Responding To This Study Of The Eternal Self-Existent Father

 

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Respond 

Reason with God. 

Isaiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”

Return to God. 

Isaiah 44:21-22 (KJV) 21 Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant: I have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me. 22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee”

Isaiah 51:11 “Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.”

Jeremiah 24:7 “And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.”

Anticipate a new life. 

Jeremiah 31:33 “But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.”

Ezekiel 11:19-20 “And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh: 20 That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

“Ezekiel 36:25-27 “Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. 26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

Commit to an ongoing relationship with God. 

Revelation 3:20 “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.”

A Few Quotations 

God always has been.

“God always has been. He is the great I AM. The psalmist declares, ‘Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever Thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting Thou art God.’ [Psalm 90:2.] He is the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity. ‘I am the Lord, I change not,’ He declares. [Isaiah 57:15; Malachi 3:6.] With Him there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. He is ‘the same yesterday, today, and forever.’ [James 1:17; Hebrews 13:8.] He is infinite and omnipresent. No words of ours can describe His greatness and majesty.” Manuscript 132, 1903.35.

The Father cannot be fully understood.

“We can never by searching find out God. He does not lay open his plans to prying, inquisitive minds. We must not attempt to lift with presumptuous hand the curtain behind which he veils his majesty. ... No mortal mind can penetrate the secrecy in which the Mighty One dwells and works. We can comprehend no more of his dealings with us and the motives that actuate him than he sees fit to reveal. He orders everything in righteousness, and we are not to be dissatisfied and distrustful, but to bow in reverent submission. He will reveal to us as much of his purposes as it is for our good to know; and beyond that we must trust the hand that is omnipotent, the heart that is full of love.” Review and Herald, April 7, 1885, par. 12.

The Father is a person. 

“God is a spirit; yet He is a personal being, for man was made in His image. As a personal being, God has revealed Himself in His Son. Jesus, the outshining of the Father’s glory, “and the express image of His person” (Hebrews 1:3), was on earth found in fashion as a man.” Education, 131.6.

The Father represented Himself through Christ.

“Christ, the outshining of the Father’s glory, came to the world as its light. He came to represent God to men, and of Him it is written that He was anointed ‘with the Holy Ghost and with power,’ and ‘went about doing good.’ Acts 10:38.” Christ's Object Lessons, 416.2.

The Father revealed His Love through Christ.

“The atonement of Christ was not made in order to induce God to love those whom he otherwise hated; it was not made to produce a love that was not in existence; but it was made as a manifestation of the love that was already in God’s heart, an exponent of the divine favor in the sight of heavenly intelligences, in the sight of worlds unfallen, and in the sight of a fallen race.” Signs of the Times, May 30, 1895, par. 6.

The Father suffered and gave Himself with Christ.

“Christ submitted to crucifixion, although the heavenly host could have delivered Him. The angels suffered with Christ. God Himself was crucified with Christ; for Christ was one with the Father.” Bible Echo, August 6, 1894, par. 5.

“That this redemption might be ours, God withheld not even the sacrifice of Himself. He gave Himself in His Son. The Father suffered with Christ in all His humiliation and agony. He suffered as He saw the Son of His love despised and rejected by those whom He came to elevate, ennoble, and save. He saw Him hanging upon the cross, mocked and jeered at by the passers by, and He hid as it were His face from Him. He saw Christ bearing the sin of the world and dying in the sinner’s stead.” Manuscript 21, 1900.11.

 

Bibliography

Seventh-day Adventists Believe . . . : A Biblical Exposition of 27 Fundamental Doctrines. [Principal author, P. Gerhard Damsteegt.]. Silver  Spring, MD.: Ministerial Department of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, 1988.

White, Ellen G., Bible Echo Articles. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: Echo Publishing House.

______. Christ’s Object Lessons. Washington, D.C.: Review       and Herald Publishing Association, 1941.

______. Education, Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1952.

______. Letter.

______. Manuscript.

______. Review and Herald Articles (facsimile reproduction). Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Pub. Assn., 1969, 4 vols. 

______. Signs of the Times Articles (facsimile reproduction). Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 4 vols, 1974.

 

 

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The Attributes of the Father

Father Represented Himself Through Christ

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