Bulleting Insert: God is Self-Existent

 

The Fountain of Life; God is Self-Existent)

(Pastor Terry L. Reese, Valley GBC, Sept. 6, AD 2020)

 

Q: “Mommy… who made God?”

A: “He who causes everything else to be is created by no one.”

 

I. A definition of God’s Self-Existence (i.e., aseity):

God is utterly independent; He does not exist as the result of another’s cause or action; He has the power of Being and the Life Principle within Himself. He does not depend upon anyone or anything outside of Himself.

 

II. Scripture.

a. Only God is the Eternal I AM…

Ex. 3:14: God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM"; and He said, "Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you.'" [Jn 8:58: "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I AM."]

 

b. All life is from God; other beings derive their life from Him.

Ps. 36:9: “For with You is the fountain of life…”

Acts 17:28: “…in Him we live and move and exist.”

Ps. 90:1-2: “Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were born or You gave birth to the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.”

Jer. 2:13: "For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, to hew for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water.”

Gen. 2:7: “Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.”

Ps. 104:29b-30: “You take away their spirit, they expire and return to their dust. You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; and You renew the face of the ground.”

 

c. God is not dependent upon anyone.

Acts 17:25: “… nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things…”

 

d. The Father and the Son are both Self-Existent.

Jn 5:26: "For just as the Father has life in Himself, even so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself…” [Jn 1:4: “In Him was life”]

 

III. Spiritual application & personal benefits unto us…

a. This is the ultimate guarantee of our eternal resurrection-life.

b. We exist for GOD…not the other way around!