1.0 Intro 2 The SOLITARINESS of THE GODHEAD
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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THE SOVEREIGN SOLITARY
SELF-SUFFICIENT GOD
“Works all things
after the Counsel
of His Own Will”.
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Perhaps we should become accustomed
to Meditating
on the Personal Perfections of God.
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Comparatively few
who occasionally read the Bible
are aware of the Awe-Inspiring
and Worship-Provoking Grandeur
of
the Divine GODHEAD.
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That God is Great in Wisdom,
Wondrous in Power,
yet
Full of Mercy
is assumed by many
as common knowledge.
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But we would like to entertain
an adequate conception
of
GOD'S ACTUAL BEING,
GOD'S REAL NATURE
and
The Genuine Attributes of GOD,
as HE Revealed in the Scripture.
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This is something which very few people
have done and yet you are one of them.
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WORSHIP GOD.
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If you are THE ONLY ONE
Out of 9 Billion People alive today;
WORSHIP YOUR
CREATOR,
ALMIGHTY GOD.
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God is Solitary in His Excellency.
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“Who is like You, O LORD,
among the gods?
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“who is like You,
Glorious in Holiness,
Fearful in Praises,
Doing Wonders?”
(Exodus 15:11).
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“In the Beginning, God”
(Genesis 1:1).
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There was a Time,
if it could be called “Time”,
when God,
in the Unity of His Nature
Dwelt all Alone.
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Although GOD ALMIGHTY
Subsisted Equally
in The Three Persons
of The ETERNAL GODHEAD;
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GOD THE FATHER,
GOD THE SON
AND
GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT,
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“In the beginning, God.”
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There was No Heaven,
where GOD'S Glory
is now Particularly Manifested.
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There was No Earth
to Engage GOD'S Attention.
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There were No Angels
to sing GOD Praises.
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There was No Universe to be Upheld
by the Word of His Power.
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There was Nothing,
No One, but God;
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and that Period of “Time”
was Not for a Day, a Year,
or an Age,
but
“from Everlasting.”
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During a Past Eternity
God was Alone
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— Self-Contained,
Self-Sufficient,
in Need of Nothing.
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Had a Universe, or Angels,
or humans
been Necessary to Him in any way,
they also would have been
Called into Existence from all Eternity.
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Creating a Universe, the Angels,
and Human Beings when He did
Added Nothing to God essentially.
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GOD ALMIGHTY Changes Not
as we see, in Malachi 3:6;
"Because I Am the LORD,
I Change Not",
therefore
His Essential Glory
can be neither
Augmented nor Diminished.
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God was under No Constraint,
No Obligation, No Necessity to Create.
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That HISTORICAL FACT !!
that GOD Chose to CREATE
was Purely a Sovereign Act on His Part,
Caused by
Nothing outside Himself,
Determined by
Nothing but His Own Good Pleasure;
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Because He
“Works all things
after the Counsel
of His Own Will”.
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THAT IS GOD.
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WORSHIP THAT GOD.
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HE IS THE ONLY GOD THERE IS.
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HE IS THE ONE GOD WE HAVE.
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WORSHIP HIM !!!!!
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"In Whom also
we have
Obtained an Inheritance,
being Predestinated
According to
the Purpose of Him
Who Works all things
after the Counsel
of His Own Will":
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to Manifest His Glory.
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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:
"Stand up and bless the LORD,
your God, forever and ever;
and blessed be Your Glorious Name,
which is Exalted
above all blessing and praise"
(Nehemiah 9:5).
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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
"According to
The Good Pleasure
of His Will"
(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,
"Because who
has known the Mind of the LORD?
Or who has been His counselor?
Or who has first given to Him,
and it Will Be
Recompensed unto him again?"
(Romans 11:34-35).
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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.
"If you are Righteous,
what do you give Him?
Or what does He Receive from your hand?
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Your wickedness
may hurt a man as you are;
and your Righteousness
may profit The Son of man"
(Job 35:7-8).
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But it certainly cannot affect God,
who is All-Blessed in Himself.
"When you will have done all those things
which are Commanded you,
say,
We are unprofitable servants"
(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,
"My Goodness Extended not to You"
(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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Yet, had God so Pleased,
He Might have Continued Alone for All Eternity,
without
Making Known His Glory to Created souls.
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Whether He should Do so or not
He Determined solely by His Own Will.
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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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"Behold, the Nations are as a drop of a bucket,
and are counted as the small dust of the balance;
behold,
He Takes Up the Isles as a very little thing.
And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn,
nor the beasts thereof
sufficient for a burnt offering.
All Nations before Him are as nothing;
and
they are Counted to Him less than nothing,
and vanity.
To whom, then, will you liken God?
Or what likeness will you Compare unto Him?"
(Isaiah 40:15-18).
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That is the God of Scripture;
but, He is still
"the unknown God"
(Acts 17:23) to heedless multitudes.
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"It is He that Sits upon the circle of the Earth,
and the inhabitants thereof are like grasshoppers;
that Stretch out the Heavens as a Curtain,
and Spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
Who Brings the princes to nothing;
He Makes the judges of the Earth as vanity"
(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,
"Which in His Times He Will Show,
Who is The Blessed and Only Potentate,
The King of kings, and Lord of lords;
Who Only Has Immortality,
Dwelling in the Light
which no man can approach;
Whom no man has seen,
nor can see;
to Whom be Honor
and Power Everlasting. Amen"
(1 Timothy 6:15-16).
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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
"without excuse."
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Yet we still have to say with Job,
"Lo, these are Parts of His Ways;
but how Little a Portion is heard of Him?
But the thunder of His Power,
who can understand?"
(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
His Solitary excellence.
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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.
The God of Scripture
can be known
only by those to whom
He Makes Himself Known.
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Nor is God known by the Intellect.
"God is a Spirit"
(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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The Holy Spirit
Has to Shine in our hearts (not intellects)
to Give us
"the Knowledge of the Glory of God
in the Face of Jesus Christ"
(2 Corinthians 4:6).
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But even that Spiritual Knowledge is fragmentary.
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The Regenerated soul has to Grow in Grace
and in the Knowledge of the Lord Jesus
(2 Peter 3:18).
The Principal Prayer
and Aim of Christians should be to
"walk worthy of the LORD
unto all Pleasing,
being Fruitful in every good work,
and
increasing in the Knowledge of God"
(Colossians. 1:10).
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