God Is And Is Not Silent
June 16, 2024
God Is And Is Not Silent
Pastor Samuel Burba
June 16, 2024
A. God Is
1. Nothing Begets Nothing
2. What Is, Is.
3. Aseity – “God does not need us or the rest of creation for anything, yet we and the rest of creation can glorify Him and bring Him joy.”1
Psalm 50:1 – “The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.”
Genesis 1:1 – “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”
John 1:1-4 – “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men.”
Exodus 3:14 – “God said to Moses, ‘I AM WHO I AM.’ And he said, ‘Say this to the people of Israel: I AM has sent me to you.’”
B. He Is Not Silent Towards
Psalm 50:16-22 – “But to the wicked God says: ‘What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips? For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you. If you see a thief, you are pleased with him, and you keep company with adulterers. You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit. You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother’s son. These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you. Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver!’”
C. He Is Not Silent Towards His
Psalm 50:3-6 – “Our God comes; he does not keep silence; before him is a devouring fire, around him a mighty tempest. He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people: ‘Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!’ The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge! Selah”
1. He Does Not Need
Psalm 50:7-11 – “Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God. Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you; your burnt offerings are continually before me. I will not accept a bull from your house or goats from your folds. For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills. I know all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the field is mine.”
Acts 17:24-25 – “The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.”
2. He Desires
Psalm 50:14-15 – “Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and perform your vows to the Most High, and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”
1 Grudem, W. A. (2020). Systematic Theology, second edition: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine.