PSALM 139:7\u201324<\/b><\/p>\n
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?<\/i><\/p>\n
(Psalm 139:7)<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Philosopher Anthony Flew told of two explorers who discovered a perfectly cultivated garden deep in the rain forest, far from civilization. \u201cThere must be a gardener,\u201d one commented. \u201cLet\u2019s wait to meet him.\u201d<\/p>\n
They waited a day and no gardener came. \u201cMaybe the gardener is invisible and comes to tend the garden at night,\u201d they thought. So they rigged bells to catch the invisible gardener, but that night no bells rang.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no invisible gardener,\u201d the more skeptical of the two declared. \u201cLet\u2019s leave.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo,\u201d the other replied. \u201cMaybe the gardener is not only invisible, but immaterial as well. A spirit won\u2019t make the bells ring.\u201d<\/p>\n
The second explorer exploded. \u201cFirst you talk about a real live gardener, then about an invisible gardener, and then about a spiritually invisible gardener. What\u2019s the difference between your invisible gardener and no gardener at all?\u201d<\/p>\n
In Professor Flew\u2019s opinion that\u2019s where modern man is\u2014in a world where for all practical purposes, there is no difference between an infinite, eternal, invisible spirit being and no God at all.<\/p>\n
Except there is a garden. And the garden is real.<\/p>\n
The problem with infinity<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
One of the biggest difficulties we have as Christians arises from the fact that we have committed ourselves to a God we can\u2019t see and who does not seem<\/i> to be present. Theologians counter this by saying that God is an infinite spirit. To understand this we must try to comprehend the meanings of both infinity<\/i> and spirit<\/i>. Infinity is a word that describes by way of negation, indicating what something is not. It simply means \u201cnot finite.\u201d That which is finite is that which has a definite size and can be measured; it is something that has boundaries to its existence.<\/p>\n
God\u2019s infinity and man\u2019s predicament<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
When we are speaking of God, we are talking about an infinite Being. There is no place where God\u2019s Being isn\u2019t present. Finite beings cannot be in more than one place at a time, but God can be. His Being fills all space. He is everywhere. There is no nook or cranny where God is absent. We can never leave His presence.<\/p>\n
CORAM DEO<\/b><\/p>\n
When circumstances crash in around you keep the words of Hebrews 13:5\u20136 in mind: \u201cGod has said, \u2018Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.\u2019 So we say with confidence, \u2018The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?\u2019 \u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
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PSALM 139:7\u201324 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? (Psalm 139:7). Philosopher Anthony Flew told of two explorers who discovered a perfectly cultivated garden deep in the rain forest, far from civilization. \u201cThere must be a gardener,\u201d one commented. \u201cLet\u2019s wait to meet him.\u201d They waited a day … Continue reading “THE INFINITY OF GOD”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}