Summary: <p>Aseity- existence originating from and having no source other than itself.<br><br>“I Am” is the verb “ehyeh” meaning to be. The verb form here is a first person singular translated “I Am”. When His people refer to Him as Yahweh, which is the third person masculine singular form of the same verb, they say "he is." <br>Exodus 3:14–15 14 God replied to Moses, “I Am Who I Am. Say this to the people of Israel: I Am has sent me to you.” 15 God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: Yahweh (He is), the God of your ancestors—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you. This is my eternal name, my name to remember for all generations. <br>Matthew 14:27 27 But Jesus spoke to them at once. “Don’t be afraid,” he said. “Take courage. I am here!” (Take courage. I am. Do not fear.) <br>Revelation 1:17 17 When I saw him, I fell at his feet as if I were dead. But he laid his right hand on me and said, “Don’t be afraid! I am the First and the Last.<br><br>Revelation 1:4,Grace and peace to you from the one who is, who always was, and who is still to come. <br>Revelation 1:8 8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega—the beginning and the end,” says the Lord God. “I am the one who is, who always was, and who is still to come—the Almighty One.” , <br><br>Revelation 4:6–11 In the center and around the throne were four living beings, each covered with eyes, front and back. 7 The first of these living beings was like a lion; the second was like an ox; the third had a human face; and the fourth was like an eagle in flight. 8 Each of these living beings had six wings, and their wings were covered all over with eyes, inside and out. Day after day and night after night they keep on saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty— the one who always was, who is, and who is still to come.” 9 Whenever the living beings give glory and honor and thanks to the one sitting on the throne (the one who lives forever and ever), 10 the twenty-four elders fall down and worship the one sitting on the throne (the one who lives forever and ever). And they lay their crowns before the throne and say, 11 “You are worthy, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honor and power. For you created all things, and they exist because you created what you pleased.” <br><br>Revelation16:5–7 5 And I heard the angel who had authority over all water saying, “You are just, O Holy One, who is and who always was, because you have sent these judgments. 6 Since they shed the blood of your holy people and your prophets, you have given them blood to drink. It is their just reward.” 7 And I heard a voice from the altar, saying, “Yes, O Lord God, the Almighty, your judgments are true and just.”<br><br><br>"The fact that the ascending scale of life is marked by increasing differentiation of faculty and function should rather lead us to expect in the highest of all beings a nature more complex than our own. In man many faculties are united in one intelligent being, and the more intelligent man is, the more distinct from each other these faculties become; until intellect and affection, conscience and will assume a relative independence, and there arises even the possibility of conflict between them. There is nothing irrational or self-contradictory in the doctrine that in God the leading functions are yet more markedly differentiated, so that they become personal, while at the same time these personalities are united by the fact that they each and equally manifest the one indivisible essence." Strong, p. 346<br><br>Everything in creation moves from simplicity to complexity and this is all to point us to the Creator who exists in absolute simplicity and complexity simultaneously. The point of creation moving from simplicity to complexity is to point us to the reality of His existence for the heavens declare the glory of God. <br>How could a being so powerful, so complex, have always just been, and yet the alternative is to say that matter itself has always just been. But how could matter, without personality or will, be self-existent? <br>So they way I have often said it provocatively to capture the immensity of this reality is to say, “God had nothing to do with his own existence, yet it is in his very nature to exist.” <br>So this is the first good news of the first creation, that God exists and what a marvel that this is so, just as the good news of the new creation is that we can again be in fellowship with and regain the greatest thing man could ever possess, a relationship with the self-existent one. <br>Psalm 19:1–4 1 The heavens proclaim the glory of God. The skies display his craftsmanship. 2 Day after day they continue to speak; night after night they make him known. 3 They speak without a sound or word; their voice is never heard. 4 Yet their message has gone throughout the earth, and their words to all the world. <br><br>Romans 11:36 36 For everything comes from him and exists by his power and is intended for his glory. All glory to him forever! Amen. 36 For everything comes from him and exists by his power and is intended for his glory. All glory to him forever! Amen. <br><br>Psalm 33:6 6 The Lord merely spoke, and the heavens were created. He breathed the word, and all the stars were born. <br><br>In the new heavens and new earth we will see his glory declared through creation all the more.<br><br><br>In his classic book Knowledge of the Holy, A. W. Tozer writes:<br><br>The Almighty God, just because He is almighty, needs no support. The picture of a nervous, ingratiating God fawning over men to win their favor is not a pleasant one; yet if we look at the popular conception of God, that is precisely what we see. <br>Twentieth Century Christianity has put God on charity. So lofty is our opinion of ourselves that we find it quite easy, not to say enjoyable, to believe that we are necessary to God. But the truth is that God is not greater for our being, nor would He be less if we did not exist. That we do exist is altogether of God's free determination, not by our desert nor by divine necessity.<br><br>“In creation, God "went public" with the glory that reverberates joyfully between the Father and the Son. There is something about the fullness of God's joy that inclines it to overflow. There is an expansive quality to His joy. It wants to share itself. The impulse to create the world was not from weakness, as though God were lacking in some perfection that creation could supply. "It is no argument of the emptiness or deficiency of a fountain, that it is inclined to overflow.” Desiring God, p. 44.<br><br>If God exists then it's worth our every effort to bring everything in our lives into conformity w who He is. <br><br>Righteous is the correspondence between who he is and what he does. So I ask you, are you righteous, or rather living righteously?<br><br>Beauty Justice It's the correspondence between beauty and who God is. <br><br>If u can't accept him as the lamb he comes at u like a lion and if you accept him as the lamb he defends you as the lion.</p>
