1. The Solitariness of God
AWARE of The GODHEAD
1.0 Intro-2a
Adapted from
by A. W. Pink
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CHAPTER 1
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Do some of our readers imagine
that we have gone beyond what Scripture warrants?
Then we appeal to the Law and the testimony:
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God is no 'gainer' even from our worship.
He was in no need of that external Glory of His Grace
which arises from His redeemed,
for He is Glorious enough in Himself without that.
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What was it that moved Him
to Predestinate His Elect
to the Praise of the Glory of His Grace?
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It was
(Ephesians 1:5).
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We are well aware that the high ground we tread here
is new and strange to almost all of our readers,
so it is well to move slowly.
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Let us appeal again to the Scriptures.
As the apostle brings us to the close
of a long argument on Salvation by Sovereign Grace,
he asks,
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The force of this is that it is impossible
to bring the Almighty under obligation to the creature.
God gains nothing from us.
(Job 35:7-8).
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But it certainly cannot affect God,
who is All-Blessed in Himself.
(Luke 17:10)
—our obedience has profited nothing.
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We go farther:
our Lord Jesus Christ
added nothing to God
in His Essential Being and Glory,
either by what He Did or Suffered.
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True, loriously true,
He Manifested that Glory of God to us,
but He added nothing to God.
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He Himself expressly Declares so,
and there is no appeal from His words,
(Psalm 16:2).
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The whole of that Psalm is a Psalm of Christ.
Christ’s Goodness or Righteousness
Reached to His saints in the Earth (Psalm 16:3),
but God was High Above and Beyond it all.
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It is true that God is both Honored and dishonored by men,
not in His Essential Being, but in His Official Character.
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It is Equally true that God has been Glorified by Creation,
by Providence, and by Redemption.
We do not dare dispute this for a moment.
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But all of this has to do with His Manifestation of Glory
and the recognition of it by us.
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God was Perfectly Blessed in Himself
before the First-Created soul was Called into Being.
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And what are all the Created souls of Human Beings
MADE by His hands to Him even now?
The Scripture again answers:
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(Isaiah 40:15-18).
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That is the God of Scripture;
but, He is still
(Acts 17:23) to heedless multitudes.
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(Isaiah 40:22-23).
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How vastly different is the God of Scripture
from the 'god' of the average pulpit!
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Nor is the testimony of the New Testament any different
from that of the Old.
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How could it be since both have One and the Same Author?
There too we read,
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Such a One is to be Revered, Worshipped, Adored.
He is Solitary in His Majesty,
Unique in His Excellency,
Peerless in His Perfections.
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He Sustains all but is Himself Independent of all.
He Gives to all and is Enriched by none.
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Such a God cannot be found out by searching.
He can be Known
Only as He is Revealed to the heart
by the Holy Spirit through the Word.
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It is true that Creation Demonstrates a Creator,
and so plainly that men are
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Yet we still have to say with Job,
(Job 26:14).
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The so-called argument from design
by well-meaning apologists has, we believe,
done much more harm than good.
It has attempted to bring the great God
down to the level of finite comprehension
and thereby has lost sight of
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Analogy has been drawn between a savage
who finds a watch upon the sands,
and from a close examination of it
infers a watchmaker.
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So far so good. But attempt to go farther.
Suppose the savage sits on the sand
and endeavors to form a conception of this watchmaker,
his personal affections and manners,
his disposition, acquirements, and moral character,
all that goes to make up a personality.
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Could he ever think or reason out a real man,
the man who made the watch, so he could say,
"I am acquainted with him"?
It seems trifling to ask,
but is the Eternal and Infinite God
so much more within the grasp of human reason?
No, indeed.
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Nor is God known by the Intellect.
(John 4:24),
and therefore can only be known Spiritually.
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But fallen man is not spiritual, he is carnal.
He is dead to all that is spiritual.
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Unless he is Born Again, Supernaturally
brought from death unto Life,
Miraculously Translated Out of darkness into Light,
he cannot even See the things of God (John 3:3),
still less Apprehend them (1 Corinthians 2:14).
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(2 Corinthians 4:6).
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But even that Spiritual Knowledge is fragmentary.
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(2 Peter 3:18).
The Principal Prayer
and Aim of Christians should be to
(Colossians. 1:10).
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