“From the Heart” teaching by Drs. Rodney & Adonica Howard-Browne.
The Absolute Attributes of God
Self-existence
John 5:26 AMP – For even as the Father has life in Himself and is self-existent, so He has given to the Son to have life in Himself and be self-existent.
God is the absolute source of all life and being.
Colossians 1:17 AMP – And He Himself existed before all things, and in Him all things consist (cohere, are held together).
He is before all things and by Him all things consist.
He is not dependant for being or essence upon any source outside Himself, thus He is self-existent.
Immutability
Malachi 3:6a KJV – For I am the Lord, I change not
James 1:17 NKJV – Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.
Hebrews 13:8 NKJV – Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
1 Kings 8:56 NKJV – Blessed be the Lord, who has given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He promised. There has not failed one word of all His good promise, which He promised through His servant Moses.
Romans 8:38-39 NKJV – For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Eternity
1 Timothy 1:17 NKJV – Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
Exodus 3:14 KJV – And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
Psalms 90:2 NKJV – Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever You had formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.
Revelation 1:8 NKJV – “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
Revelation 22:13 NKJV – I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.”
1 John 5:12 NKJV – He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.
Omnipresence
Jeremiah 23:23-24 NKJV – “Am I a God near at hand,” says the Lord, “And not a God afar off? 24 Can anyone hide himself in secret places, So I shall not see him?” says the Lord; “Do I not fill heaven and earth?” says the Lord.
1 Kings 8:27 NKJV – “But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You. How much less this temple which I have built!
Matthew 28:20b NKJV – And lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.
John 14:16-17 NKJV – And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever — 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.
Everywhere the Church goes, there the Holy Spirit is present.
John 16:8 NKJV – And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.
Omniscience
Psalms 139:1-4 NKJV – O Lord, You have searched me and known me. 2 You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off. 3 You comprehend my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways. 4 For there is not a word on my tongue, But behold, O Lord, You know it altogether.
2 Kings 4:20-27
Acts 5:1-11
Revelation 2:1 – Revelations 3:22
Ephesians 1:7-10
Ephesians 3:8-11
Romans 8:28 NKJV – And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
Omnipotence
Jeremiah 32:17 NKJV – Ah, Lord God! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for You.
There is not a limitation of His power.
We see the greatness of His power in His created works.
2 Corinthians 4:18
Isaiah 40:15 NKJV – Behold, the nations are as a drop in a bucket, And are counted as the small dust on the scales; Look, He lifts up the isles as a very little thing.
Daniel 4:35
Genesis 18:14
Ephesians 1:15-23
Sovereignty
God is sovereign over angels, principalities and powers, demon spirits and Satan himself.
He rules in heaven, on earth and under the earth.
Ephesians 1:4-5 NKJV – Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, 5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will.
Revelation 22:17
Matthew 23:37
John 5:40
John 3:16-17
2 Peter 3:9
Moral Attributes
Holiness
Leviticus 11:44-45
Isaiah 6:1-5 1 Peter 1:13-16
Righteousness (Justice)
Genesis 18:25 Deuteronomy 32:4
Romans 3:22b-26
Love (Mercy; Goodness)
1 John 4:8-11
1 John 4:16
Deuteronomy 7:6-8
Truth
His Word is true.
He is the only true God.
He is faithful to keep all His promises.
Titus 1:2a
John 1:14
John 14:6
Romans 3:4