while he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them walked on together…

  19. Genesis 22:15-18 Then the angel of the Lord called again to Abraham from heaven. 16 “This is what the Lord says: Because you have obeyed me and have not withheld even your son, your only son, I swear by my own name that17 I will certainly bless you. I will multiply your descendantsbeyond number, like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will conquer the cities of their enemies.

  20. Genesis 22:15-18 18 And through your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed – all because you have obeyedme.” 

  21. Numbers 6:7-8 7 I will take you as My people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. 

  22. Numbers 6:7-8 8 And I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and I will give it to you as a heritage: I am the Lord 

  23. Moses instructed the spies to check out the land of Canaan, the people, how many, the agriculture, the strength of their cities. To be of good courage and to return with some, “fruit of the land.”

  24. Numbers 13:25- 25And they returned from spying out the land after forty days. 27Then they told him, and said: “We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

  25. Numbers 13:25-32 28Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; more over we saw the descendants of Anak there. 29The Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.”

  26. Numbers 13:25-32 30Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.” 31But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.” 32And they gave the children of Israel a bad report…

  27. Numbers 14:1-4 1So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night. 2And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness! 

  28. Numbers 14:1-4 3Why has the Lord brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?” 4So they said to one another, “Let us select a leader and return to Egypt.”

  29. Doubting God’s character and what He says, is nothing more than rebellion. It’s substituting ourselves for God. When we see the giants in our lives and don’t believe that God is always faithful, we remove God from the equation.

  30. He will never leave me nor forsake me… Deuteronomy 31:6, Hebrews 13:5 Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6

  31. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13

  32. Faith has nothing to do with intellectual belief, faith is obedience; faith and the abandonment to do Gods will and power are inseparable; faith is willingness to do Gods will; The unwillingness to abandon ones own will and obey God, is unbelief – Hinds feet on High places

  33. The very nature of God is “Faithful”. It’s not what He does. It’s who He is! He cannot be anything else. Because of this, we know that all the promises we’ve inherited through Abraham are ‘Yes’ and ‘Amen’ in Jesus Christ… 2 Corinthians 1:20

  34. If we are unfaithful,    he remains faithful,    for he cannot deny who he is. 2 Timothy 2:13 That means God always does what He says He will do. He will fulfill all the promises He’s given us!

  35. God is always faithful!

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