1/9/2024 0 Comments The omnipresence of godHere are all of the ways that you can follow along with 5 Minutes With Pastor Lutzer: “Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. Grace & peace in Christ, your brother.There is nowhere we can go where God is not-even if we wanted to, we cannot flee from His presence. God bless, any help would be great, preferably scripture references attached. If so is He there watching? Convicting….? & when the Church service is done, does He stay in the Church? Lol, I’m sorry if these questions seem elementary. So here it is, “Oh I feel the presence of God in this place, or, God is in this house.” Like duh, really, Where 2 or more are gathered I’m thinking, or ofcourse, the book of Acts says “God does not dwell in temples made w/ hands.”Īnother question family, “Does the Omnipresent God that we serve, is He in the night clubs, strip clubs, gay bars, any place that would seem to have an overflow of wickedness. I just want to make sure as I pursue Pastoral/Leadership Ministry that I’m not steered by these mottos I hear as to manipulate Gods people & tricking their feelings. Not to say this is an essential doctrine, ofcourse not. I think its said when the service has reached an emotional height & is a statement based on feeling rather than solid Biblical truth. Great post! I’m trying to wrap this saying that I hear in almost every service I attend, as this def. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and for the opportunity to share mine, may the Lord continue to bless and keep you. I absolutely love psalm 139, I confess it is my most favorite passage of scripture in the entire bible and I use it as the compass for my life:-). I’m also humbled and grateful for His personal presence in my life. Col 2:9, in speaking about Jesus, confirms this…for in Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.I’m so excited and stand in awe when I read and ponder on God’s omnipresence, it’s something our finite mind will never fully understand. You put a such a simply spin to this truth…being in all locations present, in the whole of His being. God was Jesus Christ manifested in the flesh. Wonderful!You’re so right the fact of God’s omnipresence does refer back to a thousand other mind boggling truths, like for instance the oneness of God and as it relates to the incarnation.”in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God…and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us (John 1:1,14). At this point faith begins, and while it may go on to include a thousand other wonderful truths, these all refer back to the truth that God is, and God is here. God is present, near him, next to him, and this God sees him and knows him through and through. This great central truth gives meaning to all other truths and imparts supreme value to all his little life. The doctrine of the divine omnipresence personalizes man’s relation to the universe in which he finds himself. Tozer expands on this in his book, The Knowledge of the Holy: While it is beyond the scope of our understanding to work out how it is that God can be ubiquitous but act locally, we accept it in like manner as many other recalcitrant ideas: the Virgin Birth, the Incarnation, the ex nihilo Creation, etc.Ī.W. God is not spatial or dimensional in existence as we are if He were, we would constantly be bumping our heads on Him. Being in all locations present in the whole of His being, there is no place we can go and not be in His presence this is a comfort for Christians and a torment to non-Believers. This allows Him to interact in any places at any times (even in multiple places simultaneously). Or ever you had formed the earth and the world,įrom everlasting to everlasting you are God.īy omnipresence-also referred to as “ubiquity”-we mean that God is everywhere present in the fullness of His being. If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!Īnd dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, Or where shall I flee from your presence?
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