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The Godhead of God!
What is meant by the expression?
This is meant: The Omnipotency of God,
The Absolute Sovereignty of God.
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When we speak of the Godhead of God
we affirm that God is God.
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We affirm that God
is something more than an empty title:
that God
is something more than a mere figurehead:
that God
is something more than a far-distant Spectator,
looking helplessly on at the suffering
which sin has wrought.
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When we speak of the Godhead of God we affirm that
He is “King of kings and Lord of lords.”
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We affirm that God
is something more than a disappointed,
dissatisfied, defeated Being,
who is filled with benevolent desires but lacking in power to carry them out.
When we speak of the Godhead of God we affirm that
we affirm that
He is “The Most High.”
We affirm that God is something more than One
who has endowed man with the power of choice
and because He has done this is therefore,
unable to compel man to do His bidding.
We affirm that God is something more than One
who has waged a protracted war with the Devil
and has been ‘worsted’.
When we speak of the Godhead of God
we affirm that He is the Almighty.
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To speak of the Godhead of God then,
is to say that God is on the Throne,
on the Throne as a fact and not as a say so;
on a Throne that is High Above all.
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To speak of the Godhead of God is to say
that the Helm is in His hand
and that He is Steering
according to His Own Good Pleasure.
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To speak of the Godhead of God
is to say that He is the Potter,
that we are the clay,
and that out of the clay He Shapes one
as a Vessel to Honor
and another
as a vessel to dishonor
According to His Own Sovereign Rights.
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To speak of the Divine Despot Doing
“according to His Will in the Army of Heaven,
and among the inhabitants of the Earth;
and none can stop His Hand,
or say to Him, “what are You Doing?”
( Daniel 4:35).
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Therefore, to speak of the Godhead of God
is to give The Mighty Creator His Rightful Place;
it is to recognize His Exalted Majesty;
it is to own His Universal Scepter.
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The Godhead of God Stands
at the base of Divine Revelation:
“in The Beginning God” —
in Solemn Majesty, Eternal,
Un-Caused, Self-Sufficient.
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This is the Foundation Doctrine,
and upon this Foundation Doctrine
that GOD is The Solemn Majesty, Eternal,
Un-Caused, Self-Sufficient.
all other Doctrines must be built,
and any other Doctrine which is not built upon it
will inevitably fail and fall in the day of testing.
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At the beginning of all True Theology
lies The Postulate that God is God —
Absolute and Irresistible.
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It must be so.
Without The Postulate that God is God
we face a closed door:
with The Postulate that God is God
we have a Key which unlocks every Mystery.
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This is True of Creation;
exclude an Almighty God
and nothing is left but blind and illogical materialism.
This is true of Revelation:
the Bible is the Solitary Miracle in the realm of literature;
exclude God from it and you have a Miracle
and no Miracle-Worker to Produce it.
This is True of Salvation.
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Salvation is “of the Lord,” entirely so;
exclude God from any aspect or part of Salvation,
and Salvation vanishes.
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This is true of History, for history is His story:
it is the Outworking in Time of His eternal purpose;
exclude God from History
and all is meaningless and purposeless.
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The Absolute Godhead of God is the Only Guaranty
that in the end,
it Will be Fully and Finally Demonstrated that God is
“All in all”
( 1 Corinthians 15:28).
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“In the beginning God.”
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This is not only the first word of Holy Scripture
but it must be the firm axiom of all true philosophy —
the philosophy of human history, for example.
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Instead of beginning with man and his World
and attempting to reason back to God,
we must begin with God
and reason forward to man and his World.
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It is a failure to do this
which leaves unsolved the “riddle of the universe.”
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Begin with the World as it is today
and try to reason back to God,
and what is the result?
If you are honest of heart and logical of mind, this —
If we, “Begin with the World as it is today
and try to reason back to God”, and
“the result” is
that God has little
or nothing at all to do with the World.
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But begin with God
and reason forward to the World as it is today
and much light is cast on the problem.
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Because God is Holy,
His Anger Burns against sin.
Because God is Righteous,
His Judgments fall on those who rebel against Him.
Because God is Faithful,
the Solemn Threatenings of His Word
are being Fulfilled.
Because God is Omnipotent,
no problem can master Him,
no enemy can defeat Him,
and no Purpose of His can be withstood.
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It is just because God is Who He is
and what He is that we now behold what we do —
the Gathering Clouds of the Storm of Divine Wrath
which will shortly Burst upon the Earth.
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“For of Him,
and through Him and to Him,
are all things”
( Romans 11:36).
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In the Beginning — God.
In the Center — God.
At the End — God.
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But as soon as this is insisted upon
men will stand up
and tell you what they think about God.
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They will prate about God
working inconsistently with His own Character,
as though a worm of the earth
was capable of determining what was consistent
and what was inconsistent with the Divine Perfections.
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People will say with an air of profound wisdom
that God must deal Justly with His creatures,
which is true, of course,
but who is able to define Divine Justice
or any other of God’s Attributes?
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The truth is that
man is utterly incompetent
for forming a proper estimate
of God’s Character and Ways,
and it is because of this
that God has given us a Revelation of His Mind,
and in that Revelation He Plainly Declares;
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“Because My Thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways My Ways, Says the Lord.
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Because as the Heavens are Higher than the Earth,
so are My Ways Higher than your ways,
and My Thoughts than your thoughts”
( Isaiah 55:8,9).
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In view of such a Scripture as this
it is only to be expected
that much of the contents of the Bible
‘conflicts with the sentiments of the carnal mind’
which is
“enmity against God,”
meaning Mankind’s
“CARNAL MIND is an ENEMY of GOD”.
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And further: in view of such a Scripture as the above,
we need not be surprised that much of human history
is so perplexing to our understandings.
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The natural world, to begin a simple example,
presents sufficient problems to humble man,
were it not that he was blinded by pride.
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Why should there be diseases and remedies for them?
Why poisons and their antidotes?
Why rats and mice, and cats to kill them?
Why not have left un-made the evils,
and then no necessity for the instruments
to remove them!
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Ah, why are we so slow
to learn that God’s Ways are Different from ours?
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And when we enter the human realm
the mystery deepens.
What is man placed here for at all?
To learn some lesson or lessons
or to undergo some test
or experience which he could not learn
or undergo elsewhere?
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If so, then
why is such a large proportion of the race
removed in infancy,
before such lessons can be learned
and such experiences be gained?
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Why indeed!
Such questions as these
might be multiplied indefinitely,
but sufficient has been said to point out
the
manifest limitations of human wisdom.
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And if we are confronted with insolvable problems
in the domain of nature
and of human existence, what of the Divine realm!
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Who can fathom the Ways of the Almighty?
Can you by searching Find Out God?
No indeed.
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“Clouds and Darkness
are Round about Him”
( Psalm 97:2).
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If God were not a Mystery
He would not be God to us.
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But why write in this strain?
Surely the need of our day
is for that which will strengthen Faith,
not that which paralyzes it.
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True; but what is Faith?
we mean faith in the abstract.
Faith is, essentially, an attitude rather than an act:
it is that which lies behind the act.
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Faith is an attitude of dependency,
of recognized weakness.
Faith is a coming to the end of ourselves
and looking outside of ourselves —
away from ourselves.
Faith is that which gives God His Proper Place.
And if we give God His Proper Place,
we must take our proper place,
and that is in the dust.
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And what is there that will bring the haughty,
self-sufficient creature into the dust so quickly
as a sight of the Godhead of God!
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Nothing is so humbling to the human heart
as a true recognition
of The Absolute Sovereignty of God.
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So then, instead of seeking to weaken faith,
we write to promote and strengthen it.
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The chief trouble is
that so much that passes for faith today
is really only
maudlin sentimentality.
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The faith of Christendom in this twentieth century
is mere credulity,
and the “god” of many of our churches
is not the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
but a mere figment of the imagination.
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Modern theology has invented a “god”
which the finite mind can understand,
whose ways are pleasing to the natural man,
a “god” who is altogether
“such a one as”
( Psalm 50:21)
those who profess to worship ‘him’,
a “god” concerning whom
there is little or no mystery.
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But how different is the God
which the Holy Scriptures reveal!
Of Him it is Said, His Ways are
“Past Finding Out”
( Romans 11:33).
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