psa 115v03 Who Is The God Of The Bible
WHO IS THE GOD OF THE BIBLE?
Psalm 115:3
My friends, the God of the Bible is an absolute sovereign;
and anything less than an absolute sovereign is not God. This is the one
characteristic of God which men rebel against universally, Therefore,
we must insist upon it continually, God can do what he pleases, What has it
pleased God to do?
1. IT PLEASED GOD TO MAKE YOU HIS PEOPLE (I Sam.
2. IT PLEASED GOD THAT ALL FULNESS DWELL IN CHRIST
(Col. 1:18-19). God, the Father, resolved in eternity to reveal himself unto
men by Christ, the Mediator. And every revelation that God makes to man is in
Christ. All the promises, blessings, and mercies of God are in Christ. Jesus
Christ is the fulness of divine grace and is the fulness of divine glory. He is
the glory of creation, being the first-born of every creature. He is the glory
of the church, for he is the head of the body. And he is the glory of eternity, for in heaven we
shall see his face.
3. IT PLEASED GOD TO BRUISE CHRIST IN THE PLACE OF
SINNERS (Isa. 53:10). It was foretold in Genesis 3:15 that Satan would
bruise the Savior's heel. But here it is God, the Father, bruising his Son for
us. Like corn is bruised and crushed under the millstone, Jesus Christ was
bruised in body and crushed in soul, when he was made to be sin for us. And it
pleased God to bruise him! What was God's pleasure? It was not the suffering of
his Son that pleased him, but the result of that suffering. By bruising Christ
in our place, his people are redeemed!
4. IT PLEASED GOD TO REVEAL HIS SON IN ME (Gal.