Firm Foundations

Lesson 2

God Alone

Memory verse: Psalm 90:2

Introduction

Who is God? What is God like? How can we know Him?

What God has said about Himself in His Word Jeremiah 9:23-24

Knowing God is the most important thing we can do

God had no beginning

Genesis 1:1 There was a beginning to all

things Everything had a beginning,

except God What was there before the

beginning? Universe? Earth? Angels? Devil? Plants? Animals? People?

Everything had a beginning

Only God is eternal

God had no beginning, will have no end Man is born and dies

Psalm 90:2 God did not have a

beginning Will have no end

God is a Trinity

God is forever one God But…

Genesis 1:26 Who are they? Matthew

28:19 God the Father God the Son God the Holy Spirit

Trinity: 3-in-one God is a trinity of 3

persons Man is only 1 person

God is independent of everything

Existed before all things Does not need earth

Air Food Water Sun Energy

God needs nothing Man needs all these things

Psalm 147:5 Romans 11:33-34 God knows everything

Man needs to be taught Our needs

What if we had been born without parents? What do our bodies need?

God needs nothing!

God is Spirit

He does not have a body like we doJohn 4:24

God does not have bodily needsGod does not have a body

Man has a bodyGod is a Trinity of 3 persons

Not a “force”

God is in all places at the same time

God is everywhere Not “in everything”

Creator, separate from creation

Fills the universe Jeremiah 23:23-24

In all places He’s everywhere at all times

God is everywhere all the time Man is only one place at a

time Psalm 139:7-12

Can you hide from God?

God is sovereign

God is beyond our understanding Had no beginning and no end Is three persons Never in need of anything Knows everything Is Spirit Everywhere at the same time

Jeremiah 10:6 Sovereign

Ruler, supreme in power, chief, effective in the highest degree

Psalm 83:18: “most high over all the earth”

Isaiah 45:5: there is no other God but the Lord

God is the highest authority Man should be under God’s

authority

God alone can tell us about the beginning

Only God was there at the beginning

God was there before the beginning of everything Man was not there

God gave the record of beginnings In the Bible Study in next lesson

Conclusion: God…

Is greater than allHad no beginningWill have no endHe is Trinity, three in oneNeeds nothingHas no bodily needs: He is SpiritKnows everythingIs in all places at the same time